Dangerous Assignment: Picking up a Bomb (EP4421)
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
Adam Graham
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Original Radio Broadcast Date:July 8, 1953
Originated in HollywoodStars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Jack Moyles, Jan Arvann, Hal Girard, Ted de Corsia
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| 1:29.2 | Thank you so much for your support. Well now it is time for this week's episode of |
| 1:35.8 | Dangerous assignment, the original aired 8th, 1953 and the title is |
| 1:43.0 | picking up a bomb. Dangerous assignment. |
| 1:57.0 | Transcribe starring Brian Dunlea as Steve Mitchell. Yeah, danger is my assignment. I get sent to a lot of places I can't even pronounce. |
| 2:24.4 | They all spell the same thing though, trouble, but when I walk into the commission's office, I don't realize that all I have to do on this assignment is sit |
| 2:31.0 | tight, right on top of a powder keg. |
| 2:33.3 | Morning, |
| 2:38.3 | Commissioner, |
| 2:39.3 | Morning, you sent for me. |
| 2:43.0 | Steve, I want you to go to a certain cafe in Saigon, Indochina, and pick up a package. |
| 2:47.0 | It won't be marked handled with cash. |
| 2:49.0 | Should it be? |
| 2:50.0 | Definitely. |
| 2:51.0 | It's a bomb. |
| 2:52.0 | A bomb. Oh, great. We don't know who's going to show up to deliver that package, Steve, but we do know the man who's supposed to pick it up and plant it somewhere. |
| 2:59.0 | He's an American newspaper man named Richard Milton. |
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