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Escape 47/02/28 (ep000)- Out of this World -(Audition)
Escape 47/03/21 (ep000)- Dead of Night -(Audition)
Escape 47/07/07 (ep001) The Man Who Would be King -(Raymond Lawrence)
Escape 47/07/14 (ep002) Operation Fleur De Lys
Escape 47/07/21 (ep003) The Diamond as Big as the Ritz -(Jack Edwards Jr)
Escape 47/07/28 (ep004) Typhoon
Escape 47/08/04 (ep005) Sire De Maletroits Door
Escape 47/08/11 (ep006) Ring of Thoth
Escape 47/08/18 (ep007) The Fourth Man (Paul Frees)
Escape 47/10/01 (ep008) The Most Dangerous Game
Escape 47/10/15 (ep010) A Shipment of Mute Fate (Jack Webb)
Escape 47/10/22 (ep011) The Fall of the House of Usher
Escape 47/10/29 (ep012) Pollack and the Porroh Man
Escape 47/11/05 (ep013) Evening Primrose (Elliott Lewis)
Escape 47/11/12 (ep014) The Young Man with the Cream Tarts
Escape 47/11/19 (ep015) Casting the Runes
Escape 47/11/26 (ep016) The Country of the Blind
Escape 47/12/03 (ep017) Taboo
Escape 47/12/10 (ep018) An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Escape 47/12/17 (ep019) Wild Oranges (William Conrad)
Escape 47/12/24 (ep020) Back for Christmas
Escape 47/12/31 (ep021) Confession
Escape 48/01/07 (ep022) The Second Class Passenger
Escape 48/01/14 (ep023) Leiningen vs the Ants
Escape 48/01/21 (ep024) Papa Benjamin
Escape 48/01/28 (ep025) Three Good Witnesses
Escape 48/02/01 (ep026) The Vanishing Lady
Escape 48/02/08 (ep027) Snake Doctor
Escape 48/02/15 (ep028) Ancient Sorceries
Escape 48/02/22 (ep029) How Love Came to Professor Guildea
Escape 48/03/06 (ep030) The Grove of Ashtaroth
Escape 48/03/07 (ep031) Jimmy Goggles the God
Escape 48/03/14 (ep032) The Log of the Evening Star
Escape 48/03/21 (ep033) Misfortunes Isle
Escape 48/03/28 (ep034) A Shipment of Mute Fate (Harry Bartell)
Escape 48/04/04 (ep035) Action (Berry Kroeger)
Escape 48/04/18 (ep037) The Drums of the Fore and Aft (Gil Stratton Jr)
Escape 48/04/25 (ep038) The Fourth Man (Berry Kroeger)
Escape 48/05/02 (ep039) John Jock Todd
Escape 48/05/09 (ep040) The Time Machine (Jeff Corey)
Escape 48/05/16 (ep041) The Match
Escape 48/05/23 (ep042) Leiningen vs the Ants (William Conrad, Jay Novello)
Escape 48/06/06 (ep043) Beau Geste
Escape 48/06/27 (ep044) Country of the Blind (Paul Frees, William Conrad)
Escape 48/07/04 (ep045) A Tooth for Paul Revere
Escape 48/07/11 (ep046) She
Escape 48/07/18 (ep047) Habit
Escape 48/08/01 (ep048) The Man Who Would Be King - Ben Wright
Escape 48/08/15 (ep049) The Fugitive
Escape 48/08/22 (ep050) SS San Pedro
Escape 48/08/29 (ep051) The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (William Conrad)
Escape 48/09/05 (ep052) Dream of Armageddon
Escape 48/09/12 (ep053) Evening Primrose (William Conrad)
Escape 48/09/19 (ep054) The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Escape 49/02/12 (ep055) The Lost Special
Escape 49/02/19 (ep056) Orient Express
Escape 49/02/26 (ep057) Red Wine (Jeff Chandler)
Escape 49/03/05 (ep058) Conquerors Isle (David Ellis)
Escape 49/03/12 (ep059) He Who Rides the Tiger
Escape 49/03/13 (ep060) A Shipment of Mute Fate (John Lund)
Escape 49/03/19 (ep061) Finger of Doom
Escape 49/03/20 (ep062) The Country of the Blind (Edmond O'Brien)
Escape 49/03/26 (ep063) The Adaptive Ultimate
Escape 49/03/27 (ep064) The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (Sam Edwards, Helen Thomas)
Escape 49-04-02 (ep065) Confidential Agent
Escape 49-04-09 (ep066) When the Man Comes, Follow Him
Escape 49-04-16 (ep067) The General Died at Dawn
Escape 49-04-23 (ep068) The Great Impersonation
Escape 49-07-07 -ep069- The Fourth Man (Wilms Herbert)
Escape 49-07-21 -ep071- Action (Joseph Kearns)
Escape 49-07-28 -ep072- Second Class Passenger (Parley Baer)
Escape 49/08/04 (ep073) Leiningen Versus the Ants (Tudor Owen)
Escape 49/08/11 (ep074) Red Wine (Willard Waterman)
Escape 49/08/18 (ep075) Snake Doctor (Ira Grossel)
Escape 49/08/25 (ep076) Evening Primrose (Harry Bartell)
Escape 49-09-21 -ep077- The Fortune of Vargas
Escape 49-09-28 -ep078- Wild Oranges (Van Heflin)
Escape 49-10-15 -ep080- The Sure Thing (William Conrad)
Escape 49-10-22 - ep081 - Night in Havana
Escape 49-11-01 - ep083 - Flood on the Goodwins (Jack Edwards)
Escape 49-11-08 - ep084 - Plunder of the Sun
Escape 49-11-15 - ep085 - Three Skeleton Key (William Conrad)
Escape 49-11-22 - ep086 - Maracas
Escape 49-11-29 (ep087) Letter from Jason
Escape 49-12-06 (ep088) Command (Elliott Reed)
Escape 49-12-13 (ep089) Border Town
Escape 49-12-20 (ep090) Figure a Dame
Escape 49-12-27 (ep091) Seeds of Greed
Escape 50-01-03 (ep092) The Pistol
Escape 50-01-10 (ep093) Vanishing Lady (Del Castillo)
Escape 50-01-17 (ep094) The Sure Thing (Anthony Ross)
Escape 50-01-24 (ep095) Treasure Incorporated
Escape 50-01-31 (ep096) Present Tense
Escape 50-02-07 (ep097) The Outer Limit
Escape 50-02-14 (ep098) Two If by Sea
Escape 50-02-21 (ep099) The Red Mark
Escape 50-02-28 (ep100) The Man Who Won the War
Escape 50-03-10 (ep101) Port Royal
Escape 50-03-17 (ep102) Three Skeleton Keys (Vincent Price)
Escape 50-03-24 (ep103) Danger at Matecumbe
Escape 50-03-31 (ep104) Green Splotches
Escape 50-04-07 (ep105) The Ambassador of Poker
Escape 50-04-14 (ep106) The Golden Snake
Escape 50-04-21 (ep107) The Shanghai Document
Escape 50-04-28 (ep108) Something for Nothing
Escape 50-05-05 (ep109) The Man Who Stole the Bible (Ben Wright)
Escape 50-05-12 (ep110) The Rim of Terror
Escape 50-05-19 (ep111) Pass to Berlin
Escape 50-05-26 (ep112) Command (Harry Bartell)
Escape 50-06-02 (ep113) Mars Is Heaven
Escape 50-06-16 (ep115) Serenade for a Cobra
Escape 50-06-23 (ep116) Sundown
Escape 50-06-30 (ep117) Blood Bath
Escape 50-07-07 (ep118) A Shipment of Mute Fate (David Ellis)
Escape 50-07-14 (ep119) Shark Bait
Escape 50-07-21 (ep120) Yellow Wake
Escape 50-07-28 (ep121) Poison
Escape 50-08-04 (ep122) Two Came Back
Escape 50-08-11 (ep123) The Red Forest (Ben Wright)
Escape 50-08-18 (ep124) The Footprint
Escape 50-08-25 (ep125) Crossing Paris
Escape 50-10-01 (ep126) A Sleeping Draft (John Dodsworth)
Escape 50-10-08 (ep127) Roulette
Escape 50-10-15 (ep128) The Power of Hammer
Escape 50-10-22 (ep129) The Time Machine (John Dehner)
Escape 50-10-29 (ep130) Seven Hours to Freedom
Escape 50-11-05 (ep131) Earth Abides (Pt.1)
Escape 50-11-12 (ep132) Earth Abides (Pt.2)
Escape 50-11-19 (ep133) Journey into Fear
Escape 50-11-26 (ep134) Funeral Fires
Escape 50-12-03 (ep135) This Side of Nowhere
Escape 50-12-10 (ep136) A Passenger to Bali
Escape 50-12-17 (ep137) Wild Jack Rhett (John Dehner)
Escape 50-12-24 (ep138) The Cave
Escape 50-12-31 (ep139) The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Escape 51-01-07 (ep140) Conquest
Escape 51-01-14 (ep141) A Bullet for Mr. Smith
Escape 51-02-11 (ep142) The Killer Mine
Escape 51-02-18 (ep143) The Follower
Escape 51-07-11 (ep144) The Island (Harry Bartell)
Escape 51-07-18 (ep145) Macao
Escape 51-07-25 (ep146) The Earthman
Escape 1951-08-01 (ep147) The Gladiator
Escape 51-08-08 (ep148) Up Periscope
Escape 51-08-15 (ep149) Rough Shoot
Escape 51-08-22 (ep150) The Silent Horror
Escape 51-08-30 (ep151) The Man Who Stole the Bible (Sam Pierce)
Escape 52-10-12 (ep152) Gringo
Escape 52-10-19 (ep153) The Price of the Head (William Conrad)
Escape 52-10-26 (ep154) Robert of Huntingdon
Escape 52-11-02 (ep155) The Running Man
Escape 52-11-09 (ep156) The Return
Escape 52-11-16 (ep157) The Loup-Garou
Escape 52-12-07 (ep160) Incident in Quito
Escape 52-12-14 (ep161) Four Went Home
Escape 52-12-21 (ep162) The Man Who Liked Dickens
Escape 53-01-11 (ep165) Conquerors Isle (Harry Bartell)
Escape 53-01-18 (ep166) A Matter of Conscience
Escape53-01-25 (ep167) Diary of a Madman
Escape 53-02-01 (ep168) A Study in Wax
Escape 53-02-08 (ep169) Jetsam
Escape 53-02-15 (ep170) Wild Jack Rhett (Harry Bartell)
Escape 53-02-22 (ep171) I Saw Myself Running
Escape 53-03-01 (ep172) The Tramp
Escape 53-03-08 (ep173) The Island (Stacy Harris)
Escape 53-03-15 (ep174) The Man with the Steel Teeth
Escape 53-03-22 (ep175) Pressure
Escape 53-03-29 (ep176) The Invader
Escape 53-04-05 (ep177) A Sleeping Draft (Alec Harford)
Escape 53-04-12 (ep178) Classified Secret
Escape 53-04-19 (ep179) El Guitarrero
Escape 53-04-26 (ep180) The Derelict
Escape 53-05-03 (ep181) Lili and the Colonel
Escape 53-05-10 (ep182) The Vessel of Wrath
Escape 47/11/05 (ep013) Evening Primrose (Elliott Lewis)
Escape brings together everything that was good about old-time radio drama rolled into one. The title itself almost sums up the very essence of what radio drama is all about. Each of the episodes was a micro drama carefully planned to capture the listeners attention for thirty minutes. Over two-hundred episodes were made and almost all of them are as good today as they were over half a century ago. For the first few years the series was on air the announcement at the start of the show varied almost every week, but by the 1950s it had settled down to be the now famous:
Tired of the everyday grind? Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you ... ESCAPE!
In the Golden Days of Radio, back in the 1930s to the 1950s, most popular radio series had a set time for going out each week. Occasionally, there might be a change in the schedule, but on the whole a consistent timeslot was something that helped build a large audience and so was something the big networks aimed to achieve.
One exception to this rule was the dramatic adventure anthology series called Escape, whose timeslot shifted an incredible eighteen times in its seven-year run from 1947 through to 1954. To make matters even worse it had a habit of coming and going and sometimes disappearing off the schedules altogether at short notice for weeks on end only to resurface weeks later in a completely different timeslot.
The quite flagrant disregard CBS paid to having a regular timeslot for Escape could make you think that it was just a run-of-the-mill series that was nothing but a lightweight filler for those times when the regular show was off-the-air, such as during the quiet summer months. In my opinion, and that of many old radio aficionados, this couldn't be further from the truth. Escape is probably the best adventure anthology ever broadcast.
This may give the wrong impression as Escape was far more than a swashbuckling adventure yarn. It was a brilliantly scripted and superbly produced series that brought to listeners adaptations of classic works by famous writers as well as brand new work by unknown talent. Many of the stories were later reused by more high profile shows such as Suspense, but on the whole the Escape versions were of equal quality and sometimes more dramatically focused and atmospheric.
When Radio Life wrote "These stories all possess many times the reality that most radio writing conveys", it hit the nail on the head. This is a quality show in every way.
If you've never listened to this wonderful series, it's well worth taking the time to listen to it. Whether you listen in the car on your daily commute, whilst doing the housework, relaxing in your favorite easy-chair, or snuggled up in bed - you really will be thrilled!
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