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The Man Called X |
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Wherever there is mystery, adventure,
intrigue, in all the strange and dangerous places in the world, there you
will find -- the Man called X!" The
Man Called X was created by Jay
Richard Kennedy and depicted Herbert
Marshall as Ken Thurston, an Intelligence Agent working for "The
Bureau". Fans
of the spy game will certainly appreciate the dialogue of this seminal radio
show, with its world-weary and world-wary comments delivered by Marshall with
clipped certainty. The plots deal with smuggled guns, explosives, drugs, art,
radioactive material, murders, kidnappings, rogue scientists, leaked secrets,
sabotage, secret documents, notorious politicians, corpses, wetbacks,
revolutionaries, foreign portsÉ even zombies! In
each 30 minute stand-alone adventure, Thurston works diligently to make the
world a safer place by thwarting Cold War enemies and cooling off hotspots of
unrest wherever they may be. He is aided (? or thwarted) by his ever-present
chiselling "sidekick" Pegon Zeldschmidt, played by Leon Belasco. Fine Hollywood-based radio actors such as Cathy
Lewis, Peter Leeds, Lawrence Dobkin and
William Conrad fill out a
constantly shifting cast of shady characters. The
genesis of this radio show was a 1944 presentation of The Globe Theatre. A
regular CBS series followed and
was sponsored by Lockheed with: "the man who crosses the ocean as readily
as you and I cross town" After
an 18 month hiatus, Marshall was back as Thurston this time with Frigidaire as sponsor in 1947. With award-winning music by Johnny
Green, Jack Johnstone directed this production before a live audience. It
added glamour to the proceedings, although suspense purists might feel the
secretive ambiance of tales of intrigue wasn't right for an audience (who do
tend to laugh at Pegon's malapropisms). This
series folded in September 1948 but was resurrected again in 1950 by rival
network NBC (with RCA and others as sponsors) Want
to check out an episode? - why not "taste & try"? This
episode can be freely downloaded to your computer - just right button click
on any link below and chose "Download Linked File" (or words to
that effect). The file is on an average about 17Mb - download time will
depend on your (broadband) speed MCX_1947-04-03
Antarctic Expedition.mp3 In
all, 104 thirty minute episodes have survived and they are contain on these 3
MP3 Discs, grouped as follows: A.
The Globe
Theatre - the single presentation
within this anthology series Globe Theatre 1944 A Man Called X.mp3 B.
CBS (Lockheed)
- the 3 surviving episodes 1.
MCX_1944-09-30 A
Letter.mp3 2.
MCX_1944-xx-xx
Smuggling Diamonds for the Nazis.mp3 3.
MCX_1946- 07-23 Stolen
Lavaliers.mp3 C.
CBS
(Frigidaire) - the 45 surviving episodes 1.
MCX_1947-04-03
Antarctic Expedition.mp3 2.
MCX_1947-04-17 Acme
Oil Refinery.mp3 3.
MCX_1947-04-24 Mr
Messler and the Insurance Policy.mp3 4.
MCX_1947-05-15 The
Stamp Story.mp3 5.
MCX_1947-06-05 Swindle
in Honolulu.mp3 6.
MCX_1947-06-19 The
Silver Scarab.mp3 7.
MCX_1947-06-26
Rembrandt in Rio.mp3 8.
MCX_1947-07-24
Destination Manila.mp3 9.
MCX_1947-08-07 Will
You Marry Me.mp3 10.
MCX_1947-08-21 The
Lost Ones.mp3 11.
MCX_1947-09-18 The
Throne of Tay Ninh.mp3 12.
MCX_1947-10-02 No One
Wins on Zero.mp3 13.
MCX_1947-10-09 All
That Glitters.mp3 14.
MCX_1947-10-16 Timber
Country.mp3 15.
MCX_1947-11-02 Ashes
to Ashes.mp3 16.
MCX_1947-11-09 Written
in the Sand.mp3 17.
MCX_1947-11-16 Journey
to Xenephon.mp3 18.
MCX_1947-11-23 Report
from the Arctic.mp3 19.
MCX_1947-11-30
Checkmate in Tahiti.mp3 20.
MCX_1947-12-07
Shipment Condemned.mp3 21.
MCX_1947-12-14 Delta
Concerto.mp3 22.
MCX_1947-12-21 From a
Starlit Hill.mp3 23.
MCX_1947-12-28
Assignment -- Naples.mp3 24.
MCX_1948-01-04 Spot
the Eight Ball.mp3 25.
MCX_1948-01-11 Spirit
of the Snows.mp3 26.
MCX_1948-01-19 Ranee
of Shalakar.mp3 27.
MCX_1948-01-25 Carbon
Fourteen.mp3 28.
MCX_1948-02-01 One Way
to Macassar.mp3 29.
MCX_1948-02-08 A Tiger
for the Lady.mp3 30.
MCX_1948-02-15 Guns on
the Niger.mp3 31.
MCX_1948-02-22
Operation Silver.mp3 32.
MCX_1948-02-29 Storm
over the Alps.mp3 33.
MCX_1948-03-07
Passport to Danger.mp3 34.
MCX_1948-03-14 The
Pickled Chemist.mp3 35.
MCX_1948-03-21 One
Sailor Died Twice.mp3 36.
MCX_1948-03-28 A Ruby
for Pearl.mp3 37.
MCX_1948-04-11 Turtle
Island Vacation.mp3 38.
MCX_1948-08-08 Mekong
River Dam.mp3 39.
MCX_1948-08-15 The
Girl Who Couldn't Remember.mp3 40.
MCX_1948-08-22 Burma Peninsula.mp3 41.
MCX_1948-08-29
Contraband.mp3 42.
MCX_1948-09-05 Worth
Her Weight in Gold.mp3 43.
MCX_1948-09-12
Kangaroo Bay, Australia.mp3 44.
MCX_1948-09-19
Dangerous Island.mp3 45.
MCX_1948-09-26 The
Laughing Lady.mp3 D.
NBC - the 55 surviving episodes 1.
MCX_1950-10-13 Custom
Cigarettes.mp3 2.
MCX_1950-10-20 One Way
to Macassar.mp3 3.
MCX_1950-10-27 Journey
to Xenephon.mp3 4.
MCX_1950-11-03
Professor Chaney has Disappeared.mp3 5.
MCX_1950-11-11
Rendezvous with Death.mp3 6.
MCX_1950-11-18 Warm
Welcome, Sudden Death.mp3 7.
MCX_1950-11-25 A Beautiful
Woman, Important Foreign Agent and
a Submarine.mp3 8.
MCX_1950-12-02 Dr
Alvarez's Laboratory.mp3 9.
MCX_1950-12-09 Mr X
Goes to Syria.mp3 10.
MCX_1950-12-16 Red
Messenger.mp3 11.
MCX_1950-12-23
Thurston's Christmas Story.mp3 12.
MCX_1950-12-30 Rhythm
of Death.mp3 13.
MCX_1951-01-06
Operation Fifty.mp3 14.
MCX_1951-01-13 Five
Ounces of Treason.mp3 15.
MCX_1951-01-20 Japan
Underground.mp3 16.
MCX_1951-01-27 Orient
Express.mp3 17.
MCX_1951-02-03 Pirates
off the Coast of India.mp3 18.
MCX_1951-02-10 The
Black of Diamonds.mp3 19.
MCX_1951-02-17 North
of Thirty Eight.mp3 20.
MCX_1951-02-24 Tiny
Bit of Microfilm.mp3 21.
MCX_1951-03-03 Dope
Smuggling.mp3 22.
MCX_1951-03-10 Cargo
Confidant.mp3 23.
MCX_1951-03-17
University of Leiden.mp3 24.
MCX_1951-03-24 Missing
Witness.mp3 25.
MCX_1951-03-31 The
Blue Unicorn.mp3 26.
MCX_1951-04-07
India.mp3 27.
MCX_1951-04-14 Treason
at White Sands.mp3 28.
MCX_1951-04-21 Race
Against Death.mp3 29.
MCX_1951-04-28 Terror
across the Nation.mp3 30.
MCX_1951-05-04 Monte
Carlo.mp3 31.
MCX_1951-05-11 Knocked
Off His Feet.mp3 32.
MCX_1951-05-18 Enough
Intrigue to Fill a Book.mp3 33.
MCX_1951-05-25 A Man,
a Girl and a Plot.mp3 34.
MCX_1951-06-01 Stalin
Plus Seven.mp3 35.
MCX_1951-06-08 Grain
Black Market in India.mp3 36.
MCX_1951-06-15 Amazon
River.mp3 37.
MCX_1951-06-22
Vienna.mp3 38.
MCX_1951-06-29 Death
and Treasury March Hand in Hand.mp3 39.
MCX_1951-07-06 The
Casbah.mp3 40.
MCX_1951-07-13 Flying
Trip to Indonesia.mp3 41.
MCX_1951-10-01
Invitation to a Murder.mp3 42.
MCX_1952-01-01
Petroleum Sabotage in Lima.mp3 43.
MCX_1952-01-08 Flying
Trip to Nowhere.mp3 44.
MCX_1952-01-15 Icy
Slopes of the Matterhorn.mp3 45.
MCX_1952-01-22
Casablanca.mp3 46.
MCX_1952-01-29 Dirty
Racket.mp3 47.
MCX_1952-02-05 The
Clicking Buddah.mp3 48.
MCX_1952-02-12
Italy.mp3 49.
MCX_1952-02-19 The
Half Penny Stamp.mp3 50.
MCX_1952-02-26 Orinoco
River Basin.mp3 51.
MCX_1952-03-04 Alaska
Weather Station.mp3 52.
MCX_1952-03-11 Plan to
Kill NATO Pact.mp3 53.
MCX_1952-05-13 Rescue
from Czech Uranium Mine.mp3 54.
MCX_1952-05-20 Ancient
Byzantine Bible.mp3 55.
MCX_1952-05-27
Operation Cabal.mp3 |