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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Dangerous Assignment: Nursery Rhyme (EP4241)

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Adam Graham

Fiction, Arts, Drama, Performing Arts

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Stockholm to investigate a leak from a project the U.S. is participating in. He finds the head of the project murdered, and a nursery rhyme is the only clue to his killer.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 26, 1952

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Ken Peters; Kay Stewart; Tony Barrett; Dan Riss; Herb Vigran

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Well now it is time for this week's episode of Dangerous assignment.

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The original air date, November the 26th, 1952, and the title is A Nursery Rhym. Dangerous assignment starring Brian Don Libby 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 commissioner's office, I don't realize that this assignment's going to have me trying to trap a killer with a new kind of a weapon, a nursery rhyme.

2:53.0

Morning, Commissioner, you sent for me. Steve, are you found a Swedish cooking?

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Yeah, sure. Morning Commissioner, you sent for me.

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Steve, are you fond of Swedish cooking?

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Yeah, sure.

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So the man named Fred Gainesley.

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He's with a project we're participating in to evaluate

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