Dangerous Assignment: The Hired Assassin (EP4403)
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
Adam Graham
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 27, 1953
Originating in Hollywood
Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Paul Dubov; Betty Lou Gerson; Tony Barrett; Herb Ellis; Julie Bennett
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| 1:21.6 | Well now it is time for this week's episode of Dangerous assignment, the original |
| 1:27.2 | air date May 27th, 1953 and the title is The Hired Assassin. Dangerous assignment. |
| 1:47.0 | Transcribe starring Brian Don, as Steve Mitchell. Yeah, danger is my assignment. I get sent to a lot of places I can't even pronounce they all |
| 2:13.1 | spell the same thing though trouble but when I walk into the commissioner's |
| 2:16.4 | office I don't realize that I'm going to wind up catching a killer by playing |
| 2:20.0 | parlor games. Steve. Morning, Commissioner, you sent for me. |
| 2:27.0 | Steve, we finally got a lead on a cold-blooded killer who's been giving |
| 2:33.6 | us nothing but trouble. A 20th century Borgia who's been involved in a dozen international murders |
| 2:38.9 | during the past year. Borgia? The victims I gather all go out the same way, poison, huh? |
| 2:43.6 | Administered through most ingenious method, Steve. |
| 2:46.6 | And we've never been able to find out who this hired assassin is. |
| 2:49.4 | Now we know? |
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