What happens
Ken Preston travels to Vienna after the murder of Wilhelm Hitter, the publisher of the Frihite newspaper, and his daughter Maria is also killed. Hitter's son Rudolf is fighting his sister for control of the paper, and Ken works to uncover who is behind the crimes. The Man Called X series aired on NBC, and Herbert Marshall stars in the title role. This episode first aired on June 22, 1951, as part of NBC's Friday night feature. Ken, in the guise of Mr. Thurston, questions the household staff and visits the Imperial Hotel, where he encounters Russian officers and a steward who seems eager to keep him in conversation. Ken's investigation moves between Vienna's divided sectors as he searches for a shadowy visitor who came to the Hitter house before the killing.
Vienna, Austria, in the four-sector international zone, including the Russian sector and the Imperial Hotel
Characters: Ken Preston, Mr. X, Wilhelm Hitter, Maria Hitter, Rudolf Hitter, Hugo Oblens, Pagan, Major Barco
Listen for: Ken questioning Hugo Oblens and Rudolf Hitter about the murder, and the encounter with the Russian major at the Imperial Hotel
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.