Dangerous Assignment — 1950
35 episodes broadcast in 1950.
The season opener sends Steve to Panama to recover a cache of missing Japanese weapons and avenge a murdered friend.
In Tangier, Steve impersonates a just-murdered soldier of fortune to bait the killers into trying again.
Mitchell goes to Athens to recover stolen radar plans after the courier who smuggled them out turns up dead.
Steve chases a spool of recording wire -- one that endangers global security -- from San Diego onto a jolting bus deep in Latin America.
In Switzerland, Steve must find and destroy a confession a late European leader was forced to sign under duress.
Barely home, Steve is packed off to Cairo to talk an old friend, a sheik, into renewing a lapsing exploration agreement.
What sounds like a Caribbean holiday turns into a hunt off Trinidad for modern sunken treasure, with Steve signing on as a diver aboard the vessel Sea Witch.
Steve is sent to Ecuador to get to the bottom of reported flying saucers.
A supposed Alaskan vacation becomes a search for two vanished scientists -- a nuclear physicist and a former Nazi.
With an atomic-inspection conference three days off, Steve races to Paris after a Balkan delegate goes missing.
Sent to Oslo, Steve must work out which of six touring professors is secretly an enemy agent -- and leaves with a small boy in tow.
In Mandalay, Steve works to plug a leak of diverted supplies, where a foreign correspondent holds the clue to the thieves.
Behind the Iron Curtain, Steve's whole job is to slip a jailed agent a single white pill -- and get him out alive.
In Istanbul, Steve races to recover a deadly germ culture before an outbreak can claim thousands of lives.
July 19, 1950
Lefty & Sam
Steve flies east to find a guerrilla leader and head off a civil war, crossing the sinister Dr. Mao.
At the American consulate in Vienna, Steve hunts for stolen documents in a case where the fate of three hidden army divisions rides on a single empty drinking glass.
On Africa's Gold Coast, Steve moves to quiet the unrest being stirred up by local witch doctors.
In Bombay, Steve tries to clear an American framed for gun-running by tracking a man named Goodha through the crowded streets.
Steve flies to Tokyo after a roll of microfilm carrying the plans for a guided missile.
In the Balkans, Steve digs into the sabotage crippling a chromite mine vital to strategic supply -- and the chained bodies of murdered villagers.
When a packet of vital letters vanishes at a peace conference, Steve must stop two South American states from going to war.
Steve breaks up a Berlin kidnapping ring in a case that forces him to fire on his own double -- and ends with a wedding.
December 16, 1950
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