Episodes

  • Dangerous Assignment: The Suspect Cylinder

    Dangerous Assignment: The Suspect Cylinder
    Aug 13 2025
    Original Release Date: August 30, 2023

    Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Rome to find out why someone tried to bribe a student into smuggling a recording cylinder to Europe that contained a routine report on the prevalence of the common cold.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 26, 1951

    Originated in Hollywood

    Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Raymond Burr, Tony Barrett, Lou Krugman, Betty Lou Gerson, Don Diamond, Stacy Keach

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    36 mins
  • Dangerous Assignment: Suspicious Explosions

    Dangerous Assignment: Suspicious Explosions
    Aug 6 2025
    Original Release Date: August 23, 2023

    Today's Mystery:Steve investigates a series of explosions targeting treaty negotiations in Japan.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 19, 1951

    Originated in Hollywood

    Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner

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    41 mins
  • Dangerous Assignment: Operation Hotfoot

    Dangerous Assignment: Operation Hotfoot
    Jul 30 2025
    Original Release Date: August 16, 2023

    Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Trinidad in search of a scientist who has discovered an important microbe but failed to report on time.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 18, 1951

    Originated in Hollywood

    Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner

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    35 mins
  • Dangerous Assignment: Epidemic-Needle in a Haystack

    Dangerous Assignment: Epidemic-Needle in a Haystack
    Jul 23 2025
    Original Release Date: August 9, 2023

    Today's Mystery: Steve is sent to a U.S.-occupied town in West Germany to find the source of an epidemic that's making everyone sick.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 11, 1951

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

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    41 mins
  • Dangerous Assignment: Find Rudolf Karpel

    Dangerous Assignment: Find Rudolf Karpel
    Jul 16 2025
    Original Release Date: August 2, 2023

    Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Rotterdam, Netherlands on a tip from a female track athlete who claims to have seen a Nazi war criminal at a china shop. The problem? The china shop has disappeared and everyone claims it was never there.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 4, 1951

    Originated in Hollywood

    Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Martha Wentworth, Sidney Miller, Barney Phillips, Tony Barrett, Virginia Gregg

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    41 mins
  • Dangeorus Assignment: Outlaw Radio Station

    Dangeorus Assignment: Outlaw Radio Station
    Jul 9 2025
    Original Release Date: July 26, 2023

    Steve is called in to a Balkan country to stop an American who is running an illegal radio station broadcasting anti-American propaganda.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 28, 1951

    Originated in Hollywood

    Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Paul Frees, Jeanne Bates, Don Diamond, Stacy Harris, Tim Graham, Shepard Menken

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    39 mins
  • Dangerous Assignment: Retrieve Gouczek

    Dangerous Assignment: Retrieve Gouczek
    Jul 2 2025
    Original Release Date: July 19, 2023

    Today's Mystery:On the French Riviera, the life of a key scientist, who wants to defect, depends on Steve solving the murder of a famous writer

    .Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 21, 1951

    Originated in Hollywood

    Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Betty Lou Gerson, Don Diamond, Hal Girard, Lynn Allen, Fitz Feld

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    38 mins
  • Dangerous Assignment: Stolen UN Documents

    Dangerous Assignment: Stolen UN Documents
    Jun 25 2025
    Original Release Date: July 5, 2023

    Today's Mystery:Steve goes to the Middle East to find out how sensitive diplomatic information disappeared from an official's home, and finds himself investigating the official's wife's murder.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 14, 1951

    Originated in Hollywood

    Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Jan Arvan, Don Diamond, Wally Maher, Paul Dubov

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    38 mins