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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Dangerous Assignment: Retrieve Gouczek (EP4133)

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Adam Graham

Fiction, Arts, Drama, Performing Arts

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary


Today's Mystery:On the French Riviera, the life of a key scientist, who wants to defect, depends on Steve solving the murder of a famous writer

.Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 21, 1951

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Betty Lou Gerson, Don Diamond, Hal Girard, Lynn Allen, Fitz Feld

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Now it's time for another episode of Dangerous Assignment. The original air date is April

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the 21st of 1951 and the Tadalayas Retrieve Guchek.

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Dangerous Assignment, starring Brian Don Levy as Steve Mitchell.

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Yeah, Dangerous Assignment. I get sent to a lot of places I can't even pronounce. They all

2:18.8

spell the same thing, though, trouble. But when I walk into the commission's office, I don't

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realize that this assignment is going to prove that not only is the pen mightier than the sword,

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the ink bottle is mightier than the gun.

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Morning, commissioner. Ruth said you had an assignment for me. I do, Steve,

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and your plane leaves in an hour. Oh, well, what uncivilized neck of the world do I get sent

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to this time? French Riviera. The way? I must have been living right lately. Hey, tell me,

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do they still wear those bathing suits over their commissioner? I'm afraid you won't have much time

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to be looking at bathing, so it's Steve. You're more interested in looking at an elderly man.

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