Today's Adventure: David Harding and Harry Peters investigate a multimillion-dollar bootleg liquor operation that is using discarded corn-syrup cans to smuggle illegal alcohol into states with government-controlled liquor sales. Their investigation leads to Chicago businessman Hype Gordon, but proving his involvement means finding the hidden still supplying his operation—and Gordon is determined not to lead them to it.
Original Radio Broadcast: September 27, 1949
Originating in New York
Starring Don McLaughlin as David Harding, Mandel Kramer as Peters
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https://patreon.greatdetectives.netDangerous Assignment — “Guided Missile Plans”
Steve Mitchell is sent to Dublin to recover stolen microfilm containing plans for a new American guided missile. His pursuit of the suspected courier leads him through England, where two deaths and a series of seemingly innocent picture postcards provide his best hope for locating the missing plans before someone else gets to them.Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — “The Picture Postcard Matter”
Johnny Dollar travels to Switzerland after $100,000 in uncut diamonds are stolen from a courier at the Zurich airport. His only lead is a mysterious informant offering to arrange their return, but Johnny soon finds himself caught between competing players while a picture postcard offers a cryptic clue to where the diamonds may be hidden.Original Radio Broadcast Dates:
- Dangerous Assignment: August 30, 1950.
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: October 1–5, 1956.
Both programs are originating from HollywoodCast — Dangerous Assignment:
- Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell
- Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner
- Written by Robert Reif (Bob Reif)
- Music by Basil Adlam
- Music conducted by Ralph Hollenbeck
- Produced and directed by Bill Karn
Cast — Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar:
- Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar
- Lucille Meredith
- Victor Perrin
- Forrest Lewis
- Stan Jones
- Ben Wright
- Written by Robert Reif
- Produced and directed by Jack Johnstone
- Musical supervision by Amerigo Marino
- Roy Rowan, announcer
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