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Podcast: 1001 RADIO DAYS
Episode: THE SMUGGLING RACKET (HAVANA) and MR. ALEXANDER'S FILES (TURKEY) DANGEROUS ASSIGNMENT
Description: Dangerous Assignment was an NBC radio drama starring Brian Donlevy broadcast in the US 1949–1953. It preceded the James Bond character and books and may well have inspired them. "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 ad...