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Hello you and welcome to very own late night podcast called Foxy After Dark, I'm sharing my bed time routine with you and I really hope you enjoy it :)
I'm Lucy and I'm recording this from my home in a leafy suburb of Surrey in the United Kingdom where the suns gone down, everything is quiet and we can just relax and prepare to drift off to sleep.
This little podcast is my opportunity to spend some quality time with you guys, have a catch up before we think about heading off to sleep.
I wanted to share with you my love of some great old time radio shows, every night a part of my bedtime routine is to put in the ear pods and listen to some of my favourite shows.
I thought it might be fun to share some with you.
What I’d really love is your feedback and ideas on how the podcast evolves so make sure you keep in touch using my social media, if you check out some of my social media,
I'm on instagram and youtube as Foxy Geek Girl so I'm really easy to find and I've set up an exclusive hangout page at patreon.com/Foxy After Dark
We’ll do plenty of shoutouts for my patreon gang and I'll definitely be keeping you up to date with everything I'm getting up to.
Love you guys xx
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Dangerous Assignment was an NBC Radio drama starring Brian Donlevy broadcast in the US 1949–1953, a syndicated television series distributed in the US 1951–52 (also starring Brian Donlevy), and an Australian radio series broadcast in 1954-56 as remakes of the original American radio scripts.
Series premise
"The Commissioner" sent US special agent Steve Mitchell to exotic locales all over the world, where he would encounter adventure and international intrigue in pursuit of some secret. Each show would always open with a brief teaser scene from the episode to follow. After the intro, Steve Mitchell would be summoned to the office of 'The Commissioner', the regional head of an unnamed US State Department agency created to address international unrest as it affected U.S. interests. "The Commissioner" would give background information, explain the current situation and tell Steve his assignment. Steve's cover identity, in almost all his adventures, was that of a suave debonair foreign correspondent for an unnamed print publication — his assignments invariably involved deceit, trickery, and violence, all tied together into a successful resolution by the end of the episode.
Dangerous Assignment started out as a replacement radio series broadcast in the US on the NBC radio network in the summer of 1949; it became a syndicated series (produced in Australia) in early 1954. Reportedly, star Brian Donlevy himself was the one who brought the show to NBC.
In the American radio shows, Donlevy was both the protagonist within the action and the narrator, giving the show "a suspenseful immediacy."[2][3] The only other regular actor on the radio shows was Herb Butterfield, who played "The Commissioner." Many stage and screen actors appeared as guest-stars including, among many others, William Conrad, Raymond Burr, Paul Frees, Jim Davis, Dan O'Herlihy, Richard Boone, and Eddie Cantor.
The Australian series was begun as a result of the popularity of the American series—scripts from shows already broadcast in the US were re-done with Australian actors in 1954. The Australian producers re-created and broadcast thirty-nine episodes from 1954 on.
Summer 1949 series
The radio show started out as a seven-week summer replacement series broadcast on NBC Saturdays 8:30–9 PM EST. It premiered July 9, 1949; the last episode was on August 20, 1949. A character portraying the Commissioner's secretary, 'Ruthie', was played by Betty Moran — it is hinted that there was some romantic history between Ruthie and Steve Mitchell.
Episodes
The seven episodes were each twenty-five minutes long:
Thropp Foundation Stolen Relief Supplies, set in Messina, Sicily, was broadcast July 9, 1949.
Investigate Malayan Star Line Sabotage, set in Saigon, French Indochina, was broadcast July 16, 1949.
On Safari for Nigerian Manganese, set in Nigeria, West Africa, was broadcast July 23, 1949.
--Title Unknown--, set in Mexico City, Mexico, was broadcast July 30, 1949.
Investigate Millionaire Murder Conspiracy, set in Paris, France, was broadcast August 6, 1949.
Smash Illegal Alien Smuggling Ring, set in Masimbra, Portugal, was broadcast August 13, 1949.
Recover File No. 307, set in Zurich, Switzerland, was broadcast August 20, 1949.
1950–1953 American series
The Summer 1949 series was very well-received, but NBC had no room for a new series in its Fall 1949 schedule.[1] The radio show finally did return to the airwaves on February 6, 1950, in the 10:30 PM Monday timeslot formerly occupied by The Dave Garroway Show (originating from Chicago and syndicated nationwide), which was moved an hour later to 11:30 PM. The show moved over the next three years to Wednesday nights, then Saturday nights, then Tuesday nights, and then finally ended its run during its last few months in 1953 back on Wednesday nights.[2] Some of the sponsors included the Ford Motor Company, Wheaties cereal, Anacin painkiller, Chesterfield cigarettes, and the RCA Victor record label, but the show, for the most part, was sustained solely by the NBC network for over half of its entire run with promos for other NBC shows. The series ran every week from its premiere date until the last show was broadcast in the US on July 8, 1953.
The second year of the radio series and the year of the television series were concurrent.
Episodes
There are at least 160 episodes in the 1950–53 American radio series.[4] Episode titles became fairly standardized, starting with a verb, and describing the assignment: Find Szabo and The Briefcase, Keep Chromite Mine Operating, Intercept Dr. Korvel Before Opposition, etc.
1954 Australian series
As the American radio series ended its last year, negotiation and production began for an Australian radio version. Produced by Grace Gibson Transcriptions, this version of Dangerous Assignment re-did 52 episodes of the full American run, with Lloyd Burrell playing Steve Mitchell — this radio series was broadcast in Australia in 1954 to 1956 and the following years.
A syndicated television series named Dangerous Assignment was broadcast in the US in syndication (but mostly on the NBC television network) in the 1951–52 television season. Donlevy formed a production company to convert the radio show to a television show — but, no TV network would invest in the series, so, instead, he produced thirty-nine episodes with his own cash and sold them to individual stations nationwide in First-Run Syndication (though NBC did aid in the distribution) — price per episode ranged from $75 to $2000, depending on the population and demographics in the buyer's region.
Production
Production credits:
Assistant Director: William McGarry
Production Supervisor: Frank Parmenter
Assistant Director: William McGarry
Production Designer: George Van Marter
Set Decoration: George Milo
Film Editor: Edward Schroeder, A.C.E.
Wardrobe: Charles Keehne
Sound: Earl Snyder
Makeup: David Newell
Casting: Harvey Clermont
Production Assistant: Edward Denault
Special Effects: Harry Redmond Jr.
Episodes
All episodes starred Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell and Herb Butterfield as "The Commissioner." Robert Ryf wrote most of the scripts. Among the more famous guest stars were Hugh Beaumont, Paul Frees, Elena Verdugo, Harry Guardino, Lyle Talbot, John Dehner, Michael Ansara, Jim Davis, and Strother Martin, many of them appearing as different characters in different episodes.
# Episode Name Original air date
1 "The Alien Smuggler Story"
"Alien Smuggling Ring" Fall, 1951
Steve travels to Portugal to help a friend, a gangster-turned-informer, investigate a scam that supposedly smuggles political refugees into the United States.
2 "The Submarine Story" Fall, 1951
Steve tries to discover the identity of the leader of some gunrunners.
3 "The Displaced Persons Story" Fall, 1951
Refugees on a ship bound for a new home are terrorized by an unknown saboteur.
4 "The Memory Chain" Fall, 1951
Steve Mitchell is assigned to smash a spy ring that works only by word of mouth.
5 "The Manager Story" Fall, 1951
Steve, in Stockholm to investigate a college professor who is running secrets from the United States, meets a European scientist desperate for the safe return of his kidnapped son.
6 "The Key Story" Fall, 1951
In the Swiss Alps, Steve is sent to find a document that proves the leader of a country friendly with the United States didn't commit suicide, but was murdered.
7 "The Bhandara Story" Fall, 1951
In Bombay, India, Steve tries to clear an imprisoned American citizen charged with sabotage.
8 "The Salami Story" Fall, 1951
Steve accompanies the head of an American plastics company to a conference in France.
9 "The Pat and Mike Story" Fall, 1951
Steve travels to an African jungle to stop a man causing trouble between local shamans.
10 "The Lagoon Story" Fall, 1951
In Africa, Steve tries to locate two missing agents sent there to find a powerful germ culture.
11 "The Italian Movie Story" Fall, 1951
In Rome, Steve tries to recover a roll of film stolen from a movie company.
12 "The Blood-Stained Feather Story"
"Order of the Sacred Dove" Fall, 1951
In Cairo, Steve tries to dismantle the Order of the Sacred Dove, a dangerous secret society of assassins.
13 "The Burma Temple Story" Fall, 1951
Steve travels to Burma to find out the truth behind the death of a newspaper correspondent who had been posing as a political refugee.
14 "The Havana Microfilm Story" Fall, 1951
Steve negotiates the dangerous back alleys of Havana in search of a spy in possession of stolen documents on microfilm.
15 "South America -- The Sunflower Seed Story" December, 1951
In South America, Steve tries to clear an American citizen accused of the murder of a man heading a major political party.
16 "The Caboose Story" December, 1951
Steve must find out if an old girlfriend, now a dangerous spy, is behind many recent acts of sabotage in Japan.
17 "The Missing Diplomat Story" December, 1951
In Barcelona, Spain, Steve must retrieve records of top-secret conversations from a European diplomat who has disappeared, along with his daughter.
18 "The Briefcase Story" December, 1951
Steve must discover who is trying to sabotage a meeting in Paris between representatives from the United States and three Eastern European countries.
19 "The Civil War Map Story" Winter, 1952
Steve goes to Richmond, Virginia, to find out why a foreign agent has stolen a 90-year-old Civil War map.
20 "The Piece of String Story" Winter, 1952
In Panama, Steve must find out who has been stealing dynamite.
21 "The Iron Banner Story" Winter, 1952
In Greece, Steve, investigating how a man dead for six years could have recently been murdered, discovers a cast-iron swastika with details on Hitler's secret bank accounts.
22 "The Dead General's Story" Winter, 1952
In the Balkans, Steve poses as a journalist to locate a murdered general's secret documents before enemy agents can get them.
23 "The Parachute Story" Winter, 1952
Steve parachutes into Eastern Europe to search for a confession that will clear the U.S. in an international scandal.
24 "The Paris Sewer Story" Winter, 1952
The sewers of Paris lead Steve to the underground quarters of a spy ring.
25 "The Atomic Mine Story" Winter, 1952
Steve uses a Geiger counter to find a bomb-carrying killer aboard a speeding train.
26 "The Bodyguard Story" Winter, 1952
In Paris, a bowl of cold stew gives Steve a clue to a political assassin's identity.
27 "The Art Treasure Story" Winter, 1952
In Mexico, Steve is in search of Habsburg art treasures hidden by Nazis.
28 "The Blue Chip Story" Winter, 1952
Steve, posing as a criminal, infiltrates a counterfeiting ring in a Macao casino.
29 "The Red Queen Story" Winter, 1952
In Singapore, Steve searches for $1 million cache of rubber stolen from the United States.
30 "The Knitting Needle Story" Winter, 1952
On an airflight to Rome, Steve protects a journalist who is about to write articles about a criminal organization that controls voters and elections in Italy.
31 "The Assassin Ring Story"
"Kill The King" Winter, 1952
Steve travels to the Middle East to prove that the United States has nothing to do with the assassination of the king.
32 "The Decoy Story" Winter, 1952
While Steve is occupied smuggling a wounded U.S. attache out of Eastern Europe, an international opportunist masquerades as Steve Mitchell.
33 "Death in the Morgue Story" Winter, 1952
A morgue in Morocco is Steve's headquarters as he probes sabotage at an American air base.
34 "The Stolen Letter" Spring, 1952
Steve is sent to South America to expose a plot against the U.S.
35 "The Venetian Story" Spring, 1952
Steve travels to Venice to find and buy back a vital part of the agency's code machines.
36 "Berlin -- The Black Hood Story" Spring, 1952
Steve travels to Berlin, Germany, to recover confidential papers stolen from a diplomatic courier.
37 "The Archeaological Story"
"Desert Patrol" Spring, 1952
Steve travels to Trans-Jordan in the Middle East to find and protect a missing goddess.
38 "The Perfect Alibi Story" Spring, 1952
A political informer's murder in Rome leads to the discovery that an unknown opportunist is impersonating Steve.
39 "The Mine Story" Spring, 1952
Steve is smuggled into a slave labor camp In Eastern Europe to get vital information.
Waldo Brian Donlevy (February 9, 1901 – April 6, 1972) was an American actor, who was noted for playing dangerous and tough characters. Usually appearing in supporting roles, among his best-known films are Beau Geste (1939), The Great McGinty (1940) and Wake Island (1942). For his role as the sadistic Sergeant Markoff in Beau Geste, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
He starred as U.S. special agent Steve Mitchell in the radio/TV series Dangerous Assignment.
His obituary in The Times newspaper in the United Kingdom said, "Any consideration of the American 'film noir' of the 1940s would be incomplete without him".
Early life
Brian Donlevy was born on February 9, 1901, in Cleveland, Ohio. His parents were Thomas Donlevy and Rebecca (née Parks), Irish emigrants originally from Portadown, County Armagh.[4][5][6][7] Sometime between 1910 and 1912, the family moved to Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin,[8] where Donlevy's father worked as a supervisor at the Brickner Woolen Mills.
Career
Broadway
Donlevy moved to New York City in his youth, where he modeled for illustrator J. C. Leyendecker, who produced illustrations for the famous Arrow Collar advertisements. His acting career began in the early 1920s, when he began appearing in theater productions, and eventually won parts in silent films.
He had small roles in the silent films Jamestown (1923), Damaged Hearts (1924), Monsieur Beaucaire (1924), The Eve of the Revolution (1924), and School for Wives (1925). He had a small role on Broadway in the play What Price Glory (1925), which was a big hit and ran for two years, establishing him as an actor.[9] He was in the film A Man of Quality (1926).
On Broadway, he was in the popular musical Hit the Deck (1927–28), which ran for a year; then Ringside (1928), Rainbow (1928), and Queen Bee (1929). He had roles in the films Gentlemen of the Press (1929) and Mother's Boy (1929). On stage, he appeared in Up Pops the Devil (1930–31), Peter Flies High (1931), Society Girl (1931–32), The Inside Story (1932), and The Boy Friend (1932). He was in a film short with Ethel Merman, Ireno (1932); and another short with Ruth Etting, A Modern Cinderella (1932).
He returned to the stage for Three And One (1933) with Lilian Bond, a big personal success; No Questions Asked (1934); The Perfumed Lady (1934); and The Milky Way (1934). The latter led to him receiving a Hollywood offer to reprise his role in the film version, but he was unable to due to a production delay. He had a final Broadway success with Life Begins at 8:40 (1934) with Bert Lahr and Ray Bolger.[9] After that show, Donlevy said "they were all signed for the movies. I thought that if they can make it, I'm going to take a crack too."
Hollywood
Donlevy's break came in 1935, when he was cast in the film Barbary Coast, directed by Howard Hawks and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. Later that year, he was cast in Mary Burns, Fugitive. In 1936, he received second billing in It Happened in Hollywood, and had a supporting role in Goldwyn's Strike Me Pink and Paramount's 13 Hours by Air.
"B" leading man
Donlevy had his first lead in a B movie at Fox, Human Cargo (1936), playing a wisecracking reporter opposite Claire Trevor. He followed it with other "B" lead roles: Half Angel (1936), High Tension (1936), 36 Hours to Kill (1936), Crack-Up (1936) with Peter Lorre, and Midnight Taxi (1937).
He had a supporting role in an "A" movie, This Is My Affair (1937), with Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck and Victor McLaglen; then starred in another "B", Born Reckless (1937). He was in In Old Chicago (1938) and was teamed with Victor McLaglen in Battle of Broadway (1938) and We're Going to Be Rich (1938). He starred in Sharpshooters (1938), and was the lead villain in the studio's prestigious Jesse James (1939).[citation needed]
Paramount
Paramount used Donlevy for a key role in Cecil B. De Mille's Union Pacific (1939), stepping in for Charles Bickford.[13] He stayed at that studio for Beau Geste (1939). His performance in Beau Geste as the ruthless Sergeant Markoff earned him an nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Donlevy went to Columbia to star in a "B film", Behind Prison Gates (1939), and went to RKO for a support part in Allegheny Uprising (1939). He was the villain in Universal's Destry Rides Again (1939).
Donlevy was then given the title role in The Great McGinty (1940) at Paramount, the directorial debut of Preston Sturges. It was not a big hit, but was profitable and received excellent reviews, launching Sturges' directing career. Donlevy later reprised the role several times on radio and television.
At Universal, Donlevy was in When the Daltons Rode (1940), then went into Fox's Brigham Young: Frontiersman (1940). He was fourth-billed in I Wanted Wings (1941); then MGM borrowed him to support Robert Taylor in Billy the Kid (1941). At Universal, he was top-billed in South of Tahiti (1941), and supported Bing Crosby in Birth of the Blues (1942).
Lobby card for The Glass Key (1942)
Paramount gave him a star part in The Remarkable Andrew (1942), playing Andrew Jackson, then Columbia teamed him with Pat O'Brien in Two Yanks in Trinidad (1942). Edward Small hired him to play the lead in A Gentleman After Dark (1942) and he supported Joel McCrea and Barbara Stanwyck in Paramount's The Great Man's Lady (1942). In 1942, he starred in Wake Island with William Bendix and Robert Preston, playing a role based on James Devereux. The film, directed by John Farrow, was a huge success, as was the adaptation of Dashiell Hammet's classic The Glass Key (1942). At Universal, Donlevy starred in Nightmare (1942), and MGM borrowed him to support Taylor again in Stand By for Action (1942). Donlevy had the lead role in Fritz Lang's Hangmen Also Die! (1943), made for United Artists and co-written by Bertolt Brecht. He had a cameo as Governor McGinty in Sturges' The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944).
Donlevy was given the lead role in An American Romance (1944), directed by King Vidor for MGM, in a role intended for Spencer Tracy. It was a prestigious production, but the film was a box-office and critical disappointment. He had a cameo as himself in Duffy's Tavern (1945), and he was Trampas to Joel McCrea's The Virginian (1946). After playing the male lead in Our Hearts Were Growing Up (1946) he was borrowed by Walter Wanger for Canyon Passage (1946).
Donlevy with Esther Fernández and Alan Ladd in Two Years Before the Mast (1946)
Donlevy with Ella Raines in Impact (1949)
At Paramount, he was in Two Years Before the Mast (1946), although top billing went to Alan Ladd. Donlevy was originally going to play the sadistic captain, but wound up giving that role to Howard da Silva and playing Richard Dana instead.[15] At Paramount, Donlevy supported Ray Milland in The Trouble with Women (1947), then went to Fox to play a heroic DA in Kiss of Death (1947) with Victor Mature and Richard Widmark. For UA, he supported Robert Cummings in Heaven Only Knows (1947), then went to MGM for the Killer McCoy (1947), a hit with Mickey Rooney; A Southern Yankee (1948) with Red Skelton; and Command Decision (1948) with Clark Gable. He supported Dorothy Lamour in The Lucky Stiff (1949) then starred in Arthur Lubin's Impact (1949).
Television
He appeared on television in The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre, and made two films for Universal-International, Shakedown (1950) and Kansas Raiders (1950) (playing William Quantrill opposite Audie Murphy's Jesse James). He did Pulitzer Prize Playhouse on TV, then went to Republic for Fighting Coast Guard (1951), Ride the Man Down (1952), Hoodlum Empire (1952) and Woman They Almost Lynched (1953); then filmed Slaughter Trail (1952) for RKO.
In 1952 he produced and starred in a TV series, Dangerous Assignment, which he had performed on radio from 1949 to 1954.
Donlevy focused on television: Robert Montgomery Presents, The Motorola Television Hour, Medallion Theatre, Star Stage, Climax!, Damon Runyon Theater, Kraft Theatre, Studio One in Hollywood, Crossroads, The Ford Television Theatre, The DuPont Show of the Month and Lux Video Theatre.[17]
After a supporting role in The Big Combo (1955), Donlevy appeared in the British science-fiction horror film The Quatermass Xperiment (called The Creeping Unknown in the US) for Hammer Films, in the lead role of Professor Bernard Quatermass. The film was based on a 1953 BBC Television serial of the same name.[18] The character had been British, but Hammer cast Donlevy in an attempt to help sell the film to North American audiences. Quatermass creator Nigel Kneale disliked Donlevy's portrayal, referring to him as "a former Hollywood heavy gone to seed". Nonetheless, the film was a success, and Donlevy returned for the sequel, Quatermass 2 (Enemy From Space in the US), in 1957, also based on a BBC television serial. It made him the only man to play the famous scientist on screen twice (although Scottish actor Andrew Keir later played him both on film and radio).[citation needed]
In between the films, Donlevy was in A Cry in the Night (1956). He had the lead in a "B" western, Escape from Red Rock (1957) and a supporting part in Cowboy (1958). He announced that he had formed his own production company for whom he would make a western, The Golden Spur, but it appears to have not been made.[19] He guest-starred on TV in Rawhide, Wagon Train, Hotel de Paree, The Texan, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, Zane Grey Theater, and The Red Skelton Hour, had supporting roles in Juke Box Rhythm and Never So Few (both 1959), and had the lead in Girl in Room 13 (1960). He toured on stage in a production of The Andersonville Trial.[20] He supported Jerry Lewis in The Errand Boy (1961) and Charlton Heston in The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962), and guested on Target: The Corruptors, Saints and Sinners, and The DuPont Show of the Week.
Later career
Donlevy had the lead in Curse of the Fly (1965) for Robert L. Lippert, and supported in How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965).[21] In 1966, in one of the final episodes of Perry Mason, "The Case of the Positive Negative", he played defendant General Roger Brandon.[citation needed]
Donlevy's last performances included The Fat Spy (1966), an episode of Family Affair, new American footage shot in New York for Gamera the Invincible (1966), Five Golden Dragons (1967) for Harry Alan Towers, and the A.C. Lyles films Waco (1966), Hostile Guns (1967), Arizona Bushwhackers (1968), and Rogue's Gallery (1968).
His last film was Pit Stop, released in 1969.[citation needed]
Personal life
Donlevy was married to Yvonne Grey from 1928 to 1936. She divorced him on grounds of cruelty, and he agreed to pay $5,000 a month in alimony.[22] He married actress Marjorie Lane in 1936. They had one child, but divorced in 1947.[23] He was married to Lillian Arch Lugosi (the former wife of Bela Lugosi) from 1966 until his death in 1972.[24]
Donlevy supported Thomas Dewey in the 1944 United States presidential election.
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By foxyafterdarkHello you and welcome to very own late night podcast called Foxy After Dark, I'm sharing my bed time routine with you and I really hope you enjoy it :)
I'm Lucy and I'm recording this from my home in a leafy suburb of Surrey in the United Kingdom where the suns gone down, everything is quiet and we can just relax and prepare to drift off to sleep.
This little podcast is my opportunity to spend some quality time with you guys, have a catch up before we think about heading off to sleep.
I wanted to share with you my love of some great old time radio shows, every night a part of my bedtime routine is to put in the ear pods and listen to some of my favourite shows.
I thought it might be fun to share some with you.
What I’d really love is your feedback and ideas on how the podcast evolves so make sure you keep in touch using my social media, if you check out some of my social media,
I'm on instagram and youtube as Foxy Geek Girl so I'm really easy to find and I've set up an exclusive hangout page at patreon.com/Foxy After Dark
We’ll do plenty of shoutouts for my patreon gang and I'll definitely be keeping you up to date with everything I'm getting up to.
Love you guys xx
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Dangerous Assignment was an NBC Radio drama starring Brian Donlevy broadcast in the US 1949–1953, a syndicated television series distributed in the US 1951–52 (also starring Brian Donlevy), and an Australian radio series broadcast in 1954-56 as remakes of the original American radio scripts.
Series premise
"The Commissioner" sent US special agent Steve Mitchell to exotic locales all over the world, where he would encounter adventure and international intrigue in pursuit of some secret. Each show would always open with a brief teaser scene from the episode to follow. After the intro, Steve Mitchell would be summoned to the office of 'The Commissioner', the regional head of an unnamed US State Department agency created to address international unrest as it affected U.S. interests. "The Commissioner" would give background information, explain the current situation and tell Steve his assignment. Steve's cover identity, in almost all his adventures, was that of a suave debonair foreign correspondent for an unnamed print publication — his assignments invariably involved deceit, trickery, and violence, all tied together into a successful resolution by the end of the episode.
Dangerous Assignment started out as a replacement radio series broadcast in the US on the NBC radio network in the summer of 1949; it became a syndicated series (produced in Australia) in early 1954. Reportedly, star Brian Donlevy himself was the one who brought the show to NBC.
In the American radio shows, Donlevy was both the protagonist within the action and the narrator, giving the show "a suspenseful immediacy."[2][3] The only other regular actor on the radio shows was Herb Butterfield, who played "The Commissioner." Many stage and screen actors appeared as guest-stars including, among many others, William Conrad, Raymond Burr, Paul Frees, Jim Davis, Dan O'Herlihy, Richard Boone, and Eddie Cantor.
The Australian series was begun as a result of the popularity of the American series—scripts from shows already broadcast in the US were re-done with Australian actors in 1954. The Australian producers re-created and broadcast thirty-nine episodes from 1954 on.
Summer 1949 series
The radio show started out as a seven-week summer replacement series broadcast on NBC Saturdays 8:30–9 PM EST. It premiered July 9, 1949; the last episode was on August 20, 1949. A character portraying the Commissioner's secretary, 'Ruthie', was played by Betty Moran — it is hinted that there was some romantic history between Ruthie and Steve Mitchell.
Episodes
The seven episodes were each twenty-five minutes long:
Thropp Foundation Stolen Relief Supplies, set in Messina, Sicily, was broadcast July 9, 1949.
Investigate Malayan Star Line Sabotage, set in Saigon, French Indochina, was broadcast July 16, 1949.
On Safari for Nigerian Manganese, set in Nigeria, West Africa, was broadcast July 23, 1949.
--Title Unknown--, set in Mexico City, Mexico, was broadcast July 30, 1949.
Investigate Millionaire Murder Conspiracy, set in Paris, France, was broadcast August 6, 1949.
Smash Illegal Alien Smuggling Ring, set in Masimbra, Portugal, was broadcast August 13, 1949.
Recover File No. 307, set in Zurich, Switzerland, was broadcast August 20, 1949.
1950–1953 American series
The Summer 1949 series was very well-received, but NBC had no room for a new series in its Fall 1949 schedule.[1] The radio show finally did return to the airwaves on February 6, 1950, in the 10:30 PM Monday timeslot formerly occupied by The Dave Garroway Show (originating from Chicago and syndicated nationwide), which was moved an hour later to 11:30 PM. The show moved over the next three years to Wednesday nights, then Saturday nights, then Tuesday nights, and then finally ended its run during its last few months in 1953 back on Wednesday nights.[2] Some of the sponsors included the Ford Motor Company, Wheaties cereal, Anacin painkiller, Chesterfield cigarettes, and the RCA Victor record label, but the show, for the most part, was sustained solely by the NBC network for over half of its entire run with promos for other NBC shows. The series ran every week from its premiere date until the last show was broadcast in the US on July 8, 1953.
The second year of the radio series and the year of the television series were concurrent.
Episodes
There are at least 160 episodes in the 1950–53 American radio series.[4] Episode titles became fairly standardized, starting with a verb, and describing the assignment: Find Szabo and The Briefcase, Keep Chromite Mine Operating, Intercept Dr. Korvel Before Opposition, etc.
1954 Australian series
As the American radio series ended its last year, negotiation and production began for an Australian radio version. Produced by Grace Gibson Transcriptions, this version of Dangerous Assignment re-did 52 episodes of the full American run, with Lloyd Burrell playing Steve Mitchell — this radio series was broadcast in Australia in 1954 to 1956 and the following years.
A syndicated television series named Dangerous Assignment was broadcast in the US in syndication (but mostly on the NBC television network) in the 1951–52 television season. Donlevy formed a production company to convert the radio show to a television show — but, no TV network would invest in the series, so, instead, he produced thirty-nine episodes with his own cash and sold them to individual stations nationwide in First-Run Syndication (though NBC did aid in the distribution) — price per episode ranged from $75 to $2000, depending on the population and demographics in the buyer's region.
Production
Production credits:
Assistant Director: William McGarry
Production Supervisor: Frank Parmenter
Assistant Director: William McGarry
Production Designer: George Van Marter
Set Decoration: George Milo
Film Editor: Edward Schroeder, A.C.E.
Wardrobe: Charles Keehne
Sound: Earl Snyder
Makeup: David Newell
Casting: Harvey Clermont
Production Assistant: Edward Denault
Special Effects: Harry Redmond Jr.
Episodes
All episodes starred Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell and Herb Butterfield as "The Commissioner." Robert Ryf wrote most of the scripts. Among the more famous guest stars were Hugh Beaumont, Paul Frees, Elena Verdugo, Harry Guardino, Lyle Talbot, John Dehner, Michael Ansara, Jim Davis, and Strother Martin, many of them appearing as different characters in different episodes.
# Episode Name Original air date
1 "The Alien Smuggler Story"
"Alien Smuggling Ring" Fall, 1951
Steve travels to Portugal to help a friend, a gangster-turned-informer, investigate a scam that supposedly smuggles political refugees into the United States.
2 "The Submarine Story" Fall, 1951
Steve tries to discover the identity of the leader of some gunrunners.
3 "The Displaced Persons Story" Fall, 1951
Refugees on a ship bound for a new home are terrorized by an unknown saboteur.
4 "The Memory Chain" Fall, 1951
Steve Mitchell is assigned to smash a spy ring that works only by word of mouth.
5 "The Manager Story" Fall, 1951
Steve, in Stockholm to investigate a college professor who is running secrets from the United States, meets a European scientist desperate for the safe return of his kidnapped son.
6 "The Key Story" Fall, 1951
In the Swiss Alps, Steve is sent to find a document that proves the leader of a country friendly with the United States didn't commit suicide, but was murdered.
7 "The Bhandara Story" Fall, 1951
In Bombay, India, Steve tries to clear an imprisoned American citizen charged with sabotage.
8 "The Salami Story" Fall, 1951
Steve accompanies the head of an American plastics company to a conference in France.
9 "The Pat and Mike Story" Fall, 1951
Steve travels to an African jungle to stop a man causing trouble between local shamans.
10 "The Lagoon Story" Fall, 1951
In Africa, Steve tries to locate two missing agents sent there to find a powerful germ culture.
11 "The Italian Movie Story" Fall, 1951
In Rome, Steve tries to recover a roll of film stolen from a movie company.
12 "The Blood-Stained Feather Story"
"Order of the Sacred Dove" Fall, 1951
In Cairo, Steve tries to dismantle the Order of the Sacred Dove, a dangerous secret society of assassins.
13 "The Burma Temple Story" Fall, 1951
Steve travels to Burma to find out the truth behind the death of a newspaper correspondent who had been posing as a political refugee.
14 "The Havana Microfilm Story" Fall, 1951
Steve negotiates the dangerous back alleys of Havana in search of a spy in possession of stolen documents on microfilm.
15 "South America -- The Sunflower Seed Story" December, 1951
In South America, Steve tries to clear an American citizen accused of the murder of a man heading a major political party.
16 "The Caboose Story" December, 1951
Steve must find out if an old girlfriend, now a dangerous spy, is behind many recent acts of sabotage in Japan.
17 "The Missing Diplomat Story" December, 1951
In Barcelona, Spain, Steve must retrieve records of top-secret conversations from a European diplomat who has disappeared, along with his daughter.
18 "The Briefcase Story" December, 1951
Steve must discover who is trying to sabotage a meeting in Paris between representatives from the United States and three Eastern European countries.
19 "The Civil War Map Story" Winter, 1952
Steve goes to Richmond, Virginia, to find out why a foreign agent has stolen a 90-year-old Civil War map.
20 "The Piece of String Story" Winter, 1952
In Panama, Steve must find out who has been stealing dynamite.
21 "The Iron Banner Story" Winter, 1952
In Greece, Steve, investigating how a man dead for six years could have recently been murdered, discovers a cast-iron swastika with details on Hitler's secret bank accounts.
22 "The Dead General's Story" Winter, 1952
In the Balkans, Steve poses as a journalist to locate a murdered general's secret documents before enemy agents can get them.
23 "The Parachute Story" Winter, 1952
Steve parachutes into Eastern Europe to search for a confession that will clear the U.S. in an international scandal.
24 "The Paris Sewer Story" Winter, 1952
The sewers of Paris lead Steve to the underground quarters of a spy ring.
25 "The Atomic Mine Story" Winter, 1952
Steve uses a Geiger counter to find a bomb-carrying killer aboard a speeding train.
26 "The Bodyguard Story" Winter, 1952
In Paris, a bowl of cold stew gives Steve a clue to a political assassin's identity.
27 "The Art Treasure Story" Winter, 1952
In Mexico, Steve is in search of Habsburg art treasures hidden by Nazis.
28 "The Blue Chip Story" Winter, 1952
Steve, posing as a criminal, infiltrates a counterfeiting ring in a Macao casino.
29 "The Red Queen Story" Winter, 1952
In Singapore, Steve searches for $1 million cache of rubber stolen from the United States.
30 "The Knitting Needle Story" Winter, 1952
On an airflight to Rome, Steve protects a journalist who is about to write articles about a criminal organization that controls voters and elections in Italy.
31 "The Assassin Ring Story"
"Kill The King" Winter, 1952
Steve travels to the Middle East to prove that the United States has nothing to do with the assassination of the king.
32 "The Decoy Story" Winter, 1952
While Steve is occupied smuggling a wounded U.S. attache out of Eastern Europe, an international opportunist masquerades as Steve Mitchell.
33 "Death in the Morgue Story" Winter, 1952
A morgue in Morocco is Steve's headquarters as he probes sabotage at an American air base.
34 "The Stolen Letter" Spring, 1952
Steve is sent to South America to expose a plot against the U.S.
35 "The Venetian Story" Spring, 1952
Steve travels to Venice to find and buy back a vital part of the agency's code machines.
36 "Berlin -- The Black Hood Story" Spring, 1952
Steve travels to Berlin, Germany, to recover confidential papers stolen from a diplomatic courier.
37 "The Archeaological Story"
"Desert Patrol" Spring, 1952
Steve travels to Trans-Jordan in the Middle East to find and protect a missing goddess.
38 "The Perfect Alibi Story" Spring, 1952
A political informer's murder in Rome leads to the discovery that an unknown opportunist is impersonating Steve.
39 "The Mine Story" Spring, 1952
Steve is smuggled into a slave labor camp In Eastern Europe to get vital information.
Waldo Brian Donlevy (February 9, 1901 – April 6, 1972) was an American actor, who was noted for playing dangerous and tough characters. Usually appearing in supporting roles, among his best-known films are Beau Geste (1939), The Great McGinty (1940) and Wake Island (1942). For his role as the sadistic Sergeant Markoff in Beau Geste, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
He starred as U.S. special agent Steve Mitchell in the radio/TV series Dangerous Assignment.
His obituary in The Times newspaper in the United Kingdom said, "Any consideration of the American 'film noir' of the 1940s would be incomplete without him".
Early life
Brian Donlevy was born on February 9, 1901, in Cleveland, Ohio. His parents were Thomas Donlevy and Rebecca (née Parks), Irish emigrants originally from Portadown, County Armagh.[4][5][6][7] Sometime between 1910 and 1912, the family moved to Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin,[8] where Donlevy's father worked as a supervisor at the Brickner Woolen Mills.
Career
Broadway
Donlevy moved to New York City in his youth, where he modeled for illustrator J. C. Leyendecker, who produced illustrations for the famous Arrow Collar advertisements. His acting career began in the early 1920s, when he began appearing in theater productions, and eventually won parts in silent films.
He had small roles in the silent films Jamestown (1923), Damaged Hearts (1924), Monsieur Beaucaire (1924), The Eve of the Revolution (1924), and School for Wives (1925). He had a small role on Broadway in the play What Price Glory (1925), which was a big hit and ran for two years, establishing him as an actor.[9] He was in the film A Man of Quality (1926).
On Broadway, he was in the popular musical Hit the Deck (1927–28), which ran for a year; then Ringside (1928), Rainbow (1928), and Queen Bee (1929). He had roles in the films Gentlemen of the Press (1929) and Mother's Boy (1929). On stage, he appeared in Up Pops the Devil (1930–31), Peter Flies High (1931), Society Girl (1931–32), The Inside Story (1932), and The Boy Friend (1932). He was in a film short with Ethel Merman, Ireno (1932); and another short with Ruth Etting, A Modern Cinderella (1932).
He returned to the stage for Three And One (1933) with Lilian Bond, a big personal success; No Questions Asked (1934); The Perfumed Lady (1934); and The Milky Way (1934). The latter led to him receiving a Hollywood offer to reprise his role in the film version, but he was unable to due to a production delay. He had a final Broadway success with Life Begins at 8:40 (1934) with Bert Lahr and Ray Bolger.[9] After that show, Donlevy said "they were all signed for the movies. I thought that if they can make it, I'm going to take a crack too."
Hollywood
Donlevy's break came in 1935, when he was cast in the film Barbary Coast, directed by Howard Hawks and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. Later that year, he was cast in Mary Burns, Fugitive. In 1936, he received second billing in It Happened in Hollywood, and had a supporting role in Goldwyn's Strike Me Pink and Paramount's 13 Hours by Air.
"B" leading man
Donlevy had his first lead in a B movie at Fox, Human Cargo (1936), playing a wisecracking reporter opposite Claire Trevor. He followed it with other "B" lead roles: Half Angel (1936), High Tension (1936), 36 Hours to Kill (1936), Crack-Up (1936) with Peter Lorre, and Midnight Taxi (1937).
He had a supporting role in an "A" movie, This Is My Affair (1937), with Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck and Victor McLaglen; then starred in another "B", Born Reckless (1937). He was in In Old Chicago (1938) and was teamed with Victor McLaglen in Battle of Broadway (1938) and We're Going to Be Rich (1938). He starred in Sharpshooters (1938), and was the lead villain in the studio's prestigious Jesse James (1939).[citation needed]
Paramount
Paramount used Donlevy for a key role in Cecil B. De Mille's Union Pacific (1939), stepping in for Charles Bickford.[13] He stayed at that studio for Beau Geste (1939). His performance in Beau Geste as the ruthless Sergeant Markoff earned him an nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Donlevy went to Columbia to star in a "B film", Behind Prison Gates (1939), and went to RKO for a support part in Allegheny Uprising (1939). He was the villain in Universal's Destry Rides Again (1939).
Donlevy was then given the title role in The Great McGinty (1940) at Paramount, the directorial debut of Preston Sturges. It was not a big hit, but was profitable and received excellent reviews, launching Sturges' directing career. Donlevy later reprised the role several times on radio and television.
At Universal, Donlevy was in When the Daltons Rode (1940), then went into Fox's Brigham Young: Frontiersman (1940). He was fourth-billed in I Wanted Wings (1941); then MGM borrowed him to support Robert Taylor in Billy the Kid (1941). At Universal, he was top-billed in South of Tahiti (1941), and supported Bing Crosby in Birth of the Blues (1942).
Lobby card for The Glass Key (1942)
Paramount gave him a star part in The Remarkable Andrew (1942), playing Andrew Jackson, then Columbia teamed him with Pat O'Brien in Two Yanks in Trinidad (1942). Edward Small hired him to play the lead in A Gentleman After Dark (1942) and he supported Joel McCrea and Barbara Stanwyck in Paramount's The Great Man's Lady (1942). In 1942, he starred in Wake Island with William Bendix and Robert Preston, playing a role based on James Devereux. The film, directed by John Farrow, was a huge success, as was the adaptation of Dashiell Hammet's classic The Glass Key (1942). At Universal, Donlevy starred in Nightmare (1942), and MGM borrowed him to support Taylor again in Stand By for Action (1942). Donlevy had the lead role in Fritz Lang's Hangmen Also Die! (1943), made for United Artists and co-written by Bertolt Brecht. He had a cameo as Governor McGinty in Sturges' The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944).
Donlevy was given the lead role in An American Romance (1944), directed by King Vidor for MGM, in a role intended for Spencer Tracy. It was a prestigious production, but the film was a box-office and critical disappointment. He had a cameo as himself in Duffy's Tavern (1945), and he was Trampas to Joel McCrea's The Virginian (1946). After playing the male lead in Our Hearts Were Growing Up (1946) he was borrowed by Walter Wanger for Canyon Passage (1946).
Donlevy with Esther Fernández and Alan Ladd in Two Years Before the Mast (1946)
Donlevy with Ella Raines in Impact (1949)
At Paramount, he was in Two Years Before the Mast (1946), although top billing went to Alan Ladd. Donlevy was originally going to play the sadistic captain, but wound up giving that role to Howard da Silva and playing Richard Dana instead.[15] At Paramount, Donlevy supported Ray Milland in The Trouble with Women (1947), then went to Fox to play a heroic DA in Kiss of Death (1947) with Victor Mature and Richard Widmark. For UA, he supported Robert Cummings in Heaven Only Knows (1947), then went to MGM for the Killer McCoy (1947), a hit with Mickey Rooney; A Southern Yankee (1948) with Red Skelton; and Command Decision (1948) with Clark Gable. He supported Dorothy Lamour in The Lucky Stiff (1949) then starred in Arthur Lubin's Impact (1949).
Television
He appeared on television in The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre, and made two films for Universal-International, Shakedown (1950) and Kansas Raiders (1950) (playing William Quantrill opposite Audie Murphy's Jesse James). He did Pulitzer Prize Playhouse on TV, then went to Republic for Fighting Coast Guard (1951), Ride the Man Down (1952), Hoodlum Empire (1952) and Woman They Almost Lynched (1953); then filmed Slaughter Trail (1952) for RKO.
In 1952 he produced and starred in a TV series, Dangerous Assignment, which he had performed on radio from 1949 to 1954.
Donlevy focused on television: Robert Montgomery Presents, The Motorola Television Hour, Medallion Theatre, Star Stage, Climax!, Damon Runyon Theater, Kraft Theatre, Studio One in Hollywood, Crossroads, The Ford Television Theatre, The DuPont Show of the Month and Lux Video Theatre.[17]
After a supporting role in The Big Combo (1955), Donlevy appeared in the British science-fiction horror film The Quatermass Xperiment (called The Creeping Unknown in the US) for Hammer Films, in the lead role of Professor Bernard Quatermass. The film was based on a 1953 BBC Television serial of the same name.[18] The character had been British, but Hammer cast Donlevy in an attempt to help sell the film to North American audiences. Quatermass creator Nigel Kneale disliked Donlevy's portrayal, referring to him as "a former Hollywood heavy gone to seed". Nonetheless, the film was a success, and Donlevy returned for the sequel, Quatermass 2 (Enemy From Space in the US), in 1957, also based on a BBC television serial. It made him the only man to play the famous scientist on screen twice (although Scottish actor Andrew Keir later played him both on film and radio).[citation needed]
In between the films, Donlevy was in A Cry in the Night (1956). He had the lead in a "B" western, Escape from Red Rock (1957) and a supporting part in Cowboy (1958). He announced that he had formed his own production company for whom he would make a western, The Golden Spur, but it appears to have not been made.[19] He guest-starred on TV in Rawhide, Wagon Train, Hotel de Paree, The Texan, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, Zane Grey Theater, and The Red Skelton Hour, had supporting roles in Juke Box Rhythm and Never So Few (both 1959), and had the lead in Girl in Room 13 (1960). He toured on stage in a production of The Andersonville Trial.[20] He supported Jerry Lewis in The Errand Boy (1961) and Charlton Heston in The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962), and guested on Target: The Corruptors, Saints and Sinners, and The DuPont Show of the Week.
Later career
Donlevy had the lead in Curse of the Fly (1965) for Robert L. Lippert, and supported in How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965).[21] In 1966, in one of the final episodes of Perry Mason, "The Case of the Positive Negative", he played defendant General Roger Brandon.[citation needed]
Donlevy's last performances included The Fat Spy (1966), an episode of Family Affair, new American footage shot in New York for Gamera the Invincible (1966), Five Golden Dragons (1967) for Harry Alan Towers, and the A.C. Lyles films Waco (1966), Hostile Guns (1967), Arizona Bushwhackers (1968), and Rogue's Gallery (1968).
His last film was Pit Stop, released in 1969.[citation needed]
Personal life
Donlevy was married to Yvonne Grey from 1928 to 1936. She divorced him on grounds of cruelty, and he agreed to pay $5,000 a month in alimony.[22] He married actress Marjorie Lane in 1936. They had one child, but divorced in 1947.[23] He was married to Lillian Arch Lugosi (the former wife of Bela Lugosi) from 1966 until his death in 1972.[24]
Donlevy supported Thomas Dewey in the 1944 United States presidential election.
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