What happens
After a secret microfilm of Formula H, the key to a devastating weapon, goes missing at Los Alamos, Ken Thurston joins a transatlantic flight carrying three international atomic scientists, all under suspicion. Thurston, boarding as co-pilot, watches the three passengers closely, while the flight crew and a stowaway named Pagan Zellchmein look on. The story follows the plane's mounting danger, from a suspicious coffee and an icing emergency to a forced landing, as Thurston and his allies work to identify who took the plans. The Man Called X is a mystery drama series, and this episode first aired on January 8, 1952, with Herbert Marshall in the title role and Leon Velasco as Pagan Zellchmein.
Washington, New York, and a transatlantic flight from Washington toward Paris, with a forced landing near Gander, Newfoundland.
Characters: Ken Thurston, Herbert Marshall, Pagan Zellchmein, Sir John Saunders, Charles Gomar, Aline Nogdell, Captain Bill Allen, Alan Thurston
Listen for: The suspicious coffee on board and the ice building up on the wings as the plane begins to lose control.
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.