Dangerous Assignment - "Smash Lecture Circuit Spy Ring" (05-10-50)

 Smash Lecture Circuit Spy Ring (Aired May 10, 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! 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. Show Notes From The Old Time Radio Researcher's Group.

THIS EPISODE:

May 10, 1950. NBC network. "Smash Lecture Circuit Spy Ring" - Sponsored by: Wheaties, Crust-Quick. One of the six professors with International Lecture Tours is a spy. Steve travels to Oslo to reveal the traitor...and returns with a small boy. Brian Donlevy, Robert Ryf (writer), Bill Cairn (producer, director), Basil Adlam (music). 29:17. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.