Escape (radio program)
{{Short description|Radio anthology series}}
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{{Infobox radio show
| show_name = Escape
| image =
| imagesize = 200px
| caption = Harry Bartell was heard in "Three Skeleton Key" and 55 other Escape programs.
| other_names =
| format = Adventure
| runtime = 30 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| home_station = CBS
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| television =
| starring =
| creator =
| writer = Les Crutchfield,
John Dunkel
| director = Norman MacDonnell,
William N. Robson
| producer = Norman MacDonnell
| executive_producer =
| narrated = Paul Frees,
William Conrad
| record_location =
| first_aired = July 7, 1947
| last_aired = September 25, 1954
| num_series =
| num_episodes = 228
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| opentheme =
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| website =
| podcast =
}}
Escape is an American radio drama. It was radio's leading anthology series of high-adventure radio dramas, airing on CBS from July 7, 1947 to September 25, 1954.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EwtRbXNca0oC&dq=%22Escape+dramatic+adventure+anthology%22&pg=PA232 |last=Dunning |first=John |author-link=John Dunning (detective fiction author) |title=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio |date=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-0-19-507678-3 |pages=232–234 |edition=Revised |access-date=2024-11-11}}
Overview
Since the program did not have a regular sponsor like Suspense (a sister program that often used the same actors and scripts), it was subjected to frequent schedule shifts and lower production budgets, although Richfield Oil signed on as a sponsor for five months in 1950.
Despite these problems, Escape enthralled many listeners during its seven-year run. The series' well-remembered opening combined Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain with this introduction, as intoned by William Conrad and later Paul Frees:
:"Tired of the everyday grind? Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you... Escape!"
Following the opening theme, a second announcer (usually Roy Rowan) would add:
:"Escape! Designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half-hour of high adventure!"
Adaptations
Of the more than 230 Escape episodes, most have survived in good condition. Many story premises, both originals and adaptations, involved a protagonist in dire life-or-death straits, and the series featured more science fiction and supernatural tales than Suspense. Some of the memorable adaptations include Daphne du Maurier's "The Birds", Carl Stephenson's "Leiningen Versus the Ants", Algernon Blackwood's "Confession", Ray Bradbury's oft-reprinted "Mars Is Heaven", George R. Stewart's Earth Abides (the program's only two-parter), Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz".
John Collier's "Evening Primrose", about people who live inside a department store, was later adapted to TV as a Stephen Sondheim musical starring Anthony Perkins. William Conrad, Harry Bartell and Elliott Reid were heard in the chilling "Three Skeleton Key" (broadcast on 15 November 1949), the tale of three men trapped in an isolated lighthouse by thousands of rats; the half-hour was adapted from an Esquire short story by the French writer George Toudouze and later remade for the March 17, 1950 broadcast starring Vincent Price, Harry Bartell and Jeff Corey and again for the August 9, 1953 broadcast starring Paul Frees, Ben Wright and Jay Novello.
Other actors on the series included Elvia Allman, Eleanor Audley, Parley Baer, Michael Ann Barrett, Tony Barrett, Harry Bartell, Ted Bliss, Lillian Buyeff, Ken Christy, William Conrad, Ted de Corsia, John Dehner, Don Diamond, Paul Dubov, Sam Edwards, Virginia Gregg, Lou Merrill, Howard McNear, Jess Kirkpatrick, Dee J. Thompson, Shep Menken, Frank Gerstle, George Neise, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O'Herlihy, Barney Phillips, Forrest Lewis, Robert Griffin, Alan Reed, Bill Johnstone, Sandra Gould, Junius Matthews, Carleton G. Young, Marvin Miller, Frank Lovejoy, Berry Kroeger, Vic Perrin, Elliott Lewis, Eleanore Tanin, Herb Vigran, Jack Webb, Peggy Webber, and Will Wright.
Music was supplied by Del Castillo, organist Ivan Ditmars, Cy Feuer, Wilbur Hatch and Leith Stevens. The primary announcer was Roy Rowan, while the introductory signature voice (the dramatic "voice of Escape") was played most often by either Paul Frees or William Conrad, with other actors filling in at various times.
A television counterpart aired on CBS TV for a few months during 1950.
The program's opening announcement—"Tired of the everyday grind?"—was employed as a slogan for the counterculture magazine, New Escapologist.{{cite web|url=http://newescapologist.co.uk/ |title=New Escapologist |publisher=New Escapologist |access-date=2010-09-09}}
List of episodes
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! Pilot | "Dead of Night" | 03-21-47 |
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! 1 | Rudyard Kipling, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Raymond Lawrence |07-07-47 |
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! 2 | "Operation Fleur de Lis" |07-14-47 |
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! 3 | "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" | F. Scott Fitzgerald, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Jack Edwards Jr. |07-21-47 |
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! 4 | "Typhoon" | Joseph Conrad, adapted by Les Crutchfield |07-28-47 |
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! 5 | "The Sire de Maletroit's Door" | Robert Louis Stevenson, adapted by Les Crutchfield |08-04-47 |
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! 6 | "The Ring of Thoth" | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted by Les Crutchfield |08-11-47 |
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! 7 | "The Fourth Man" | John Russell, adapted by Irving Ravetch |08-18-47 |
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! 8 | Richard Connell, adapted by Irving Ravetch |10-01-47 |
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! 9 | "Run of the Yellow Mail" | | |10-08-47 |
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! 10 | "A Shipment of Mute Fate" | Martin Storm, adapted by Les Crutchfield |10-15-47 |
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! 11 | "The Fall of the House of Usher" | Edgar Allan Poe, adapted by Les Crutchfield |10-22-47 |
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! 12 | "Pollock and the Porroh Man" | H.G. Wells, adapted by John Dunkel |10-29-47 |
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! 13 | "Evening Primrose" | John Collier, adapted by John Dunkel |11-05-47 |
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! 14 | "The Young Man With the Cream Tarts" | Robert Louis Stevenson, adapted by William N. Robson |11-12-47 |
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! 15 | "Casting the Runes" | M.R. James, adapted by Irving Ravetch |11-19-47 |
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! 16 | H.G. Wells, adapted by John Dunkel |11-26-47 |
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! 17 | "Taboo" | Geoffrey Household, adapted by John Dunkel |12-03-47 |
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! 18 | "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" | Ambrose Bierce, adapted by William N. Robson |12-10-47 |
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! 19 | "Wild Oranges" | Joseph Hergesheimer, adapted by John Dunkel |12-17-47 |
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! 20 | "Back for Christmas" | John Collier, adapted by Robert Tallman |12-24-47 |
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! 21 | "Confession" | Algernon Blackwood, adapted by John Dunkel |12-31-47 |
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! 22 | "The Second Class Passenger" | Percival Gibbons, adapted by William N. Robson |01-07-48 |
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! 23 | Carl Stephenson, adapted by Robert Ryf |01-14-48 |
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! 24 | "Papa Benjamin" | Cornell Woolrich, adapted by John Dunkel |01-21-48 |
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! 25 | "Three Good Witnesses" | Harold Lamb, adapted by John Dunkel |01-28-48 |
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! 26 | "The Vanishing Lady" | Alexander Woollcott, adapted by William N. Robson |02-01-48 |
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! 27 | "Snake Doctor" | Irvin S. Cobb, adapted by Fred Howard |02-08-48 |
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! 28 | "Ancient Sorceries" | Algernon Blackwood, adapted by Les Crutchfield |02-15-48 |
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! 29 | "How Love Came to Professor Guildea" | Robert Hichens, adapted by Les Crutchfield |02-22-48 |
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! 30 | "The Grove of Ashtaroth" | John Buchan, adapted by Les Crutchfield |02-29-48 |
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! 31 | "Jimmy Goggles...the God" | H.G. Wells, adapted by Les Crutchfield | |03-07-48 |
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! 32 | "Log of the Evening Star" | Alfred Noyes, adapted by Les Crutchfield |03-14-48 |
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! 33 | "Misfortune's Isle" | Richard Matthew Hallet, adapted by Les Crutchfield |03-21-48 |
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! 34 | "A Shipment of Mute Fate" | Martin Storm, adapted by Les Crutchfield |03-28-48 |
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! 35 | "Action" | C.E. Montague, adapted by Les Crutchfield |04-04-48 |
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! 36 | "The Brute" | Joseph Conrad, adapted by Les Crutchfield |04-11-48 |
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! 37 | "The Drums of the Fore and Aft" | Rudyard Kipling, adapted by Les Crutchfield |04-18-48 |
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! 38 | "The Fourth Man" | John Russell, adapted by Irving Ravetch |04-25-48 |
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! 39 | "John Jock Todd" | Robert Simpson | Wilms Herbert |05-02-48 |
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! 40 | "The Time Machine" | H.G. Wells, adapted by Irving Ravetch |05-09-48 |
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! 41 | "The Match" | James Oliver Curwood, adapted by Les Crutchfield |05-16-48 |
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! 42 | Carl Stephenson, adapted by Robert Ryf |05-23-48 |
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! 43 | "Beau Geste" | Percival Christopher Wren, adapted by Les Crutchfield |06-06-48 |
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! 44 | H.G. Wells, adapted by John Dunkel |06-20-48 |
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! 45 | "A Tooth for Paul Revere" | Stephen Vincent Benét, adapted by John Dunkel |07-04-48 |
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! 46 | "She" | H. Rider Haggard, adapted by John Dunkel |07-11-48 |
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! 47 | "Habit" | F. R. Buckley, adapted by Les Crutchfield |07-18-48 |
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! 48 | Rudyard Kipling, adapted by Les Crutchfield |08-01-48 |
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! 49 | "The Fugitive" | Vincent Starrett, adapted by John Dunkel |08-15-48 |
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! 50 | "S.S. San Pedro" | James Gould Cozzens, adapted by Les Crutchfield |08-22-48 |
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! 51 | "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" | F. Scott Fitzgerald, adapted by Les Crutchfield |08-29-48 |
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! 52 | "A Dream of Armageddon" | H.G. Wells, adapted by Les Crutchfield |09-05-48 |
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! 53 | "Evening Primrose" | John Collier, adapted by John Dunkel |09-12-48 |
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! 54 | "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" | H.G. Wells, adapted by Les Crutchfield |09-19-48 |
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! 55 | "The Lost Special" | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted by Les Crutchfield |02-12-49 |
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! 56 | "Orient Express" | Graham Greene, adapted by Sheldon Stark |02-19-49 |
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! 57 | "Red Wine" | Lawrence Blochman, adapted by Morton Lewis and Les Crutchfield |02-26-49 |
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! 58 | "Conqueror's Isle" | Nelson Bond, adapted by John Meston | David Ellis |03-05-49 |
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! 59 | "He Who Rides the Tiger" | James Norman, adapted by Les Crutchfield |03-12-49 |
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! 60 | "A Shipment of Mute Fate" | Martin Storm, adapted by Les Crutchfield |03-13-49 |
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! 61 | "Finger of Doom" | Cornell Woolrich, adapted by John Dunkel |03-19-49 |
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! 62 | H.G. Wells, adapted by John Dunkel |03-20-49 |
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! 63 | Stanley G. Weinbaum, adapted by John Dunkel |03-26-49 |
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! 64 | "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" | F. Scott Fitzgerald, adapted by Les Crutchfield |03-27-49 |
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! 65 | Graham Greene, adapted by Ken Crossen |04-02-49 |
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! 66 | "When the Man Comes, Follow Him" | Ralph Bates, adapted by Les Crutchfield |04-09-49 |
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! 67 | Charles Booth, adapted by Walter Newman |04-16-49 |
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! 68 | E. Phillips Oppenheim, adapted by Walter Newman |04-23-49 |
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! 69 | "The Fourth Man" | John Russell, adapted by Irving Ravetch |07-07-49 |
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! 70 | "The Drums of the Fore and Aft" | Rudyard Kipling, adapted by Les Crutchfield |07-14-49 |
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! 71 | "Action" | C.E. Montague, adapted by Les Crutchfield |07-21-49 |
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! 72 | "The Second Class Passenger" | Percival Gibbons, adapted by William N. Robson |07-28-49 |
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! 73 | Carl Stephenson, adapted by Robert Ryf |08-04-49 |
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! 74 | "Red Wine" | Lawrence Blochman, adapted by John Dunkel |08-11-49 |
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! 75 | "Snake Doctor" | Irvin S. Cobb, adapted by Fred Howard |08-18-49 |
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! 76 | "Evening Primrose" | John Collier, adapted by John Dunkel |08-25-49 |
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! 77 | "The Fortune of Vargas" | Geoffrey Household, adapted by Les Crutchfield |09-21-49 |
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! 78 | "Wild Oranges" | Joseph Hergesheimer, adapted by John Dunkel |09-28-49 |
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! 79 | "The Primitive" | | |10-08-49 |
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! 80 | "The Sure Thing" | John & Gwen Bagni |10-15-49 |
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! 81 | "Night in Havana" | Burnham Carter, adapted by Walter Newman | Tony Barrett |10-22-49 |
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! 82 | "The Blue Wall" | | |10-29-49 |
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! 83 | David Dodge, adapted by John Dunkel |11-08-49 |
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! 84 | "Flood on the Goodwins" | David Devine, adapted by James Poe | Jack Edwards |11-01-49 |
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! 85 | George Toudouze, adapted by James Poe | William Conrad, Elliott Reid, Harry Bartell |11-15-49 |
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! 86 | "Maracas" | John & Gwen Bagni |11-22-49 |
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! 87 | "Letter From Jason" | George F. Wert, adapted by Selig Lester |11-29-49 |
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! 88 | "Command" | James Warner Bellah, adapted by William N. Robson |12-06-49 |
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! 89 | "Border Town" | John & Gwen Bagni |12-13-49 |
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! 90 | "Figure a Dame" | Richard Sales, adapted by Morton Fine & David Fiedkin |12-20-49 |
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! 91 | "Seeds of Greed" | Freud A. Nelson |12-27-49 |
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! 92 | "The Pistol" |01-03-50 |
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! 93 | "The Vanishing Lady" | Alexander Woollcott, adapted by William N. Robson |01-10-50 |
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! 94 | "The Sure Thing" | John & Gwen Bagni |01-17-50 |
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! 95 | "Treasure, Inc." | John & Gwen Bagni |01-24-50 |
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! 96 | "Present Tense" |01-31-50 |
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! 97 | "The Outer Limit" | Graham Doar, adapted by Morton Fine |02-07-50 |
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! 98 | "Two if by Sea" | Roger Bax, adapted by E. Jack Neuman & John Michael Hayes |02-14-50 |
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! 99 | "The Red Mark" | John Russell, adapted by Les Crutchfield |02-21-50 |
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! 100 | Robert Buckner, adapted by William N. Robson |02-28-50 |
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! 101 | "Port Royal" | Harry Rieseberg, adapted by Gil Doud |03-10-50 |
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! 102 | George Toudouze, adapted by James Poe | Vincent Price, Harry Bartell, Jeff Corey |03-17-50 |
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! 103 | "Danger at Matacumbe" | John & Gwen Bagni |03-24-50 |
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! 104 | "Green Splotches" | T.S. Stribling, adapted by William N. Robson |03-31-50 |
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! 105 | "Ambassador of Poker" | Achmed Abdullah, adapted by John Dunkel |04-07-50 |
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! 106 | "The Golden Snake" | Paul Pierce, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Tony Barrett |04-14-50 |
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! 107 | "The Shanghai Document" | John & Gwen Bagni |04-21-50 |
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! 108 | "Something for Nothing" | H. Vernon Dickson, adapted by Silvia Richards | Anne Morrison |04-28-50 |
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! 109 | "The Man Who Stole the Bible" | John & Gwen Bagni |05-05-50 |
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! 110 | "The Rim of Terror" | Hildegard Teilhet, adapted by William N. Robson |05-12-50 |
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! 111 | "Pass to Berlin" |05-19-50 |
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! 112 | "Command" | James Warner Bellah, adapted by William N. Robson |05-26-50 |
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! 113 | "Mars Is Heaven" | Ray Bradbury, adapted by David Friedkin |06-02-50 |
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! 114 | "The Big Sponge" | | |06-09-50 |
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! 115 | "Serenade for a Cobra" | Joel Murcott |06-16-50 |
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! 116 | "Sundown" | Joel Murcott |06-23-50 |
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! 117 | "Blood Bath" |06-30-50 |
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! 118 | "A Shipment of Mute Fate" | Martin Storm, adapted by Les Crutchfield |07-10-50 |
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! 119 | "Shark Bait" |07-14-50 |
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! 120 | "The Yellow Wake" | Bud Nelson |07-21-50 |
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! 121 | "Poison" | Roald Dahl, adapted by James Poe |07-28-50 |
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! 122 | "Two Came Back" |08-04-50 |
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! 123 | "The Red Forest" |08-11-50 |
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! 124 | "The Footprint" | Gouverneur Morris, adapted by Richard Chandlee | Charles Davis |08-18-50 |
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! 125 | "Crossing Paris" | Marcel Ayme, adapted by John Meston |08-25-50 |
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! 126 | "A Sleeping Draught" | Weston Martyr, adapted by Antony Ellis |10-01-50 |
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! 127 | "Roulette" |10-08-50 |
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! 128 | "The Power of Hammer" | Anne Morrison |10-15-50 |
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! 129 | "The Time Machine" | H.G. Wells, adapted by Irving Ravetch |10-22-50 |
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! 130 | "Seven Hours to Freedom" | Bud Nelson |10-29-50 |
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! 131 | "Earth Abides" Part 1 | George Stewart, adapted by David Ellis |11-05-50 |
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! 132 | "Earth Abides" Part 2 | George Stewart, adapted by David Ellis |11-12-50 |
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! 133 | Eric Ambler, adapted by Antony Ellis |11-19-50 |
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! 134 | "Funeral Fires" |11-26-50 |
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! 135 | "This Side of Nowhere" |12-03-50 |
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! 136 | "A Passenger to Bali" | Ellis St. Joseph, adapted by Norman Macdonnell |12-10-50 |
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! 137 | "Wild Jack Rhett" | Ernest Haycox, adapted by John Meston |12-17-50 |
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! 138 | "The Cave" |12-24-50 |
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! 139 | "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" | H.G. Wells, adapted by Les Crutchfield |12-31-50 |
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! 140 | "Conquest" | Leonard Lee, adapted by David Ellis |01-07-51 |
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! 141 | "A Bullet for Mr. Smith" |01-14-51 |
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! 142 | "The Killer Mine" | Hammond Innis, adapted by Antony Ellis |02-11-51 |
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! 143 | "The Follower" | Patrick Quentin, adapted by Les Crutchfield |02-18-51 |
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! 144 | "The Island" |07-11-51 |
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! 145 | "Macao" | Herb Purdum |07-18-51 |
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! 146 | "The Earthmen" | Ray Bradbury, adapted by Walter Newman |07-25-51 |
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! 147 | "The Gladiator" |08-01-51 |
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! 148 | "Up Periscope" | Alex Hudson, adapted by William Froug |08-08-51 |
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! 149 | "A Rough Shoot" | Geoffrey Household, adapted by Arthur Ross |08-15-51 |
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! 150 | "The Silent Horror" | Hugh Cave, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Lou Krugman |08-22-51 |
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! 151 | "The Man Who Stole the Bible" | John & Gwen Bagni | Sam Pierce |08-29-51 |
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! 152 | "Gringo" |10-12-52 |
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! 153 | "The Price of the Head" | John Russell, adapted by John Meston |10-19-52 |
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! 154 | "Robert of Huntingdon" | Adapted by Antony Ellis |10-26-52 |
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! 155 | "The Running Man" | Herb Purdum |11-02-52 |
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! 156 | "The Return" |11-09-52 |
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! 157 | "The Loup-Garou" |11-16-52 |
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! 158 | "Transport to Terror" | |11-23-52 |
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! 159 | "Pagosa" | |11-30-52 |
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! 160 | "Incident in Quito" | Ross Murray |12-07-52 |
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! 161 | "Four Went Home" |12-14-52 |
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! 162 | "The Man Who Liked Dickens" | Evelyn Waugh, adapted by John Meston |12-21-52 |
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! 163 | "Nightmare in the Sun" | | |12-28-52 |
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! 164 | "Dangerous Man" | | |01-04-53 |
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! 165 | "A Matter of Conscience" |01-18-53 |
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! 166 | "Conqueror's Isle" | Nelson Bond, adapted by John Meston |01-11-53 |
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! 167 | "Diary of a Madman" |01-25-53 |
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! 168 | "A Study in Wax" |02-01-53 |
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! 169 | "Jetsam" | John Russell, adapted by Norman Macdonnell |02-08-53 |
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! 170 | "Wild Jack Rhett" | Ernest Haycox, adapted by John Meston |02-15-53 |
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! 171 | "I Saw Myself Running" |02-22-53 |
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! 172 | "The Tramp" |03-01-53 |
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! 173 | "The Island" |03-08-53 |
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! 174 | "The Man With the Steel Teeth" |03-15-53 |
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! 175 | "Pressure" | Richard Chandlee |03-22-53 |
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! 176 | "The Invader" | Michael Gray |03-29-53 |
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! 177 | "A Sleeping Draught" | Weston Martyr, adapted by Antony Ellis |04-05-53 |
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! 178 | "Classified Secret" |04-12-53 |
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! 179 | "El Guitarero" |04-19-53 |
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! 180 | "Derelict" | Victor Schwartz, adapted by Larry Roman | Charlotte Lawrence |04-26-53 |
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! 181 | "Lily and the Colonel" |05-03-53 |
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! 182 | Somerset Maugham, adapted by Antony Ellis |05-10-53 |
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! 183 | "North of Polaris" | Charles Smith |05-17-53 |
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! 184 | "The Blue Hotel" | | |05-24-53 |
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! 185 | "A Good Thing" |05-31-53 |
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! 186 | "The Voyages of Sinbad" | Adapted by Antony Ellis |06-07-53 |
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! 187 | "Clear for Action" |06-14-53 |
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! 188 | "The Far Away Island" | Charles Smith |06-21-53 |
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! 189 | "One-Eighth Apache" | |06-28-53 |
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! 190 | "A Source of Irritation" | Stacey Aumonier, adapted by Mayer Dolinsky |07-05-53 |
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! 191 | "The Out-Station" | Somerset Maugham, adapted by Antony Ellis |07-12-53 |
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! 192 | "Open Boat" | Stephen Crane, adapted by E. Jack Neuman |07-19-53 |
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! 193 | "The Notebook" | William J. Radcliff |07-26-53 |
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! 194 | "The Red Forest" |08-02-53 |
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! 195 | George Toudouze, adapted by James Poe |08-09-53 |
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! 196 | "The Thirteenth Trunk" | Cecil Carnes, adapted by Gus Bayz | Alec Harford |08-16-53 |
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! 197 | "The Man from Tomorrow" | Irving Reis, adapted by Antony Ellis |08-23-53 |
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! 198 | "The Game" | |08-30-53 |
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! 199 | "Train from Olbiefelde" | Ross Murray |09-06-53 |
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! 200 | "The Abominable Snowman" |09-13-53 |
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! 201 | "The Log" | Marianne Mosner, adapted by Antony Ellis |09-20-53 |
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! 202 | "The Untouchable" | James Henderson |09-27-53 |
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! 203 | "Zero Hour" | Ray Bradbury, adapted by Antony Ellis | Eve McVeagh |10-04-53 |
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! 204 | "Elementals" | Stephen Vincent Benét, adapted by Meyer Dolinsky |10-11-53 |
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! 205 | "The Bird of Paradise" | John Russell, adapted by John Meston |03-11-54 |
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! 206 | "Violent Night" |03-18-54 |
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! 207 | "The Second Shot" | Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Les Crutchfield |03-25-54 |
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! 208 | "The Return" |04-01-54 |
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! 209 | Jack London, adapted by Les Crutchfield |04-08-54 |
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! 210 | "Affair at Mandrake" |04-15-54 |
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! 211 | "The Adversary" | John Russell, adapted by Norman Macdonnell |05-06-54 |
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! 212 | "An Ordinary Man" |06-03-54 |
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! 213 | "Benchillina and the Fisherman" |06-10-54 |
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! 214 | "Blood Waters" |06-17-54 |
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! 215 | "Judgment Day at Crippled Deer" |06-24-54 |
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! 216 | "The Dark Wall" |07-01-54 |
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! 217 | "The Birds" | Daphne du Maurier, adapted by Robert Wright |07-10-54 |
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! 218 | "The Eye of Evil" |07-17-54 |
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! 219 | "Flood on the Goodwins" | David Devine, adapted by James Poe |07-24-54 |
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! 220 | "Night of the Guns" | David Friedkin & Morton Fine |07-31-54 |
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! 221 | "The Price of the Head" | John Russell, adapted by John Meston |08-07-54 |
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! 222 | "The Coward" |08-14-54 |
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! 223 | "Two and Two Make Four" |08-21-54 |
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! 224 | "The King of Owanatu" | Robert Tallman |08-28-54 |
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! 225 | "The Boiling Sea" | Vincent McHugh, adapted by John Dunkel | Clayton Post |09-04-54 |
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! 226 | "Carnival in Vienna" | Morton Fine & David Friedkin |09-11-54 |
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! 227 | "The Target" |09-18-54 |
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! 228 | "The Heart of Kali" | Ross Murray |09-25-54 |
See also
Listen to
- [http://www.escape-suspense.com Escape and Suspense]
- [http://www.otr.net/?p=esca OTR Network Library: Escape (203 episodes)]
- [http://TheaterOfTheEars.com/ Theater of the Ears: Escape]
- [https://archive.org/details/Escape_page1 Internet Archive: Escape]
References
{{Reflist}}
- [http://www.audio-classics.com/lescape.html Terry Salomonson's Audio Classics Archive Broadcast Log: Escape]
- [http://www.otrsite.com/logs/loge1001.htm Jerry Haendiges Vintage Radio Logs: Escape]
External links
- {{Internet Archive|OTRR_Escape_Singles|250 episodes of Escape}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110520215805/http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-Escape!.html The Definitive: Escape! article and log (archived)]
- [http://www.otrplotspot.com/escape.html OTR Plot Spot: Escape] – plot summaries and reviews.
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