Recommendation From Rommel (Aired August 6, 1950)


"Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission for the United States, knowing in advance you may never return alive?" Cloak and Dagger first aired over the NBC network on May 7, 1950. It had a short run through the Summer on Sundays, changing to Fridays after its Summer run. The last show aired Oct. 22, 1950. This is the story of the WWII special governmental agency, the OSS, or Office of Strategic Services. Its mission was to develop and maintain spy networks throughout Europe and into Asia, while giving aid to underground partisan groups and developing espionage activities for Allied forces overseas.The show is based on the book of the same name by Lt. Col. Corey Ford and Major Alastair MacBain (who were associated with the OSS from its early days.) The dramas are not Hollywood-style, in that they sometimes end with plans foiled or leading characters dead.

THIS EPISODE:

August 6, 1950. NBC network. "Recommendation From Rommel". Sustaining. 4:00 P. M. A spy for the O. S. S. in northern Italy has the misfortune to find himself in the train compartment of Field Marshal Rommel himself! Jan Miner, Boris Aplon, Jon Gart (music), Louis G. Cowan (director), Arnold Moss, Jerry Jarrett, Raymond Edward Johnson, Karl Weber, Winifred Wolfe (writer), Jack Gordon (writer), Alfred Hollander (director), Sherman Marks (director, supervisor), Ralph Bell, Berry Kroeger. 29:24. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.