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Escape 47/02/28 (ep000)- Out of this World -(Audition)
29:34
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Escape 47/03/21 (ep000)- Dead of Night -(Audition)
24:30
3
Escape 47/07/07 (ep001) The Man Who Would be King -(Raymond Lawrence)
29:34
4
Escape 47/07/14 (ep002) Operation Fleur De Lys
29:30
5
Escape 47/07/21 (ep003) The Diamond as Big as the Ritz -(Jack Edwards Jr)
29:30
6
Escape 47/07/28 (ep004) Typhoon
29:30
7
Escape 47/08/04 (ep005) Sire De Maletroits Door
29:32
8
Escape 47/08/11 (ep006) Ring of Thoth
29:30
9
Escape 47/08/18 (ep007) The Fourth Man (Paul Frees)
29:32
10
Escape 47/10/01 (ep008) The Most Dangerous Game
29:30
11
Escape 47/10/15 (ep010) A Shipment of Mute Fate (Jack Webb)
24:30
12
Escape 47/10/22 (ep011) The Fall of the House of Usher
29:30
13
Escape 47/10/29 (ep012) Pollack and the Porroh Man
29:30
14
Escape 47/11/05 (ep013) Evening Primrose (Elliott Lewis)
29:30
15
Escape 47/11/12 (ep014) The Young Man with the Cream Tarts
29:30
16
Escape 47/11/19 (ep015) Casting the Runes
29:30
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Escape 47/11/26 (ep016) The Country of the Blind
29:30
18
Escape 47/12/03 (ep017) Taboo
29:30
19
Escape 47/12/10 (ep018) An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
29:32
20
Escape 47/12/17 (ep019) Wild Oranges (William Conrad)
29:32
21
Escape 47/12/24 (ep020) Back for Christmas
29:32
22
Escape 47/12/31 (ep021) Confession
29:26
23
Escape 48/01/07 (ep022) The Second Class Passenger
29:35
24
Escape 48/01/14 (ep023) Leiningen vs the Ants
29:36
25
Escape 48/01/21 (ep024) Papa Benjamin
29:43
26
Escape 48/01/28 (ep025) Three Good Witnesses
29:30
27
Escape 48/02/01 (ep026) The Vanishing Lady
29:30
28
Escape 48/02/08 (ep027) Snake Doctor
29:30
29
Escape 48/02/15 (ep028) Ancient Sorceries
29:30
30
Escape 48/02/22 (ep029) How Love Came to Professor Guildea
29:30
31
Escape 48/03/06 (ep030) The Grove of Ashtaroth
29:00
32
Escape 48/03/07 (ep031) Jimmy Goggles the God
28:01
33
Escape 48/03/14 (ep032) The Log of the Evening Star
29:30
34
Escape 48/03/21 (ep033) Misfortunes Isle
29:20
35
Escape 48/03/28 (ep034) A Shipment of Mute Fate (Harry Bartell)
29:14
36
Escape 48/04/04 (ep035) Action (Berry Kroeger)
29:30
37
Escape 48/04/18 (ep037) The Drums of the Fore and Aft (Gil Stratton Jr)
29:30
38
Escape 48/04/25 (ep038) The Fourth Man (Berry Kroeger)
29:30
39
Escape 48/05/02 (ep039) John Jock Todd
29:30
40
Escape 48/05/09 (ep040) The Time Machine (Jeff Corey)
29:30
41
Escape 48/05/16 (ep041) The Match
29:30
42
Escape 48/05/23 (ep042) Leiningen vs the Ants (William Conrad, Jay Novello)
29:30
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Escape 48/06/06 (ep043) Beau Geste
29:31
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Escape 48/06/27 (ep044) Country of the Blind (Paul Frees, William Conrad)
29:30
45
Escape 48/07/04 (ep045) A Tooth for Paul Revere
29:30
46
Escape 48/07/11 (ep046) She
29:30
47
Escape 48/07/18 (ep047) Habit
29:30
48
Escape 48/08/01 (ep048) The Man Who Would Be King - Ben Wright
29:39
49
Escape 48/08/15 (ep049) The Fugitive
29:30
50
Escape 48/08/22 (ep050) SS San Pedro
29:30
51
Escape 48/08/29 (ep051) The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (William Conrad)
29:30
52
Escape 48/09/05 (ep052) Dream of Armageddon
29:30
53
Escape 48/09/12 (ep053) Evening Primrose (William Conrad)
29:30
54
Escape 48/09/19 (ep054) The Man Who Could Work Miracles
29:30
55
Escape 49/02/12 (ep055) The Lost Special
29:30
Escape 49/02/19 (ep056) Orient Express
29:30
57
Escape 49/02/26 (ep057) Red Wine (Jeff Chandler)
29:30
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Escape 49/03/05 (ep058) Conquerors Isle (David Ellis)
29:30
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Escape 49/03/12 (ep059) He Who Rides the Tiger
29:31
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Escape 49/03/13 (ep060) A Shipment of Mute Fate (John Lund)
29:31
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Escape 49/03/19 (ep061) Finger of Doom
29:30
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Escape 49/03/20 (ep062) The Country of the Blind (Edmond O'Brien)
29:52
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Escape 49/03/26 (ep063) The Adaptive Ultimate
29:30
64
Escape 49/03/27 (ep064) The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (Sam Edwards, Helen Thomas)
29:30
65
Escape 49-04-02 (ep065) Confidential Agent
29:30
66
Escape 49-04-09 (ep066) When the Man Comes, Follow Him
29:30
67
Escape 49-04-16 (ep067) The General Died at Dawn
29:30
68
Escape 49-04-23 (ep068) The Great Impersonation
29:30
69
Escape 49-07-07 -ep069- The Fourth Man (Wilms Herbert)
29:30
70
Escape 49-07-21 -ep071- Action (Joseph Kearns)
29:30
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Escape 49-07-28 -ep072- Second Class Passenger (Parley Baer)
29:37
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Escape 49/08/04 (ep073) Leiningen Versus the Ants (Tudor Owen)
29:30
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Escape 49/08/11 (ep074) Red Wine (Willard Waterman)
29:30
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Escape 49/08/18 (ep075) Snake Doctor (Ira Grossel)
29:30
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Escape 49/08/25 (ep076) Evening Primrose (Harry Bartell)
29:51
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Escape 49-09-21 -ep077- The Fortune of Vargas
29:30
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Escape 49-09-28 -ep078- Wild Oranges (Van Heflin)
29:30
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Escape 49-10-15 -ep080- The Sure Thing (William Conrad)
29:30
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Escape 49-10-22 - ep081 - Night in Havana
29:31
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Escape 49-11-01 - ep083 - Flood on the Goodwins (Jack Edwards)
29:30
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Escape 49-11-08 - ep084 - Plunder of the Sun
29:30
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Escape 49-11-15 - ep085 - Three Skeleton Key (William Conrad)
29:24
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Escape 49-11-22 - ep086 - Maracas
29:30
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Escape 49-11-29 (ep087) Letter from Jason
29:30
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Escape 49-12-06 (ep088) Command (Elliott Reed)
29:30
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Escape 49-12-13 (ep089) Border Town
29:30
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Escape 49-12-20 (ep090) Figure a Dame
29:30
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Escape 49-12-27 (ep091) Seeds of Greed
29:30
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Escape 50-01-03 (ep092) The Pistol
29:30
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Escape 50-01-10 (ep093) Vanishing Lady (Del Castillo)
29:30
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Escape 50-01-17 (ep094) The Sure Thing (Anthony Ross)
29:32
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Escape 50-01-24 (ep095) Treasure Incorporated
29:15
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Escape 50-01-31 (ep096) Present Tense
29:35
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Escape 50-02-07 (ep097) The Outer Limit
29:30
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Escape 50-02-14 (ep098) Two If by Sea
29:30
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Escape 50-02-21 (ep099) The Red Mark
29:31
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Escape 50-02-28 (ep100) The Man Who Won the War
28:55
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Escape 50-03-10 (ep101) Port Royal
29:30
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Escape 50-03-17 (ep102) Three Skeleton Keys (Vincent Price)
29:30
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Escape 50-03-24 (ep103) Danger at Matecumbe
29:30
101
Escape 50-03-31 (ep104) Green Splotches
29:00
102
Escape 50-04-07 (ep105) The Ambassador of Poker
29:30
103
Escape 50-04-14 (ep106) The Golden Snake
29:52
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Escape 50-04-21 (ep107) The Shanghai Document
29:30
105
Escape 50-04-28 (ep108) Something for Nothing
29:30
106
Escape 50-05-05 (ep109) The Man Who Stole the Bible (Ben Wright)
29:30
107
Escape 50-05-12 (ep110) The Rim of Terror
29:30
108
Escape 50-05-19 (ep111) Pass to Berlin
29:30
109
Escape 50-05-26 (ep112) Command (Harry Bartell)
29:30
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Escape 50-06-02 (ep113) Mars Is Heaven
29:30
111
Escape 50-06-16 (ep115) Serenade for a Cobra
29:30
112
Escape 50-06-23 (ep116) Sundown
29:30
113
Escape 50-06-30 (ep117) Blood Bath
29:30
114
Escape 50-07-07 (ep118) A Shipment of Mute Fate (David Ellis)
29:30
115
Escape 50-07-14 (ep119) Shark Bait
29:30
116
Escape 50-07-21 (ep120) Yellow Wake
29:23
117
Escape 50-07-28 (ep121) Poison
29:30
118
Escape 50-08-04 (ep122) Two Came Back
29:30
119
Escape 50-08-11 (ep123) The Red Forest (Ben Wright)
29:30
120
Escape 50-08-18 (ep124) The Footprint
29:31
121
Escape 50-08-25 (ep125) Crossing Paris
29:30
122
Escape 50-10-01 (ep126) A Sleeping Draft (John Dodsworth)
29:30
123
Escape 50-10-08 (ep127) Roulette
29:30
124
Escape 50-10-15 (ep128) The Power of Hammer
29:30
125
Escape 50-10-22 (ep129) The Time Machine (John Dehner)
29:30
126
Escape 50-10-29 (ep130) Seven Hours to Freedom
29:30

Escape 49/02/19 (ep056) Orient Express

7 months ago
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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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