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Dangerous Assignment: The Lost City

Dangerous Assignment · May 17, 1950 · 29 min · 4,542 words

The transcript of “The Lost City”, an episode of Dangerous Assignment first broadcast May 17, 1950. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Search inside this transcript.

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Wheaties presents Dangerous Assignment. On stage tonight from Hollywood, Dangerous Assignment, another in the Wheaties big parade of exciting half-hour presentations. Dangerous Assignment, starring Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell. Yeah, Dangerous 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 that this assignment is going to end up with me depending for my life on my own cigarette lighter.

Good morning, Commissioner. Get out your pit helmet's deal. You're leaving for Arabia on the next plane. Arabia? Now look, my days is a camel jockey or over. Don't worry, you won't be riding any camels unless you find some carrying oil in their humps.

Oil? What's the deal? That's the deal. A hundred thousand barrels of it. Missing, look, since when have we been playing nurse made the oil companies? This is a lot bigger than any oil company, Steve.

Three days ago, the Sheik's inspector found a discrepancy in the figures of one of the oil companies, the five-star. Unless the matter is cleared up to the Sheik's intersection, we may lose the entire concession.

Oh, who do I talk to over there? Mr. Williams, the field manager of five-star. The headquarters are in Marani, near the Persian Gulf. Steve, get over there and find out what happened to that oil.

Well, that's it. You've got your assignment. Good luck. I have a recipe for you. Now it's real simple so you needn't bother writing it down. Take four or five people, or as many as your family holds.

Add an equal number of cereal bowls, or in wheaties, into the bowls that is. Now garnish with milk and fruit and sweetened to taste. This recipe is very good for breakfast or lunch or as a little something before bed, depending on when you decide to make it.

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