Originally broadcast on NBC, 11 October 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1947–1954
- Surviving broadcasts
- 229
- 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.
1954 · 211953 · 331952 · 91951 · 111950 · 16
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
28 dated broadcasts across 8 years on the air, with 3 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1954
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1950, in original transmission order.
- 1. Two Came Back · 4 Aug 1950
- 2. The Red Forest · 11 Aug 1950
- 3. The Footprint · 18 Aug 1950
The Heart of Kali
25 Sep 1954 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 25 September 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Target
18 Sep 1954 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 18 September 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Carnival in Vienna
11 Sep 1954 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 11 September 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Boiling Sea
4 Sep 1954 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 4 September 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The King of Owanatu
28 Aug 1954 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 28 August 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Two and Two Make Four
21 Aug 1954 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 21 August 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Coward
14 Aug 1954 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 14 August 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Night of the Guns
31 Jul 1954 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 31 July 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
11 Oct 1953
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 11 Oct 1953.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 11 October 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Comic Weekly Man
CWM ep338 Riddle - Add Ten to Nothing, First Comic - Bringing Up Father
11 Oct 1953 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 11 October 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 11 October 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on CBS, 11 October 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on CBS
CBS in 1947–1954
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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