Escape — 1949
37 episodes broadcast in 1949.
A 40-ton locomotive disappears off the face of the earth on a section of single track between Liverpool and Manchester. Adapted from the story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
A man offers to help out a lady and what happens? He finds himself embroiled in a covert operation to smuggle a freedom fighter out of his native country, of course. Adapted from the story by Graham Greene.
A detective arriving in the jungles of Borneo to investigate a murder narrows down the list of suspects to three. Adapted from the story by Lawrence G. Blochman.
A WWII bomber crew in the Pacific is forced down and find themselves on a remote island populated by an advanced race of mutants planning to take over the world. Adapted from the story by Nelson S. Bond.
A man seeking to save Chinese art treasures from the advancing Japanese army during World War II awakens in a small Chinese village with amnesia years after the war. Adapted from the story by James Norman.
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.
When a young man's fiancee disappears while dropping off a parcel for her boss, he can't convince anyone that she even exists, let alone help him find out what has happened to her. Adapted from the story by Cornell Woolrich.
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 life-enhancing serum gives a dying woman incredible powers, and an insatiable lust for power. Adapted from the story by Stanley G. Weinbaum (as John Jessel).
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 mobster's bodyguard narrates the story of a blind gangster who, following the cryptic clues of his dying brother, goes hunting treasure. Adapted from the story by Ralph Bates.
A broke American gets involved with embezzling funds from a brutal rebel Chinese general. Adapted from the story by Charles G. Booth.
One the eve of WW II, a Nazi agent assumes the identity of a captured English lord, but runs afoul of not only his doppelganger's past, but his own. Adapted from the story by E. Phillips Oppenheim.
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.
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.
Following a stroke, a wealthy financier decides to climb an unassailable glacier in the Swiss Alps. Adapted from the story by Charles Edward Montague.
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.
A detective arriving in the jungles of Borneo to investigate a murder narrows down the list of suspects to three. Adapted from the story by Lawrence G. Blochman.
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 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.
A man learns from a former Mexican revolutionary the location of a stolen gold shipment that was buried in the desert many years ago. Adapted from the story by Geoffrey Household.
October 8, 1949
The Primitive
A doctor, responding to a distress call from a sailing yacht in the Caribbean, becomes embroiled in a deadly game of betrayal, greed and murder. Adapted from the story by John and Gwen Bagni.
A small time Cuban thug has decided to go straight, but gets involved in one last deal. Adapted from the story by Burnham Carter.
October 29, 1949
The Blue Wall
A salvage crew helping to rescue ships in the English Channel during the war inadvertently takes on a Nazi saboteur. Adapted from the story by David Divine.
A man escorting an old archaeologist who possesses an Incan manuscript detailing the location of a cache of Inca gold ends up in a mess of double-cross, triple-cross, and quadruple-cross. Adapted from the story by David F. Dodge.
Three men are besieged in a lighthouse when a ship wrecks on the shoal and releases a horde of starving rats. Adapted from the story by George G. Toudouze.
The first mate of a Caribbean tramp freighter discovers that the ship is carrying a Pandora's Box of rifles, and gets himself entangled with gunrunners, betrayal, murder, and drunken revolutionaries. Adapted from the story by John and Gwen Bagni.
An alcoholic makes a deal with his uncle to kill a man in exchange for future financial support for his family once he commits suicide. Adapted from the story by George F. Worts.
A look into the lives of US cavalry troopers on a search and rescue mission into hostile Sioux territory. Adapted from the story by James Warner Bellah.
A down on his luck actor comes across a stash of counterfeit money and decides to go across the border to Mexico to spend it. Adapted from the story by John and Gwen Bagni.
On a train to Calcutta, the embittered bodyguard of a wealthy widow murders her for the fabulous emerald he thinks will change his life. Adapted from the story by Richard Sale.
A besotted, ex-Navy drifter is hired by a Chinese treasure hunter to retrieve a cache of pearls from a sunken ship off the coast of Borneo. Adapted from the story by Freud A. Nelson.
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