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Escape | Old Time Radio brings you gripping adventure, suspense, mystery, and psychological drama from the golden age of radio. Each episode transports listeners into dangerous situations, distant places, desperate struggles, and unforgettable stories of survival and the unknown. Each episode is an Old Time Retro Radio production, presenting the original broadcast with gently cleaned and mastered audio, a newly produced introduction and closing, and custom episode artwork. Escape became one of classic radio’s most acclaimed anthology series, adapting powerful stories of adventure, danger, horror, and suspense. Rediscover classic old time radio adventure, suspense, mystery, survival stories, thriller drama, and vintage radio.

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  • Today · 30 min

    Escape - "Poison" (Old Time Radio)

    Escape presents “Poison,” originally broadcast on CBS on July 28, 1950. Often listed as episode 121, this tense adaptation of Roald Dahl’s short story was written for radio by James Poe and directed by William N. Robson. In Bombay, American...

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  • Yesterday · 25 min

    Escape - "Dead of Night Audition" (Old Time Radio)

    Escape presents “Dead of Night Audition,” originally broadcast on CBS on March 21, 1947. This unnumbered second audition program preceded the regular Escape series, which began later that year. In this supernatural-tinged drama adapted by Charles...

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  • Saturday · 30 min

    Escape - "05 the Man Who Stole the Bible" (Old Time Radio)

    Escape presents “The Man Who Stole the Bible,” originally broadcast on CBS on May 5, 1950. This archival recording is identified as episode 5005. Written by John and Gwen Bagni and directed by William N. Robson, the drama stars Rick Vallin as...

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  • Friday · 30 min

    Escape - "12 the Lost Special" (Old Time Radio)

    Escape presents “The Lost Special,” originally broadcast February 12, 1949. Cataloged here as episode 4902, this CBS sustaining production adapts Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s railway mystery, with Ben Wright as Inspector Collins. When a special train...

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  • Thursday · 30 min

    Escape - "14 the Log of the Evening Star" (Old Time Radio)

    Escape presents “The Log of the Evening Star,” originally broadcast March 14, 1948. This archival recording is episode 4803 of Escape. First mate Harper records a troubling voyage aboard the South Seas schooner Evening Star as fear and uncertainty...

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  • Wednesday · 29 min

    Escape - "28 the Man Who Won the War ALT1" (Old Time Radio)

    Escape presents “28 the Man Who Won the War ALT1,” originally broadcast February 28, 1950. This archival recording is identified as episode 5002; established Escape catalogs also list the broadcast as episode 100. In October 1914, a British destroyer...

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  • Tuesday · 30 min

    Escape - "21 the Red Mark" (Old Time Radio)

    Escape presents “21 the Red Mark,” originally broadcast February 21, 1950. This archival recording is episode 5002 of the series. At a French penal colony on New Caledonia, convict-barber Domai lives among prisoners known as the “living dead.” When...

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  • August 24 · 30 min

    Escape - "28 Typhoon" (Old Time Radio)

    Escape presents “Typhoon,” originally broadcast July 28, 1947. This archival recording is cataloged locally as episode 4707; the matching CBS broadcast was the fourth regular episode of the series. Adapted from Joseph Conrad’s maritime tale, the...

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  • August 23 · 30 min

    Escape - "28 the Man Who Won the War ALT2" (Old Time Radio)

    Escape presents “28 the Man Who Won the War ALT2,” originally broadcast February 28, 1950. This local archival recording is identified as episode 5002. On a North Sea patrol in October 1914, an English destroyer commander receives a desperate signal...

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  • August 22 · 30 min

    Escape - "12 the Rim of Terror" (Old Time Radio)

    Escape presents “The Rim of Terror,” originally broadcast May 12, 1950. This archival recording is identified as episode 5005; established episode logs list the broadcast as Escape episode 110. Nancy Kelly and Hans Conried star in this CBS/Richfield...

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  • August 21 · 30 min

    Escape - "11 the Killer Mine" (Old Time Radio)

    Escape presents “The Killer Mine,” originally broadcast February 11, 1951, as episode 5102. This CBS suspense adventure stars John Dehner and was adapted by Antony Ellis from Hammond Innes’s 1947 novel. In Cornwall, British Army deserter and...

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  • August 20 · 30 min

    Escape - "21 Ancient Sorceries" (Old Time Radio)

    Escape presents “21 Ancient Sorceries,” episode 4802, originally broadcast February 21, 1948. This CBS adaptation of Algernon Blackwood’s supernatural story was written for radio by Les Crutchfield and features Paul Frees as traveler Arthur Llewellyn,...

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  • August 19 · 30 min

    Escape - "15 Three Skeleton Key ALT1" (Old Time Radio)

    Escape presents “15 Three Skeleton Key ALT1,” originally broadcast November 15, 1949. This local archival recording is episode number 4911. On a remote lighthouse station off French Guiana, three keepers watch a derelict ship drift toward their rocky...

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  • August 18 · 30 min

    Escape - "28 Poison" (Old Time Radio)

    Escape presents “28 Poison,” originally broadcast July 28, 1950. This archival recording is identified as episode 5007. Adapted by James Poe from Roald Dahl’s short story “Poison,” this CBS suspense drama finds American contractor Harry Pope frozen...

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  • August 17 · 25 min

    Escape - "21 Dead of Night Audition" (Old Time Radio)

    Escape presents “21 Dead of Night Audition,” episode 4703, originally broadcast March 21, 1947. This CBS audition/pilot adapts “The Ventriloquist’s Dummy,” the John Baines story from Ealing Studios’ 1945 anthology film Dead of Night. British...

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  • August 16 · 30 min

    Escape - "02 Mars Is Heaven" (Old Time Radio)

    Escape presents “02 Mars Is Heaven,” originally broadcast June 2, 1950. This archival recording is episode 5006. In Ray Bradbury’s eerie science-fiction tale, framed as a live broadcast from a New Mexico rocket launch, Captain John Black and the crew...

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  • August 15 · 30 min

    Escape - "Leiningen Versus the Ants" (Old Time Radio, 1948)

    Escape presents “Leiningen Versus the Ants,” originally broadcast on May 23, 1948. Episode 42 of CBS’s adventure anthology stars William Conrad as the fiercely determined plantation owner Leiningen, with Jay Novello as the district commissioner....

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  • August 14 · 30 min

    Escape - "Three Skeleton Key -William Conrad" (Old Time Radio, 1949)

    Escape presents “Three Skeleton Key -William Conrad- -1,” episode 85 of the CBS series Escape, originally broadcast November 15, 1949. At an isolated lighthouse off the coast of French Guiana, keepers Jean, Louis, and Auguste face a terrifying threat...

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  • August 14 · 30 min

    Escape - "Three Skeleton Key -Vincent Price" (Old Time Radio, 1950)

    Escape presents “Three Skeleton Key,” episode 102, originally broadcast on March 17, 1950. This listener-requested repeat adaptation stars Vincent Price as lighthouse keeper Jean, alongside Jeff Corey and Harry Bartell. On the isolated lighthouse...

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