Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Dangerous Assignment - "Lost Troop Movement Document" (08-02-50)

Lost Troop Movement Document (Aired August 2, 1950)

This thirty-minute international spy adventure featured Steve Mitchell (Brian Donlevy), and investigator of crimes in exotic locations. 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! The worldwide locations are dealt up with a feeling of local, and the characters that inhabit these far-away places with strange sounding names are solid and capably acted by veterans.
 
THIS EPISODE:
 
August 2, 1950. "Lost Troop Movement Document" - NBC network. Sponsored by: Wheaties. Steve Mitchell is sent to the U. S. consulate in Vienna to recover documents that have been stolen. Brian Donlevy, Frank Martin (commercial spokesman), Ed Prentiss (commercial spokesman), Luke Apling (who praises Wheaties when interviewed by Ed Prentiss), Robert Ryf (writer), Basil Adlam (music), Bill Cairn (producer, director), Ralph Hollenbeck (conductor), William Conrad. 27:40. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

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