The Man Called X — 1951
52 episodes broadcast in 1951.
Five years after first hearing of the 'Himmler Plates' in a wartime concentration camp, Ken Thurston follows the world's most dangerous fifty-dollar bills to Montevideo.
A man carrying sabotage pamphlets walks into an airplane propeller at LaGuardia, sending Ken Thurston to Cuba to find the source of the trouble.
Ken Thurston flies to Japan to learn who killed a scientist working on a cure for radiation poisoning.
A dying saboteur in Stuttgart gasps three words -- 'Zardoff, Friday, Orient Express' -- and Ken Thurston follows where they lead.
A submarine flying an American flag is sinking ships in the Bay of Bengal, its German-accented crew keeping watch for the Man Called X.
Sabotage is suspected at a troubled coal mine in the Saar basin, and Ken Thurston goes to investigate.
Ken Thurston crosses into communist North Korea on a rescue mission.
A shepherd from Soviet Azerbaijan tries to warn the Man Called X of a coming grab for Middle Eastern oil, but dies at the shortwave set before he can finish.
When Pegon Zellschmidt is caught smuggling opium into the country, Ken Thurston flies to Los Angeles after the ring behind it.
Ken Thurston joins U.S. Immigration agents at a Montana ranch to break a ring flying illegal aliens in from Mexico.
Ken Thurston travels to Leiden to find who murdered his old friend, an outspoken liberal Dutch professor.
Sent to Guayaquil, Ecuador, Ken Thurston wades into the question of what became of one John Beringer.
Stolen British atomic-energy reports draw Ken Thurston to a Dublin tavern, The Blue Unicorn, to outbid foreign agents for the secret documents.
Ken Thurston works to save an Indian land-reclamation project from sabotage.
Ken Thurston goes to Alamogordo to stop a leak of secrets from the White Sands rocket tests.
The murder of a crusading Puerto Rican newsman by the Nationalist party pulls Ken Thurston into the case.
In Port-au-Prince, where voodoo drums still sound in the jungle nights, an ancient terror awaits a well-dressed man stepping from a limousine -- and the Man Called X.
On the glittering French Riviera, a deadly game plays out in a villa just across the Monaco border, with death for the stakes.
Aboard an ocean liner bound for Hawaii, Ken Thurston hunts an elusive countess and a spy six months dead yet lately seen in a San Francisco bar.
Five Haitian officials are killed by 'zombies,' and Ken Thurston's investigation nearly makes him one of the living dead himself.
In Hong Kong, one of Ken Thurston's agents works to stop American medical supplies being smuggled into Red China, until a druggist turns up murdered.
When an American businessman 'confesses' to spying in Bucharest, Pringle and Pegon Zellschmidt head to Romania to get him out.
In an India stalked by hunger, a black market in grain breeds violence, and draws Ken Thurston.
Up the Amazon in Brazil, Ken Thurston works to head off a native uprising that threatens America's rubber supply.
In a Vienna where the past forever intrudes on the present, Ken Thurston investigates the murder of the owner of the city's last free newspaper.
Two U.S. agents are suspected of defecting to Russia with the secrets of 'Operation Zero,' and Ken Thurston flies to France after the rogue.
Accidents and murder are hampering the nationalization of Indonesia's oil industry, and Ken Thurston travels to the Sumatran fields.
July 20, 1951
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July 27, 1951
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August 3, 1951
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August 10, 1951
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August 17, 1951
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August 24, 1951
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August 31, 1951
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September 7, 1951
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September 14, 1951
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September 21, 1951
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September 28, 1951
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Ken Thurston flies to Chicago to find the missing Jack Doyle and shut down a source of vicious rumors.
October 8, 1951
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October 15, 1951
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October 22, 1951
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October 29, 1951
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November 5, 1951
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November 12, 1951
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November 19, 1951
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November 26, 1951
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December 3, 1951
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December 10, 1951
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December 17, 1951
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December 24, 1951
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