Dangerous Assignment – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio: Recent Episodes
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Today’s Mystery: Steve is called to Saigon when a reporter tried to blackmail him into carrying a suitcase containing a bomb. Original Radio Broadcast Date:July 8, 1953 Origi Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve travels to Montreal to investigate the supposed death of notorious racketeer Anthony Targu and the mysterious disappearance of Dr. Franklin Dorberg, a well-kn Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Syria to intercept and capture an America traitor and Communist propagandist. Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 24, 1953 Originating i Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: In Havana, Steve hunts for an international assassin whose latest victim is an American agent who had clues to the assassin’s whereabouts. Original Rad Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: From the bustling streets of Oslo to the shadowy corners of Hamburg, Mitchell races against time to intercept a stolen set of top-secret blueprints before they fall into t Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Sent to Cairo on a mission to clear the United States’s name, Steve must navigate a treacherous path of false accusations and political machinations. From the Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Join government agent Steve Mitchell on a pulse-pounding journey through Europe’s underbelly in ‘Dangerous Assignment.’ When strategic materials s Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to New Guinea in search of a dock worker who is suspected of sabotaging the construction of a joint U.S.-Australia-New Zealand strategic base. Ori Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to London to investigate an apparent traitor at an organization that’s supposed to help refugees from behind the Iron Curtain, but is instead getti Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve travels to Tibet to rescue an American pilot who provides the key to a critical mission to re-supply Chinese nationalists. Original Radio Broadcast Dat Read more ...
Join Steve Mitchell as he embarks on a perilous journey behind the Iron Curtain, infiltrating a slave labor camp to extract vital intelligence. With time running against him and danger at every turn, will Steve secure the information and make it out alive, or will this assignment prove too deadly? Season 1, Episode 39 Original…
Today’s Mystery: Steve is hired as tutor to a French boy with a near photographic memory whose father believes his current tutor is using him to smuggle top secret information. Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Venezuela to rescue a U.S. agent who was investigating a Latin American revolutionary organization. Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 1, 195 Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Portugal to find a young woman who’d been in the U.S. illegally and find out why she intentionally had herself deported. Original Radio B Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Norway to impersonate a captured courier who was about to collect a payoff from a gang that dealt in stolen information. Steve arrives to find someone Read more ...
Steve Mitchell embarks on a high-stakes mission to locate a missing European diplomat and recover top-secret records. As tensions rise and loyalties are questioned, join Mitchell in the bustling streets of Barcelona, where every corner could hold a clue or a deadly trap. Season 1, Episode 17 Original Air Date: December 1951 Subscribe to our…
Today’s Mystery: Steve is sent to locate a phantom ship that’s smuggling supplies to guerillas in the Philippines and attacking local fishing boats. Original Radio Broa Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Germany to find a displaced person who may be able to identify a Nazi war criminal. Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 4, 1953 Origina Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve is sent to break up a black market founded on jewel thefts that is destabilizing the Mediterranean. In order to fight them, Steve plans to steal a necklace be Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Tokyo to get to the bottom of the kidnapping of a prominent scientist by Americans claiming to be with the U.S. government. Original Radio Broa Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to the Belgian Congo to resolve a family dispute between two women that’s threatened the U.S. access to a strategic mineral mine. Original R Read more ...
Steve Mitchell travels to Tokyo on a dangerous assignment that reunites him with Marta Siba, an old flame with a new agenda. Dive into a tale of espionage where trains derail, bridges explode, and love might just be the deadliest force of all. Season 1, Episode 16 Original Air Date: December 1951 Subscribe to our…
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Greece, where he’s to follow the trail of phony documents in hopes of finding a kidnapped American scientist. Original Radio Broadcast Da Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Mexico to follow a clue to a dangerous international killer. Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 28, 1953 Originating in Hollywood
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Burma to the famous “Road to Mandalay” in order to stop a gang of robbers who are intercepting strategic supplies being sent by the U.S. t Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to London to root out a phony passport racket. His only clue? A seven-year-old newspaper. Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 14, 1953 O Read more ...
Steve is sent to South America on a Cold War Mission where an American businessman is accused of assassinating an anti-American party leader. Original Broadcast Date: December 1951 Season 1, Episode 15 Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to New Guinea, hoping to discover through talking with a notorious smuggler the identity and location of a Mr. Big in a gun-smuggling operation. O Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Trieste, Italy to meet someone on a street car with information about the location of a report on foreign knowledge of US atomic secrets. Origi Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: The son of a lecturing professor is missing from a boarding school in Stockholm and Steve needs to find him in order to break up an international spy ring. O Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Turkey to investigate sabotage on a road project that the U.S. is subsidizing and providing expertise for. Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 17, Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Vienna to investigate a shooting in which U.S. soldiers have been implicated in an attack on a mine across the border in Hungary. Original Radi Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Nice, Italy to find out who is behind a ring blackmailing American citizens by threatening relatives living in foreign countries. Original Radi Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Stockholm to investigate a leak from a project the U.S. is participating in. He finds the head of the project murdered, and a nursery rhyme is the onl Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve is sent to Bavaria to infiltrate a sanitorium, where an American journalist who is wanted for trumped-up charges behind the Iron Curtain is being held incommu Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Turkey to intercept a thief before he sells a sensitive the file to the highest bidder. Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 12, 1952
Steve (Brian Donlevy) goes to Havana to find the head of a spy ring that’s been stealing U.S. government secrets, putting them on microfilm, and smuggling them out of the country. Features Lyle Talbot Original Air Date: Fall 1951 Season 1, Episode 14 Subscribe to our Video Theater feed Become one of our monthly patreon…
Today’s Mystery: Steve Mitchell is sent to Havanna to meet an informant and break up a smuggling racket. He soon finds himself investigating the murder of the informant. Orig Read more ...
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 Read more ...
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 Read more ...
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 Read more ...
Steve heads to Burma after an American correspondent is murdered and seeks to find a woman who may be a witness…or the murderer. Original Air Date: Fall 1951 Season 1, Episode 13 Subscribe to our Video Theater feed Become one of our monthly patreon supporters at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at…
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 Read more ...
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 B Read more ...
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 Broad Read more ...
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 Read more ...
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 Govern Read more ...
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 Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve investigates a series of explosions targeting treaty negotiations in Japan. Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 19, 1951 Originated in Hollywood Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Trinidad in search of a scientist who have discovered an important microbe but failed to report on time. Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 18, 1951
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 B Read more ...
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? Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve is called in to a Balkan country to stop an American who is running an illegal radio station broadcasting anti-American propaganda. Or Read more ...
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. Read more ...
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 investi Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Balkans to recapture a stolen top secret file from an official of a Balkan Country who offers to return it…for a price. Origina Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Java to make himself a target for someone who’s stolen half of a top-secret formula…and killed the person who had it. Ori Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steven goes to Panama to take up the case of an old friend who was murdered while looking for stolen dynamite. Steve’s only clue? A piece of Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve is sent to Macao to locate a hospital chart that could lead to a US ally being defeated for re-election. Original Radio Broadcast Date: March Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to a South American country to find out who killed a man with papers identifying him as Steve Mitchell. Original Radio Broadcast Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to London to intercept someone who is trying to sell a U.S. Intelligence secret. Original Radio Broadcast Date: Ma Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve sets out to recover stolen plans the Nazis had for an improved buzz bomb before they can be sold to the highest bidder.
Steve is sent to Africa to bring back a British Agent transporting an enemy agent stirring up U.S. interest but when Steve arrives he finds his life depends on figuring out which is the Brtish Agent and which is the enemy. Season 1, Episode 9 Original Air Date: Fall 1951 Subscribe to our Video Theater…
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Europe to clear the U.S. of having stolen a cutlass that’s a powerful national symbol. The problem? A U.S. Navy officer’s Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Malaysia to find an ex-Nazi fugitive who is stirring up rebellion and disrupting rubber production. Original Radio Broadcast D Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Cairo to search for a missing government official whose accusation could bring down a U.S.-friendly Middle Eastern government.
Today’s Mystery: Steve is sent to Quebec to recover a report on new arctic warfare equipment that had been in the possession of a murdered scientist. Original Radio Read more ...
Steve boards a train in hopes of receiving a report from a Plastic Company CEO but finds the CEO murdered and the report missing. Original Air Date: Fall 1951 Season 1 Episode 8 Subscribe to our Video Theater feed Become one of our monthly patreon supporters at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis…
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Madrid, Spain to find a prominent scientist who disappeared while defecting to the United States. Original Radio Broadcast Dat Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve is sent to Haiti to find out if some missing scientists are alive and to recover their research on submarine warfare. Original Radio B Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve has to intercept the leading citizen of an Eastern European country before he walks into a trap set by a false friend. Original Radio Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Richmond to find out why a foreign agent stole a Civil War map. Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 16, 1950 Suppor Read more ...
Steve goes to Bombay to meet with a witness who accused an American businessman of gunrunning. The witness wants to change his story, but he is killed, and Steve has to go on the run from the police. Original Air Date: Fall 1951 Season 1, Episode 7 Subscribe to our Video Theater feed Become one…
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Berlin to stop a kidnapping and extortion racket that kidnaps German citizens and threatens to hand them over to the Eastern Bloc if Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to a South American country where the President of a US ally is accused of plotting war against a neighbor with the assistance of the U. Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to North Indo-China (modern-day Vietnam) to retrieve an American clerk who’d been framed as a spy and then captured by guerillas.< Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Munich to intercept a stolen formula that’s traveling by way of an inventive new route – the Memory Chain. Origina Read more ...
Steve goes to the Swiss alps to obtain a foreign document that could stabilize a friendly country. Season 1, Episode 6 Original Air Date: Fall 1951 Based on Radio Play that aired March 20, 1950 Subscribe to our Video Theater feed Become one of our monthly patreon supporters at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a…
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Tokyo to investigate a sabotage operation for which an old flame is the prime suspect. Original Radio Broadcast Date: October Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve has to put a stop to an organization that’s killing American tourists overseas and stealing their identities in order to Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Latin America to retrieve a foreign agent who is willing to give the US vital secrets if they can protect him from the police and his Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Istanbul where a seal and his trainer are at the center of a murder case involving an agent investigating a spy ring.< Read more ...
The son of a man who knows the truth about a lecture circuit spy ring disappears from a Swiss boarding school and steve has to find the missing boy. Original Release Date: Fall 1951 Season 1, Episode 5 Subscribe to our Video Theater feed Become one of our monthly patreon supporters at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the…
Today’s Mystery: Steve is sent to the Balkans to find out what’s behind a series of murders at an allegedly cursed chromite mine. Original Radio Broadc Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve is sent on a chase across Great Britain and Ireland to try and locate stolen microfilm. Original Radio Broadcast Date: Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Bombay to get in touch with the key witness who got an American businessman convicted of gunrunning. Original R Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Paris to locate the murderer of a legendary detective before the killer can add key diplomats to his list of victims.< Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Africa to bring back an enemy agent who is stirring up anti-American sentiment. Original Radio Broadcast Date: Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Vienna to find a female Nazi war criminal who was believed dead, but is in possession of top-secret documents showing Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Indochina to capture a guerilla leader. Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 26, 1950 Support the show mo Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Istanbul to find a missing radio reporter and his reel of tape which provides a clue to something hot that could effec Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes behind the Iron Curtain to deliver an antidote to and rescue a man who’s been brainwashed into confessing to being Read more ...
Steve travels to Munich to break up a spy ring that spreads its message by memory rather than in written form. Original Air Date: Fall 1951 Season 1, Episode Subscribe to our Video Theater feed Become one of our monthly patreon supporters at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net. Read more…
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Rangoon to investigate the murder of an American correspondent who was reporting on a racket involving political refug Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve is sent to Saudi Arabia to find out how 100,000 barrels of oil disappeared between the oil fields and the refinery. Original R Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Stockholm to find the son of scientist so he can break up a spy ring surrounding a lecture circuit. Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 10, 1950 Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve travels to Paris to save International talks from breaking down by finding a missing delegate representing countries in the Baltic as well as briefcase full o Read more ...
Steve has to find out who’s sabotaging the efforts of refugees fleeing tyranny to build a better life for themselves on an island. Original Air Date: Fall 1951 Season 1, Episode 3 Subscribe to our Video Theater feed Become one of our monthly patreon supporters at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at…
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Alaska to find two missing scientists, one of whom is an ex-Nazi. Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 24, 1950 Support the show monthly Read more ...
Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Ecuador to look into crashes by a small cargo airline that are apparently caused by UFOs. Original Radio Broadcast Date: April Read more ...
Steve goes to Trinidad to help another agent recover some sunken military secrets. Original Air Date: April 10, 1950 Support the show monthly at
Steve is sent to Cairo where an old friend, a sheik, who controls valuable uranium mines, is threatening not to renew the lease held by the U.S. and its allies. Original A Read more ...
Steve is assigned to impersonate a sea captain who doesn’t exist in order to trap a gang of gunrunners. Original Air Date: Fall 1951 Season 1, Episode 2 Subscribe to our Video Theater feed Become one of our monthly patreon supporters at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net. Read more ...
Steve goes to Switzerland to reclaim a forced confession that could destabilize a Central European government. Original Air Date: March 20, 1950 Support the show mo Read more ...
Steve goes to San Diego to recover a stolen recorded wire of an international conference. Original Air Date: March 6, 1950 Support the show monthly at
Steve goes to Macao to bring back a fellow agent. Things get complicated when Steve finds a dead man in the agent’s hotel and the agent is wanted for murder. Origina Read more ...
Steve goes to Athens to retrieve radar plans stolen from the U.S. but finds himself dealing with multiple groups trying to profit from them. Original Air Date: February 20 Read more ...
Steve goes to Tangiers undercover as a soldier of fortune who bore an uncanny resemblance to Steve. Steve has to find out who killed his doppleganger without being murdered himse Read more ...
Steve goes to Panama to complete the mission of a friend, who was killed trying to locate a cache of Japanese weapons from World War II. Original Air Date: February 6, 195 Read more ...
Steve goes to Zurich in search of a stolen Defense Department file. Original Air Date: August 20, 1949 Vote for us in the Podcast Awards at http://www.podcastawards Read more ...
Steve travels to Lisbon to stop a refugee smuggling racket after a friend was killed attempting the same mission. Original Air Date: August 13, 1949 Nominate the Gr Read more ...
Steve is sent to Portugal to investigate a refugee smuggling racket. Original Air Date: Fall 1951 Based on a radio play from August 13, 1949 Subscribe to our Video Theater feed Become one of our monthly patreon supporters at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net. Read more ...
Steve goes to Paris to find out who’s killing off the millionaires who have created a joint venture that will help the developing world. Original Air Date: August 6, Read more ...
After another agent disappears, Steve goes to Nigeria to take his place and locate a tribal chieftain to negotiate for valuable Manganese deposits. Original Air Date: July Read more ...
Steve travels to Saigon to investigate the sabotage of two vessels carrying U.S. relief supplies. Original Air Date: July 16, 1949 Support the show monthly at
Steve Mitchell goes to Sicily to investigate the theft of relief supplies. Original Air Date: July 9, 1949 Support the show monthly at