What happens
Pagan Zelschmann, a crooked associate of Ken Thurston, is caught at the Los Angeles airport with opium hidden inside herb sample boxes. He claims he was set up while seeking samples from the Mendoza Ranchos company in Guadalajara. Ken Thurston, working for The Man Called X, takes Zelschmann along to Mexico to find out who is behind the scheme. Herbert Marshall stars as the Man Called X in this episode of the NBC Saturday night series, which aired on March 3, 1951. In Guadalajara, Ken and Pagan dine with Don Federico Mendoza and meet his manager, Hans Bockney, while a dangerous figure named Jose keeps close watch.
Los Angeles International Airport and Guadalajara, Mexico, in the early 1950s
Characters: Ken Thurston, Pagan Zelschmann, Don Federico Mendoza, Evelina Mendoza, Hans Bockney, Jose, Manuel Gomez, Captain Rodriguez
Listen for: The moment Ken Thurston uncovers the opium plantation hidden in the foothills of the Mendoza ranch
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.