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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Man Called X: Spot the Eight Ball (EP3269)

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Adam Graham

Fiction, Arts, Drama, Performing Arts

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

After watching a plane take off carrying a man who identified himself as a British knight affiliated with the Air Ministry, Ken Thurston learns the man is actually a criminal and spy. Original Air Date: January 4, 1948 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.‘ Mail a…

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The The to the great detectives of Old Time Radio from Boys' Idaho this is your host Adam Graham. If you have a

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comment email it to me box 13 at great detectives.net and I want to begin by thanking those listeners who

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thank you so much for your support all right it's time now for today's

1:21.9

episode of the man called X, the original

1:24.2

aired January 4th, 1948, and the title is Spot the 8-ball.

1:30.0

You're twice ashore with two great names, Bridget Air and General Motors. Brigadier and Herbert Marshall as a man called X.

1:47.0

Wherever there is mystery, intrigue, romance in all the strange and dangerous places of the world.

1:54.0

There you will find the man called X. And our picture there presents Herbert Marshall as Ken Thurston, a man called X.

2:19.4

On a cold and gloomy day in LaGuardia Field, Ken and the Chief stand watching a great transatlantic plane

2:25.0

take off.

2:27.0

Well, there he goes, Ken.

2:31.0

Yep, off to London. Sir Robert Beaumont.

2:35.0

Chief, I don't know.

2:37.0

Don't know what?

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