Carbon Fourteen (Aired January 25, 1948)
The seat of the crimes inevitably is a remote, glamorous area--Shanghai, Rangoon, Singapore, places like that--where the white man's burden is greatly complicated by espionage and skullduggery of one sort or another. One of the more attractive features of this show is its villains, who under no circumstances would commit the gaucherie of snarling: "I wanna see ya bleed to death--slow--". Mr. X's opponents are as suave and well-dressed as he is, know how to order the proper wines, and are, in short, as couth a collection of bad men as ever throttled a millionaire. In fact, the courtesy of Mr. X and his villains--even more when they're threatening to blow one another's brains out--could be held up as an example of matchless propriety to the very young. Besides Mr. X there are a couple of semi-permanent characters--one named Saigon or Paigon or Fagan or something, a minor league crook who usually helps X solve these things, and a girl who holds Mr. X's hand to help him think. Show Notes From The Digital Deli.
THIS EPISODE:
January 25, 1948. "Carbon Fourteen" - CBS network. Commercials deleted. Bill Wilson, a physics teacher in Los Angeles, has been shot just after telling Ken Thurston about some missing carbon 14. Herbert Marshall, Leon Belasco, Cathy Lewis, Jack Johnstone (director), Sidney Marshall (writer), Wendell Niles (announcer), Johnny Green (composer, conductor). 26:14. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.
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