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week's episode of Dangerous Assignment. The original air date, September the

20th, 1950, and the title is Contact Lefty the Train Seal.

Dangerous Assignment, starring Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell.

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. But when I walk into the

commissioners office, I don't realize this assignment's gonna end up with me

smashing a spiring because a trained seal gets a bad case of the blues.

Morning commissioners, who said you wanted to see me? I don't see. You're leaving

based on Bull Turkey on the next plane. Turkey. Oh great. Last time I was there,

as I remember, I got stabbed at shot at and beaten up in that order. Well,

maybe you'll be lucky enough to change the order of events around a little this

time. Oh, swell. You will probably need to take a large rubber ball and a dead

fish with you. Let's have that again. You ought to contact a character named

Lefty over there. So what's the rubber ball and a dead fish got to do with it?

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