Escape (Various)

You are making your way over the Great Indian Desert alone and dying of thirst while behind you pursuing you as a fanatical cop, he is who once bowed to you as king and now called for your life...

The fascinating story about the home life of the richest family in the world. In a country as large as the U.S. there are many odd and wonderful corners hidden away, but none more fabulous and wonderful than the one conceived in the imagination of F. Scott Fitzgerald and located in the pages of his famous short story of the same name. It is described in the words of John Unger, 20 years old, impressionable and quite willing to swear to the truth of this strange affair.

An excellent radio drama about three escaped convicts on a raft, and of their savage companion, a cannibal! New Maya in the South Pacific, to a generation of French criminals two words to be uttered in the same terrified breath with Devils Island. The penal colony at New Maya where the cutthroats, sadists and the dregs of the French society were sent to a living death. Tonight, you are invited to escape from Maya in John Russell's story The Fourth Man.

A determined man battles even more determined insects in the tropical jungles. 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 army from which there is no escape.

A mountain guide finds a hidden valley where no one has eyes. However, the blind think that he is deformed. Zebarra is a mining engineer in Ecuador near the towering Andes. Up until a year ago his chief sport was mountaineering. His last climb was an attempt to climb the remote and forbidding peak of Parascotopetl, the 20,000-foot crag unconquered by man. It is unconquered still. 3,000 feet from the icy summit his party turned back and fled for their lives all escaping except for one, a guide named Nunez who slipped and fell over the precipice disappearing into the vast chasm which yearned 10,000-feet beneath them. The horror of him falling has haunted Zebarra's dreams for years and because of it he has forsaken climbing for the rest of his life, even though today he has seen Nunez.

A psychiatrist being blackmailed is killed by doing a Brody from his apartment window. His blackmailer is later found strangled!

The classic story about the bloke who could. In this tale you are crouched in the middle of an immense hurricane. Houses, animals, trees sweeping past you, and you suddenly realize that you have tampered with the Universe, that you are bringing about the destruction of the World. Lovely British accents in this tale with a message. A delightful little story that is far from the typical Escape style of thriller. Escape with us now to a placid English village in the company of an equally placid little man who one day shook the world as HG Wells told it in his story - The Man Who Could Work Miracles.

A fascinating adventure with a strange assortment of characters who live inside New York's department stores. You are groping in the midnight dimness of a gigantic department store and suddenly you realize that a hundred eyes are staring at you from the shadows and a hundred hands are reaching for your throat and your most urgent desire is to... escape! Based on the eerie short story Evening Primrose.

A complex but exciting tale of intrigue on the trans-Balkan Railroad. You're aboard the Orient Express rushing through the European night, bound for Istanbul and in your compartment with you, a gun pointed at your head, a small, mysterious stranger is about to take your life.

A whole train has vanished. Where is it?

From 1947 to 1954, CBS's Escape was radio's leading high-adventure anthology series. The show's famous opening, delivered by Paul Frees and William Conrad, asked: "Tired of the everyday grind? Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you ... Escape!" This was followed by another announcer adding, "Escape! Designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half-hour of high adventure!"Many of the episodes, which included both original stories and adaptations, centered on a protagonist facing a life-or-death situation. Numerous actors made appearances on the show, including William Conrad, Jack Webb, Elvia Allman, Eleanor Audley, Parley Baer, Harry Bartell, Ted de Corsia, John Dehner, Sam Edwards, Virginia Gregg, Lou Merrill, Howard McNear, Jeanette Nolan, Alan Reed, Bill Johnstone, Marvin Miller, Frank Lovejoy, Berry Kroeger, Vic Perrin, Elliott Lewis, Peggy Webber, and Will Wright. Episodes included here are "Papa Benjamin," "Three Good Witnesses," "The Vanishing Lady," "Snake Doctor," "Ancient Sorceries," "The Log of the Evening Star," "A Shipment of Mute Fate," "Action," "The Brute," "The Drums of the Fore and Aft," "The Match," and "John Jock Todd."

From 1947 to 1954, CBS's Escape was radio's leading high-adventure anthology series. The show's famous opening, delivered by Paul Frees and William Conrad, asked: "Tired of the everyday grind? Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you … Escape!" This was followed by another announcer adding, "Escape! Designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half-hour of high adventure!" Many of the episodes, which included both original stories and adaptations, centered on a protagonist facing a life-or-death situation. Numerous actors made appearances on the show, including Elvia Allman, Eleanor Audley, Parley Baer, Harry Bartell, William Conrad, Ted deCorsia, John Dehner, Sam Edwards, Virginia Gregg, Lou Merrill, Howard McNear, Jeanette Nolan, Alan Reed, Bill Johnstone, Marvin Miller, Frank Lovejoy, Berry Kroeger, Vic Perrin, Elliott Lewis, Jack Webb, Peggy Webber, and Will Wright. Episodes include "The Fourth Man," starring William Johnstone; "The Most Dangerous Game," starring Hans Conreid; "The Fall of the House of Usher," starring Paul Frees; "Pollack and the Porrah Man," starring Barton Yarborough; "Evening Primrose," starring Elliott Lewis; "The Young Man with the Cream Tarts," starring Paul Frees; "The Country of the Blind," starring William Conrad; "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," starring Harry Bartell; "Wild Oranges," starring William Conrad; "Back for Christmas," starring Paul Frees; "Leinengen vs. the Ants," starring William Conrad; and "Three Skeleton Key," starring Vincent Price.

Escape was radio's leading anthology series of high-adventure, airing on CBS radio from 1947 to 1954.The series' well-remembered opening combined Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain with an introduction spoken by Paul Frees and William Conrad: "Tired of the everyday grind? Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you … Escape!" Following the opening theme, a second announcer, usually Roy Rowan, would add, "Escape-designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half-hour of high adventure!"Many story premises, both originals and adaptations, involved a protagonist in dire life-or-death straits. Actors starring in the series include Victor Mature, Frank Lovejoy, Ed Begley, Parley Baer, William Conrad, John Dehner, Jack Webb, John Dehner, and many others.Music was supplied by Del Castillo, organist Ivan Ditmars, Cy Feuer, Wilbur Hatch, and Leith Stevens. Included in this collection are the following episodes: "Finger of Doom" (19 Mar 1949) "Confidential Agent" (2 Apr 1949) "When the Man Comes, Follow Him" (9 Apr 1949) "The General Died at Dawn" (16 Apr 1949) "The Great Impersonation" (23 Apr 1949) "Action" (21 Jul 1949) "The Fortune of Vargas" (21 Sep 1949) "Figure a Dame" (20 Dec 1949) "Seeds of Greed" (27 Dec 1949) "The Vanishing Lady" (10 Jan 1950) "Treasure, Inc." (24 Jan 1950) "Two If by Sea" (14 Feb 1950)

Escape was radio's leading anthology series of high-adventure radio dramas, airing on CBS from July 7, 1947, to September 25, 1954. Featuring tales of science fiction and suspense, these episodes are full of thrilling stories that follow valiant protagonists involved in life-or-death situations.