Escape — 1947
25 episodes broadcast in 1947.
A down-on-his-luck ventriloquist has a falling out with his dummy, whom he is convinced wants to dump him for bigger and better things. Adapted from the story by John Baines ??.
A down-on-his-luck ventriloquist has a falling out with his dummy, whom he is convinced wants to dump him for bigger and better things. Adapted from the story by John Baines ??.
March 24, 1947
Dead of Night (audition)
A down-on-his-luck ventriloquist has a falling out with his dummy, whom he is convinced wants to dump him for bigger and better things. Adapted from the story by John Baines ??.
June 23, 1947
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
A student invites a friend to come to the secret estate of his amoral family whose fortune is based on a huge diamond. Adapted from the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Hungry for adventure, two soldiers venture beyond British India's NorthWest Frontier in the hopes of founding their own private kingdom. Adapted from the story by Rudyard Kipling.
A commando raid into Nazi-occupied France is endangered by the feelings one of the commandos develops for a girl in French resistance - a girl whose loyalties are suspect. Adapted from the story by Stewart Alsop and Thomas Braden.
A student invites a friend to come to the secret estate of his amoral family whose fortune is based on a huge diamond. Adapted from the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
An old tramp steamer in the South Seas faces a triple threat--a shipload of angry migrant workers, an impending typhoon, and a captain who refuses to heed warnings. Adapted from the story by Joseph Conrad.
A young man is lured into a trap by a noble bent on taking action against him for his advances toward the noble's niece. Adapted from the story by Robert Louis Stevenson.
A scholar engaged in research at the Egyptology wing of the British Museum encounters a mysterious stranger who relates a bizarre tale of love, betrayal and a terrible fate that reaches back to a time before the Pyramids. Adapted from the story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Three escaped convicts adrift on a raft in the South Seas are rapidly running out of water and tolerance for each other - but their biggest concern is over the fourth man on the raft, a native islander who is as oblivious of them as he is of thirst. Adapted from the story by John Russell.
Classic tale of a world renowned hunter who gets shipwrecked on an island owned by a madman who shares his passion for the hunt, except that he hunts only the most dangerous of game - human beings. Adapted from the story by Richard Connell.
October 8, 1947
The Run of the Yellow Mail
A trapper connives the captain of a passenger ship into allowing the transport of a bushmaster - the world's deadliest snake - with predictable consequences. Adapted from the story by Martin Storm.
Edgar Allen Poe's morbid tale of a man descending into madness over a family curse. Versions of this story also appeared on CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Escape, NBC Presents: Short Story, and The Weird Circle. Adapted from the story by Edgar Allan Poe.
An English colonist in Africa desecrates a native holy site. Naturally, the local witch doctor hexes him something nasty. Adapted from the story by H.G. Wells.
A poet decides that he's had it with the real world and will go live secretly in a department store. Adapted from the story by John Collier.
Classic story of two thrill seekers in Victorian London get more than they bargained for when they join a secret society and find themselves unwilling members of a suicide club. Adapted from the story by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Edward Dunning, Britain's leading authority on Medieval life, writes a scathing review of a crackpot occultist's paper on ancient curses. Adapted from the story by M.R. James.
An adventurer discovers a strange valley in remotest South America whose inhabitants have evolved without sight. Adapted from the story by H.G. Wells.
Peter and Kyra Vaughan meet Shiravieff while vacationing at Zweibergen, a small village in the Carpathian Mountains, during the Summer of 1926. Adapted from the story by Geoffrey Household , 1939.
A Confederate saboteur hanged from a bridge by Union troops gets a reprieve when the rope snaps; can he evade the enemy's pursuit and reach home? Adapted from the story by Ambrose Bierce.
A man's wife drives him too far and has had control of him for too long, so he starts to make plans... Adapted from the story by John Collier.
Released from a wartime hospital in London, a lonely Canadian soldier - seeking a little female companionship - gets lost in the fog and drawn into murderous goings-on. Adapted from the story by Algernon Blackwood.
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