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Dangerous Assignment: The Football Play (Indo-China)

Dangerous Assignment · November 25, 1950 · 29 min · 4,556 words

The transcript of “The Football Play (Indo-China)”, an episode of Dangerous Assignment first broadcast November 25, 1950. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Gumshoe plays Dangerous Assignment free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Majorus assignment, starring Brian Donn by the S.D. Mitchell. Danger is my assignment. I get sent to a lot of places I can't even pronounce. They all spell the same thing, though. Trouble. But when I walk into the Commissioner's office, I don't realize this assignment's going to end up with my saving three lives by calling the right football play.

Good morning, Commissioner. Ruth said you wanted to see me. I do, Steve. You're playing Lisa in the China one hour. Oh, China, look, can't you send me to some nice peaceful place sometime? You'd probably die of boredom.

Or shock. Well, okay, what's the deal? Think back three months ago today, Steve. Three months ago? Yeah, yeah, she was a redhead. What about her? What a memory. For certain things. But that's not what I mean.

I'm talking about Paul Savage. Remember him? Savage? Sure. One of our government clerks who was discharged three months ago on suspicion of being connected with a spy ring in this country. What about him? Savage claimed he was innocent.

Don't they all? Last night we found out Savage was right. What? Last night one of those witnesses in the case suddenly felt like talking to us. He arranged a secret meeting with one of our agents, but on the way to that meeting he was shot.

He lived just long enough to tell us that he and the other witnesses had been paid to say what they did. The whole case against Savage was a frame. Brother, this is a great time to be finding that out.

Who framed Savage and why? You remember at the time Savage claimed he had complete information on the spy organization in this country. framed the discredited and shut his mouth. I still don't see where I...

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