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Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1944–1952
- Surviving broadcasts
- 151
- 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 · 41951 · 61948 · 11944 · 1
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
10 dated broadcasts across 9 years on the air, with 5 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1944, in original transmission order.
- 1. Man Called X Murder, Music and a Blonde Madonna (AFRS) · 28 Aug 1944
- 2. Man Called X Storm over the Alps · 29 Feb 1948
- 3. Man Called X Dope Smuggling · 3 Mar 1951
- 01
Man Called X Murder, Music and a Blonde Madonna (AFRS)
28 Aug 1944 · 29 min
Broadcast 28 August 1944. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 02
Man Called X Storm over the Alps
29 Feb 1948 · 21 min
Broadcast 29 February 1948. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 03
Man Called X Dope Smuggling
3 Mar 1951 · 29 min
Broadcast 3 March 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 04
Blue Unicorn
31 Mar 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 31 March 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 05
Man Called X Race Against Death
21 Apr 1951 · 29 min
Broadcast 21 April 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 06
Enough Intrigue to Fill a Book
18 May 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 18 May 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 07
Man Called X Grain Black Market in India
8 Jun 1951 · 29 min
Broadcast 8 June 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 08
Casbah
6 Jul 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 6 July 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
29 Feb 1948
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 29 Feb 1948.
The Grand Ole Opry
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
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.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of The Man Called X
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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