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Escape takes you on a ride into a world where danger comes in many forms, and you are on the edge of life and death, and perhaps you are being pushed! When Escape says romantic, we're not talking kissing, perhaps those kisses might be from teeming piranha! Escape is more Devil's Island than Fantasy Island. And it is a wonderful mystery radio for the whole family, especially Dad.

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  1. Mars Is Heaven! | Escape (06-02-50)

    Astronauts landing on Mars discover a nostalgic, idyllic small town from their childhoods, complete with deceased relatives, only to realize it's a trap set by telepathic aliens who kill them after lulling them into a false sense of security. Original Air Date: June 02, 1950 Host: Andrew Rhynes...

  2. Command (Harry Bartell) | Escape (05-26-50)

    A conflict between a veteran cavalry captain (Nathan Brittles) and a younger, by-the-book lieutenant (Flint Cohill) in the American Southwest Original Air Date: May 26, 1950 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • Harry Bartell (Lt. Cohill) • John Hoyt (Captain Brittles) • Wally Maher (Sgt....

  3. Pass to Berlin | Escape (05-19-50)

    Escape to Berlin and the story of an occupation G.I. trying desperately to break through a web of death that is being spun around him Original Air Date: May 19, 1950 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • Stacy Harris • Peggy Webber • Ben Wright Authors: • Morton Fine • David Friedkin…

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  4. The Rim of Terror | Escape (05-12-50)

    A spy on the desert and a beautiful girl with a Bentley! Original Air Date: May 12, 1950 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • Nancy Kelly • Hans Conried (Alex) Author: • Hildegarde Tolman Teilhet Producer: • William N. Robson Music: • Ivan Ditmars For more great shows check out our site:...

  5. The Man Who Stole the Bible (Ben Wright) | Escape (05-05-50)

    It's Mardi Gras time in New Orleans, and a salesman has a date with the devil! Original Air Date: May 05, 1950 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • Rick Vallin (Cummings) • Nan Boardman (The Girl) • Ben Wright (House Detective) • Will Geer (The Devil) • Lou Merrill (The Clown) Special…

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  6. Something for Nothing | Escape (04-28-50)

    A handsome ex-movie actor witnesses a murder and sees a nice extortion scheme. Original Air Date: April 28, 1950 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • William Conrad • Anne Morrison • Frances Chaney • Will Geer • Rick Vallin • Paul Frees Adaptation: • Sylvia Richards Author: • Vernon Dickson...

  7. The Shanghai Document | Escape (04-21-50)

    Escape to the interior of China and a journey of terror down the Yangtzee river from Chanking to Shanghai aboard a river steamer. Original Air Date: April 21, 1950 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • John Dehner • Joan Banks • Ben Wright • William Conrad • Benson Fong • Charlie Lung • Paul...

  8. The Golden Snake | Escape (04-14-50)

    A pilot finds the offer of a job in Mexico too financially attractive to turn down, but when he arrives it turns out that the rewards are far higher than he could ever have imagined and, as if things couldn't get any better, he will be working alongside a very beautiful young woman.…

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  9. The Ambassador of Poker | Escape (04-07-50)

    Virginia gentleman adept at cards, who matches wits with a motley band of Chinese cutthroats and war lords. Original Air Date: April 07, 1950 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • Elliott Reid • Lucille Meredith • Ben Wright • Benson Fong • Richard Loo Special Guests: • John Dehner • John...

  10. Green Splotches | Escape (03-31-50)

    A scientific expedition in South America is captured by super-intelligent plants from another planet who travel in a flying saucer at the speed of light! Original Air Date: March 31, 1950 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • William Conrad • Paul Frees Special Guests: • Ted de Corsia • Harry...

  11. Danger at Matecumbe | Escape (03-24-50)

    A Florida drifter is given a job impersonating a famous author and finds himself in a frame for murder. Original Air Date: March 24, 1950 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • Frank Lovejoy • Marie Windsor • Ted de Corsia Special Guests: • Rick Vallin • Robert Clark • Harry Bartell • Dee…

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  12. Three Skeleton Key (Vincent Price) | Escape (03-17-50)

    Tonight we escape to a lonely lighthouse off the steaming jungle coast of French Guyana, and a nightmare world of terror and violence. Original Air Date: March 17, 1950 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Star: • Vincent Price Special Guests: • Harry Bartell • Jeff Corey Writer: • James Poe…

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  13. Port Royal | Escape (03-10-50)

    A salvage ship recovers nearly $1 million dollars in loot with no trouble, except for infectious greed among the crew. Original Air Date: March 10, 1950 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • Charles McGraw • John Dehner • William Conrad Special Guests: • Dee Tatum • Paul Frees • Ted de Corsia...

  14. The Man Who Won the War | Escape (02-28-50)

    You are in command of an English destroyer sailing to join the North Sea patrol in October 1914. It is midnight and from the coast of Flanders comes a desperate signal for help which you want to ignore but which destiny forces you to answer and to become the man who won the war. Original Air…

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  15. The Red Mark | Escape (02-21-50)

    Escape to the prison island of New Caledonia and to the murderous conflict between one of the prisoners and the monstrous Monsieur Denu official executioner as John Russell tells it in his terrifying story The Red Mark. Original Air Date: February 21, 1950 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars…

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  16. Two If by Sea | Escape (02-14-50)

    Original Air Date: February 14, 1950 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • John Dehner • Barton Yarborough • Paul Frees • Marta Mitrovich Special Guests: • Inge Jollos • Jack Kruschen • William Conrad • Paul Dubov Producer: • William N. Robson Author: • Roger Bax Adaptations: • E. Jack Neuman…

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  17. The Outer Limit | Escape (02-07-50)

    A famous science fiction story about a test pilot who gets a warning from beyond. Original Air Date: February 07, 1950 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Star: • Frank Lovejoy Special Guests: • Charles McGraw • Jeff Corey • Stanley Waxman • Ian Wolfe Producer: • William N. Robson Author: • Graham...

  18. Present Tense | Escape (01-31-50)

    Escape into the mind of a man who has been sentenced to die. A man who attempts to refuse the bitter fate society has imposed upon him. Original Air Date: January 31, 1950 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Star: • Vincent Price Special Guests: • Charles McGraw • Joan Banks • Harry Bartell • Ben...

  19. Treasure Incorporated | Escape (01-24-50)

    On a tourist island, a crazy hermit sees to it that the customers get their money's worth. Original Air Date: January 24, 1950 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • Frank Lovejoy (Eddie) • Jack Holt (Clive) • Mary Lansing (Amanda) • Harry Bartell (Brewar) Special Guests: • Eileen Prince •…

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  20. The Sure Thing (Anthony Ross) | Escape (01-17-50)

    A strange cruise in the Caribbean, a triple murder, and that all important bank draft for $2 million dollars. Original Air Date: January 17, 1950 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • Anthony Ross (The Doctor) • Jeff Corey (Felix) • Fay Baker (Stephanie) • Ian Wolfe (Joseph Ingram) Special...

  21. Vanishing Lady (Del Castillo) | Escape (01-10-50)

    A retelling the classic tale about the English girl whose mother disappears without a trace from a Paris hotel Original Air Date: January 10, 1950 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • Joan Banks (Cynthia) • Ben Wright (Bruce) • Anthony Ross (The Doctor) • John Hoyt (Hotel Manager) Special...

  22. The Pistol | Escape (01-03-50)

    An action-packed western about the first Colt six-shooter, the California gold fields, and a double-crossing dance hall queen. Original Air Date: January 03, 1950 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Western Stories Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739) Stars: • Gerald Mohr • Betty Lou Gerson • Charles McGraw •…

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  23. Seeds of Greed | Escape (12-27-49)

    Two men on a boat in the South Pacific are after a treasure in pearls, and both with a fatal case of greed. Original Air Date: December 27, 1949 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • Gary Merrill • Ben Wright • William Conrad • Tony Barrett Author: • Freud A. Nelson Producer: • William N....

  24. Figure a Dame | Escape (12-20-49)

    Escape to a train heading for Calcutta and an exciting tale of the most sought after emerald in the world, worth over $150,000… Original Air Date: December 20, 1949 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • Frank Lovejoy • Joan Banks • Sarah Selby • Ben Wright Special Guests: • Paul Frees • Harry...

  25. Border Town | Escape (12-13-49)

    It all started on the bus just outside of Dallas. The sailor who’d snored beside me since Memphis got off and the fat guy got on. He overflowed in to my half of the seat and for a sound effect he ate one apple after another, he must have bought them by the sack… Original Air Date: December 13…

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  26. Command (Elliott Reed) | Escape (12-06-49)

    Escape to the prairie west of the Platt River and to the Indian fighting US cavalry of the old west as James Warner-Bella describes it in this exciting tale. Original Air Date: December 06, 1949 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • Elliott Reid • Bill Johnstone • Ted de Corsia Special…

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  27. Letter from Jason | Escape (11-29-49)

    Escape to the island of Pelotha in the south seas and the exciting tale of the strangest bargain ever made. Original Air Date: November 29, 1949 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • Frank Lovejoy • Will Geer • Kaye Brinker Special Guests: • Paul Frees • Gracie Allen Adaptations: • Selig…

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  28. Maracas | Escape (11-22-49)

    Escape to a murderous conflict of greed and passion aboard a coastwise tram steamer headed for central America… Original Air Date: November 22, 1949 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • William Conrad • Ted de Corsia • Joan Banks • Paul Frees • Juano Hernandez Authors: • John Bagni • Gwen...

  29. Three Skeleton Key (William Conrad) | Escape (11-15-49)

    Escape to a lonely lighthouse off the steaming jungle cost of French Guyana, and a nightmare world of terror and violence as is described it this hair-raising tale. Original Air Date: November 15, 1949 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • Elliott Reid (Jean) • William Conrad (Louis) • Harry...

  30. Plunder of the Sun | Escape (11-08-49)

    Original Air Date: November 08, 1949 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • Paul Frees • Gerald Mohr • Lucille Meredith Special Guests: • Harry Bartell • Charlie Lung • Tony Barrett Producer: • William N. Robson Adaptation: • John Dunkel Music: • Lloyd Del Castillo Exit music from: Resurgence…

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  31. Flood on the Goodwins (Jack Edwards) | Escape (11-01-49)

    Original Air Date: November 01, 1949 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • Jack Edwards • Will Geer • Barton Yarborough Special Guests: • Betty Lou Gerson • Eric Snowden Producer: • William N. Robson Adaptation: • James Poe Music: • Lloyd Del Castillo Exit music from: Resurgence by…

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  32. Night in Havana | Escape (10-22-49)

    Original Air Date: October 22, 1949 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • Tony Barrett • Alan Reed • Jeanette Nolan Special Guests: • Theodore Von Eltz • William Conrad • Jeff Corey • Jack Webb Director: • William N. Robson Writer: • Walter Newman Music: • Lloyd Del Castillo Exit music from:...

  33. The Sure Thing (William Conrad) | Escape (10-15-49)

    Original Air Date: October 15, 1949 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • William Conrad • John Hoyt • Fay Baker • Ian Wolfe Special Guests: • Don Diamond • Ted de Corsia • Sarah Selby Writers: • John Bagni • Gwen Bagni Producer: • William N. Robson Music: • Lloyd Del Castillo Exit music…

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  34. Wild Oranges (Van Heflin) | Escape (09-28-49)

    Original Air Date: September 28, 1949 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Star: • Van Heflin Special Guests: • Betty Lou Gerson • William Conrad • Edmund MacDonald • Wilms Herbert Director: • Gordon T Hughes Adaptation: • John Dunkel Music: • Lloyd Del Castillo Exit music from: Resurgence by...

  35. The Fortune of Vargas | Escape (09-21-49)

    You are camped in the dry mountains of Mexico a hundred yards from a treasure and buried gold. A beautiful girl is sitting across the fire with a gun. Somewhere out in the night a horseman waits, like the girl, for you to make just one mistake. Original Air Date: September 21, 1949 Host: Andrew...

  36. Evening Primrose (Harry Bartell) | Escape (08-25-49)

    You are groping through the midnight darkness of a gigantic department store, a hundred eyes are starring at you, a hundred arms are reaching for you and your most urgent desire is to escape… Original Air Date: August 25, 1949 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • Ben Wright Special Guests: •...

  37. Snake Doctor (Ira Grossel) | Escape (08-18-49)

    A weird old man seems a mite too friendly with the cottonmouths. Original Air Date: August 18, 1949 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • William Conrad • Paul Frees Narrator: • Ira Grossel Special Guests: • William Lally • Ruth Parrot • Wilms Herbert • Edgar Barrier Author: • Irvin S. Cobb...

  38. Red Wine (Willard Waterman) | Escape (08-11-49)

    You are with three men in a jungle plantation on the rubber coast of Borneo. You know that one of the men is a desperate criminal who you’ve come to arrest but you don’t know which one. You have to find him before he can save himself by killing you… Original Air Date: August 11, 1949 Host: Andrew...

  39. Leiningen Versus the Ants (Tudor Owen) | Escape (08-04-49)

    The classic story of the man-eating ants of the Amazon and the stubborn plantation owner who refuses to surrender to them. You are isolated on a remote plantation in the crawling Amazon Jungle and an immense army of ravenous ants is closing in on you - swarming in to eat you alive. A deadly black...

  40. Second Class Passenger (Parley Baer) | Escape (07-28-49)

    An ordinary tourist on a cruise ship who finds a beautiful woman, murder and fight in the back alleys of Mozambique. You are trapped in the native quarter of Mozambique, two dead men at your feet and the police closing in on you and besides you a sultry girl who offers you escape. Ronald A…

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  41. Action (Joseph Kearns) | Escape (07-21-49)

    A man caught in an impossible situation while climbing a glacier waits to die...when he hears a cry for help. Original Air Date: July 21, 1949 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Special Guests: • Joseph Kearns • Maria Palmer • Wilms Herbert • Ben Wright • Jeff Corey • Tudor Owen • Bill Johnstone...

  42. The Drums of the Fore and Aft (Ben Wright) | Escape (07-14-49)

    Two drummer boys who show a British regiment the meaning of courage in battle. You are deep in the remote hill country of Afghan face to face with the fierce Bataan Warriors trapped in to a hopeless fight from which there seems no escape… Set in the North of India at a battle long remembered as...

  43. The Fourth Man (Wilms Herbert) | Escape (07-07-49)

    Three "civilized" men and a "savage" are adrift on a raft with little water. The "savage," without thirst, watches the others fight over the water. Original Air Date: July 07, 1949 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Special Guests: • Joseph Kearns • Ben Wright • Barney Phillips • Jack Kruschen •...

  44. The Great Impersonation | Escape (04-23-49)

    Just before the start of WWII, a Nazi spy in Africa plans to impersonate a ne'er-do-well nobleman in England to spy for the Germans. The Germans are about to march into Poland and you are standing in an English manor house with a complete list of Nazi Agents in your possession. While facing you,...

  45. The General Died at Dawn | Escape (04-16-49)

    You are standing on the rolling deck of a pirate junk in the China Seas and facing you is the sinister figure of the most feared man in the Orient, a General, who has just doomed you to death. Original Air Date: April 16, 1949 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • William Conrad Special…

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  46. When the Man Comes Follow Him | Escape (04-09-49)

    You are standing in a lonely canyon in the shadows of Superstition Mountain while facing you tempers ragged, guns drawn are three men who at your first move toward the hidden treasure will kill you… Original Air Date: April 09, 1949 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • Paul Dubov • Herb...

  47. Confidential Agent | Escape (04-02-49)

    Espionage and mayhem in wartime London, as a foreign agent tries to buy industrial diamonds for a friendly European country. You are trapped in a dark empty house, a girl lying dead at your feet and surrounding you, closing in on you are a band of killers deadly enemies of your country and…

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  48. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz | Escape (03-27-49)

    The home life of the richest family in the world Original Air Date: March 27, 1949 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • Sam Edwards • Nina Clouden • Hugh Thomas Special Guests: • John Dehner • Jack Kruschen Author: • F Scott Fitzgerald Writer: • Les Crutchfield Editorial Supervision: • John...

  49. The Adaptive Ultimate | Escape (03-26-49)

    A fascinating story about a young girl, about to die, who is given an experimental serum. She becomes an indestructible monster Original Air Date: March 26, 1949 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • Edgar Barrier • Stacy Harris Special Guests: • Elsie Holmes • Frank Gerstle • Lawrence Dobkin…

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  50. The Country of the Blind | Escape (03-20-49)

    A mountain guide finds a hidden valley where no-one has eyes Original Air Date: March 20, 1949 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Escape Stars: • Edmond O'Brien • Berry Kroeger • Peggy Webber Special Guests: • Harry Bartell • Byron Kane • Edgar Barrier • Wilms Herbert Author: • H. G. Wells Writer: • John...

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Escape takes you on a ride into a world where danger comes in many forms, and you are on the edge of life and death, and perhaps you are being pushed! When Escape says romantic, we're not talking kissing, perhaps those kisses might be from teeming piranha! Escape is more Devil's Island than Fantasy Island. And it is a wonderful mystery radio for the whole family, especially Dad.

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Escape takes you on a ride into a world where danger comes in many forms, and you are on the edge of life and death, and perhaps you are being pushed! When Escape says romantic, we're not talking kissing, perhaps those kisses might be from teeming piranha! Escape is more Devil's Island than Fantasy...

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