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Rendezvous with Death

The Man Called X · November 11, 1950 · 28 min · 4,213 words

The transcript of “Rendezvous with Death”, an episode of The Man Called X first broadcast November 11, 1950. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Man Called X plays The Man Called X free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Herbert Marshall as the man called X. Wherever there is mystery, intrigue, romance, in all the strange and dangerous places of the world, there you will find the man called X. Now is the time for all wise men to treat themselves and their families to television.

Of course, you're planning to buy a television set someday, but in the meantime, your family's missing seven days a week of the most wonderful variety of entertainment, of entertainment, whichever came the way of the human race.

That situation's pretty hard for families to take. As a friend of mine discovered recently, when his children pointedly began leaving him out of their prayers and substituting the name of a neighbor generous with his television set.

Don't make your family wait for the fun. Visit your RCA Victor dealer tomorrow and choose your RCA Victor television masterpiece from 18 beautiful new million proof models of all sizes and styles. Like the more than a million American families who now rejoice in the perfection of RCA Victor television, you will find your RCA Victor set the lasting pride and joy of your own life,

as well as the best investment you ever made in the happiness of your family. It began a few minutes before midnight and the small dimly lighted cable office in Rangoon, Burma, began when an elderly Burmese handed a laboriously written cable to the yawning dirt and then walked out into the blackness of the Asiatic Knight.

Sorry this office is closing now, we won't be able to... That's the story Ken. The cable clerk was killed and a man named Lao Raoul was disappeared, along with the original cable he'd written to you.

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