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time for this week's episode of Dangerous Assignment. The original air day December the
seventeenth, nineteen fifty two, and the title is Road Sabotage, Dangerous Assignment
Trumscribe, starring Brian bon Lab as Steve Mitchell. Yeah, danger is my
assignment. I get sent to a lot of places I can't even pronounce.
They all spell the same thing, though, trouble. But when I walk
into the commissioner's office, I don't realize this assignment's going to put a new
switch on an old saying, not only is the pen mightier than the sword,
the paint brush is mightier than the dynamite winning commissioner you sent for me,
Steve. Back in nineteen forty eight, the Turkish government embarked in a
vast road building project. A nine year program was laid out in agreement made
with our government, unfinancially sure. We've also sent a lot of our engineers
over there. Right, The Turkish people are shown concentrated effort and determination in
building these roads. Despite the handicaps, lack of industry experience, difficulty of
the terrain, the work has moved ahead on schedule in all fronts, all
but one. Trouble. Nothing but trouble, Steve and the road being built
in the mountains of eastern Turkey. They've had a series of costly accidents cave
ins, mysterious explosions, materials destroyed, equipment breaking down so on smells like
sabotage. Yes, okay, I'm on my way. Contact a man named
Hard Dean Bursher. When you arrive Steve, he's in charge of the operation
there. Check with his American advisors. It's vitally important that road be finished
and on schedule. Well, let's say you've got your assignment. Good luck
O. The National Broadcasting Company is presenting Dangerous Assignment, starring Brian Donlerby in
the role of Steve Mitchell, Colorful two, first 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. Comedy entertainment is what NBC features
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comedian. Make NBC your headquarters for comedy every Tuesday night. I've got my
assignment. Get over to eastern Turkey and find out who's throwing a monkey wrench
into a road building program or helping to finance and supervise. It's late Thursday
afternoon on my plane lands at the airport and see with some three hundred miles
east of Bankor. I hop aboard a train and ride deeper into the mountains.
It's well after dark when I jump off at a small whistle stop.
The station is deserted, almost in the dim light. At the far end
of the platform, I see a park jeep, and leaning against the front
fender is a small, slender gent dressed in khaki and field jacket. Sorry
you've been waiting long, Buster, but I hey, how are you mister
Mitchell. Well surprised right now. I didn't expect a woman to meet you.
My name is Martha margut A hack Well. Hello, mister Bercy could
not come to meet you. He sent me instead. Just throw usucase me
back there, okay, all right, my droller. You're looking at me
curiously, mister Mitchell. Sorry your puzzle. What is a woman doing out
in this wild, desolate country. I am an engineer. You a student
really, from the University of Anchoror. I see getting some experience in the
field. Eh, Yes, I understand you've run into some difficulties with regard
to the road. It was to be expected. We are building a road
through country where only pack animals have traveled before, and there have been some
accidents, they tell me. Yes, Perhaps that is why you have joined
us. Mister Mitchell. You are perhaps what they call a troubleshooter. You
might call it that, or I might call it a government agent. What
gave you that idea? Just a guess. I knew your government would send
someone to investigate before long, you see, mister Mitchell, I too do
not believe all these accidents have been just accidents. Oh, mister Bush is
of the same opinion, as is mister Babers. He's one of your American
advisers. Yeah, there are two of them. How does Harold Kevin feel
about the accidents? Isn't that the other one's name? Yes, Kevin thinks
they are simply accidents. How long has he been with outfit? Three months?
By a strange coincidence, the accidents began happening shortly after he arrived.
I see anything else, Yes, I'll tell you something else, mister Mitchell,
only because I know you would find out about that too sooner or later.
Harold Kevin and I were secretly married in Anchor last year. Well after
that, the conversation drops to zero. We ride in silence for the next
hour, grinding, bouncing over the road, climbing higher and higher into the
mountains. Finally, Margo wheels the deep window and clearing a shelf dug into
the side of the hill where some other trucks are parked. We walked to
the edge of the canyon and looked down. A dozen or more floodlights illuminate
the work area below, tents, tool sheds, bulldozers and other equipment,
and rising out of the canyon floor are huge pillars of concrete and steel.
The night shift has been abandoned, lack of material and equipment. What's being
done about it? Train is on his way from Seabas, now loaded with
more than enough material for us to resume a full schedule. More trucks,
tractors, cranes, spur parts and so on. Good, well, let's
get down there. We go it on foot from here, Yes, down
this path, come along. This is the farthest point your road has reached.
Yes, just a moment, miss Mitchell. Yeah, sounds like,
hey, look out, get back. I reach out to pull Margot off
the trailers. The first of the huge boulders roars past us. Thank you,
thank you? Mister Okay, yes, I'm all right brother that it's
a little too close for comfort. Another shall we say accident? Yeah,
ear marked for me. Looks like the noise is attracted the camp. Yes,
who is that? Okay, who's that? Abers? One of the
American advisors. The man with him is mister Vershit coming along. Hey you
start, No, mister Habers, we did not. You are not harmed,
my dear, not harmed. This is mister Mitchell, mister Bercier,
misters mister Berscher. How do you do, mister Mitchell. Abers, glad
to have you with us, Margat. He's not mister Kevin with you?
Why? No, I had not seen him for some time, mister Abers.
Have you seen him? No, not for a couple of hours,
Margaret. We better see what damage those bowlers caused. Of course, good
not, mister Mitchell. Right, there's anything I could do to help you
get settled, but you'll let me know. Sure those rocks, mister Mitchell.
No exagere telling me. Look, mister Bercier, just who knows why
I'm here? No one but myself. The others think you are an engineering
consultant, Margat, doesn't She had me spotted as a government agent right off
the bat, Yes, she said. The others could make a guess too.
Yes, I suppose about this man named Kevin, I find engineered.
Mister Mitchell. What's all this done to your schedule? Here? We have
some two weeks behind still, we have a chance to catch up, and
we will, mister Mitchell. Once the equipment and the material arrived. They
train, huh, yes, it will be here early in the morning.
That train means everything to us. We can return to our work, step
up the schedule, finish the road before the rains come t the ground suddenly
jumps up on earth bush and I find ourselves standing in a shower of rocks
and debris, all of it coming from the rem in the canyon. Overhead.
Brusher strings in the wax and starts up the path. I know he's
headed for the tunnel, and I'm right behind him. We're halfway up the
canyon wall when I spot someone crawling among the boulders. I let Busha go
ahead, duck off the path and circle around, and I reach out and
grab all the drop the knife, drop it, okay, I drop on
your feet, Mitchell, bitche over here, Busha is what happens to us?
Caught our friend air creeping along the path way. This is one of
the workers. His name is Dapor from Afghanistan. What happened up there with
the tunnel? Someone set off a charge of dynamize. This gent probably look
it dives into Persia, who snatching to me. As I reach out the
grab, I missed both person and I pulled back off the path and slide
away down the side of the canyon. Mitchell, Mitchell, are you all
right? Yeah? I guess so that was a neat block he threw on
you versia and the neader one you put on me. I'm sorry he threw
me off balance. Yeah, and he's sign of our friend. No,
I did not see him. He's got to be up there among the boulders
somewhere. You take that side and I'll go up this way. I spend
the next ten minutes poking around the boulders along the canyon wall, but there's
no sign of Daubpoor. I finally go back down to the canyon floor and
find a group of workers getting ready to start up the path to the tunnel.
In their lead is a tall, lanky American who should be the other
engineer, Kevin. All right, man, let's go on the double.
Hey Kevin? What? Oh? Oh hello? You must be Mitchell's right.
I'd like to talk to you, Kevin. Oh sure, get going,
man, be right up. Sorry I wasn't around to welcome you.
Mitchell. I know you were out for a walk. Yeah, yeah,
that's right. I heard the explosion. Came back first. You told me
what had happened. Oh when did you see him? Just a few minutes
ago? He's around here somewhere. I what's the matter? What are you
staring at? Up there. That cable stretching across the canyon. Oh,
that just a small bucket car we used to haul stuff from one rim of
the canyon to the other. Yeah, the car is moving headed away from
the tunnel. Yes, so it is. Wonder who's using it? Moving
very fast. I think we can just about make it there. It comes
Mitchell, But I don't see anyone in here. If my aunt is right,
he's in there? Who is I'll look, what's this all about?
Well, don't see anybody getting out? Come on? Well, looks like
my hents was right, Kevin, Who is it? Our friend app were
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dangerous assignment and Brian don LEVIEZ Steve Mitchell. Who killed Dapho and why Mitchell?
I don't know who at this point, but I've got a pretty good
idea why Kevin Oh whoever hired Dapper to blow up the tunnel killed him to
close his mouth. He either got it while he was trying to make his
getaway in this cable car, or else the killer dumped his body in here
to hide it. Either way, the killer must be the one who started
the cable car in motion. Yeah, h what is it this stain on
Dupper's hand orange color. Well, let's get back down to the camp,
find out where everyone was a few minutes ago and this cable car started moving.
I quite agree, Mitchell, we should all furnish an accounting of our
whereabouts during that period of time when Dappoor was murdered. Well, he might
as well start with you, mister Berschall. Very well, I think I
can help you there, Mitchell. I saw Berger climbing up the side of
the canyon toil the top shortly before I joined you down here. Oh,
of course, But if you will remember, Mitchell, we were both searching
for that poor and in the future, Kevin, I would appreciate it if
you would allow me to speak for myself, just trying to help out version.
Indeed, then perhaps you can also help out by explain your own strange
and unsatisfactory attitude up to now. What are you talking about calling these incidents
which have occurred merely accidents when we all know better. Now just a minute,
Les, calm down, both of you. This sort of thing won't
get us anywhere. Abers is right, I say, let's get on with
the investigation. Okay, I guess we've worked our way around to you.
Abers. You and Margaret went up to the tunnel after the blast to investigate
the damage. Yeah, that's right. Were you together all the time?
Well, matter of fact, no, we were separated for a few minutes
as we inspected the scene of the blast. I see, okay, the
way it adds up. Then shortly before I spotted that cable car moving across
the canyon up there. Burstia was somewhere near the top on one side.
Margaret and Abers were somewhere near the top on the other side. Now,
which side is the cable car controlled from. There's a switch at each end.
Oh great, Kevin, omits one very important fact, which what's that
Borsia? It is true there is a switch at either end up on the
rim. But where was Kevin at the time? I told you I was
down on the floor of the canyon. Mitchell saw me. Then he was
organizing a work party near the construction shack. Then it might interest you to
know there is a master switch in the sack. It also controls the cable
car. Why okay, so what I'd forgotten about the master switch? Un
this it's just dandy. Any one of you could have killed up or and
started the cable car. Yeah. At this point it looks like everybody's trying
to get into the guy Prussia and I climb up to the recuel. The
workers are starting to clear away the debris. This delays, of course,
it costs me one Mitchell, but we can still finish on schedule. When
the train arrived with the supplies and equipment, what is it over here?
Something partially buried in the rubbles. Looks like a box of some sort.
Yeah, hey, a dynamite box. Yes, empty, or it's pried
off the top. Looks like this is where Dupper opened the box. But
whereas all the dynamo? Are you kidding? That's what blew up the tunnel?
No, no, not all of it. What do you mean?
I told you whoever arranged the blast in the tunnel knew his business. Judging
from the sound and the scene of the blast, only a few sticks of
dynamite were used there. Why then where's the rest of it? That poor
must have planted it somewhere? Wait a minute, the train, Mitchell,
that could be the big target. Yes. If that train were blown up
and the equipment it is carrying loss, the work here would be brought to
a complete stop indefinitely. What what's that? How long ago? Very well,
we're too late, Mitchell. They tell me the train passed the junction
and onto our spur line five minutes ago. Oh great, and there's no
way we can contact it now. No. According to this map, your
spur track from the main line is about ten miles long. Yes, very
close to that and somewhere and that ten miles stretches the train also a charge
at dynamite. We've got to find it and find it fresh. But how
we cannot possibly cover every foot of that track? I know, But I
figure the points on the map are the trouble points, areas where it's most
logical the charge would be set. Now Here, Yes, the area where
Dapoor and the others were working today. Yeah. Then here, yes,
a downgrade with a curve at the bottom. Then over here a new bridge
and this tunnel here. Okay, have abers Kevin and Marga take some workers
and start along the track. If the Sabatory is one of those three,
we'll have the other two is insurance. Have them check the track as they
go along, and if they get to the train and it's in one piece,
they can flag it down. And what about us. We're going to
cut across country to those trouble spots and hope we're in time. Of course,
it gives the necessary orders. Then he and I grabbed the jeep and
roar out of the camp six minutes later where the first stop the section the
track where Dapper had been working earlier in the day. We give the area
a fast frisk, but no dynamite. The railroad makes a horseshoe bend around
the mountains. From here, we cut across over the narrow road to our
next stop, a downgrade with a sharp curve, But we can't find the
charge there either. We're working against time. Somewhere in these mountains is that
train, and it's getting closer every minute we head for the next step.
We are running out of time. Meter. There remain only the tunnel,
the new bridge, and wait there is also a tressly overlooked earlier. Oh,
but the train must have passed over it by now. Hey, wait
a minute, the bridge, what about it? Did you say it was
new? Why? Yes, it was completed just two days ago. Steel
construction girders, of course. Okay, I'll drop you at the tunnel.
I'm heading for that bridge. You think they is playing on hunch version,
but it better be a good one. Three minutes later, I'm at the
bridge. I pile out of the jeep and slide down the side of the
hill and work my way under the bridge. I look at the network of
new steel girders and I know my hunch is right. They're still covered with
red lead paint, the same shade as the stain on upwards hands. Then
I spot the charge of dynamite. It's tied to the underside of a horizontal
girder about ten feet over my head. But just as I start to climb
up us, there's someone coming down the side of the hill. I crouched
behind one of the girders. Then I jumped, huh, Steve, Hello
Martha, you're getting ready to set off your dynamite up there? Why?
Yes, I see it. You see. I also realized what the stain
on Duphor's hand meant. I was hoping against hope the dynamite would not be
here, but it is. Why Lock, what are you talking about?
Right up to now? I hope he was not involved. He Wait a
minute, are you by any chance talking about Kevin? Yes, my husband.
His attempt to pass all the incidents off as accidents, aroused my suspicions.
Then I discovered he was leaving the cat mysteriously at night. You know,
you're not exactly in the clear yourself. I'm going to climb up there
and get that dynamite. Then you're long, Mitchell. It's abras, Yes,
it sure is. Now just hold it booth here. Well, what
do you know? So you're my boy Abres Yeah, and you're not going
to touch that dynamite, Mitchell. Then my husband is not involved. I
think Kevin was trying to pass things off as accident so he could do a
little investigating on the quiet. He followed me out of camp once or twice,
nearly caught up with me at the wrong time. Steve the train,
Yeah, what happens now? Avers After I get through with the two of
you, I'm leading fast, because when that train hits the bridge, the
whole thing goes sky high. I'll get over against the bank. Bove Abers
probably wants to get us under the bridge before he shoots us, so the
wreckage will cover us when the bridge blows up with the train. Unless I
come up with something fast. Marga and I are that duck. Suddenly I
stumble intentionally and fall on my knees on your feet, which I start to
get up and then whirl and with my arm up to his wrist, the
gun goes flying. I filled him with a left oh. He swalls back
against the bank. I jumped for the girder. I've got to climb and
jerk that dynamite loose before the train gets there, and I've left to hurry
getting closer. But Averies isn't through yet. He scrambles to his speak mark.
He grabs at his arm, but he knots her down and up.
He dives and catches my leg, drags me off the girder. He swings.
I duck because this smashes against the girder. I tag him twice.
He goes down, and this time he stays. I start up the girder
again, time running out. The train's almost to the bridge. I keep
climbing another three feet. The train keeps coming. I sawt a wire leading
from the dynamite of the detonator. I reach up and jerk it loose just
the train thundered on to the bridge. After a couple of minutes, I
climb down to the ground just as Margaret gets to her feet. Oh thank
Heaven, Steve. If you hadn't jerked that wire loose when he did,
Yeah, hadn't been for that streak of red lead paint on top of his
hand, I wouldn't have been here to jerk the wire loose. It was
fortunate you realize what that same was. Yeah. Matter of fact, you
might call it a red letter day for me. All Star Brian don Levue
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Christmas Even Sweden in a gift wrapped bullet that will be Steve Mitchell's Dangerous Assignment
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Levy as Steve Mitchell with Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, is written by Bob
Bryf and Adrian John Doe and is directed by Bill carn Be with us again
next week at this time, when Brian don Levy, starring in the role
of Steve Mitchell, will embark on another transcribed Dangerous Assignment tomorrow here both Father
Knows Best and Truth or Consequences on NBC. Welcome back. Well, this
was a solid adventure story. The thing with Steve Mitchell as if you give
him a problem and a ticking clock, he does rise to the occasion.
One difference I've noticed between Dangerous Assignment and the Man Called X is that when
the Man called X featured women in additionally male fields, it was rarely commented
upon. And I think on Dangerous Assignment Steve Mitchell comments on it all the
time. Well, now we turn to listener comments and feedback, and this
one comes regarding a series we played a while back, Casebook of Gregory Hood,
which is now playing on our ball two feet at volume two dot Great
Detectives dot net. But we've got an email here from Martin who writes,
at the end of the Casebook of Gregory Hood episode The Eloquent Corpse, the
network announcer promises a whole hour of mystery from Hood and Richard Davis Private Investigator
next week. What hoever happened to Richard Davis? Do you know I can
find no mention of the show. Perhaps I has heard the title. Well,
thanks for the question Martin, and no, you did not mishear the
title. I did. I did go to newspapers dot com and was able
to verify that the series aired in nineteen forty six and nineteen forty seven.
I couldn't find any more details on it, and I did check some other
sources as well. There was nothing in Dunning's Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio,
and nothing in any of the old Time Radio books that were indexed by Google
book. And so essentially, like so many series, Richard Davis Private Detective
is a lost series. I couldn't even find any information as to who started
it. And there are programs like that that you'll hear an ad for them
on a program. The first one I remember was the series County Sheriff.
I was listening to Abbott and Costello over Abase and they were advertising the series
County Sheriff, and I thought, wow, that sounds like a great series,
and I checked and found no episodes in circulation. And not too long
ago, I remember on one of the mutual shows I think of the mid
fifties, I heard an ad for a series called Brooklyn Cop and yeah,
there are series out there where we have hundreds of episodes or dozens, and
or occasionally we just have two or three to give you an idea of what
the show was like. But then there are shows that are just essentially forgotten,
and Richard Davis definitely falls into that category. But you never know when
one of those will show up. Just in recent years we had a single
episode of Billy Swift Boy Detective and crime fighters show up. So who knows.
We may one day play an episode of Richard Davis Private Detective that ever
comes into circulation, and then we've got an email from Richard regarding our special
mister one by one, Hi Adam, I listened to Sunday's podcast when you
were on about Australian currency. Yes, up to nineteen sixty six, the
Ausse's used the Great British pound sterling, not their own version, as I
said on the podcast, so I was mistaken. A lot of Commonwealth countries
held on to the pound as their currency, some even after independence, as
it's a lot easier than running your own central bank. The as decided that
for some reason, four pence to a groat, three groats to a shilling
and twenty shillings to a pound was not for them, and decided to go
with a dollar worth ten shillings or two dollars equals one UK pound. Australian's
small change was the same size and weight as it was in the UK,
though with different designs, and they retained some of the coins after decriminalization,
so a shilling was still legal tender worth ten cents. Gradually the old coins
were called in and replaced. I visited in nineteen ninety seven and found a
nineteen fifty five sixpence in my Chaine, which apparently was as rare as hens
teeth by then. Personally, I think they made a mistake by going for
the dollar. The cent has become almost worthless to inflation, and even by
nineteen ninety seven there were no coins smaller than five cents. If you went
to a shop and the bill came to something not a multiple of five cents,
the bill would be rounded down if you paid cash. They should have
stuck with the pound, even if they broke the link with the sterling,
but we learned from their mistake. Incidentally, possibly the most unlikely country to
use the sterling was Ireland, given that they broke away from the UK and
what was a little short of a revolution yet they used the sterling until nineteen
seventy eight, fifty seven years after independence, using their own pound until two
thousand and two when the Euro began to be used as a day to day
currency. All very dull, but it gives you a bit of background.
Hope you and the family are well, and thanks for doing the podcast.
Well, thanks for the email, Richard, And it was not doll at
all. We play the radio programs and we talk about any irrelevant trivia surrounding
them, and certainly the history of Australian coinage is definitely relevant to that episode.
And then we have a note from Hilva who became one of our Patreon
supporters, and she wrote, thank you for providing outstanding content and commentary.
And we have a couple of comments on the listener survey, and someone identifying
themselves as Echo writes, my dad and my uncle were big fans of Blackie.
They would tell me Blackie bedtime stories when I was very little. I
love these old radio shows. Even though Blackie exited radio just after I made
my entrance to the world, I'm loving hearing these old Blackie shows. I
probably already heard this show as a bedtime story, but this is the first
time I heard it broadcast. I'm surprised the actors weren't given on air credit.
I know Richard Comer was Blackie, and Mary was either Leslie Woods or
Jan miynor a edge from the palm ol of Liquid. Ads Faraday was either
Maurice Tarplin, Richard Lane or Frank Orth. Shorty would be Tony Barrett.
But I'd really like to know who on this episode and who were the supporting
characters like the Blame brothers, the killer, his girl in fair Day's assistance,
and who is the narrator? The voices I heard in this episode are
somewhat familiar, but I'd really like to know who they really were. Where
can I find this? I've googled, imdb't Wikipedia and even listen to the
complete brad ast and no go help. Please. Thanks so much for sharing
these little Blackie gems. I'm looking forward to listening to some more. Well,
thanks so much. And I will say chiding, but just as an
f y I want to chide, But if you ask questions on the listener
survey, there's no email address and I have no way to get back to
you, and generally I wouldn't read this out on the episode, but it's
the only thing I've got, so on the off chance you listen to it.
First of all, I think that I love the fact that your family
made up Boston Blackie bedtime stories. That is amazing and that's definitely a way
to keep these characters alive that I had never thought of. As to the
cast of Boston Blackie, if you are listening to the ZIB series, depending
on the episode, Lesley Woods or Jan Minor could be playing Mary. For
Inspector Faraday, it would be Maurice Tarplin. Richard Lane was Faraday in the
movies and in the Chester Morris radio program, Frank Orth in the TV show.
In terms of the rest of it, we just don't know. They
didn't do on air credits, and there's not really a way to find the
supporting cast. Usually if you recognize anybody, it's just through recognizing them from
other places, like in various episodes. I heard Frank Lovejoy before he he
moved out towards Hollywood, Mandel Kramer, and a few I think there were
some episodes that featured bouth Bell. The announcer for the series was Larry Elliott.
That I can tell you it's just down to recognizing voices, and unfortunately,
there are just very few of the New York productions in the Golden Age
radio where they properly credited people, So unless it was in a newspaper somewhere,
they're just down to, oh, I recognize that guy again. If
you hear this, I hope that helps a little. Wish I had another
way to get back in touch with you. Well, now it's time to
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Chameleon, where he had a note in his pocket saying, in the event
of his being murdered, to interrogate you interrogate me, But why I can't
understand. I think I understand perfectly, Miss Lotting. He expected to be
murdered and he left a note to question you because well, why do you
think he left such a note? I don't know. The note bears two
interpretations, Miss Lodding. It could mean that he expected you to try to
murdering No. No, or it could mean that you had knowledge of who
might have intent and motive for murdering him. It has to mean one or
the other. But I tell you I know nothing nothing, Mister commisis which
is it did? Well? It's Clayton fair that you might murder him?
Or do you know who did? Oh? Is it mis lotting you?
Or does kill him? I don't know who killed him. I don't know
why he wrote such a note. You can question me all day and us
tday. I don't know wallas Clayton was saying. Wasn't he he was your
fiance? He wrote this note saying to question you? Now why why?
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