Dangerous Assignment (old-time radio): every episode, 1949-1953

Dangerous Assignment, old-time radio on Stupid Potato

Dangerous Assignment is an old-time radio detective and crime series from 1949 to 1953. Stupid Potato carries 199 episodes, listed here in the order they first aired, each with its air date, and a story for 3 of them. Every episode is free to listen to, as a podcast, a new episode on its schedule: no sign-up, no app.

Series
Dangerous Assignment
Years aired
1949-1953
Genre
Detective and crime
Episodes on Stupid Potato
199
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Episode list (199)

  1. Relief Supplies

    · 29 min

    Steve Mitchell, posing as a foreign correspondent, travels to Sicily to find out who has been stealing relief shipments sent by the Throp Foundation. The foundation's office manager, Archer, is worried about publicity and wants the matter kept quiet, while Steve pursues the theft through a bar owner, a former foundation employee, and rumors surrounding the bandit Lorenzo. The series Dangerous Assignment aired on NBC, and this episode first aired on July 9, 1949, starring Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell.

    Characters: Steve Mitchell, Commissioner, Ruth, Eloise, Helen Collier, Archer, Paul Wainwright, Emilio Donati

  2. Thropp Foundation Relief Supplies (Sicily)

    · 29 min

    Steve Mitchell, a government agent posing as a foreign correspondent, arrives in Sicily to investigate the theft of relief supplies from a warehouse of the Thropp Foundation. Working for the commissioner, Steve meets the foundation's office head, Mr. Archer, and learns that a former employee, Paul Wainwright, was recently fired. Contacts in the city, including Emilio Donati, point him toward the bandit Lorenzo, whose reputation makes him an obvious suspect. Steve is drawn into a dangerous journey to Lorenzo's mountain camp, where loyalties and alliances are tested. The series is Dangerous Assignment, broadcast on NBC in 1949 and starring Brian Donlevy.

    Characters: Steve Mitchell, Commissioner, Ruth, Eloise, Mr. Archer, Helen Collier, Emilio Donati, Carlotta

  3. Malayan Star Line Sabotage (Saigon)

    · 29 min

  4. Sunken Ships

    · 29 min

    Steve Mitchell, a foreign correspondent sent by a commissioner, arrives in Saigon to investigate the sinking of three ships belonging to the Malayan Star Lines, which carried American rehabilitation supplies. He questions the line's manager, Brevant, and the lone survivor of the second sinking, a cook named Dixon. At a casino Mitchell meets Leanna, whose brother Matique is close by, and he is soon confronted by hired thugs and a plantation owner named Sarat. Dixon's testimony and the cargo's source raise more questions. Brian Donlevy stars in the role of Steve Mitchell in this 1949 episode of the series Dangerous Assignment, first broadcast on July 16, 1949.

    Characters: Steve Mitchell, Brevant, Dixon, Leanna, Matique, Sarat, Dylai, Banjack

  5. Nigerian Safari

    · 29 min

  6. On Safari for Nigerian Manganese

    · 29 min

  7. Millionaire Murder Conspiracy (Paris)

    · 29 min

  8. Millionaire Murders

    · 29 min

  9. Alien Smuggling Ring

    · 29 min

  10. Smash Alien Smuggling Ring (Portugal)

    · 29 min

  11. File 307

    · 30 min

  12. File no. 307 (Zurich)

    · 30 min

  13. Single Episodes: DA22E6~1

    · 30 min

  14. Single Episodes: DA4079~1

    · 29 min

  15. Single Episodes: DA9363~1

    · 29 min

  16. DAB6CC~1

    · 29 min

  17. Find Missing Japanese Weapons (Panama)

    · 29 min

  18. Missing Japanese Weapons

    · 29 min

  19. Captain Rock

    · 29 min

  20. Who Killed Captain Rocq

    · 29 min

  21. Recover Stolen Radar Plans (Athens)

    · 29 min

  22. The Greek Connection

    · 29 min

  23. White Jade Cafe (Macao)

    · 29 min

  24. Recover Wire Recorder Spool (San Diego)

    · 29 min

  25. Wire Spool

    · 29 min

  26. International Blackmail

    · 29 min

  27. International Blackmail (Switzerland)

    · 29 min

  28. Renew Sheik Haroun's Uranium Deal (Cairo)

    · 29 min

  29. The Sheiks Secret

    · 30 min

  30. Pirate Loot

    · 29 min

  31. Recover Underwater Demolition Secrets (Trinidad)

    · 29 min

  32. Investigate Flying Saucers (Ecuador)

    · 29 min

  33. UFOs In Ecuador

    · 29 min

  34. The Nazi and the Physicist

    · 29 min

  35. Find Szabo and the Briefcase (Paris)

    · 29 min

  36. Sabotage in Paris

    · 29 min

  37. Lecturing Professors

    · 29 min

  38. Smash Lecture Circuit Spy Ring (Stockholm)

    · 29 min

  39. The Lost City

    · 29 min

  40. Burmese Witnesses

    · 29 min

  41. Solve Kent Jackon's Murder (Burma)

    · 29 min

  42. Administer Little White Pill Antidote (Balkans)

    · 29 min

  43. Little White Pill

    · 30 min

  44. Deadly Bacteria

    · 29 min

  45. Find Champlin and his Reel of Tape (Turkey)

    · 29 min

  46. Five Gardenias

    · 29 min

  47. Recover Lost Troop Movement Document (Vienna)

    · 29 min

  48. Vienna Mystery

    · 29 min

  49. Death Drums

    · 29 min

  50. Defeat African Hate Campaign (Secundi, Africa)

    · 29 min

  51. Find Hired Killer Lupac (Paris)

    · 29 min

  52. Hired Killer

    · 29 min

  53. Bombay Gun Runners

    · 29 min

  54. Get Gouda Before the Gun Runners (Bombay)

    · 29 min

  55. Guided Missile Plans

    · 29 min

  56. Recover Stolen Missle Plan Microfilm (London)

    · 29 min

  57. Assignment Mine Disaster

    · 29 min

  58. Chromite Mine Disaster (Balkans)

    · 29 min

  59. Contact Lefty the Trained Seal (Turkey)

    · 29 min

  60. Trained Seal

    · 29 min

  61. Latin America

    · 30 min

  62. Retrieve Slarga from Latin America

    · 29 min

  63. Forged Identification Papers Ring (Trinidad)

    · 29 min

  64. Forged Papers

    · 29 min

  65. Tokyo

    · 29 min

  66. Memory Chain

    · 30 min

  67. Memory Chain Equation (Munich)

    · 29 min

  68. The Football Play

    · 29 min

  69. The Football Play (Indo-China)

    · 30 min

  70. The Empty Matchbook

    · 29 min

  71. The Empty Matchbook (Sonoma, South America)

    · 29 min

  72. Berlin Kidnapping

    · 29 min

  73. Berlin Kidnapping Ring

    · 29 min

  74. Assignment Richmond

    · 29 min

  75. Missing Civil War Map (Virginia)

    · 29 min

  76. Assignment Eastern Europe

    · 29 min

  77. Intercept Dr. Korvel (Eastern Europe)

    · 29 min

  78. Anti-Sub Plans

    · 29 min

  79. Operation Fish Hook (Haiti)

    · 29 min

  80. Find Missing Scientist Dr. Wieczek (Madrid)

    · 29 min

  81. Missing Scientist

    · 29 min

  82. Mighty Powder Puff

    · 29 min

  83. Missing Arctic Warfare Report (Quebec)

    · 29 min

  84. A Box of Busted Bells

    · 29 min

  85. A Box of Busted Bells (Cairo)

    · 29 min

  86. Nazi Fugitive

    · 29 min

  87. Nazi Fugitive (Malaya)

    · 29 min

  88. Kroner Cutlass

    · 29 min

  89. Kroner Cutlass (Eastern Europe)

    · 29 min

  90. The Bronx - The Nazi Buzz Bomb

    · 29 min

  91. The Nazi Buzz Bomb (NY, London, Denmark, Holland)

    · 29 min

  92. London - The Secret Code

    · 29 min

  93. Prevent Disclosure of Compromised Codes (London)

    · 29 min

  94. Roquel - Steves Murder

    · 29 min

  95. Solve Your Own Murder (Roquel, South America)

    · 30 min

  96. Macau

    · 29 min

  97. Recover a Hospital Chart (Macau)

    · 29 min

  98. Recover Stolen Dynamite (Panama)

    · 29 min

  99. The Canal Zone - A Piece of String

    · 29 min

  100. Atomic Fission Formula (Java)

    · 29 min

  101. Java possibly

    · 30 min

  102. File 72 (The Balkans)

    · 29 min

  103. The Balkans - File 72

    · 30 min

  104. Middle East - A Tray Of Dirty Dishes

    · 30 min

  105. Stolen UN Documents (Middle East)

    · 29 min

  106. Pen Mightier Than The Sword

    · 30 min

  107. Retrieve Gouczek (French Riviera)

    · 29 min

  108. Assignment The Balkans

    · 29 min

  109. Outlaw Radio Station (The Balkans)

    · 29 min

  110. Find Rudolf Karpel

    · 29 min

  111. Find Rudolf Karpel (Rotterdam)

    · 29 min

  112. Epidemic - Needle in a Haystack (Landsburg)

    · 29 min

  113. Needle In a Haystack

    · 30 min

  114. Operation Hot Foot

    · 30 min

  115. Operation Hot Foot (Trinidad)

    · 29 min

  116. Assignment Japan

    · 30 min

  117. Suspicous Explosions (Japan)

    · 29 min

  118. The Suspect Cylinder (Italy)

    · 29 min

  119. The Suspicious Cylinder

    · 30 min

  120. A Country's Democracy Threatened (South America)

    · 29 min

  121. South America - A Countrys Democracy Threatened

    · 30 min

  122. Assignment China Sea

    · 30 min

  123. China Sea Smuggling (Luzon)

    · 29 min

  124. Nazi Fugitive - Captain Shiller

    · 29 min

  125. Assignment Ghost Hunters (Australia)

    · 24 min

  126. Eli Bryant Traitor

    · 24 min

  127. A Stolen Treaty (Port Said)

    · 25 min

  128. The Underground Press (Austria)

    · 23 min

  129. Underground Press

    · 25 min

  130. To Ask A Guy To Shoot You

    · 24 min

  131. To Ask a Guy to Shoot You (Indonesia)

    · 24 min

  132. Butterfly Chasers

    · 25 min

  133. Butterfly Chasers (Brazil)

    · 23 min

  134. Havana

    · 24 min

  135. The Smuggling Racket

    · 24 min

  136. The Smuggling Racket (Havana)

    · 24 min

  137. Assignment Turkey

    · 29 min

  138. Mr. Alexander's File (Turkey)

    · 24 min

  139. The Private Sanatorium

    · 29 min

  140. The Private Sanatorium (Munich)

    · 25 min

  141. A Nursery Rhyme

    · 29 min

  142. A Nursery Rhyme (Stockholm)

    · 24 min

  143. Italian Actress (Nice)

    · 25 min

  144. Nice - Italian Actress

    · 28 min

  145. Attacking Guards

    · 25 min

  146. Riot (Vienna)

    · 25 min

  147. Assignment Turkey

    · 29 min

  148. Road Sabotage (Turkey)

    · 24 min

  149. Lecturing Professors

    · 23 min

  150. Lecturing Professors (Sweden)

    · 24 min

  151. Street Car 17

    · 24 min

  152. Street Car 17 (Trieste)

    · 24 min

  153. Assignment Ellis Chandler

    · 24 min

  154. Colonel Chan (New Guinea)

    · 24 min

  155. The Blue Lion

    · 24 min

  156. The Blue Lion (London)

    · 24 min

  157. Leak of Strategic Materials (Burma)

    · 25 min

  158. Assignment Mexico

    · 25 min

  159. The Hunt for Charon (Mexico)

    · 24 min

  160. Arnold Freed Kidnapped (Greece)

    · 24 min

  161. Assignment Greece

    · 24 min

  162. Family Squabble

    · 25 min

  163. Family Squabble (Belgian Congo)

    · 24 min

  164. Doctor Mac Dougal

    · 25 min

  165. Doctor Mitsuko Kidnapping (Japan)

    · 24 min

  166. Black Market In Jewels

    · 26 min

  167. Black Market in Jewels (France)

    · 24 min

  168. Henrich Schwandorff (Germany)

    · 24 min

  169. Henrich Swindorff

    · 25 min

  170. Ghost Ship

    · 24 min

  171. Ghost Ship (North Borneo)

    · 25 min

  172. Stolen Information

    · 25 min

  173. Stolen Information Group (Norway)

    · 25 min

  174. Assignment in Portugal

    · 24 min

  175. Find Antonina (Portugal)

    · 24 min

  176. Assignment Caribbean

    · 24 min

  177. Rescue Rick Perez (Venezuela)

    · 24 min

  178. Assignment Paris

    · 24 min

  179. Boy Used as Courier (Paris)

    · 24 min

  180. Find Lenny Fenway (Tibet)

    · 24 min

  181. Lenny Fenway

    · 19 min

  182. A Trap in Freedom House (London)

    · 24 min

  183. London - Nikoli Debarov

    · 24 min

  184. Strategic Base Sabotaged (New Guinea)

    · 24 min

  185. The Anti-Submarine Project

    · 25 min

  186. Assignment Trieste

    · 21 min

  187. Smuggling to Iron Curtain Nations (Italy)

    · 23 min

  188. The Jade Dagger (Cairo)

    · 24 min

  189. The Jade Knife

    · 25 min

  190. Oslo - The Stolen Blueprints

    · 25 min

  191. Stolen Computer Blueprints (Oslo, Norway)

    · 25 min

  192. A Hired Assassin

    · 23 min

  193. The Hired Assassin (Havana)

    · 24 min

  194. Capture James C. Stoller (Damascus)

    · 24 min

  195. James Stroller

    · 24 min

  196. Anthony Tagul

    · 24 min

  197. Find Anthony Targu (Montreal)

    · 24 min

  198. Picking Up A Bomb

    · 25 min

  199. Picking Up a Bomb (Saigon)

    · 25 min

About Dangerous Assignment

When did Dangerous Assignment air?

The Dangerous Assignment episodes on Stupid Potato first aired between 1949 and 1953.

How many episodes of Dangerous Assignment can I listen to?

Stupid Potato has 199 episodes of Dangerous Assignment, from 1949 to 1953, in the order they first aired; 3 play on this page right now, and the rest come out in the podcast on its schedule.

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