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Dangerous Assignment Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

39 Episodes 1950 - 1952

Episode 1

The Alien Smuggler Story

Mon, Feb 13, 195026 mins

Agent Steve Mitchell journeys to Portugal to help his friend and fellow agent bust a human smuggling operation.

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Episode 2

The Submarine Story

Fri, Jan 23, 202626 mins

Steve Mitchell is sent to the South China Seas to assume the identity of the mysterious Captain Jaeger with the mission of breaking up a huge gun-running operation.

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Episode 3

Displaced Persons Story

Fri, Jan 23, 202626 mins

Steve Mitchell is sent to Casablanca to find and stop those responsible for trying to sabotage the relocation of European refugees to their own island in the Mediterranean.

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Episode 4

The Memory Chain

Fri, Jan 23, 202626 mins

The Commissioner sends Steve to Munich Germany to crack and espionage ring that transmits secret information by word of mouth in order to avoid leaving a paper trail.

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Episode 5

The Manger Story

Fri, Jan 23, 202626 mins

Steve is sent to Stockholm, Sweden, to investigate a group of European professors who go conduct worldwide lecture tours. One of them is though to be a foreign agent carrying secrets back with him or her. An informant asks Steve to retrieve his son from a boarding school there, but finds the child has disappeared.

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Episode 6

The Key Story

Fri, Jan 23, 202630 mins

The Commissioner ships Special Agent Steve Mitchell off to the Swiss Alps to recover a document that proves the death of a foreign leader was no accident.

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Episode 7

The Bhandara Story

Fri, Jan 23, 202626 mins

Steve is sent to India to meet with a man named Guda regarding Carter who was possibly framed for stirring up a revolt.

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Episode 8

The Salami Story

Fri, Jan 23, 202626 mins

Steve hops on a French train to protect the head of an American plastics corporation who's traveling to a foreign conference. He finds the industrialist shot dead and missing are the man's documents detailing a new discovery in weapons. With the help of a French businessman, Steve goes undercover among the passengers looking for a suspect.

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Episode 9

The Pat and Mike Story

Mon, May 12, 195225 mins

Steve is in Africa to learn the identity of the man who is stirring up trouble with the native witch doctor.

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Episode 10

The Lagoon Story

Mon, Apr 28, 195230 mins

Steve packs it up and heads to the Africa to locate two agents who have gone missing while trying to find a deadly strain of parasites that the enemy hopes to use as a weapon.

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Episode 11

The Mine Story

Thu, May 1, 1952

Steve is smuggled into an Eastern European labor camp to get intelligence from a one-time Communist bigwig. Passing himself off as one of the uranium miners, Steve gets in and contacts his informer. He runs into unexpected trouble getting out however, as the workers have sabotaged one of the mine shafts to explode.

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Episode 12

The Italian Movie Story

Fri, Jan 23, 202626 mins

A foreign agent loses his life trying to steal a reel of film from a low-budget Italian movie. Steve is sent to Rome to find out why this footage is so valuable. He meets the flick's untalented producer, director and screenwriter and screens the film. Steve can't figure out why anyone would want this pretentious collection of shots. Then, the cameraman staggers in with a knife in his back.

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Episode 13

The Blood-Stained Feather Story

Fri, Jan 23, 2026

Steve Mitchell is sent to Cairo to track and catch the Order of the Secret Dove. This secret society, with both Arab and European members, is terrorizing the whole Middle East. It is a powder-magazine, which can explode the unstable, political situation in the region. A Greek has some information about the secret order, which he is willing to give Steve on certain conditions.

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Episode 14

The Burma Temple Story

Sat, May 10, 195226 mins

After a famed foreign correspondent is murdered Steve travels to Burma to locate his missing companion Linya. There he navigates an unusual group of world's citizens and escapes several attempts on his life.

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Episode 15

The Sunflower Seed Story

Fri, Jan 23, 202626 mins

In a small country in South America the leader of the minority party is killed three days before the election. A US citizen, living in the country, is accused of the murder. The US government thinks this is just a frame, made up to put the majority party and their ally, USA, in an unfavourable light, thus rising the chances for the minority party to win the election. US special agent Steve Mitchell is sent down there to find out how it is.

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Episode 16

The Caboose Story

Fri, Jan 23, 202626 mins

Steve travels to Tokyo to get evidence on an ex-girlfriend who's suspected in an outbreak of sabotage. He finds Marta as charming and dangerous as ever; an agent and a soldier who figured her out soon join her husband in death. Once Steve accuses her of sabotage and murder, he's in line to be her next victim.

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Episode 17

The Missing Diplomat Story

Mon, May 19, 1952

Steve's assignment is to find a missing diplomat, who is believed to be traveling in Barcelona, Spain.

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Episode 18

The Briefcase Story

Fri, Jan 23, 2026

Steve is sent to Paris to protect a man named Szabo, and more importantly, the papers in Szabo's briefcase.

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Episode 19

The Civil War Map Story

Fri, Jan 23, 202630 mins

A Civil War map has been stolen by a foreign agent and Steve has been sent to investigate.

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Episode 20

The Piece of String Story

Fri, Jan 23, 202625 mins

Steve heads to Panama to track down and recover a large quantity of stolen dynamite.

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Episode 21

The Iron Banner Story

Fri, Jan 23, 2026

Steve Mitchell (Brian Donlevy) goes to Greece to find the Iron Banner, on which is a list of secret Nazi bank accounts.

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Episode 22

The Dead General Story

Wed, Oct 1, 1952

A Balkan general is found murdered and important documents he had have gone missing. Steve heads behind the Iron Curtain to find the paperwork that could aid the Allies.

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Episode 23

The Parachute Story

Fri, Jan 23, 202625 mins

Steve must secretly enter an Eastern European country to infiltrate a spy ring and through the air seems to be the only way.

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Episode 24

The Paris Sewer Story

Mon, Jun 9, 1952

Steve tracks down a criminal ring who are using the vast Paris sewers as their headquarters.

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Episode 25

The Atomic Mine Story

Mon, Mar 31, 195230 mins

An land mine is stolen from a U.S. atomic testing lab in the Nevada desert. Steve hops on the next train out of the nearest town, believing the thief is escaping on board the Snowbird, the only transportation out of the area. What the robber and the other passengers don't realize is that the mine is armed and set to automatically explode in just a few hours.

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Episode 26

The Bodyguard Story

Mon, Mar 10, 195230 mins

Steve is send back to Paris, this time serving as bodyguard to a young French woman who was witness to a murder, until he can turn her over to the police.

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Episode 27

The Art Treasure Story

Mon, Mar 17, 195230 mins

Valuable Hapsburg art pieces have vanished and intelligence reports that may have gone overseas. Steve heads to Mexico to track down the rumors and hopefully recover the priceless art.

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Episode 28

The One Blue Chip Story

Mon, Apr 14, 195226 mins

Steve travels to Macao to learn who is spreading counterfeit money through the area.

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Episode 29

The Red Queen Story

Mon, Apr 7, 195230 mins

Steve thinks a secretive female may hold the key to the whereabouts of a fortune in stolen rubber.

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Episode 30

The Knitting Needle Story

Mon, Jun 2, 195230 mins

The Italian journalist Lorenzo has found out that the American mafia is financially supporting the Italian mafia in its terror campaign during the present election. He also knows the names of persons responsible for this, but won't tell it to anybody before he has written his articles. Steve Mitchell is commissioned to protect Lorenzo from being assassinated during his trip back to Rome.

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Episode 31

The Assassin Ring Story

Mon, Apr 21, 195225 mins

In a country in the Middle East the king is assassinated by a secret organization on behalf of a neighboring country. The assassination is arranged in such a way that all clues will point at USA as the principal behind the crime. But this is just a frame, made up by the neighboring country to get the contract for some oil-fields instead of the Americans. US agent Steve Mitchell knows who the real assassins are, but he has to find a way to prove this for the local government.

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Episode 32

The Decoy Story

Mon, Jun 16, 195230 mins

U S agent Steve Mitchell crosses the Iron Curtain to assist Walter Norton, a U S attache, who has valuable information to escape back to the United States. A trap has been set by the border guard Kursta who allows Mitchell to enter.

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Episode 33

The Death in the Morgue Story

Mon, Mar 24, 1952

Steve travels to West Morocco to identify and stop saboteurs at a base being built.

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Episode 34

The Stolen Letter

Fri, Jan 23, 202626 mins

Steve exposes South American country's plot against the US.

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Episode 35

The Venetian Story

Fri, Jan 23, 202630 mins

The code breaking machine is down leaving the Allies at a disadvantage. Steve travels to Venice to get a working part without Cold War enemy agents finding out what he's doing.

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Episode 36

The Black Hood Story

Mon, May 5, 195225 mins

After the war a lot of orphaned teenagers are drifting about in Berlin. Some of them have formed a gang of young criminals, who cover their faces with black hoods when doing their robbery. One of their victims happens to be a diplomatic courier, who loses his briefcase with secret papers to the gang. Steve Mitchell is commissioned to find the stolen briefcase before one of the other occupying powers in Berlin seize it.

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Episode 37

The Archeological Story

Mon, Jun 23, 195230 mins

In the subterranean passages of a ruined castle in Transjordan, built by the Crusaders in 1140, US agent Johnny Marshall has found a statuette of a goddess, which had been hidden there for centuries. The local robber chief Haba Bey wants to lay hands on the statuette, because he could use this as a sign to drive the crowds into a frenzy and an uprising, which will overthrow the government. Haba Bey captures Marshall and tortures him. US special agent Steve Mitchell is sent to the region to find and release Mitchell.

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Episode 38

The Havana Microfilm Story

Fri, Jan 23, 2026

Steve negotiates the dangerous back alleys of Havana in search of a spy in possession of stolen documents on microfilm.

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Episode 39

The Perfect Alibi

Mon, May 26, 1952

A political informer's murder in Rome leads to the discovery that an unknown opportunist is impersonating Steve.

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