What happens
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.
Sicily, 1949, including the city of Messina, the Throp Foundation warehouse, a bar, and the mountains where Lorenzo's band is camped
Characters: Steve Mitchell, Commissioner, Ruth, Eloise, Helen Collier, Archer, Paul Wainwright, Emilio Donati
Listen for: Steve's conversations with Archer and Emilio Donati, and Steve's meeting with Lorenzo in the mountains
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.