The Great Detectives Present the Man Called X (Old Time Radio)

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By: Adam Graham

Beginning in World War II, the Man Called X (Herbert Marshall) fought for freedom, solving mysteries and battling Nazism, Post-War profiteering, and Communism. Suave, sophisticated and ready for action and mystery. Before there was James Bond, there was the Man Called X. Join him in every old time radio adventure as he fights evil and tries to avoid getting cheated by his erstwhile "friend" Pegon Zellschmidt.

EP3785: Man Called X: Operation Cabal
06/08/2022

Ken goes to a country in the southern hemisphere to prevent a revolution.

Original Air Date: May 27, 1952

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EP3779: Man Called X: Ancient Byzantine Bible
06/01/2022

In Athens, Pegon is given a counterfeit Byzantine Bible which holds the key to a missing $10 million fortune that could provide for Greek war orphans.

Original Air Date: May 20, 1952

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EP3773: Man Called X: Rescue From Czech Uranium Mine
05/25/2022

Ken goes behind the Iron Curtain into Czechoslovakia to rescue a resistance leader working as slave labor in a uranium mine.

Original Air Date: May 13, 1952

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EP3767: Man Called X: The Desert of Death
05/18/2022

Ken goes to Afghanistan to prevent the Soviets from acquiring the hydrogen bomb.

Original Air Date: May 6, 1952

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EP3761: Man Called X: Cholera Epidemic
05/11/2022

After the murder of a man bringing medical supplies to those strung with cholera in Malaysia the Man Called X travels there to bring medicine and confront the guerillas responsible for the murder.

Original Air Date: April 29, 1952

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EP3755: Man Called X: The Maverick Steer
05/04/2022

Ken travels to Wyoming to find out if a scientist who was rumored to have collaborated with the Nazis is behind an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in cattle.

Original Air Date: April 22, 1952

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EP3749: Man Called X: Sicilian Farmland
04/27/2022

The Man Called X tries to help a young man pull off an Easter miracle with the delivery of a new tractor.

Original Air Date: April 15, 1952

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EP3743: Man Called X: Tanganyika
04/20/2022

Ken Thurston goes to Africa to investigate the source of an uprising and discovers that a supply of cobalt might be at stake.

Original Air Date: March 18, 1952

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EP3737: Man Called X: Plan to Kill the NATO Pact
04/13/2022

The Man Called X goes to Lisbon to stop an ex-Nazi Scientist with biological weapons and a plan to kill the leaders of NATO.

Original Air Date: March 11, 1952

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EP3731: Man Called X: Alaska Weather Station
04/06/2022

Ken suspects that a man murdered in Japan was a scientist whose last known location was Alaska and was developing a robotics technology.

Original Air Date: March 4, 1952

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