What happens
Ken Thurston, an American traveling on the Orient Express from Paris toward Bucharest, finds himself caught up in a murder aboard the train. A woman named Heidi Stefan is involved, and Zegor, an eager companion, keeps appearing in the story. Inspector Giro, a French military intelligence officer, is found dead after an attempt on the Stuttgart apartment and a struggle at the station. Mr. X, the man called X, is drawn into the mystery as the train heads toward Munich. The Man Called X is a NBC series starring Herbert Marshall, broadcast on January 27, 1951, as a Saturday night feature.
The Orient Express, traveling from Stuttgart and Paris toward Munich and Vienna, Germany and Austria, around 1951
Characters: Ken Thurston, Heidi Stefan, Zegor, Inspector Giro, Dr. Karl Schmidt, Jim Wilson, Mr. X, Zardov
Listen for: The discovery of Inspector Giro's body and Ken Thurston's search for the empty trunk aboard the train
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.