You Bet Your Life
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “you-bet-your-life-1952-02-20-160-secret-word-heart”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1949–1953
- Surviving broadcasts
- 197
- Genre
- adventure
Film actor Brian Donlevy played Steve Mitchell, international operative whose had two jobs. Get in and out of danger. Donlevy had the voice and delivery to make the show sound plausible, even if it was routine Cold War brush fire stuff.
1953 · 31952 · 21951 · 21950 · 41949 · 1
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 37 of 45Listenable · 2 of 45Rough but complete · 6 of 45
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: Otrr_Dangerous_Assignment_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 5 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1949, in original transmission order.
- 1. Relief Supplies · 9 Jul 1949
- 2. The Greek Connection · 20 Feb 1950
- 3. Burmese Witnesses · 24 May 1950
- 01
Relief Supplies
9 Jul 1949 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “Otrr_Dangerous_Assignment_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 02
The Greek Connection
20 Feb 1950 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “Otrr_Dangerous_Assignment_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 03
Burmese Witnesses
24 May 1950 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “Otrr_Dangerous_Assignment_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 04
Assignment Mine Disaster
6 Sep 1950 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “Otrr_Dangerous_Assignment_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 05
Missing Civil War Map (Virginia)
16 Dec 1950 · 29 min
Broadcast 16 December 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 06
London - The Secret Code
3 Mar 1951 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “Otrr_Dangerous_Assignment_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 07
Assignment The Balkans
28 Apr 1951 · 28 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “Otrr_Dangerous_Assignment_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 08
Dangerous Assignment 52-03-10 100 Eli Bryant, Traitor
10 Mar 1952 · 24 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “Otrr_Dangerous_Assignment_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Same night on the air
24 May 1950
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 24 May 1950.
Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby
Chesterfield Show (49-52) 1950-05-24 (36) Guests - Perry Como, Arthur Godfrey and Bob Hope
24 May 1950 · 27 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 24 May 1950. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC
NBC in 1949–1953
Other series the network carried while Dangerous Assignment was on the air.
Same seasons
adventure on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The children's serial
Fifteen minutes, a cliffhanger, and a promise to be back tomorrow. Kids' audio still runs on the shape the Yukon and Speed Gibson serials cut.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Dangerous Assignment
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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