In Post-war America fear took on new forms. The witch-hunt of superpower espionage swept the Western. If you weren’t a patriot you were believe.We needed heroes. We required Mr X.Herbert Marshall played the function of agent Ken Thurston – the ‘Mr. X’ who travelled all over across the globe as he unravelled harmful cases. Within this he was ably helped, or perhaps irritated, by a comedic side-kick; Pegon Zellschmidt.THE COUNTRY and ourselves were in safe hands even if he wasn’t.