Dangerous Assignment

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The original air date, May 17th, 1950, and the title is Find 100,000 Barrels of Missing Oil.

Wheaties presents Dangerous Assignment.

[upbeat music] On stage tonight from Hollywood, Dangerous Assignment, another in the Wheaties' big parade of exciting half-hour presentations.

[upbeat music] Dangerous Assignment, starring Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell.

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Yeah, danger is my assignment.

Hal Gibney speaking.

And this is the Wheaties man, Frank Martin, inviting you to listen on Wednesday night to Brian Donlevy in Dangerous Assignment on the Wheaties Big Parade.

See you then.

This is Joel McCrea.

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Wednesday brings you Dangerous Assignment and Brian Donlevy on NBC.

A Life in Your Hands, untuned to yesterday from the 25th of July, 1950 on NBC, the program created by Earl Stanley Gardner, who famously created the character of Perry Mason.

Although Raymond Burr made the character famous on television from 1957 through 1966 and a slew of TV movies up to his death, Perry Mason actually started first on radio in quarter-hour broadcasts from 1948 running through about 1955.

He feels very much like a more crooked version of Pagan Zelchmit from The Man Called X, but really well portrayed by Forrest Lewis.

And then we have a comment from Tracy regarding the Twice Told Tale, um, with the guided missile plans from Dangerous Assignment and, uh, the postcard, picture postcard matter.

And she writes, "I love how this also pulled in elements from Dangerous Assignment: The Memory Chain." And I actually went back and, yeah, there, there are some key things that were borrowed.

Uh, for one, the alpine settings.

But there are also some similarities in the way that the mystery came out and the hero's life were, was endangered.

There was even one character whose name was different by a single letter.

Now, I have to admit, I just did not think of, uh, The Memory Chain having an influence on Johnny Dollar because the main plot was so different in terms of the underlying mechanism.

But if I had made that connection, I think it probably would have been worth, uh, including both episodes of Dangerous Assignment, similar to what we did, uh, last year with the evolution of the Valentine Matter.

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Dangerous Assignment, starring Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell.

[upbeat music]

Yeah, danger is my assignment.

Good luck.

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The National Broadcasting Company is presenting Dangerous Assignment, starring Brian Donlevy in the role of Steve Mitchell, colorful, two-fisted government agent.

At all those places of the world where danger and intrigue walk hand in hand, there you will find Steve Mitchell on another dangerous assignment.

Hal Gibney speaking.

And this is the Wheaties man, Frank Martin, inviting you to listen on Wednesday night to Brian Donlevy in Dangerous Assignment on the Wheaties Big Parade.

See you then.

This is Joel McCrea.