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Dangerous Assignment: A Nursery Rhyme (Stockholm)

Dangerous Assignment · November 26, 1952 · 24 min · 3,874 words

The transcript of “A Nursery Rhyme (Stockholm)”, an episode of Dangerous Assignment first broadcast November 26, 1952. 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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Dangerous assignment. Starring Brian Dumlevy as Steve Mitchell. Yeah, 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 commission as office, I don't realize that this assignment's going to have me trying to trap a killer with a new kind of a weapon.

A nursery, Ryan. Morning, Commissioner. You sent for me. Steve, are you fond of Swedish cooking? Yeah, sure. So's a man named Fred Gainesley. He's with a project we're participating in to evaluate Scandinavian defense potential with headquarters in Stockholm.

Several times a week, Gainesville has a lunch tray sent up to his office from a nearby cafe. So, someone in the project is apparently using that tray as a means of getting secret information to the outside.

Gainesville? No. He's the one who told us about it. Quite by accident, yesterday afternoon, he discovered a message in code, tucked under a napkin, discovered it just before the tray was to be picked up.

And the waiter who came to pick up the tray? He didn't show up and hasn't been seen since. Someone in the project must have tipped him off that the message had been intercepted. been intercepted. Steve, get over to Stockholm, check with Gainesville. Find out who's peddling this secret information and put a stop to it. Well, that's it. You've got your assignment.

Good luck. The National Broadcasting Company is presenting dangerous assignment starring Brian Donlevy and the role of Steve Mitchell, colorful, two-fisted government agent. At all those places of the world where danger and intrigue walk hand in hand, there you will find Steve Mitchell on another dangerous assignment.

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