Escape — 1948
45 episodes broadcast in 1948.
A cruise passenger who bemoans the lack of excitement in his life gets more than he wishes for when he gets himself lost in the shadowed alleys of a Mozambique port. Adapted from the story by Perceval Gibbon.
A cruise passenger who bemoans the lack of excitement in his life gets more than he wishes for when he gets himself lost in the shadowed alleys of a Mozambique port. Adapted from the story by Perceval Gibbon.
An iron-willed South American plantation owner is determined to prevent a plague of army ants from overrunning his land. Adapted from the story by Carl Stephenson.
An iron-willed South American plantation owner is determined to prevent a plague of army ants from overrunning his land. Adapted from the story by Carl Stephenson.
A small-time jazz band leader uses a voodoo song melody to make it to the big times, but can he escape the voodoo curse that comes with it? Adapted from the story by Cornell Woolrich (as William Irish).
A small-time jazz band leader uses a voodoo song melody to make it to the big times, but can he escape the voodoo curse that comes with it? Adapted from the story by Cornell Woolrich (as William Irish).
A mild-mannered geological surveyor on a train from Istanbul to Cairo helps out a woman and soon finds himself embroiled with wartime spies. Adapted from the story by Harold Lamb.
A mild-mannered geological surveyor on a train from Istanbul to Cairo helps out a woman and soon finds himself embroiled with wartime spies. Adapted from the story by Harold Lamb.
In a pre-war Paris hotel, an Englishwoman returning home from India with her daughter is struck by a sudden critical illness. Adapted from the story by Alexander Wolcott.
February 1, 1948
The Vanishing Lady
In a pre-war Paris hotel, an Englishwoman returning home from India with her daughter is struck by a sudden critical illness. Adapted from the story by Alexander Wolcott.
A wily old hermit in the Ozarks, feared by the locals for his affinity with snakes, incurs the murderous enmity of a backwoods hunter who thinks his wife is having an affair with the 'snake doctor'. Adapted from the story by Irvin S. Cobb.
A wily old hermit in the Ozarks, feared by the locals for his affinity with snakes, incurs the murderous enmity of a backwoods hunter who thinks his wife is having an affair with the 'snake doctor'. Adapted from the story by Irvin S. Cobb.
A man stays the night at a remote Welsh village where the residents insist they know him even though he could swear he had never been there before. Adapted from the story by Algernon Blackwood.
February 15, 1948
Ancient Sorceries
A man stays the night at a remote Welsh village where the residents insist they know him even though he could swear he had never been there before. Adapted from the story by Algernon Blackwood.
A minister befriends a psychiatrist who despises all forms of human compassion and attachment, yet becomes convinced some invisible lurking 'thing' is in love with him. Adapted from the story by Robert S. Hichens.
February 22, 1948
How Love Came to Professor
A minister befriends a psychiatrist who despises all forms of human compassion and attachment, yet becomes convinced some invisible lurking 'thing' is in love with him. Adapted from the story by Robert S. Hichens.
Transfixed by an enigmatic tropical grotto in the middle of the African savannah, an Englishman buys the land and settles there. Adapted from the story by John Buchan.
Sailors from a sunken South Seas cargo ship who return to salvage the wreck run afoul of restless natives. Adapted from the story by H.G. Wells.
In the Philippines in 1790, an American merchant decides to try raiding the lair of headhunter pirates that look like easy pickings. Adapted from the story by Richard Matthews Hallet.
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.
Following a stroke, a wealthy financier decides to climb an unassailable glacier in the Swiss Alps. Adapted from the story by Charles Edward Montague.
The story of a family with a sailing tradition and their encounter with a beautiful but murderous ship. Adapted from the story by Joseph Conrad.
Two incorrigible fife and drum boys serving in the British Army on the Afghan frontier hunger for their first taste of combat, despite the reputation of their regiment for cowardice. Adapted from the story by Rudyard Kipling.
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.
A longshoreman who takes a job on a river wharf in the steaming jungles of West Africa finds himself the target of a sadistic dock boss. Adapted from the story by Robert Simpson.
A classic story of a man who travels into the distant future and discovers a Utopia of idle leisure which hides a terrible secret. Adapted from the story by H.G. Wells.
A Mountie and his prisoner must cross a frozen Canadian wilderness without food or warm clothing when a fire destroys their supplies. Adapted from the story by James Oliver Curwood.
An iron-willed South American plantation owner is determined to prevent a plague of army ants from overrunning his land. Adapted from the story by Carl Stephenson.
The classic story of three English brothers who join the Foreign Legion for adventure, and instead end up running afoul of a sadistic sergeant and defending a patch of nowhere against Berber hordes. Adapted from the story by Percival C. Wren.
An adventurer discovers a strange valley in remotest South America whose inhabitants have evolved without sight. Adapted from the story by H.G. Wells.
A man with a toothache seeks help for his ailment and in so doing ignites the American Revolution. Adapted from the story by Stephen Vincent Benet.
A classic story about two explorer's search for a lost city in the jungles of East Africa and their discovery of the secret of immortality. Adapted from the story by Sir H. Rider Haggard.
A sour, crotchety old sea captain, who does not take kindly to snide remarks about his rusty relic of a ship, risks his crew to prove his critics wrong. Adapted from the story by F.R. Buckley.
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 French convict escapes his prison and makes his way towards Spain, pursued by the only man he considers his intellectual equal - the chief of police. Adapted from the story by Vincent Starrett.
After taking on an unusual passenger, a ship starts experiencing a bizarre string of inexplicable and escalating troubles. Adapted from the story by James Gould Cozzens.
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.
A man is tormented by persistent dreams of living another life, one in a dark future where he is a political leader unable to prevent the onslaught of global war. 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.
George Fotheringay has discovered the secret to performing miracles - all he has to do is ask and it is done. Adapted from the story by H.G. Wells.
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