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Series · 1952–1952Ended

Dangerous Assignment

5.3·1 season·41 episodes·30 min avg.·United States of America

A U.S. government agent travels the world on undercover missions in this 1950s series. Star Brian Donlevy originated the role on radio in the '40s.

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The Truth
The TruthUp next
Jan 1, 1952
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Displaced Persons StoryTBA
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The Displaced Persons Story
The Displaced Persons Story

Refugees on a ship bound for a new home are terrorized by a saboteur.

04
The Memory Chain
The Memory Chain

Steve must smash a spy ring that transmits top secret information the old-fashioned way--by word of mouth.

05
The Manager Story
The Manager Story

In Stockholm, a child is kidnapped in order to prevent his father from exposing an espionage ring.

06
The Key Story
The Key Story

Steve must risk his life in the Swiss Alps to recover a document that proves a country's recently deceased leader was murdered.

07
The Bhandara Story
The Bhandara Story

Steve travels to Bombay in order to clear a jailed American citizen of sabotage charges.

08
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Civil War Map StoryTBA
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Italian Movie StoryTBA
10
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The Blood Stained Feather StoryTBA
11
The Italian Movie Story
The Italian Movie Story

Steve's assignment this time is to travel to Rome in order to recover vital film footage stolen from a movie company.

12
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Sunflower Seed StoryTBA
13
The Burma Temple Story
The Burma Temple Story

Steve is sent to Burma to investigate the murder of a newspaperman who was posing as a political refugee.

14
The Sunflower Seed Story
The Sunflower Seed Story

It's Steve to the rescue when an American citizen is accused of murdering the head of a South American political party.

15
The Caboose Story
The Caboose Story

Steve must discover whether or not an old galpal, who's now an enemy agent, is behind acts of sabotage in Japan.

16
The Missing Diplomat Story
The Missing Diplomat Story
May 19, 1952

In Barcelona, Steve tries to retrieve a taped conversation of a European diplomat who has disappeared.

17
The Briefcase Story
The Briefcase Story

Steve must stop a saboteur's attack on a conference in Paris between Western and Eastern bloc nations.

18
The Civil War Map Story
The Civil War Map Story

Steve tries to find out the connection between the murder of a well-known foreign agent and the theft of a Civil War map.

19
The Piece of String Story
The Piece of String Story

Steve tries to determine the connection between a piece of string found on a corpse and the theft of dynamite in Panama.

20
The Salami Story
The Salami Story

Steve hops on a French train to protect the head of an American plastics corporation who's traveling to a foreign conference. He finds the industrialist shot dead and missing are the man's documents detailing a new discovery in weapons. With the help of a French businessman, Steve goes undercover among the passengers looking for a suspect.

21
The Dead General's Story
The Dead General's Story

In the Balkans, Steve must locate a murdered general's secret documents before enemy agents can get their hands on them.

22
The Parachute Story
The Parachute Story

Steve parachutes into Eastern Europe to search for a witness who can clear the United States of an international frame.

23
The Paris Sewer Story
The Paris Sewer Story

Steve discovers a Commie spy ring operating out of the sewers of Paris.

24
Bodyguard Assignment
Bodyguard Assignment
Mar 10, 1952
25
The Bodyguard Story
The Bodyguard Story

In Paris, Steve's only clue to the identity of an assassin is a bowl of cold stew.

26
The One Blue Chip Story
The One Blue Chip Story
Apr 14, 1952
27
The Blue Chip Story
The Blue Chip Story

Steve travels to Macao and poses as a crook to stop a counterfeiting ring that's flooding the Far East with phony United States currency.

28
The Red Queen Story
The Red Queen Story

Steve is sent to Singapore to recover a million dollars worth of rubber that was stolen from the United States.

29
The Knitting Needle Story
The Knitting Needle Story

Steve must protect an Italian journalist with information about Mafia activity in an election on the newsman's flight back to Italy.

30
The Assassin Ring Story
The Assassin Ring Story

An American businessman is framed for assassinating the King of Transjordan. Steve travels to the country to prove that other elements were responsible for the killing.

31
The Decoy Story
The Decoy Story

Steve uses a decoy to smuggle a U.S. diplomat out of Eastern Europe.

32
The Perfect Alibi
The Perfect Alibi
May 26, 1952
33
The Stolen Letter
The Stolen Letter

Steve is sent to South America to expose a plot against the United States.

34
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The Black Stocking StoryTBA
35
The Black Hood Story
The Black Hood Story

In Berlin, Steve is on the trail of two masked men who swiped a valuable briefcase containing confidential documents from a diplomatic courier.

36
The Archeological Story
The Archeological Story

Steve poses as an agitator in Transjordan to stop a fanatic bent on starting a revolt against his government.

37
The Perfect Alibi Story
The Perfect Alibi Story
May 26, 1952

After a murder in Rome, Steve discovers that someone has been impersonating him.

38
The Mine Story
The Mine Story

Steve gets smuggled into a slave labor camp to get vital information but then finds that it's going to be a lot harder getting out.

39
The Full Dress Suit Story
The Full Dress Suit Story

Steve negotiates the dangerous back alleys of Havana in search of a spy in possession of stolen documents on microfilm.

40
The Alien Smuggler Story
The Alien Smuggler Story
Feb 13, 1950

Agent Steve Mitchell journeys to Portugal to help his friend and fellow agent bust a human smuggling operation.

41
The Havana Microfilm Story
The Havana Microfilm Story
May 19, 1952

Cast

1 credited
Brian Donlevy
Cast

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