The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1949–1953
- Surviving broadcasts
- 192
- Genre
- adventure
Film actor Brian Donlevy played Steve Mitchell, international operative whose had two jobs. Get in and out of danger. Donlevy had the voice and delivery to make the show sound plausible, even if it was routine Cold War brush fire stuff.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
7 dated broadcasts across 5 years on the air, with 4 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1953, in original transmission order.
- 1. Dangerous Assignment The Blue Lion · 14 Jan 1953
- 2. The Blue Lion · 14 Jan 1953
- 3. Dangerous Assignment Leak of Strategic Materials · 21 Jan 1953
Dangerous Assignment Picking Up a Bomb
8 Jul 1953 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 8 July 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Picking Up A Bomb
8 Jul 1953 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 8 July 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Dangerous Assignment Find Anthony Targu
1 Jul 1953 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 1 July 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Anthony Tagul
1 Jul 1953 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 1 July 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Dangerous Assignment Capture James C. Stoller
24 Jun 1953 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 24 June 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
James Stroller
24 Jun 1953 · 23 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 24 June 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Dangerous Assignment The Hired Assassin
27 May 1953 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 27 May 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
A Hired Assassin
27 May 1953 · 22 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 27 May 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1949–1953
Other series the network carried while Dangerous Assignment was on the air.
Same seasons
adventure on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The children's serial
Fifteen minutes, a cliffhanger, and a promise to be back tomorrow. Kids' audio still runs on the shape the Yukon and Speed Gibson serials cut.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Dangerous Assignment
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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