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Escape
“Tired of the everyday routine? Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you... Escape!” Escape ran on CBS from July 7, 1947 to September 25, 1954.

Sample shows - left click headphones to listen, right-click & save-as to download

Show Title Broadcast Date File Size Length
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Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Dead Of Night 3/21/47 5.88 00:25:41 A ventriloquist's dummy has a will of its own. Audition show for the series, without the trademark opening lines.
Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Ancient Sorceries 2/15/48 6.71 00:29:19 The village of Malton, on the Welsh border, is a very interesting place...
Left-click to listen, Right-click to download A Tooth For Paul Revere 7/4/48 6.55 00:28:36 Most people don't know this, but Paul Revere was really a wizard.
Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Evening Primrose 9/12/48 6.76 00:29:30 The secret world of a department store at night. (Stolen later for a Twilight Zone episode.)
Left-click to listen, Right-click to download The Man Who Could Work Miracles 9/19/48 6.76 00:29:30 It all started with a blowhard barroom bet. A story by H.G.Wells, starring Ben Wright.
Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Bordertown 12/13/49 6.64 00:28:59 Jack Webb as a down and outer who stumbles on a windfall.
Left-click to listen, Right-click to download The Man Who Won The War 2/28/50 13.5 00:29:30 A naval commander whose resourcefulness helped win a crucial battle in WWI is mistakenly forced into a life of shame.
Left-click to listen, Right-click to download The Ambassador Of Poker 4/7/50 6.75 00:29:30 A Virginia gentleman who can't lose at poker takes on a Chinese warlord.
Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Bloodbath 6/30/50 6.32 00:27:35 Fred C. Dobbs, eat your heart out.
Left-click to listen, Right-click to download The Earthmen 7/25/51 7.25 00:31:38 The first humans on Mars are not met with the wildly enthusiasic response they expect.
Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Diary Of A Madman 1/25/53 6.7 00:29:16 A band of renegade German soldiers sets out across the North African desert in search of an empire.
Left-click to listen, Right-click to download A Study In Wax 2/1/53 5.87 00:25:37 A terrifying tale of cabin fever, madness in a snowed in cabin in the Canadian north.
Left-click to listen, Right-click to download Wild Jack Rhett 2/15/53 6.87 00:29:58 The town of Red Mesa hires an enigmatic town tamer, played by John Dehner.
Left-click to listen, Right-click to download The Derilect 4/26/53 6.72 00:29:21 Four castaways on a ghost ship. Three men, one woman, and a fortune in gold.
Left-click to listen, Right-click to download The Out Station 7/12/53 6.93 00:30:15 - - Class conflict between British colonial officers boils over in Borneo, in a story by W Somerset Maugham.
Left-click to listen, Right-click to download The Notebook 7/26/53 7.16 00:31:15 A couple of prospectors must fight off claim jumpers.
Left-click to listen, Right-click to download The Man From Tomorrow 8/23/53 6.69 00:29:12 A man agrees to undergo a 2-year experiment in sensory deprivation.
Left-click to listen, Right-click to download The Log 9/20/53 6.26 00:27:19 An aging submarine commander refuses to go gently into that good night.
Left-click to listen, Right-click to download The Dark Wall 7/1/54 6.77 00:29:07 A couple is seperated in more ways than one in the tiny country of Andorra.
Left-click to listen, Right-click to download The Birds 7/10/54 6.71 00:29:18 A dramatization of the original story by Daphne DeMaurier, which inspired the Hitchcock film. DO NOT listen to this one in the dark!
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