Escape — 1954
24 episodes broadcast in 1954.
A fortune seeker after a source of rare bird skins in the South Seas instead stumbles on a remote island whose only inhabitants are a beautiful girl and her rather violent boyfriend, who is as jealous of his privacy as he is of her. Adapted from the story by John Russell.
An American plantation owner in a banana republic becomes the prey in a deadly manhunt when a petty thug he once humiliated resurfaces as the leader of a successful revolution and now seeks revenge. Adapted from the story by Les Crutchfield.
Lieutenant Daumier, a young officer in Napoleon's Grande Armee sports an obsession with fighting pistol duels, which brings him into mortal conflict with an experienced senior officer--who just happens to be engaged to Daumier's former lover. Adapted from the story by Alexandre Dumas.
A world-weary adventurer longs for what he believes cannot exist : a place without strife or conflict or suffering - until he is clubbed in an alley and wakes to find himself in an island paradise where all his dream come true. Adapted from the story by Kathleen Hite.
An inexplicable and lightning-quick plague sweeps across the world, killing its victims within an hour of the first symptoms. Adapted from the story by Jack London.
A British officer is assigned to Mandrake to head military research on rockets; but a German POW has escaped from a nearby prison camp and may have an idea of what's going on at Mandrake. Adapted from the story by Ben Wright.
An island haven for crooks, swindlers, smugglers and other nogoodniks receives a visit from 'Honest John Weatherby' , a merchant captain who is eager to demonstrate just how honest a fellow he really is. Adapted from the story by John Russell.
A fishing trip to the back country of Ireland leads a vacationer into a dangerous love triangle wisha beautiful Gypsy girl. Adapted from the story by John Dehner.
A diver becomes enmeshed with a gang of treasure hunters in the Amazon. See also: "The Footprint" (Escape). Adapted from the story by Tony Barrett.
The Klondike is the setting for this tale of murder and revenge when a close knit group of friends seek frontier justice against the killer of a missing companion. Adapted from the story by Les Crutchfield.
A man must take his schizophrenic wife across the high Pyrenees to get her to the hospital, but her delusions persuade the locals on the way that he is a threat to her life. Adapted from the story by Kathleen Hite.
A story of the day when all the birds in the world decided the planet would be better off without humans in it. Adapted from the story by Daphne du Maurier.
A story with similarities to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. A representative of a historical research society is sent into the depths of the Burmese jungle to locate a fellow researcher who has seemingly gone mad. Adapted from the story by Kathleen Hite.
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.
Two American smugglers in Haiti are confused by the natives' demands for their merchandise. Adapted from the story by Morton Fine and David Friedkin.
A violent alcoholic beach bum in the South Seas is continually rescued from dire straits by his native companion - but what possible reason could he have for going to all the trouble? Adapted from the story by John Russell.
The lone survivor of a plane crash in the Caribbean seeks to return to the crash site to retrieve a fortune. Adapted from the story by E. Jack Neuman.
A merchant sailor recovering from a head wound in Calais suffers a blackout after which he finds himself in England and the target of an unknown enemy out to kill him. Adapted from the story by Walter Brown Newman.
Two fortune hunters after black pearls find a mother lode on a remote Pacific island, one ruled over by a hermitical tyrant with an arsenal and an army of natives to back up his power. Adapted from the story by Robert Tallman.
A ship becomes trapped when a volcano rises out of the ocean around them, encircling them in a ring of rock and burning magma. Adapted from the story by Vincent McHugh.
An insurance investigator on the trail of a con man in Chile gets caught in his target's web of betrayal, deceit and murder. Adapted from the story by Tony Barrett.
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