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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Escape - "Three Skeleton Key -William Conrad- -2" (Old Time Radio, 1949)

Escape presents “Three Skeleton Key -William Conrad- -2,” episode 85 of the CBS radio series Escape, originally broadcast November 15, 1949. On an isolated lighthouse rock off the coast of French Guiana, three keepers face a terrifying threat when a...

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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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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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Escape - Clear For Action [episode 187] Broadcast 6/14/1953

https://www.oldtimeretroradio.comThis episode features Escape - Clear For Action [episode 187] Broadcast 6/14/1953, a restored classic from the golden age of radio. A classic old time radio broadcast from the golden age of radio, featuring original...

Escape - Danger At Matecumbe [episode 103] Broadcast 3/24/1950

https://www.oldtimeretroradio.comThis episode features Escape - Danger At Matecumbe [episode 103] Broadcast 3/24/1950, a restored classic from the golden age of radio. A classic old time radio broadcast from the golden age of radio, featuring original...

Escape - When The Man Comes Follow Him [episode 66] Broadcast 4/9/1949

https://www.oldtimeretroradio.comThis episode features Escape - When The Man Comes Follow Him [episode 66] Broadcast 4/9/1949, a restored classic from the golden age of radio. A classic old time radio broadcast from the golden age of radio, featuring...