Dangerous Assignment: To Ask a Guy to Shoot You (EP4211)
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
Adam Graham
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 15, 1951
Originated in Hollywood
Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Stacy Harris, Dan Riss, Paul Dubov, Betty Lou Gerson, Jakm Moyles
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| 1:29.0 | Now it's time for this week's episode of Dangerous Assignment, the original air date October 15, 1952, and the title is to ask a guy to shoot you. |
| 1:46.0 | Dangerous Assignment. Transcribes starring Brian Dunlady as Steve Mitchell. |
| 2:17.0 | The adventure is my assignment. I get sent to a lot of places I can't even pronounce. They all spell the same thing though trouble. |
| 2:23.0 | But when I walk into the commissioners office, I don't realize that this assignment is going to show me that sometimes the only way you can come out of one of these deals alive is to ask a guy to shoot you. |
| 2:33.0 | Good morning, Commissioner. You sent for me. Steve, you're over here of Yinyi Hop. Sounds like a new jump tune, is it? |
| 2:47.0 | That name first came to our attention during the court martial of an American army officer in the Philippines shortly after the war, Major Vance Morgan. |
| 2:53.0 | Oh yeah, he had something to do with the disappearance of medical supplies, arms, and ammunition from one of our bases there, didn't he? |
| 3:00.0 | Evidence brought out at the trial was all against Morgan, yet he insisted he was innocent. He claimed he'd been investigating the matter before his arrest. |
| 3:06.0 | The theft was the work of an organization headed by this Yinyi Hop. |
| 3:10.0 | I see. Morgan claimed further that he'd actually seen this Mr. Hop that he wasn't an oriental but an American. |
| 3:15.0 | You see, the matter wasn't dropped after Major Morgan was discharged from the service. |
| 3:19.0 | You mean this Yinyi Hop has been found? |
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