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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 47/03/21 (ep000)- Dead of Night -(Audition)
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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