Dangerous Assignment – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio

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…

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. 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,…

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…

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 Mah...

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. Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 7, 1951 Originated in Hollywood Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Tony Barrett, Raymond Burr, Paul Dubov, Don…

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. Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 31, 1951 Originated in Hollywood Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the…

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 string found in his pocket. Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 24, 1951 Originated in Hollywood Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner;…

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 17, 1951 Originated in Hollywood Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Buttefield as the Commissioner, Jack Moyles, Tony Barrett, Tyler McVeigh, Bill Johnstone, Peter Leeds, Betty…

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 Date: March 10, 1951 Originated in Hollywood Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Wally Maher Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show…

Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to London to intercept someone who is trying to sell a U.S. Intelligence secret. Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 3, 1951 Originated in Hollywood Stars: Brian Donlevy Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.‘ Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913,…

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. Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 24, 1951 Originated in Hollywood Stars: Brian Donlevy Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.‘ Mail…

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 wife is in possession of one of the jewels from the cutlass. Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 10, 1951 Originated from Hollywood Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb…

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 Date: February 3, 1951 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.‘ Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Take&#8230...

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. Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 27, 1951 Originated in Hollywood Stars: Brian Donlevy Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.‘ Mail...

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 Broadcast Date: January 20, 1951 Originated from Hollywood Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Stacy Harris Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a…

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 Date: January 13, 1950 Originated in Hollywood Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Tony Barrett, William Conrad, Paul Frees Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis…

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 Broadcast Date: January 6, 1951 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.‘ Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913,…

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 Broadcast Date: December 30, 1950 Check out our Sponsor: The Art of Crime Podcast  at https://www.artofcrimepodcast.com/ Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Take…

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 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.‘ Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Take the listener…

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 their relatives don’t pay a ransom. Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 9, 1950 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at…

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.S. Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 2, 1950 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.‘ Mail a donation…

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. Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 25, 1950 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.‘ Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box&#8...