Easy Aces
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 6 March 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1950–1954
- Surviving broadcasts
- 488
- Genre
- adventure
In the Golden Days of Radio, back in the 1930s to the 1950s, most popular radio series had a set time for going out each week. Occasionally, there might be a change in the schedule, but on the whole a consistent time-slot was something that helped build a large audience and so was something the big networks aimed to achieve.
1950 · 31949 · 31948 · 41947 · 2
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 87 of 90Listenable · 2 of 90Rough but complete · 1 of 90
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: OTRR_Escape_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 8 years on the air, with 4 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1948
1949
1950
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1954
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1947, in original transmission order.
- 1. Out Of This World (Audition) · 28 Feb 1947
- 2. Escape 47-10-15 A Shipment Of Mute Fate · 15 Oct 1947
- 3. The Second Class Passenger (national broadcast) · 7 Jan 1948
- 01
Out Of This World (Audition)
28 Feb 1947 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Escape_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 02
Escape 47-10-15 A Shipment Of Mute Fate
15 Oct 1947 · 24 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
The Second Class Passenger (national broadcast)
7 Jan 1948 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Escape_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 04
Escape 48-02-01 Ec The Vanishing Lady
1 Feb 1948 · 29 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Escape 48-03-06 -030- The Grove Of Ashtaroth -national broadcast, different production
6 Mar 1948 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Escape_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 06
Escape 48-05-23 Leiningen Versus The Ants
23 May 1948 · 29 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
The Orient Express
19 Feb 1949 · 29 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
The Drums of the Fore and Aft (Ben Wright))
14 Jul 1949 · 30 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Escape_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Same night on the air
6 Mar 1948
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 6 Mar 1948.
Curtain Time
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Meet the Meeks
Originally broadcast on NBC, 6 March 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on CBS
CBS in 1950–1954
Other series the network carried while Escape was on the air.
Same seasons
adventure on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The anthology of dread
A voice, a creaking door, and a self-contained story designed to frighten you in half an hour. Suspense and Lights Out built the grammar every horror anthology still uses.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Escape
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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