The Man Called X - 111 episodes of the Old Time Radio program


(5 stars; 2 reviews)

This upload contains 111 episodes of the Old Time Radio show, The Man Called X, starring Herbert Marshall. The show aired for 8 years, from 1944 to 1952.

OTR enthusiasts owe a huge debt to those who have worked tirelessly to discover, acquire, and preserve these recordings. The aim is to ensure these excellent artistic expressions of our past are preserved for this and all future generations.


This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

Chapters

Murder, Music and a Blonde Madonna 29:10
India Quinine Contract 30:28
International Blackmail Racket 29:48
Stolen Diamonds 29:10
Into Berlin 29:38
Stolen Lavaliers In France 29:23
Turtle Island Vacation 25:06
Antarctic Expedition 27:25
Acme Oil Refinery 25:55
Mr Messler and the Insurance Policy 26:50
The Stamp Story 26:39
Swindle to Honolulu 26:55
The Silver Scarab 26:59
Rembrandt in Rio 28:49
Destination Manila 28:41
Will You Marry Me aka Till Death Do Us Part 27:00
The Lost Ones 27:07
The Throne Of Tayh-Ninh 25:17
No One Wins on Zero 27:38
All That Glitters 27:29
Timber Country 27:37
Ashes to Ashes 24:55
Written in the Sand 23:53
Trip to Xenephon 21:49
Report from the Arctic 22:19
Checkmate in Tahiti 25:09
Shipment Condemned 22:08
Delta Concerto 22:16
From a Starlit Hill 23:27
Assignment - Naples 23:21
Spot the Eight Ball 22:12
Spirit of the Snows 22:33
Ranee of Shalakar 22:15
Carbon Fourteen 21:40
One Way to Macassar 21:36
A Tiger for the Lady 21:42
Guns on the Niger 21:50
Operation Silver 21:53
Storm over the Alps 21:58
Passport to Danger 21:46
The Pickled Chemist 27:00
One Sailor Died Twice 22:11
A Ruby for Pearl 22:03
Mekong River Dam 29:36
The Girl Who Couldn't Remember 29:25
Burma Peninsula 29:30
Contraband 29:19
Worth Her Weight In Gold 29:31
Kangaroo Bay, Australia 29:33
Madagascar Physicist 29:32
The Laughing Lady 29:36
Custom Cigarettes 29:00
One Way to Macassar 29:13
Journey to Xenephon 29:09
Professor Czorny Has Disappeared 28:41
Rendezvous with Death 28:58
Warm Welcome, Sudden Death 29:01
Missing Deciphering Machine Plans 29:02
Dr Alvarez's Laboratory 29:25
Mr X Goes to Syria 29:19
Red Messenger 29:17
From a Starlit Hill 29:14
Rhythm of Death 29:29
Operation Fifty 29:35
Five Ounces of Treason 29:29
Japan Underground 29:22
Orient Express 29:28
Pirates off the Coast of India 29:24
The Black of Diamonds 29:22
North of Thirty Eight 29:28
A Tiny Bit of Microfilm 29:21
Dope Smuggling 29:21
Cargo Confidant 29:25
University of Leiden 29:36
Missing Witness 29:26
The Blue Unicorn 29:25
India 29:24
Treason at White Sands 29:26
Race Against Death 29:25
Terror Across the Nation 29:27
Monte Carlo 29:22
Knocked Off His Feet 29:29
Enough Intrigue to Fill a Book 29:19
A Man, a Girl and a Plot 29:26
Stalin Plus Seven 29:33
Grain Black Market in India 29:26
Amazon River 29:27
Vienna 29:24
Death and Treasury March Hand in Hand 29:26
The Casbah 29:31
Flying Trip to Indonesia 29:28
Invitation to a Murder 29:27
Petroleum Sabotage In Lima 29:25
Flying Trip to Nowhere 29:34
Icy Slopes of the Matterhorn 29:30
Casablanca 29:28
Dirty Racket 24:28
The Clicking Buddha 24:31
Italy 24:30
Ha'Penny Stamp 24:29
Orinoco River Basin 24:28
Alaska Weather Station 24:39
Plan To Kill NATO Pact 24:28
Tanganyika 24:00
Sicilian Farmland 25:05
The Maverick Steer aka Foot and Mouth 24:33
Cholera Epidemic 24:46
The Desert of Death 24:47
Rescue From Czech Uranium Mine 24:28
Ancient Byzantine Bible 24:29
Operation Cabal 24:41

Reviews

Hans Conried in first episode


(5 stars)

This collection includes what I believe to be the series' first episode, "Murder, Music, and a Blonde Madonna" that is on record as airing July 7, 1944. I think the only other place you can currently listen to this one via the web is YouTube, i.e., invidio.us/watch?v=qiP8UbL-zBw. And the great thing about it is that Egon/Pegon is played by Hans Conried, right before Conried enlists in the Army. You can hear Herbert Marshall's sendoff at ~25 mins:52 secs, i.e.: https://archive.org/details/man-called-x-1947-11-09-32-written-in-the-sand/Man+Called+X+1944-07-10+(xx)+Murder%2C+Music+and+a+Blonde+Madonna.mp3?start=1552 "By the way, the role of 'Egon' was played by Hans Conried, as a farewell gesture to an active life in radio theaters, and as a prelude to an even more active life in theaters of a different nature. Mr. Conried, I might add, relinquished the finest head of hair in the western hemisphere to become Private Conried, his Army serial number escaping me for the moment. Watch out for him. If his performance of Egon is any indication, he'll be a slippery man to deal with on the evening of pay day." Conried's Army enlistment two months later is noted on his Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Conried#Early_life At this time I'm not certain what his next work would have been, post-enlistment. Wikipedia currently only mentions that "Conried appeared regularly on radio during the 1940s and 1950s" without listing the particular shows. Wikipedia does however list the 117 movies and TV shows in which he appears, it's an impressive list. Lastly, I think they do call this character something like "Egon" in this episode, but the very same character in terms of attributes and mannerisms is called "Pegon" in subsequent episodes, played by Leon Belasco: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Belasco Thanks for the upload! Edit: It's available here, too https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Man_Called_X_Singles/Man+Called+X+44-08-28+Murder%2C+Music+and+a+Blonde+Madonna+(AFRS).mp3