Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Dangerous Assignment "Africa Hate Campaign" (8-09-50)


Africa Hate Campaign (Aired August 9, 1950)


This thirty-minute international spy adventure featured Steve Mitchell (Brian Donlevy), and investigator of crimes in exotic locations. 60 episodes. Herb Butterfield played the Commissioner and Betty Moran was the Commissioner's secretary. Other cast members were GeGe Pearson, Ken Peters, Betty Lou Gerson, Dan O’Herlihy. The director was Bill Cairn and the writer for the series was Robert Ryf. The opening was the same every week “Yeah, danger is my assignment. I get sent to a lot of places I can’t even pronounce. They all spell the same thing though, trouble.” He would be summoned to his boss’s office where he would be given his assignment; he would then fly halfway across the globe to save the day!


THIS EPISODE:

August 9, 1950. NBC network. Sponsored by: Wheaties. Steve Mitchell travels to Secondi on the Gold Coast of Africa to stop trouble being stirred up by the local witch doctors. Brian Donlevy, Frank Martin (commercial spokesman), William Conrad, Robert Ryf (writer), Basil Adlam (composer), Ralph Hollenbeck (conductor), Bill Cairn (producer, director). 29:30.

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