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Dangerous Assignment
Overview
A U.S. government agent travels the world on undercover missions in this 1950s series. Star Brian Donlevy originated the role on radio in the '40s.
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Seasons
Season 1 (1952)
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41 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: The Truth
1952-01-01Episode 2: Displaced Persons Story
Episode 3: The Displaced Persons Story
Refugees on a ship bound for a new home are terrorized by a saboteur.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 4: The Memory Chain
Steve must smash a spy ring that transmits top secret information the old-fashioned way--by word of mouth.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 5: The Manager Story
In Stockholm, a child is kidnapped in order to prevent his father from exposing an espionage ring.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 6: The Key Story
Steve must risk his life in the Swiss Alps to recover a document that proves a country's recently deceased leader was murdered.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 7: The Bhandara Story
Steve travels to Bombay in order to clear a jailed American citizen of sabotage charges.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 8: Civil War Map Story
Episode 9: Italian Movie Story
Episode 10: The Blood Stained Feather Story
Episode 11: The Italian Movie Story
Steve's assignment this time is to travel to Rome in order to recover vital film footage stolen from a movie company.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 12: Sunflower Seed Story
Episode 13: The Burma Temple Story
Steve is sent to Burma to investigate the murder of a newspaperman who was posing as a political refugee.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 14: The Sunflower Seed Story
It's Steve to the rescue when an American citizen is accused of murdering the head of a South American political party.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 15: The Caboose Story
Steve must discover whether or not an old galpal, who's now an enemy agent, is behind acts of sabotage in Japan.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 16: The Missing Diplomat Story
In Barcelona, Steve tries to retrieve a taped conversation of a European diplomat who has disappeared.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 17: The Briefcase Story
Steve must stop a saboteur's attack on a conference in Paris between Western and Eastern bloc nations.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 18: The Civil War Map Story
Steve tries to find out the connection between the murder of a well-known foreign agent and the theft of a Civil War map.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 19: The Piece of String Story
Steve tries to determine the connection between a piece of string found on a corpse and the theft of dynamite in Panama.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 20: The Dead General Story
Episode 21: The Dead General's Story
In the Balkans, Steve must locate a murdered general's secret documents before enemy agents can get their hands on them.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 22: The Parachute Story
Steve parachutes into Eastern Europe to search for a witness who can clear the United States of an international frame.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 23: The Paris Sewer Story
Steve discovers a Commie spy ring operating out of the sewers of Paris.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 24: Bodyguard Assignment
1952-03-10Episode 25: The Bodyguard Story
In Paris, Steve's only clue to the identity of an assassin is a bowl of cold stew.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 26: The One Blue Chip Story
1952-04-14Episode 27: The Blue Chip Story
Steve travels to Macao and poses as a crook to stop a counterfeiting ring that's flooding the Far East with phony United States currency.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 28: The Red Queen Story
Steve is sent to Singapore to recover a million dollars worth of rubber that was stolen from the United States.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 29: The Knitting Needle Story
Steve must protect an Italian journalist with information about Mafia activity in an election on the newsman's flight back to Italy.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 30: The Assassin Ring Story
An American businessman is framed for assassinating the King of Transjordan. Steve travels to the country to prove that other elements were responsible for the killing.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 31: The Decoy Story
Steve uses a decoy to smuggle a U.S. diplomat out of Eastern Europe.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 32: The Perfect Alibi
1952-05-26Episode 33: The Stolen Letter
Steve is sent to South America to expose a plot against the United States.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 34: The Black Stocking Story
Episode 35: The Black Hood Story
In Berlin, Steve is on the trail of two masked men who swiped a valuable briefcase containing confidential documents from a diplomatic courier.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 36: The Archeological Story
Steve poses as an agitator in Transjordan to stop a fanatic bent on starting a revolt against his government.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 37: The Perfect Alibi Story
After a murder in Rome, Steve discovers that someone has been impersonating him.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 38: The Mine Story
Steve gets smuggled into a slave labor camp to get vital information but then finds that it's going to be a lot harder getting out.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 39: The Full Dress Suit Story
Steve negotiates the dangerous back alleys of Havana in search of a spy in possession of stolen documents on microfilm.
Runtime: 30 min
