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OLD TIME RADIO - 1 mp3 DVD - 229 Shows - Total Playtime: 111:25:09

Escape was radio's leading anthology series of high adventure, airing on CBS from July 7, 1947 to September 25, 1954. Since the program did not have a regular sponsor like Suspense, 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 Paul Frees and William Conrad:
“Tired of the everyday routine? Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you... Escape!”
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 Carl Stephenson's "Leiningen vs. 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. Vincent Price, Harry Bartell and Jeff Corey were heard in the chilling "Three Skeleton Key" (broadcast on 17 March 1950), 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 9 August 1953 broadcast starring William Conrad, Ben Wright and Jay Novello.
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 deCorsia, John Dehner, Don Diamond, Paul Dubov, Sam Edwards, Virginia Gregg, Lou Merrill, Howard McNear, Jess Kirkpatrick, B.J. Thompson, Shep Menken, Frank Gerstle, George Neece, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O’Herlihy, Barney Phillips, Forrest Lewis, Robert Griffin, Alan Reed, Bill Johnstone, Sandra Gould, Junius Matthews, Carlton Young, Frank Gerstle, 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 Dee Castillo, organist Ivan Ditmars, Cy Feuer, Wilbur Hatch and Leith Stevens. The announcers were Paul Frees and Roy Rowan.

SHOWS LIST

Escape 470228 000 Out Of This World Audition
Escape 470321 000 Dead of Night Audition
Escape 470707 001 The Man Who Would Be King
Escape 470714 002 Operation Fleur De Lys
Escape 470721 003 The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
Escape 470728 004 Typhoon
Escape 470804 005 Sire De Maletroits Door
Escape 470811 006 Ring of Thoth
Escape 470818 007 The Fourth Man
Escape 471001 008 The Most Dangerous Game
Escape 471015 010 A Shipment of Mute Fate
Escape 471022 011 The Fall of the House of Usher
Escape 471029 012 Pollack and the Porroh Man
Escape 471105 013 Evening Primrose
Escape 471112 014 The Young Man with the Cream Tarts
Escape 471119 015 Casting the Runes
Escape 471126 016 The Country of the Blind
Escape 471203 017 Taboo
Escape 471210 018 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Escape 471217 019 Wild Oranges
Escape 471224 020 Back for Christmas
Escape 471231 021 Confession
Escape 480107 022 The Second Class Passenger national broadcast
Escape 480110 022 The Second Class Passenger national broadcast different production
Escape 480114 023 Leiningen vs the Ants national broadcast
Escape 480117 023 Leiningen vs the Ants national broadcast different production
Escape 480121 024 Papa Benjamin national broadcast
Escape 480124 024 Papa Benjamin national broadcast different production
Escape 480128 025 Three Good Witnesses national broadcast
Escape 480131 025 Three Good Witnesses national broadcast different production
Escape 480201 026 The Vanishing Lady national broadcast
Escape 480207 026 The Vanishing Lady national broadcast different production
Escape 480208 027 Snake Doctor national broadcast
Escape 480214 027 Snake Doctor national broadcast different production
Escape 480215 028 Ancient Sorceries national broadcast
Escape 480221 028 Ancient Sorceries national broadcast different production
Escape 480222 029 How Love Came to Professor Guildea national broadcast
Escape 480228 029 How Love Came To Professor Guildea national broadcast different production
Escape 480306 030 The Grove Of Ashtaroth national broadcast different production
Escape 480307 031 Jimmy Goggles the God national broadcast
Escape 480314 032 The Log of the Evening Star national broadcast
Escape 480321 033 Misfortunes Isle national broadcast
Escape 480328 034 A Shipment of Mute Fate
Escape 480404 035 Action
Escape 480411 036 The Brute
Escape 480418 037 The Drums of the Fore and Aft
Escape 480425 038 The Fourth Man
Escape 480502 039 John Jock Todd
Escape 480509 040 The Time Machine
Escape 480516 041 The Match
Escape 480523 042 Leiningen Versus the Ants
Escape 480606 043 Beau Geste
Escape 480627 044 Country of the Blind
Escape 480704 045 A Tooth for Paul Revere
Escape 480711 046 She
Escape 480718 047 Habit
Escape 480801 048 The Man Who Would Be King (2)
Escape 480801 048 The Man Who Would Be King
Escape 480815 049 The Fugitive
Escape 480822 050 SS San Pedro
Escape 480829 051 The Diamond as Big as the Ritz William Conrad
Escape 480905 052 Dream of Armageddon
Escape 480912 053 Evening Primrose William Conrad
Escape 480919 054 The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Escape 490212 055 The Lost Special
Escape 490219 056 Orient Express
Escape 490226 057 Red Wine Jeff Chandler
Escape 490305 058 Conquerors Isle David Ellis
Escape 490312 059 He Who Rides the Tiger
Escape 490313 060 A Shipment of Mute Fate John Lund
Escape 490319 061 Finger of Doom
Escape 490320 062 The Country of the Blind Edmond OBrien
Escape 490326 063 The Adaptive Ultimate
Escape 490327 064 The Diamond as Big as the Ritz Sam Edwards Helen Thomas
Escape 490402 065 Confidential Agent
Escape 490409 066 When the Man Comes Follow Him
Escape 490416 067 The General Died at Dawn
Escape 490423 068 The Great Impersonation
Escape 490707 069 The Fourth Man Wilms Herbert
Escape 490714 070 The Drums of the Fore and Aft Ben Wright
Escape 490721 071 Action Joseph Kearns
Escape 490728 072 Second Class Passenger Parley Baer
Escape 490804 073 Leiningen Versus the Ants Tudor Owen
Escape 490811 074 Red Wine Willard Waterman
Escape 490818 075 Snake Doctor Ira Grossel
Escape 490825 076 Evening Primrose Harry Bartell
Escape 490921 077 The Fortune of Vargas
Escape 490928 078 Wild Oranges Van Heflin
Escape 491015 080 The Sure Thing William Conrad
Escape 491022 081 Night in Havana
Escape 491101 083 Flood on the Goodwins Jack Edwards
Escape 491108 084 Plunder of the Sun
Escape 491115 085 Three Skeleton Key William Conrad
Escape 491122 086 Maracas
Escape 491129 087 Letter from Jason
Escape 491206 088 Command Elliott Reed
Escape 491213 089 Border Town
Escape 491220 090 Figure a Dame
Escape 491227 091 Seeds of Greed
Escape 500103 092 The Pistol
Escape 500110 093 Vanishing Lady Del Castillo
Escape 500117 094 The Sure Thing Anthony Ross
Escape 500124 095 Treasure Incorporated
Escape 500131 096 Present Tense
Escape 500207 097 The Outer Limit
Escape 500214 098 Two If by Sea
Escape 500221 099 The Red Mark
Escape 500228 100 The Man Who Won the War
Escape 500310 101 Port Royal
Escape 500317 102 Three Skeleton Key Vincent Price
Escape 500324 103 Danger at Matecumbe
Escape 500331 104 Green Splotches
Escape 500407 105 The Ambassador of Poker
Escape 500414 106 The Golden Snake
Escape 500421 107 The Shanghai Document
Escape 500428 108 Something for Nothing
Escape 500505 109 The Man Who Stole the Bible Ben Wright
Escape 500512 110 The Rim of Terror
Escape 500519 111 Pass to Berlin
Escape 500526 112 Command Harry Bartell
Escape 500602 113 Mars Is Heaven
Escape 500616 115 Serenade for a Cobra
Escape 500623 116 Sundown
Escape 500630 117 Blood Bath
Escape 500707 118 A Shipment of Mute Fate David Ellis
Escape 500714 119 Shark Bait
Escape 500721 120 Yellow Wake
Escape 500728 121 Poison
Escape 500804 122 Two Came Back
Escape 500811 123 The Red Forest Ben Wright
Escape 500818 124 The Footprint
Escape 500825 125 Crossing Paris
Escape 501001 126 A Sleeping Draft John Dodsworth
Escape 501008 127 Roulette
Escape 501015 128 The Power of Hammer
Escape 501022 129 The Time Machine John Dehner
Escape 501029 130 Seven Hours to Freedom
Escape 501105 131 Earth Abides Part 1
Escape 501112 132 Earth Abides Part 2
Escape 501119 133 Journey into Fear
Escape 501126 134 Funeral Fires
Escape 501203 135 This Side of Nowhere
Escape 501210 136 A Passenger to Bali
Escape 501217 137 Wild Jack Rhett John Dehner
Escape 501224 138 The Cave
Escape 501231 139 The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Escape 510107 140 Conquest
Escape 510114 141 A Bullet for Mr Smith
Escape 510211 142 The Killer Mine
Escape 510218 143 The Follower
Escape 510711 144 The Island Harry Bartell
Escape 510718 145 Macao
Escape 510725 146 The Earthman
Escape 510801 147 The Gladiator
Escape 510808 148 Up Periscope
Escape 510815 149 Rough Shoot
Escape 510822 150 The Silent Horror
Escape 510830 151 The Man Who Stole the Bible Sam Pierce
Escape 521012 152 Gringo
Escape 521019 153 The Price of the Head William Conrad
Escape 521026 154 Robert of Huntingdon
Escape 521102 155 The Running Man
Escape 521109 156 The Return
Escape 521116 157 The LoupGarou
Escape 521207 160 Incident in Quito
Escape 521214 161 Four Went Home
Escape 521221 162 The Man Who Liked Dickens
Escape 530111 165 Conquerors Isle Harry Bartell
Escape 530118 166 A Matter of Conscience
Escape 530125 167 Diary of a Madman
Escape 530201 168 A Study in Wax
Escape 530208 169 Jetsam
Escape 530215 170 Wild Jack Rhett Harry Bartell
Escape 530222 171 I Saw Myself Running
Escape 530301 172 The Tramp
Escape 530308 173 The Island Stacy Harris
Escape 530315 174 The Man with the Steel Teeth
Escape 530322 175 Pressure
Escape 530329 176 The Invader
Escape 530405 177 A Sleeping Draft Alec Harford
Escape 530412 178 Classified Secret
Escape 530419 179 El Guitarrero
Escape 530426 180 The Derelict
Escape 530503 181 Lili and the Colonel
Escape 530510 182 The Vessel of Wrath
Escape 530517 183 North of Polaris
Escape 530531 185 A Good Thing
Escape 530607 186 The Voyages of Sinbad
Escape 530614 187 Clear for Action
Escape 530621 188 The FarAway Island
Escape 530705 190 A Source of Irritation
Escape 530712 191 The Out Station
Escape 530719 192 The Open Boat
Escape 530726 193 The Notebook
Escape 530802 194 The Red Forest Tom Tully
Escape 530809 195 Three Skeleton Key Antony Ellis
Escape 530816 196 The Thirteenth Truck
Escape 530823 197 The Man from Tomorrow
Escape 530830 198 The Game
Escape 530906 199 Train from Oebisfelde
Escape 530913 200 The Abominable Snowman
Escape 530920 201 The Log
Escape 530927 202 The Untouchable
Escape 531004 203 Zero Hour
Escape 531011 204 Elementals
Escape 540311 205 The Bird of Paradise
Escape 540318 206 Violent Night
Escape 540325 207 The Second Shot repeat
Escape 540401 208 The Return
Escape 540408 209 The Scarlet Plague
Escape 540415 210 Affair at Mandrake
Escape 540506 211 The Adversary
Escape 540603 212 An Ordinary Man
Escape 540610 213 Benscelina and the Fisherman
Escape 540617 214 Bloodwaters
Escape 540624 215 Judgment Day at Crippled Deer
Escape 540701 216 The Dark Wall
Escape 540710 217 The Birds
Escape 540717 218 Eye of Evil
Escape 540724 219 Flood on the Goodwins Vic Perrin
Escape 540731 220 Night of the Guns
Escape 540807 221 The Price of the Head Hans Conreid
Escape 540814 222 The Coward
Escape 540821 223 Two and Two Make Four
Escape 540828 224 The King of Owanatu
Escape 540904 225 The Boiling Sea
Escape 540911 226 Carnival in Vienna
Escape 540918 227 The Target
Escape 540925 228 The Heart of Kali last show