Originally broadcast on NBC, 29 April 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1944–1952
- Surviving broadcasts
- 111
- Genre
- adventure
Beginning in the summer of 1944, at the height of World War II, The Man Called X was originally a kind of "FBI" program. The series soon developed a more international approach, however, featuring danger, intrigue, and romance in exotic settings.
1952 · 191951 · 21
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 40 of 40
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
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_Man_Called_X_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
11 dated broadcasts across 9 years on the air, with 7 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1952
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1951, in original transmission order.
- 1. Dope Smuggling · 3 Mar 1951
- 2. Cargo Confidant · 10 Mar 1951
- 3. University of Leiden · 17 Mar 1951
Operation Cabal
27 May 1952 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 27 May 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Ancient Byzantine Bible
20 May 1952 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 20 May 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Rescue From Czech Uranium Mine
13 May 1952 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 13 May 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Desert of Death
6 May 1952 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 6 May 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Cholera Epidemic
29 Apr 1952 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 29 April 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Maverick Steer aka Foot and Mouth
22 Apr 1952 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 22 April 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Silcilian Farmland
15 Apr 1952 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 15 April 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Tanganyika
18 Mar 1952 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 18 March 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
29 Apr 1952
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 29 Apr 1952.
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 29 April 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on CBS, 29 April 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 29 April 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on CBS
CBS in 1944–1952
Other series the network carried while The Man Called X 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.
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