Overview of 'Dangerous Assignment' Season 1

Dangerous Assignment (1952)

Action & Adventure

A U.S. government agent travels the world on undercover missions in this 1950s series. Star Brian Donlevy originated the role on radio in the '40s.

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Release Date: 1952-01-01
Seasons: 1

3.5/10

Country: US
Language: English
Runtime: 30

Season 1 Episode List

Episode 1 - The Truth
Release Date: 1952-01-01
Episode 2 - Displaced Persons Story
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Episode 3 - The Displaced Persons Story
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Refugees on a ship bound for a new home are terrorized by a saboteur.
Episode 4 - The Memory Chain
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Steve must smash a spy ring that transmits top secret information the old-fashioned way--by word of mouth.
Episode 5 - The Manager Story
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In Stockholm, a child is kidnapped in order to prevent his father from exposing an espionage ring.
Episode 6 - The Key Story
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Steve must risk his life in the Swiss Alps to recover a document that proves a country's recently deceased leader was murdered.
Episode 7 - The Bhandara Story
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Steve travels to Bombay in order to clear a jailed American citizen of sabotage charges.
Episode 8 - Civil War Map Story
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Episode 9 - Italian Movie Story
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Episode 10 - The Blood Stained Feather Story
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Episode 11 - The Italian Movie Story
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Steve's assignment this time is to travel to Rome in order to recover vital film footage stolen from a movie company.
Episode 12 - Sunflower Seed Story
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Episode 13 - The Burma Temple Story
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Steve is sent to Burma to investigate the murder of a newspaperman who was posing as a political refugee.
Episode 14 - The Sunflower Seed Story
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It's Steve to the rescue when an American citizen is accused of murdering the head of a South American political party.
Episode 15 - The Caboose Story
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Steve must discover whether or not an old galpal, who's now an enemy agent, is behind acts of sabotage in Japan.
Episode 16 - The Missing Diplomat Story
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In Barcelona, Steve tries to retrieve a taped conversation of a European diplomat who has disappeared.
Episode 17 - The Briefcase Story
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Steve must stop a saboteur's attack on a conference in Paris between Western and Eastern bloc nations.
Episode 18 - The Civil War Map Story
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Steve tries to find out the connection between the murder of a well-known foreign agent and the theft of a Civil War map.
Episode 19 - The Piece of String Story
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Steve tries to determine the connection between a piece of string found on a corpse and the theft of dynamite in Panama.
Episode 20 - The Dead General Story
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Episode 21 - The Dead General's Story
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In the Balkans, Steve must locate a murdered general's secret documents before enemy agents can get their hands on them.
Episode 22 - The Parachute Story
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Steve parachutes into Eastern Europe to search for a witness who can clear the United States of an international frame.
Episode 23 - The Paris Sewer Story
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Steve discovers a Commie spy ring operating out of the sewers of Paris.
Episode 24 - Bodyguard Assignment
Release Date: 1952-03-10
Episode 25 - The Bodyguard Story
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In Paris, Steve's only clue to the identity of an assassin is a bowl of cold stew.
Episode 26 - The One Blue Chip Story
Release Date: 1952-04-14
Episode 27 - The Blue Chip Story
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Steve travels to Macao and poses as a crook to stop a counterfeiting ring that's flooding the Far East with phony United States currency.
Episode 28 - The Red Queen Story
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Steve is sent to Singapore to recover a million dollars worth of rubber that was stolen from the United States.
Episode 29 - The Knitting Needle Story
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Steve must protect an Italian journalist with information about Mafia activity in an election on the newsman's flight back to Italy.
Episode 30 - The Assassin Ring Story
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An American businessman is framed for assassinating the King of Transjordan. Steve travels to the country to prove that other elements were responsible for the killing.
Episode 31 - The Decoy Story
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Steve uses a decoy to smuggle a U.S. diplomat out of Eastern Europe.
Episode 32 - The Perfect Alibi
Release Date: 1952-05-26
Episode 33 - The Stolen Letter
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Steve is sent to South America to expose a plot against the United States.
Episode 34 - The Black Stocking Story
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Episode 35 - The Black Hood Story
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In Berlin, Steve is on the trail of two masked men who swiped a valuable briefcase containing confidential documents from a diplomatic courier.
Episode 36 - The Archeological Story
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Steve poses as an agitator in Transjordan to stop a fanatic bent on starting a revolt against his government.
Episode 37 - The Perfect Alibi Story
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After a murder in Rome, Steve discovers that someone has been impersonating him.
Episode 38 - The Mine Story
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Steve gets smuggled into a slave labor camp to get vital information but then finds that it's going to be a lot harder getting out.
Episode 39 - The Full Dress Suit Story
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Steve negotiates the dangerous back alleys of Havana in search of a spy in possession of stolen documents on microfilm.
Episode 40 - The Alien Smuggler Story
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Episode 41 - The Havana Microfilm Story
Release Date: 1952-05-19