MACAU and THE CANAL ZONE- A PIECE OF STRAW DANGEROUS ASSIGNMENT

🎙️ DANGEROUS ASSIGNMENT (RADIO) Starring Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell NBC Radio (1949–1953)

Mitchell's job: "Go to the world's trouble spots and take care of things." Each episode begins with The Commissioner handing him a sealed assignment — usually involving sabotage, espionage, smuggling, or political intrigue.

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⭐ MACAU Radio Episode — NBC Airdate: Not precisely documented (likely 1951–1952) Status: Surviving audio exists in OTR collections Setting: Portuguese colony of Macau, South China Sea

Episode Summary (Radio) Steve Mitchell is sent to Macau, a notorious Cold War hotspot filled with smugglers, black‑market traders, and intelligence operatives drifting between Hong Kong, mainland China, and the Portuguese colony.

His assignment: Break up a smuggling ring funneling stolen U.S. strategic materials through Macau's waterfront.

Mitchell arrives to find:

a murdered informant

a frightened contact who refuses to talk

a waterfront gang operating out of a gambling house

a mysterious woman who may be helping him… or setting him up

and a rival agent who seems to know Mitchell's moves before he makes them