Episodes

  • Dangerous Assignment: The Butterfly Chasers

    Dangerous Assignment: The Butterfly Chasers
    Oct 8 2025
    Today's Mystery:Steve parachutes into Brazil in pursuit of a party of lepidopterists, one of whom has a sensitive document that belongs to the US and has been auctioned off to the highest bidder.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 22, 1952

    Originated in HollywoodStars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner

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    38 mins
  • Dangerous Assignment: To Ask a Guy to Shoot You

    Dangerous Assignment: To Ask a Guy to Shoot You
    Oct 18 2023
    Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Indonesia to get the help of an embittered ex-Navy officer to identify and stop a dangerous gun runner.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 15, 1951

    Originated in Hollywood

    Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Stacy Harris, Dan Riss, Paul Dubov, Betty Lou Gerson, Jakm Moyles

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    Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.
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    31 mins
  • Dangerous Assignment: The Underground Press

    Dangerous Assignment: The Underground Press
    Sep 24 2025
    Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Austria to obtain a dummy newspaper that has information on foreign agents.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 8, 1952

    Originated in HollywoodStars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner

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    30 mins
  • Dangerous Assignment: A Stolen Treaty

    Dangerous Assignment: A Stolen Treaty
    Sep 17 2025
    Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Port Said in Egypt to retrieve a stolen signed treaty that was taken from a courier who was beaten and left for dead.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 25 1952

    Originated in HollywoodStars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Raymond Burr, Jack Moyles

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    33 mins
  • Dangerous Assignment: Ghost Hunters

    Dangerous Assignment: Ghost Hunters
    Sep 10 2025
    Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Darwin, Australia, because a man who offered the U.S. information on the location of a World War II traitor has been murdered.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 10, 1952

    Originated in Hollywood

    Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Kay Stewart, Dan O'Herliy, Don Morrisson, Ben Wright

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    31 mins
  • Dangerous Assignment: Nazi Fugitive-Captain Shiller

    Dangerous Assignment: Nazi Fugitive-Captain Shiller
    Sep 20 2023
    Original Release Date: September 20, 2023

    Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Dakar in West Africa in search of a supposedly dead Nazi sea captain who was a key part of the Fuhrer's escape plan.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 3, 1951

    Originated in HollywoodStars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner

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    38 mins
  • Dangerous Assignment: China Sea Smuggling

    Dangerous Assignment: China Sea Smuggling
    Aug 27 2025
    Original Release Date: September 13, 2023

    Today's Mystery: Steve is sent to the South China Sea to use a notorious smuggler Captain Jaeger to break a smuggling racket.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 10, 1951

    Originated in HollywoodStars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Tony Barrett, Irene Winston, Paul Dubov, and Jean Tatum

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    39 mins
  • Dangerous Assignment: A Country's Democracy Threatened

    Dangerous Assignment: A Country's Democracy Threatened
    Aug 20 2025
    Original Release Date: September 6, 2023

    Today's Mystery:Steve goes to a South American country where an American is wanted for killing the leader of the Fascist Party in order to prevent the election of an anti-US Government.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 3, 1951

    Originated in HollywoodStars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, William Conrad, Betty Lou Gerson, Tony Barrett, Paul Frees, William Johnstone.

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    36 mins