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Escape | Old Time Radio

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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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Yesterday · 30 min
Escape - "02 the Red Forest" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “02 the Red Forest,” originally broadcast on CBS Radio on August 2, 1953. This archival recording is episode number 5308. Written and directed by Antony Ellis, it stars William Conrad as Wally and Georgia Ellis as Jan. A motorist...
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Sunday · 29 min
Escape - "Flood on the Goodwins" (Old Time Radio)
From the radio anthology Escape, “Flood on the Goodwins” is presented from a local archival recording. The original broadcast date and episode number are not supplied. This archival drama concerns a flood and its impact on the Goodwins. Escape...
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Saturday · 30 min
Escape - "07 the Price of the Head" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “The Price of the Head,” originally broadcast August 7, 1954. This local archival recording is identified as episode 5408. In the South Pacific, drunken outcast Christopher Pellett flees after a deadly barroom brawl, setting out by...
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Friday · 30 min
Escape - "Two and Two Make Four" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “Two and Two Make Four,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 21, 1954. Cataloged as episode 236 in the established broadcast log, this late-season psychological mystery stars Shepard Menken and features Joyce McCluskey. It was...
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Thursday · 30 min
Escape - "The Dark Wall" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “The Dark Wall,” originally broadcast on CBS Radio on July 1, 1954. This late-run episode is commonly listed as episode 216, written by Kathleen Hite and directed by Norman Macdonnell. In the high Pyrenees, Alan and his wife Joyce...
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Wednesday · 29 min
Escape - "The Return" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “The Return,” originally broadcast on CBS Radio on April 1, 1954, as episode 208. Written by Kathleen Hite and produced by Norman Macdonnell, this sustaining broadcast stars Lawrence Dobkin as Reeser. In a walled North African city, a...
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October 27 · 29 min
Escape - "The Derelict" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “The Derelict,” originally broadcast on CBS on April 26, 1953. Commonly cataloged as episode 180, this sustaining broadcast was written for radio by Larry Roman from a story by Victor Schwartz and directed by Antony Ellis. A drifting...
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October 26 · 30 min
Escape - "The Man from Tomorrow" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “The Man from Tomorrow,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 23, 1953. Episode 197 features Lawrence Dobkin in an original radio play by Irving Reis, directed by Antony Ellis. A former fighter pilot volunteers for a scientific...
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October 24 · 30 min
Escape - "Ancient Sorceries" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “Ancient Sorceries,” originally broadcast on CBS Radio Network on February 15, 1948. Episode 28 of the series adapts Algernon Blackwood’s supernatural short story, with Paul Frees, William Conrad, and Jeff Corey featured in the cast....
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October 23 · 30 min
Escape - "The Man with the Steel Teeth" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “The Man with the Steel Teeth,” originally broadcast on CBS on March 15, 1953. This is episode 174 of the series, written by John Dehner and directed by Antony Ellis. In Moscow, American newspaper correspondent Arthur Henderson...
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October 22 · 29 min
Escape - "Jimmy Goggles the God" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “Jimmy Goggles the God,” originally broadcast on CBS on March 7, 1948. Episode numbering varies by catalog: it is often listed as episode 31, while performance-count listings identify the March 7 broadcast as number 40. The drama...
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October 21 · 29 min
Escape - "Green Splotches" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “Green Splotches,” originally broadcast on CBS on March 31, 1950. This is episode 104 of the series’ Richfield Oil-sponsored Friday run, adapted by William N. Robson from T. S. Stribling’s science-fiction story “The Green Splotches.”...
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October 20 · 30 min
Escape - "The Power of Hammer" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “The Power of Hammer,” originally broadcast on CBS Radio on October 15, 1950. Commonly listed as episode 128 of the series, it was the third episode of Escape’s 1950–51 season. In the Belgian Congo, safari guide Sam Kelly joins an...
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October 19 · 30 min
Escape - "How Love Came to Professor Guildea" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “How Love Came to Professor Guildea,” originally broadcast on CBS on February 22, 1948, as episode #36. Adapted by Les Crutchfield from Robert Hichens’s 1900 supernatural story, the production was directed and produced by William N....
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October 18 · 30 min
Escape - "Operation Fleur De Lys" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “Operation Fleur De Lys,” originally broadcast on CBS on July 14, 1947. This early Escape episode is identified as episode 2. In occupied France in 1944, American OSS agents Duke and Hill parachute behind enemy lines to aid a small...
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October 17 · 30 min
Escape - "05 a Sleeping Draft" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “A Sleeping Draft,” originally broadcast April 5, 1953. Cataloged as episode 5304, this CBS Escape drama is adapted by S. A. Bolte from a short story by Weston Martyr and directed by Antony Ellis. A British convict transport sails...
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October 16 · 30 min
Escape - "The Sire De Maletroit's Door" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “The Sire De Maletroit’s Door,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 4, 1947, as episode 5. This sustaining broadcast adapts Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1878 story, with Elliott Lewis and Peggy Webber featured in the cast. In France in...
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October 14 · 30 min
Escape - "The Most Dangerous Game" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “The Most Dangerous Game,” originally broadcast on CBS on October 1, 1947, as episode 8. Adapted by Irving Ravetch from Richard Connell’s celebrated short story, the drama stars Paul Frees as Sanger Rainsford and Hans Conried as...
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October 13 · 30 min
Escape - "The Red Mark" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “The Red Mark,” originally broadcast on CBS on February 21, 1950. Often listed as episode 111, this tense drama was adapted by Les Crutchfield and Manny Grotnik from a short story by John Russell, and directed by William N. Robson. At...
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October 12 · 30 min
Escape - "El Guitarrero" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “El Guitarrero,” originally broadcast on CBS on April 19, 1953. Episode numbering varies among surviving guides, which list it as either episode 172 or 179. Written by E. Jack Neuman and directed by Antony Ellis, the drama features...
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