Agent Ken Thurston is sent to Montevideo after counterfeit fifty-dollar bills, made from the Himmler plates, turn up in the city. At the El Rio Dorado casino he meets Joan Wilson, the cashier and owner, and Stefan Grabowski, an old acquaintance from Warsaw whose engraving work may be linked to the bills. Thurston is drawn into a web of suspicion involving Grabowski's wife Anna, an assistant named Anton Vadas, and a series of strange events. The episode is part of The Man Called X, a radio series starring Herbert Marshall, and was first broadcast on January 6, 1951.
Characters: Ken Thurston, Joan Wilson, Stefan Grabowski, Anna, Anton Vadas, Pagan, Inspector Brisa, Zell Schmidt
The transcript of “Operation Fifty”, an episode of The Man Called X first broadcast January 6, 1951. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Search inside this transcript.
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Now we present Herbert Marshall as the man called X. 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 relief from pain of headache, neurosis, neurogea. Herbert Marshall as the man called
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Tonight's story was written by Sidney Marshall. Next cast you heard Joan Banks, Maggie Murley, Will Wright, Stan Waxman, Dawes Butler, and Lou Merrell. All characters and incidents on this program are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual characters or incidents is purely coincidental.
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 station, this is Jack Latham saying, Good night for The Man Called X.
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