Dangerous Assignment

3.5
195230m

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

41 Episodes • Premiered 1952

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1. The Truth

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2. Displaced Persons Story

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3. The Displaced Persons Story

Refugees on a ship bound for a new home are terrorized by a saboteur.

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4. The Memory Chain

Steve must smash a spy ring that transmits top secret information the old-fashioned way--by word of mouth.

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5. The Manager Story

In Stockholm, a child is kidnapped in order to prevent his father from exposing an espionage ring.

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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.

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7. The Bhandara Story

Steve travels to Bombay in order to clear a jailed American citizen of sabotage charges.

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8. Civil War Map Story

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9. Italian Movie Story

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10. The Blood Stained Feather Story

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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.

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12. Sunflower Seed Story

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13. The Burma Temple Story

Steve is sent to Burma to investigate the murder of a newspaperman who was posing as a political refugee.

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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.

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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.

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16. The Missing Diplomat Story

In Barcelona, Steve tries to retrieve a taped conversation of a European diplomat who has disappeared.

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17. The Briefcase Story

Steve must stop a saboteur's attack on a conference in Paris between Western and Eastern bloc nations.

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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.

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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.

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20. The Dead General Story

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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.

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22. The Parachute Story

Steve parachutes into Eastern Europe to search for a witness who can clear the United States of an international frame.

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23. The Paris Sewer Story

Steve discovers a Commie spy ring operating out of the sewers of Paris.

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24. Bodyguard Assignment

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25. The Bodyguard Story

In Paris, Steve's only clue to the identity of an assassin is a bowl of cold stew.

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26. The One Blue Chip Story

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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31. The Decoy Story

Steve uses a decoy to smuggle a U.S. diplomat out of Eastern Europe.

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32. The Perfect Alibi

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33. The Stolen Letter

Steve is sent to South America to expose a plot against the United States.

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34. The Black Stocking Story

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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.

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36. The Archeological Story

Steve poses as an agitator in Transjordan to stop a fanatic bent on starting a revolt against his government.

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37. The Perfect Alibi Story

After a murder in Rome, Steve discovers that someone has been impersonating him.

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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.

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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.

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40. The Alien Smuggler Story

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41. The Havana Microfilm Story

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