Ken Thurston, a pilot, flies from Cairo toward Tehran with Pagon aboard when a violent storm forces his plane into a hilltop. On the hill he meets a young girl named Peace, who says she has decided she will not grow up because the world seems too cruel for her to live in. The man called X, the story's central figure, tries to change her mind by taking her down into the valleys below to show her scenes of ordinary goodness among people. Herbert Marshall stars in this Christmas-season episode of The Man Called X, first broadcast on December 23, 1950, on NBC's Saturday night feature.
Characters: Ken Thurston, Peace, The Man Called X, Pagon, Mr. Thurston, Miss Brooks, Bob Cratchit, Dr. Richards
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Now we present Herbert Marshall as the Man Called Ex. The Saturday Night feature on NBC's 5-Show Festival of Comedy, Music, Mystery and Drama brought to you by... RCA Victor, World Leader in Radio, first in recorded music, first in television...
and by the makers of Aniston, for fast release from Peanut Peddick, Neuritus, Neurauci. Herbert Marshall as the Man Called Ex. Wherever there is mystery, intrigue, romance, in all the strange and dangerous places of the world, there you will find the man called X.
Tonight you can sit back and relax and enjoy a good feeling because Christmas shopping is over for another year. Tomorrow you may want to put the last fancy ribbons and wrappings on the packages and scatter them under the tree.
And you're going to have an enchanted Christmas this year. If you're one of the thousands who wrap a big bright ribbon around a beautiful new RCA Victor television, radio, phonograph, combination, and proudly place it by the Christmas tree, three worlds of wonderful entertainment will be brought to your fireside and into your home.
All wrapped up in one matchless RCA Victor instrument with a bright Christmas ribbon around it. Three worlds of entertainment for the whole family to enjoy day after day and year after year. If you're one of those happy families, you're in for a wonderful time this weekend, and all year because our CA Victor, world leader in radio, first in recorded music, and first in television, will bring into your home that special morning a very special Merry Christmas!
By special request we're repeating this story as a reminder that Christmas is one time of the year when even miracles can happen. A time for a shabby world to lift up its tired eyes and learn once again to hope and to dream.
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So join us, won't you, when next I return, as the man called X, good night. The man called X, starring Herbert Marshall, is a Saturday Night feature on NBC's five-show Festival of Comedy, Music, Mystery, and Drama, brought to you by RCA Victor, world leader in radio, first in recorded music, first in television, and by the makers of Aniston for fast relief
from Pain of Headache, Neuriahis, Neuriahaljia. The man called X is a J. Richard Kennedy production with music composed and conducted by Felix Mills. Tonight's story was written by Les Crutchfield. All characters and incidents on this program are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual characters or incidents is purely coincidental.
Also heard in the night's cast were Will Wright, Barbara Fuller, Derek Snowden, Irene Tedrow, Henry Blair, Theodore Bonnaut, Lucille Meredith, Maggie Morley and Harry Bartell. Be sure to listen tomorrow evening for The Big Show with Toulula Bankhead and the great parade of stars, the Sunday night feature of NBC's All-Star Festival.
And until next week, same time and same station, this is Jack Latham saying good night for the man called X. Now the hit tunes of your hit parade. Tomorrow it's the Big Show on NBC.
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