Escape — 1950
53 episodes broadcast in 1950.
A frontier tale of a man who sets out to seek revenge on the claim jumpers who murdered his brother. Adapted from the story by Les Crutchfield.
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 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 Carribean island serves as the backdrop for an unhappy couple who go into business with a third man and find out that a paradise retreat isn't all that it is cracked up to be. Adapted from the story by John and Gwen Bagni.
A condemned murderer on his way to death row for killing his wife is granted a reprieve by fate when the train he is on derails and he escapes to find the man who framed him. Adapted from the story by James Poe.
A test pilot in an experimental high altitude aircraft disappears from radar, only to return safely ten hours after he should have run out of fuel. Adapted from the story by Graham Doar.
A British journalist must try to arrange the escape from Russia of his Soviet ballerina wife. Adapted from the story by Roger Bax.
Gritty tale of conflict between prisoners and a villainous trustee/executioner over the trustee's intended wife, set on the French penal colony of New Caledonia. Adapted from the story by John Russell.
A WWI ship's captain's unsupported claim that he stopped a German invasion must wait many years for the truth behind his fantastic story to finally surface. Adapted from the story by Robert Buckner.
An ex-merchant seaman turned violent hood browbeats his way into a place amongst a diving expedition to the Caribbean to retrieve treasure from a city that had sunk in an earthquake centuries before. Adapted from the story by Gil Doud.
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.
A man desperate for work accepts a job posing as a controversial author. Adapted from the story by John and Gwen Bagni.
Ignoring warnings not to enter the Valley of the Infernal River, a scientific expedition encounters a superior alien life form doing some specimen-collecting of their own. Adapted from the story by T.S. Stribling.
A gentlemanly poker shark from Virginia seeks to swindle a Chinese warlord out of a precious relic. Adapted from the story by Achmed Abdullah.
A down and out pilot is tempted by money and a beautiful woman to fly an archaeologist deep into the Yucatan in search of a sacred Mayan temple, despite native threats, and the disappearance of two previous expeditions. Adapted from the story by Paul Pierce.
Seeking passage from the interior of China to Shanghai, an American journalist manages to get aboard a crowded river steamer, but finds himself drawn into a web of intrigue and violence over the whereabouts of the mysterious Shanghai Document,... Adapted from the story by John and Gwen Bagni.
A drifter witnesses a woman leap from a car just before it careens off a cliff, and sees an opportunity to indulge in a little honest blackmail. Adapted from the story by H. Vernor Dixon.
A New Orleans hotel guest snatches a bible from his room and finds himself the target of some very desperate and dangerous people. Adapted from the story by John and Gwen Bagni.
A young woman in a Bentley convertible befriends a hitchhiker who's trying to escape his life as a spy and be a regular American. Adapted from the story by Hildegarde Tolman Teilhet.
After an American soldier stationed in occupied Berlin inadvertently murders a German fraulein, he finds himself the victim of blackmail from a pair of stage show mind-readers. Adapted from the story by Morton Fine and David Friedkin.
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.
The first explorers to land on Mars discover - Earth, and an idyllic Midwest town populated by their long lost relatives. Adapted from the story by Ray Bradbury.
June 9, 1950
The Big Sponge
A rough 'n ready unemployed pilot in India accepts a job offer to smuggle undesirables out of China, but runs afoul of an Indian manservant who plots his untimely demise. Adapted from the story by Joel Murcott.
A farmhand takes exception when a notorious gunslinger commandeers his horse and rides the animal to death. Adapted from the story by Joel Murcott.
Five men trek deep into the steaming jungles of the Amazon to verify a uranium find that could make them all billionaires - and escalate the nuclear arms race. Adapted from the story by James Poe.
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.
A fishing boat skipper in Nicaragua is hijacked by gunrunners to a deadly rendezvous with rebels from neighbouring Honduras. Adapted from the story by Antony Ellis.
A ruthless treasure hunter murders a whaling ship's first mate to get his hands on the man's treasure map, then usurps his post as part of a plan to seize the vessel and then the treasure buried in the Panamanian jungle. Adapted from the story by Bud A. Nelson.
An American engineer on contract in India has his excessive bigotry tested to the limit when he wakes to find a deadly snake in his bed and must rely on a native doctor to save him. Adapted from the story by Roald Dahl.
A man gets sucked into a treasure-hunting scheme by an old war buddy whose life he once saved and his buddy's unfaithful vixen of a wife. Adapted from the story by Jules Archer.
After tracking down and killing a man for framing him, a murderer flees the remote cabin and inadvertently starts a raging forest fire, which local authorities draft him into helping to quench. Adapted from the story by Antony Ellis.
An expedition to recover treasure from a remote temple in the Mexican desert runs afoul of a fanatical cult. Adapted from the story by Gouverneur Morris.
A timid man most smuggle illicit cargo across Nazi occupied Paris with a loudmouthed madman as company. Adapted from the story by Marcel Andre Ayme.
A 19th century prison hulk delivering convicts to the penal colony of Australia is endangered when the desperate prisoners decide to stage a revolt. Adapted from the story by Weston Martyr , 1929.
A wet-behind-the-ears English college student is seduced by a beautiful woman into taking her to Turkey via train in exchange for $50,000; sounds like easy money, if it weren't for the killers who are after her. Adapted from the story by Antony Ellis.
A wet-behind-the-ears English college student is seduced by a beautiful woman into taking her to Turkey via train in exchange for $50,000; sounds like easy money, if it weren't for the killers who are after her. Adapted from the story by Antony Ellis.
A thinly disguised take on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness - a safari guide is recruited by Belgian authorities to lead an expedition into the deep Congo to arrest a megalomaniac who has made himself the master of a fanatical native tribe. Adapted from the story by Joseph Conrad.
A thinly disguised take on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness - a safari guide is recruited by Belgian authorities to lead an expedition into the deep Congo to arrest a megalomaniac who has made himself the master of a fanatical native tribe. Adapted from the story by Joseph Conrad.
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 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.
Two mackerel fishermen are sea-jacked by a group of desperate and murderous criminals. Adapted from the story by Bud A. Nelson.
Two mackerel fishermen are sea-jacked by a group of desperate and murderous criminals. Adapted from the story by Bud A. Nelson.
After a plague has wiped out the bulk of humanity, a small community of survivors struggle to rebuild civilization, but the same old problems of greed and violence stand in the way. Adapted from the story by George R. Stewart.
After a plague has wiped out the bulk of humanity, a small community of survivors struggle to rebuild civilization, but the same old problems of greed and violence stand in the way. Adapted from the story by George R. Stewart.
A British engineer working for the Turkish government becomes a target for enemy agents and is forced to flee the country on board a ship bound for Athens. Adapted from the story by Eric Ambler.
A hard-nosed doctor sent to battle plague in Malaya must also contend with the theft of his serum and a murder. Adapted from the story by Charles Israel.
A pilot takes an interest in a beautiful woman during a layover, only to have her hijack him to fly her to a remote location in northern Mexico to evade the law. Adapted from the story by Antony Ellis.
As the good ship Roundabout readies for departure from Shanghai to Bali, a stranger approaches Captain English and asks for passage. Adapted from the story by Ellis St. Joseph.
Red Mesa, a lawless western town, turns to a hired professional killer for peace. Adapted from the story by Earnest (Ernest??) Haycox.
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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