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Escape | Old Time Radio brings you gripping adventure, suspense, mystery, and psychological drama from the golden age of radio. Each episode transports listeners into dangerous situations, distant places, desperate struggles, and unforgettable stories of survival and the unknown. Each episode is an Old Time Retro Radio production, presenting the original broadcast with gently cleaned and mastered audio, a newly produced introduction and closing, and custom episode artwork. Escape became one of classic radio’s most acclaimed anthology series, adapting powerful stories of adventure, danger, horror, and suspense. Rediscover classic old time radio adventure, suspense, mystery, survival stories, thriller drama, and vintage radio.

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Today · 30 min
Escape - "The Red Mark" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “The Red Mark,” originally broadcast on CBS on February 21, 1950. Often listed as episode 111, this tense drama was adapted by Les Crutchfield and Manny Grotnik from a short story by John Russell, and directed by William N. Robson. At...
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Yesterday · 30 min
Escape - "El Guitarrero" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “El Guitarrero,” originally broadcast on CBS on April 19, 1953. Episode numbering varies among surviving guides, which list it as either episode 172 or 179. Written by E. Jack Neuman and directed by Antony Ellis, the drama features...
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Sunday · 29 min
Escape - "The Bird of Paradise" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “The Bird of Paradise,” originally broadcast on CBS on March 11, 1954. Common sequential listings identify it as episode 205, though numbering varies among surviving catalogs. John Dehner stars as fortune hunter Andrew Harben in this...
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Saturday · 30 min
Escape - "The Country of the Blind" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “The Country of the Blind,” an archival episode of the CBS Radio adventure series Escape. This local archival recording is one of several Escape adaptations of H. G. Wells’s classic short story, dramatized for radio by John Dunkel....
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Friday · 29 min
Escape - "The Man Who Won the War ALT1" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “The Man Who Won the War,” originally broadcast on CBS on February 28, 1950 (episode 100). This alternate archival recording features Ben Wright, John Dehner, and Paul Frees in a William N. Robson adaptation of Robert Buckner’s story....
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Thursday · 29 min
Escape - "The Man Who Liked Dickens" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “The Man Who Liked Dickens,” originally broadcast on CBS on December 21, 1952 (episode 162). Adapted by John Meston from Evelyn Waugh’s 1933 short story, the drama stars Terry Kilburn and Joseph Kearns. In the remote Brazilian jungle,...
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Wednesday · 29 min
Escape - "Misfortunes Isle ALT2" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “Misfortunes Isle ALT2,” originally broadcast March 21, 1948, and generally listed as episode 33. This CBS seafaring adventure was adapted by Les Crutchfield from Richard Matthews Hallet’s story “Misfortune’s Isle,” with William N....
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October 6 · 30 min
Escape - "20 the Country of the Blind" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “20 the Country of the Blind,” episode 4903, originally broadcast March 20, 1949. This CBS adaptation of H. G. Wells’s “The Country of the Blind” was written by John Dunkel and produced and directed by Norman Macdonnell, starring...
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October 5 · 28 min
Escape - "The Return ALT1" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “The Return,” originally broadcast on CBS on April 1, 1954, as episode 208. This Kathleen Hite drama was directed by Norman Macdonnell and features Lawrence Dobkin and William Conrad. In a walled North African city, a weary traveler...
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October 4 · 30 min
Escape - "23 Leiningen Vs the Ants" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “23 Leiningen Vs the Ants,” originally broadcast May 23, 1948. This archival recording is identified as episode number 4805. William Conrad stars as Leiningen in Robert Ryf’s radio adaptation of Carl Stephenson’s “Leiningen Versus the...
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October 3 · 30 min
Escape - "28 a Shipment of Mute Fate" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “A Shipment of Mute Fate,” originally broadcast March 28, 1948. This archival recording is identified as episode 4803. At Venezuela’s port of La Guaira, zoologist Chris Warner insists on bringing a captured bushmaster snake aboard the...
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October 2 · 30 min
Escape - "25 Evening Primrose" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “Evening Primrose,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 25, 1949. This archival recording is identified as episode 4908. Adapted by John Dunkel from John Collier’s short story, it stars Harry Bartell and Vivi Janiss. Disillusioned...
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October 1 · 30 min
Escape - "07 the Vanishing Lady" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “07 the Vanishing Lady,” originally broadcast on CBS on February 1, 1948. This archival recording is episode 4802. Written and directed by William N. Robson, the drama adapts Alexander Woollcott’s celebrated “vanishing lady” tale. At...
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September 30 · 27 min
Escape - "11 Conqueror's Isle" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “11 Conqueror’s Isle,” originally broadcast on CBS on January 11, 1953. This archival recording is identified as episode 5301 and adapts Nelson S. Bond’s short story “Conqueror’s Isle.” Years after his wartime bomber vanished over the...
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September 29 · 30 min
Escape - "14 Snake Doctor" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “14 Snake Doctor,” episode 4802, originally broadcast February 14, 1948. This CBS production was adapted by Fred Howard from Irvin S. Cobb’s short story “Snake Doctor,” with William N. Robson producing and directing. Along Cashier...
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September 28 · 30 min
Escape - "10 the Second Class Passenger" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “The Second Class Passenger,” episode 4801, originally broadcast January 10, 1948. This West Coast airing of the CBS suspense series adapts Perceval Gibbon’s 1913 short story, with William N. Robson serving as writer and producer....
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September 27 · 30 min
Escape - "17 Leiningen Vs the Ants" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “17 Leiningen Vs the Ants,” episode 4801, originally broadcast January 17, 1948. This CBS drama is the West Coast performance of Robert Ryf’s adaptation of Carl Stephenson’s “Leiningen Versus the Ants,” produced and directed by William...
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September 26 · 30 min
Escape - "07 the Fourth Man" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “The Fourth Man,” originally broadcast July 7, 1949, as episode 4907. This CBS production stars Lawrence Dobkin as narrator and adapts John Russell’s short story for radio by Irving Ravetch. Near Nouméa in the South Pacific, three...
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September 25 · 30 min
Escape - "Papa Benjamin ALT1" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “Papa Benjamin ALT1,” originally broadcast on CBS on January 24, 1948, as episode 27. This alternate production adapts Cornell Woolrich’s story “Papa Benjamin,” written under his William Irish pen name, for radio by John Dunkel and...
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September 24 · 30 min
Escape - "Classified Secret" (Old Time Radio)
Escape presents “Classified Secret,” originally broadcast on CBS on April 12, 1953. Written, produced, and directed by Antony Ellis, this espionage drama stars Parley Baer and Miriam Kruschen. Charlie Rader boards an eastbound bus from North...
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