Dangerous Assignment| Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Cold War Thrillers
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Dangerous Assignment: Road Sabotage
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Radi...
Dangerous Assignment: Riot
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Dangerous Assignment: Italian Actress
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
Dangerous Assignment: Nursery Rhyme
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
Dangerous Assignment: The Private Sanitorium
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Mystery:Steve is sent to Bavaria to infiltrate a sanitarium, where an American journalist who is wanted for trumped-up charges behind the Iron...
Dangerous Assignment: Mr. Alexander's File
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Turkey to intercept a thief before he sells a sensitive file before to the highest bidder.Original Radio Broadcast Date...
Dangerous Assignment: The Smuggling Racket
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Mystery:Steve Mitchell is sent to Havana to meet an informant and break up a smuggling racket. He soon finds himself investigating the murder ...
Dangerous Assignment: The Butterfly Chasers
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Dangerous Assignment: To Ask a Guy to Shoot You
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Br...
Dangerous Assignment: The Underground Press
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Austria to obtain a dummy newspaper that has information on foreign agents.Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 8, 195...
Dangerous Assignment: A Stolen Treaty
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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.Ori...
Dangerous Assignment: Ghost Hunters
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 mur...
Dangerous Assignment: Nazi Fugitive-Captain Shiller
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: September 20, 2023Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Dakar in West Africa in search of a supposedly dead Nazi sea captain who was a...
Dangerous Assignment: China Sea Smuggling
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: September 13, 2023Today's Mystery: Steve is sent to the South China Sea to use a notorious smuggler Captain Jaeger to break a s...
Dangerous Assignment: A Country's Democracy Threatened
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: September 6, 2023Today's Mystery:Steve goes to a South American country where an American is wanted for killing the leader of t...
Dangerous Assignment: The Suspect Cylinder
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: August 30, 2023Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Rome to find out why someone tried to bribe a student into smuggling a recording c...
Dangerous Assignment: Suspicious Explosions
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: August 23, 2023Today's Mystery:Steve investigates a series of explosions targeting treaty negotiations in Japan.Original Radio ...
Dangerous Assignment: Operation Hotfoot
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: August 16, 2023Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Trinidad in search of a scientist who has discovered an important microbe but fai...
Dangerous Assignment: Epidemic-Needle in a Haystack
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: August 9, 2023Today's Mystery: Steve is sent to a U.S.-occupied town in West Germany to find the source of an epidemic that's m...
Dangerous Assignment: Find Rudolf Karpel
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: August 2, 2023Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Rotterdam, Netherlands on a tip from a female track athlete who claims to have seen...
Dangeorus Assignment: Outlaw Radio Station
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: July 26, 2023Steve is called in to a Balkan country to stop an American who is running an illegal radio station broadcasting an...
Dangerous Assignment: Retrieve Gouczek
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: July 19, 2023Today's Mystery:On the French Riviera, the life of a key scientist, who wants to defect, depends on Steve solving ...
Dangerous Assignment: Stolen UN Documents
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: July 5, 2023Today's Mystery:Steve goes to the Middle East to find out how sensitive diplomatic information disappeared from an ...
Dangerous Assignment: File 72
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: June 28, 2023Today's Mystery: Steve goes to the Balkans to recapture a stolen top-secret file from an official of a Balkan Coun...
Dangerous Assignment: Atomic Fisson Formula
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: June 21, 2023Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Java to make himself a target for someone who's stolen half of a top-secret formula...
Dangerous Assignment: Recover Stolen Dynamite
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: June 7, 2023Today's Mystery:Steven goes to Panama to take up the case of an old friend who was murdered while looking for stole...
Dangerous Assignment: Recover a Hospital Chart
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date:May 31, 2023Today's Mystery: Steve is sent to Macao to locate a hospital chart that could lead to a US ally being defeated for r...
Dangerous Assignment: Solve Your Own Murder
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: May 24, 2023Today's Mystery: Steve goes to a South American country to find out who killed a man with papers identifying him as...
Dangerous Assignment: Prevent Disclosure of Compromised Codes
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: May 17, 2023Today's Mystery:Steve goes to London to intercept someone who is trying to sell a U.S. Intelligence secret.Original...
Dangerous Assignment: The Nazi Buzz Bomb
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: May 10, 2023Today's Mystery: Steve sets out to recover stolen plans the Nazis had for an improved buzz bomb before they can be ...
Dangerous Assignment: Kroner Cutlass
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: May 3, 2023Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Europe to clear the U.S. of having stolen a cutlass that's a powerful national symbol...
Dangerous Assignment: Nazi Fugitive
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: April 27, 2023Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Malaysia to find an ex-Nazi fugitive who is stirring up rebellion and disrupting r...
Dangerous Assignment: A Box of Busted Bells
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: April 19, 2023Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Cairo to search for a missing government official whose accusation could bring dow...
Dangerous Assignment: Missing Arctic Warfare Report
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: April 12, 2023Today's Mystery: Steve is sent to Quebec to recover a report on new arctic warfare equipment that had been in the...
Dangerous Assignment: Find Missing Scientist Dr. Wieczek
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: April 5, 2023Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Madrid, Spain to find a prominent scientist who disappeared while defecting to the ...
Dangerous Assignment: Operation Fish Hook
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 29, 2023Today's Mystery: Steve is sent to Haiti to find out if some missing scientists are alive and to recover their res...
Dangerous Assignment: Intercept Dr. Korvel
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 28, 2023Today's Mystery: Steve has to intercept the leading citizen of an Eastern European country before he walks into a...
Dangerous Assignment: Missing Civil War Map
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Orignal Release Date: March 15, 2023Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Richmond to find out why a foreign agent stole a Civil War map.Original Radio Broad...
Dangerous Assignment: Berlin Kidnapping Ring
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 8, 2023Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Berlin to stop a kidnapping and extortion racket that kidnaps German citizens and t...
Dangerous Assignment: The Empty Matchbook
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 1, 2023Today's Mystery: Steve goes to a South American country where the President of a US ally is accused of plotting wa...
Dangerous Assignment: The Football Play
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: February 22, 2023Today's Mystery: Steve goes to North Indo-China (modern-day Vietnam) to retrieve an American clerk who'd been ...
Dangerous Assignment: Memory Chain Equation
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: February 15, 2023Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Munich to intercept a stolen formula that's traveling by way of an inventive new...
Dangerous Assignment:Contact Marta Gelber and Smash Sabotage Ring
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: February 8, 2023 Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Tokyo to investigate a sabotage operation for which an old flame is the prime ...
Dangerous Assignment: Forged Identification Papers Racket
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: February 1, 2023Today's Mystery: Steve has to put a stop to an organization that's killing American tourists overseas and steal...
Dangerous Assignment: Retrieve Slarga from Latin America
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: January 25, 2023Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Latin America to retrieve a foreign agent who is willing to give the US vital se...
Dangerous Assignment: Contact Lefty the Trained Seal
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: January 18, 2023Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Istanbul where a seal and his trainer are at the center of a murder case involvi...
Dangerous Assignment: Chromite Mine Disaster
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: January 11, 2023Today's Mystery: Steve is sent to the Balkans to find out what's behind a series of murders at an allegedly cur...
Dangerous Assignment: Recover Stolen Missile Plan Microfilm
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: January 4, 2023Today's Mystery:Steve is sent on a chase across Great Britain and Ireland to try and locate stolen microfilm.Ori...
Dangerous Assignment: Get Gouda Before the Gunrunners
25 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: December 21, 2022Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Bombay to get in touch with the key witness who got an American businessman con...
Dangerous Assignment: Find Hired Killer Lupac
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: December 14, 2022Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Paris to locate the murderer of a legendary detective before the killer can add...
Dangerous Assignment: Defeat African Hate
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: December 7, 2022Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Africa to bring back an enemy agent who is stirring up anti-American sentiment....
Dangerous Assignment: Recover Lost Troop Movement Document
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 U....
Dangerous Assignment: Find Guerilla Chief and Stop Him
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: November 23, 2022Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Indochina to capture a guerilla leader.Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 26,...
Dangerous Assignment: Find Champlin and His Reel of Tape
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: November 16, 2022Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Istanbul to find a missing radio reporter and his reel of tape which provides ...
Dangerous Assignment: Administer Little White Pill Antidote
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: November 9, 2022Today's Mystery: Steve goes behind the Iron Curtain to deliver an antidote to and rescue a man who's been brai...
Dangerous Assignment: Solve Kent Jackson's Murder
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: November 2, 2022Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Rangoon to investigate the murder of an American correspondent who was reporting...
Dangerous Assignment: Find 100,000 Barrels of Missing Oil
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Rlease Date: October 26, 2022Today's Mystery: Steve is sent to Saudi Arabia to find out how 100,000 barrels of oil disappeared between the oi...
Dangerous Assignment: Smash Lecture Circuit Spy Ring
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: October 21 2022Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Stockholm to find the son of scientist so he can break up a spy ring surrounding...
Dangerous Assignment: Find Szabo and the Briefcase
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: October 12, 2022Today's Mystery: Steve travels to Paris to save International talks from breaking down by finding a missing del...
Dangerous Assignment: The Nazi and the Physicist
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date Today's Mystery: October 5, 2022Steve goes to Alaska to find two missing scientists, one of whom is an ex-Nazi.Original Radio B...
Dangerous Assignment: Investigate Flying Saucers
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: September 28, 2022Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Ecuador to look into crashes by a small cargo airline that are apparently cau...
Dangerous Assignment: Recover Underwater Demolition Secrets
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: September 21, 2022Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Trinidad to help another agent recover some sunken military secrets.Original Ai...
Dangerous Assignment: Renew Sheik Haroun's Uranium Deal
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: September 14, 2022Steve is sent to Cairo where an old friend, a Sheik, who controls valuable uranium mines is threatening not t...
Dangerous Assignment: International Blackmail
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: September 7, 2022Steve goes to Switzerland to reclaim a forced confession that could destabilize a Central European government....
Dangerous Assignment: Recover Wire Recorder Spool
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: August 31, 2022Steve goes to San Diego to recover a stolen recorded wire of an international conference.Original Air Date: Marc...
Dangerous Assignment: White Jade
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: August 24, 2022Steve goes to Macao to bring back a fellow agent. Things get complicated when Steve finds a dead man in the agen...
Dangerous Assignment: Recover Stolen Radar Plans
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: August 17, 2022Steve goes to Athens to retrieve radar plans stolen from the U.S. but finds himself dealing with multiple groups...
Dangerous Assignment: Who Killed Captain Rocq?
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: August 10, 2022Steve goes to Tangiers undercover as a soldier of fortune who bore an uncanny resemblance to Steve. Steve has to...
Dangerous Assignment: Find Missing Japanese Weapons
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 D...
Dangerous Assignment: File No. 307
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: July 27, 2022Steve goes to Zurich in search of a stolen Defense Department file.Original Air Date: August 20, 1949Support the s...
Dangerous Assignment: Smash Alien Smuggling Racket
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: July 20, 2022Steve travels to Lisbon to stop a refugee smuggling racket after a friend was killed attempting the same mission.O...
Dangerous Assignment: Millionaire: Murder Conspiracy
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: July 6, 2022Steve goes to Paris to find out who's killing off millionaires who have created a join venture that will help the d...
Dangerous Assignment: On Safari for Nigerian Manganese
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: June 29, 2022After another agent disappears, Steve goes to Nigeria to take his place and locate a tribal chieftain to negotiate...
Dangerous Assignment : Malayan Line Sabotage
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: June 22, 2022Steve travels to Saigon to investigate the sabotage of two vessels carrying U.S. relief supplies.Original Air Date...
Dangerous Assignment: Thropp Foundation Relief Supplies
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: June 15, 2022Steve Mitchell goes to Sicily to investigate the theft of relief supplies.Original Air Date: July 9, 1949Support t...
Dangerous Assignment: Picking up a Bomb
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: June 19, 2024Today's Mystery: Steve is called to Saigon when a reporter tried to blackmail him into carrying a suitcase contain...
Dangerous Assignment: Find Anthony Targu
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Mystery:Steve travels to Montreal to investigate the supposed death of notorious racketeer Anthony Targu and the mysterious disappearance of D...
Dangerous Assignment: Capture James C. Stoller
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Syria to intercept and capture an America traitor and Communist propagandist.Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 24, 19...
Dangerous Assignment: The Hired Assassin
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 whereabo...
Dangerous Assignment: Stolen Computer Blueprints
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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-sec...
Dangerous Assignment: The Jade Dagger
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Mystery: Sent to Cairo on a mission to clear the United States' name, Steve must navigate a treacherous path of false accusations and politica...
Dangerous Assignment: Smuggling to the Iron Curtain
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Mystery:Join government agent Steve Mitchell on a pulse-pounding journey through Europe's underbelly in 'Dangerous Assignment.' When strategic...
Dangerous Assignment: Strategic Base Sabotaged
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Zeal...
Dangerous Assignment: A Trap in Freedom House
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Curta...
Dangerous Assignment: Find Lenny Fenway
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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.Origi...
Dangerous Assignment: Boy Is Used as Courier
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 to smuggle t...
Dangerous Assignment: Rescue Rick Perez
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Venezuela to rescue a U.S. agent who was investigating a Latin American revolutionary organization.Original Radio Broadc...
Dangerous Assignment: Find Antonina
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Dangerous Assignment: Stolen Information Group
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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....
Dangerous Assignment: Ghost Ship
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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.Ori...
Dangerous Assignment: Henrich Schwandorff
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Dangerous Assignment: Black Market in Jewels
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Mystery:Steve is sent to break up a black market founded on jewel thefts that is destabilizing the Mediterranean. To fight them, Steve plans t...
Dangerous Assignment: Doctor Mitsuko Kidnapping
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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. governm...
Dangerous Assignment: Family Squabble
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 minera...
Dangeorus Assignment: Arnold Freed Kidnapped
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ra...
Dangerous Assignment: The Hunt for Charon
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Mexico to follow a clue to a dangerous international killer.Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 28, 1953Originating i...
Dangerous Assignment: Leak of Strategic Materials
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Dangerous Assignment: The Blue Lion
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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: Jan...
Dangerous Assignment: Colonel Chan
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Dangerous Assignment: Street Car 17
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...