Dangerous Assignment: The Blue Lion (EP4289)
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
Adam Graham
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 14, 1953
Originating in Hollywood
Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Virginia Gregg; Ben Wright; Don Morrisson; Dan O'Herlihy
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| 1:23.8 | Well, now it is time for this week's episode of Dangerous assignment. |
| 1:30.1 | The original aired 8 January the 14th, 1953 and the title is The Blue Lion. Dangerous assignment. |
| 1:47.0 | Transcribe starring Brian Dunleby as Steve Mitchell. Yeah, danger is my assignment. I get sent to a lot of places I can't even pronounce. |
| 2:15.6 | They all spell the same thing though, trouble, but when I walk into the Commissioner's |
| 2:19.2 | office I don't realize that this assignment's going to prove that sometimes the guy who tries to take somebody for a ride |
| 2:24.6 | ends up getting taken. |
| 2:26.6 | Morning, Commissioner. Morning Commissioner you sent for me. The Blue Lion has sent us another |
| 2:37.0 | guest Steve. The Blue Lion? A pub in London acting on a tip we arrested a |
| 2:40.8 | man on his arrival in the States last night his passport |
| 2:43.3 | and other identification were forged he's the fifth illegal entry we've |
| 2:46.9 | picked up in a month so how does the blue lion fit into the picture that's where |
| 2:50.0 | these people picked up their phony passports they don't know or won't tell us any more than that. |
| 2:54.4 | I guess that calls for a visit to the Blue Lion, eh? |
| 2:56.8 | The Scotland Yard's given the place a clean bill of health, Steve. The owners are well known, |
| 3:01.0 | respectable, and I doubt the man behind this racket is still using the places around it, |
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