Summary: Operation Fifty (Aired January 6, 1951) The Man Called X started over Radio with the 1944 CBS Summer replacement run for Lux Radio Theatre, comprising a total of eight episodes. The only circulating exemplar from the first run is contained within the AFRS Globe Theatre canon of transcriptions. So, yet again, we are indebted to the incredible output of AFRS and AFRTS transcriptions over the years in preserving some of Radio's rarest exemplars from The Golden Age of Radio. But if one compares that circulating episode to the spot ad for the summer run in the sidebar, one sees the program promoted as a comedy-mystery. Show Notes From The Digital Deli. THIS EPISODE: January 6, 1951. "Operation Fifty" - NBC network. Sponsored by: RCA Victor, Anacin. The story of "The Himmler Plates," the most important fifty-dollar bills in the world. The trail leads to Montevideo, Uruguay. Herbert Marshall, Leon Belasco, Joan Banks, Maggie Morely, Will Wright, Stan Waxman, Daws Butler, Lou Merrill, J. Richard Kennedy (producer), Felix Mills (composer, conductor), Sidney Marshall (writer), Jack Latham (announcer). 25:13. Show Notes From The Digital Deli.
