Sunday, September 19, 2021

Dangerous Assignment - Retrieve Peter Metnick Alive (03-04-53)

Retrieve Peter Metnick Alive (Aired March 4, 1953)

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:

March 4, 1953. "Retrieve Peter Metnick Alive" - NBC network. Sustaining. Steve Mitchell travels to Germany to find Peter Metnick, a man who can identify an important Nazi killer. Adrian Gendot (writer), Bill Cairn (director), Brian Donlevy, Henry Roland, Herb Butterfield, Jim Davis, John Storm (announcer), Pamela Duncan, Paul Frees, Robert Ryf (writer), Rye Billsbury. 24:02. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

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