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 vi...
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Nov 13, 2026 · 30:28
Escape presents “The Untouchable,” originally broadcast on CBS on September 27, 1953. Episode 202 is a sustaining-network drama written by James Henderson and directed by Antony…
Nov 12, 2026 · 30:56
Escape presents “The Gladiator,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 1, 1951 (episode 147). Written by Millard Kaufman and directed by Norman Macdonnell, it stars William…
Nov 11, 2026 · 30:42
Escape presents “Four Went Home,” originally broadcast on CBS Radio Network on December 14, 1952. Common episode guides list it as episode 161. Written and directed by Antony…
Nov 10, 2026 · 29:24
Escape presents “A Matter of Conscience ALT1,” originally broadcast on CBS on January 18, 1953. Often listed as episode 166, though some chronological logs number it #179, this…
Nov 9, 2026 · 30:32
Escape presents “Orient Express,” originally broadcast on CBS Radio on February 19, 1949, as episode 68. This tense adaptation of Graham Greene’s 1932 novel Stamboul Train was…
Nov 7, 2026 · 30:54
Escape presents “The Golden Snake,” episode 106 of the CBS radio anthology, originally broadcast April 14, 1950. This sustaining presentation was written for radio by Les…
Nov 6, 2026 · 30:26
Escape presents “The Earthman,” originally broadcast on CBS on July 25, 1951, as episode 146. Adapted by Walter Newman from Ray Bradbury’s “The Earth Men,” the drama was directed…
Nov 5, 2026 · 25:21
Escape presents “A Shipment of Mute Fate,” an archival episode of the CBS adventure anthology. The exact original broadcast date and episode number are not identified; Escape…
Nov 4, 2026 · 29:27
Escape presents “Judgment Day at Crippled Deer,” originally broadcast on CBS on June 24, 1954. Commonly indexed as episode 215, this Yukon-set drama was written by Les…
Nov 3, 2026 · 30:21
Escape presents “The Voyages of Sinbad,” originally broadcast on CBS on June 7, 1953. Common episode listings identify it as episode 186. This Antony Ellis adaptation draws on…
Nov 2, 2026 · 30:26
Escape presents “02 the Red Forest,” originally broadcast on CBS Radio on August 2, 1953. This archival recording is episode number 5308. Written and directed by Antony Ellis, it…
Nov 1, 2026 · 29:55
From the radio anthology Escape, “Flood on the Goodwins” is presented from a local archival recording. The original broadcast date and episode number are not supplied. This…
Oct 31, 2026 · 30:26
Escape presents “The Price of the Head,” originally broadcast August 7, 1954. This local archival recording is identified as episode 5408. In the South Pacific, drunken outcast…
Oct 30, 2026 · 30:36
Escape presents “Two and Two Make Four,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 21, 1954. Cataloged as episode 236 in the established broadcast log, this late-season psychological…
Oct 29, 2026 · 30:28
Escape presents “The Dark Wall,” originally broadcast on CBS Radio on July 1, 1954. This late-run episode is commonly listed as episode 216, written by Kathleen Hite and directed…
Oct 28, 2026 · 29:59
Escape presents “The Return,” originally broadcast on CBS Radio on April 1, 1954, as episode 208. Written by Kathleen Hite and produced by Norman Macdonnell, this sustaining…
Oct 27, 2026 · 29:36
Escape presents “The Derelict,” originally broadcast on CBS on April 26, 1953. Commonly cataloged as episode 180, this sustaining broadcast was written for radio by Larry Roman…
Oct 26, 2026 · 30:02
Escape presents “The Man from Tomorrow,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 23, 1953. Episode 197 features Lawrence Dobkin in an original radio play by Irving Reis, directed…
Oct 24, 2026 · 30:29
Escape presents “Ancient Sorceries,” originally broadcast on CBS Radio Network on February 15, 1948. Episode 28 of the series adapts Algernon Blackwood’s supernatural short…
Oct 23, 2026 · 30:31
Escape presents “The Man with the Steel Teeth,” originally broadcast on CBS on March 15, 1953. This is episode 174 of the series, written by John Dehner and directed by Antony…
Oct 22, 2026 · 29:01
Escape presents “Jimmy Goggles the God,” originally broadcast on CBS on March 7, 1948. Episode numbering varies by catalog: it is often listed as episode 31, while…
Oct 21, 2026 · 29:53
Escape presents “Green Splotches,” originally broadcast on CBS on March 31, 1950. This is episode 104 of the series’ Richfield Oil-sponsored Friday run, adapted by William N.…
Oct 20, 2026 · 30:27
Escape presents “The Power of Hammer,” originally broadcast on CBS Radio on October 15, 1950. Commonly listed as episode 128 of the series, it was the third episode of Escape’s…
Oct 19, 2026 · 30:34
Escape presents “How Love Came to Professor Guildea,” originally broadcast on CBS on February 22, 1948, as episode #36. Adapted by Les Crutchfield from Robert Hichens’s 1900…
Oct 18, 2026 · 30:33
Escape presents “Operation Fleur De Lys,” originally broadcast on CBS on July 14, 1947. This early Escape episode is identified as episode 2. In occupied France in 1944, American…
Oct 17, 2026 · 30:34
Escape presents “A Sleeping Draft,” originally broadcast April 5, 1953. Cataloged as episode 5304, this CBS Escape drama is adapted by S. A. Bolte from a short story by Weston…
Oct 16, 2026 · 30:19
Escape presents “The Sire De Maletroit’s Door,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 4, 1947, as episode 5. This sustaining broadcast adapts Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1878 story,…
Oct 14, 2026 · 30:32
Escape presents “The Most Dangerous Game,” originally broadcast on CBS on October 1, 1947, as episode 8. Adapted by Irving Ravetch from Richard Connell’s celebrated short story,…
Oct 13, 2026 · 30:29
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…
Oct 12, 2026 · 30:33
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.…
Oct 11, 2026 · 29:57
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…
Oct 10, 2026 · 30:30
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.…
Oct 9, 2026 · 29:54
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…
Oct 8, 2026 · 29:52
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…
Oct 7, 2026 · 29:14
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…
Oct 6, 2026 · 30:56
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…
Oct 5, 2026 · 28:59
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…
Oct 4, 2026 · 30:33
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…
Oct 3, 2026 · 30:18
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…
Oct 2, 2026 · 30:46
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…
Oct 1, 2026 · 30:35
Escape presents “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…
Sep 30, 2026 · 27:56
Escape presents “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…
Sep 29, 2026 · 30:18
Escape presents “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…
Sep 28, 2026 · 30:39
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…
Sep 27, 2026 · 30:27
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…
Sep 26, 2026 · 30:22
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…
Sep 25, 2026 · 30:34
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,”…
Sep 24, 2026 · 30:20
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…
Sep 23, 2026 · 30:25
Escape presents “Command” (also listed as “Command”), originally broadcast May 26, 1950. This archival recording is episode 5005. Adapted by William N. Robson from James Warner…
Sep 22, 2026 · 30:13
Escape presents “a Shipment of Mute Fate,” originally broadcast March 13, 1949. This archival episode is identified as episode 4903. John Lund stars in this CBS Escape…
Sep 21, 2026 · 30:21
Escape presents “The Fourth Man,” originally broadcast April 25, 1948. This archival recording is identified as episode 4804. Adapted by Irving Ravetch from John Russell’s South…
Sep 20, 2026 · 30:29
Escape presents “27 the Country of the Blind,” originally broadcast June 27, 1948. This local archival recording is identified as episode number 4806. Adapted by John Dunkel from…
Sep 19, 2026 · 30:24
Escape presents “30 the Man Who Stole the Bible,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 30, 1951. This archival episode is cataloged as episode 5108. Written by John and Gwen…
Sep 18, 2026 · 30:29
Escape presents “Action,” originally broadcast July 21, 1949. This archival recording is identified as episode 4907. Joseph Kearns stars in this CBS production, written by Les…
Sep 17, 2026 · 30:39
Escape presents “A Shipment of Mute Fate,” originally broadcast July 7, 1950. This archival recording is episode 5007, identified in Escape logs as episode 118. In La Guaira,…
Sep 16, 2026 · 30:26
Escape presents “She,” originally broadcast on CBS on July 11, 1948. This adaptation of H. Rider Haggard’s classic adventure novel is commonly listed as episode 46, though…
Sep 15, 2026 · 30:22
Escape presents “The Man Who Won the War ALT2,” originally broadcast on CBS on February 28, 1950. Cataloged as episode 100, this local archival recording is a World War I naval…
Sep 14, 2026 · 30:28
Escape presents “Three Good Witnesses,” originally broadcast January 31, 1948, as episode 4801. This CBS thriller was adapted by John Dunkel from a Harold Lamb story and directed…
Sep 13, 2026 · 30:30
Escape presents “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 29, 1948. This archival recording is episode 4808. In Les Crutchfield’s adaptation of F.…
Sep 12, 2026 · 30:34
Escape presents “How Love Came to Professor Guildea,” episode 4802, originally broadcast February 22, 1948. This local archival Escape recording adapts Robert Smythe Hichens’s…
Sep 11, 2026 · 30:25
Escape presents “Three Skeleton Key,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 9, 1953. This archival recording is episode 5308. Adapted by James Poe from Georges-Gustave Toudouze’s…
Sep 10, 2026 · 30:13
Escape presents “Evening Primrose,” originally broadcast on CBS on September 12, 1948. This archival recording is episode number 4809. Disillusioned poet Charles Snell, played by…
Sep 9, 2026 · 30:24
Escape presents “Red Wine,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 11, 1949. This archival recording is identified as episode 4908; the drama is commonly cataloged as Escape…
Sep 8, 2026 · 30:27
Escape presents “28 Wild Oranges,” originally broadcast on CBS on September 28, 1949. This archival recording is identified as episode 4909. Adapted by John Dunkel from Joseph…
Sep 7, 2026 · 31:07
Escape presents “The Drums of the Fore and Aft,” originally broadcast July 14, 1949. Episode 4907. Adapted by Les Crutchfield from Rudyard Kipling’s short story, this CBS…
Sep 6, 2026 · 30:30
Escape presents “The Killer Mine,” episode 142 of the CBS adventure anthology, originally broadcast February 11, 1951. John Dehner stars in this adaptation of Hammond Innes’s…
Sep 5, 2026 · 30:19
Escape presents “04 Leiningen Vs the Ants,” originally broadcast August 4, 1949. This archival recording is identified as episode 4908. Adapted by Robert Ryf from Carl…
Sep 4, 2026 · 30:38
Escape presents “27 the Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” originally broadcast March 27, 1949. This local archival recording is identified as episode number 4903. Adapted by Les…
Sep 3, 2026 · 30:32
Escape presents “Snake Doctor,” originally broadcast on August 18, 1949. This local archival recording is episode 4908. Adapted by Fred Howard from Irvin S. Cobb’s short story,…
Sep 2, 2026 · 30:14
Escape presents “The Rim of Terror,” originally broadcast on CBS on May 12, 1950, as episode 110. Adapted by William N. Robson from Hildegarde Tolman Teilhet’s novel, the drama…
Sep 1, 2026 · 30:31
Escape presents “Mars Is Heaven,” originally broadcast on CBS on June 2, 1950. Commonly listed as episode 125, though some logs number it 113, this Ray Bradbury adaptation was…
Aug 31, 2026 · 30:27
Escape presents “Poison,” originally broadcast on CBS on July 28, 1950. Often listed as episode 121, this tense adaptation of Roald Dahl’s short story was written for radio by…
Aug 30, 2026 · 25:30
Escape presents “Dead of Night Audition,” originally broadcast on CBS on March 21, 1947. This unnumbered second audition program preceded the regular Escape series, which began…
Aug 29, 2026 · 30:31
Escape presents “The Man Who Stole the Bible,” originally broadcast on CBS on May 5, 1950. This archival recording is identified as episode 5005. Written by John and Gwen Bagni…
Aug 28, 2026 · 30:32
Escape presents “The Lost Special,” originally broadcast February 12, 1949. Cataloged here as episode 4902, this CBS sustaining production adapts Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s railway…
Aug 27, 2026 · 30:29
Escape presents “The Log of the Evening Star,” originally broadcast March 14, 1948. This archival recording is episode 4803 of Escape. First mate Harper records a troubling…
Aug 26, 2026 · 29:42
Escape presents “28 the Man Who Won the War ALT1,” originally broadcast February 28, 1950. This archival recording is identified as episode 5002; established Escape catalogs also…
Aug 25, 2026 · 30:35
Escape presents “21 the Red Mark,” originally broadcast February 21, 1950. This archival recording is episode 5002 of the series. At a French penal colony on New Caledonia,…
Aug 24, 2026 · 30:23
Escape presents “Typhoon,” originally broadcast July 28, 1947. This archival recording is cataloged locally as episode 4707; the matching CBS broadcast was the fourth regular…
Aug 23, 2026 · 30:28
Escape presents “28 the Man Who Won the War ALT2,” originally broadcast February 28, 1950. This local archival recording is identified as episode 5002. On a North Sea patrol in…
Aug 22, 2026 · 30:30
Escape presents “The Rim of Terror,” originally broadcast May 12, 1950. This archival recording is identified as episode 5005; established episode logs list the broadcast as…
Aug 21, 2026 · 30:27
Escape presents “The Killer Mine,” originally broadcast February 11, 1951, as episode 5102. This CBS suspense adventure stars John Dehner and was adapted by Antony Ellis from…
Aug 20, 2026 · 30:31
Escape presents “21 Ancient Sorceries,” episode 4802, originally broadcast February 21, 1948. This CBS adaptation of Algernon Blackwood’s supernatural story was written for radio…
Aug 19, 2026 · 30:19
Escape presents “15 Three Skeleton Key ALT1,” originally broadcast November 15, 1949. This local archival recording is episode number 4911. On a remote lighthouse station off…
Aug 18, 2026 · 30:18
Escape presents “28 Poison,” originally broadcast July 28, 1950. This archival recording is identified as episode 5007. Adapted by James Poe from Roald Dahl’s short story…
Aug 17, 2026 · 25:17
Escape presents “21 Dead of Night Audition,” episode 4703, originally broadcast March 21, 1947. This CBS audition/pilot adapts “The Ventriloquist’s Dummy,” the John Baines story…
Aug 16, 2026 · 30:30
Escape presents “02 Mars Is Heaven,” originally broadcast June 2, 1950. This archival recording is episode 5006. In Ray Bradbury’s eerie science-fiction tale, framed as a live…
Aug 15, 2026 · 30:25
Escape presents “Leiningen Versus the Ants,” originally broadcast on May 23, 1948. Episode 42 of CBS’s adventure anthology stars William Conrad as the fiercely determined…
Aug 14, 2026 · 30:21
Escape presents “Three Skeleton Key -William Conrad- -2,” episode 85 of the CBS radio series Escape, originally broadcast November 15, 1949. On an isolated lighthouse rock off…
Aug 14, 2026 · 30:14
Escape presents “Three Skeleton Key -William Conrad- -1,” episode 85 of the CBS series Escape, originally broadcast November 15, 1949. At an isolated lighthouse off the coast of…
Aug 14, 2026 · 30:23
Escape presents “Three Skeleton Key,” episode 102, originally broadcast on March 17, 1950. This listener-requested repeat adaptation stars Vincent Price as lighthouse keeper…
Aug 14, 2026 · 28:55
https://www.oldtimeretroradio.comThis episode features Escape - Clear For Action [episode 187] Broadcast 6/14/1953, a restored classic from the golden age of radio. A classic old…
Aug 13, 2026 · 29:31
https://www.oldtimeretroradio.comThis episode features Escape - Danger At Matecumbe [episode 103] Broadcast 3/24/1950, a restored classic from the golden age of radio. A classic…
Aug 12, 2026 · 29:31
https://www.oldtimeretroradio.comThis episode features Escape - When The Man Comes Follow Him [episode 66] Broadcast 4/9/1949, a restored classic from the golden age of radio. A…
Aug 11, 2026 · 29:31
https://www.oldtimeretroradio.comThis episode features Escape - Present Tense [episode 96] Broadcast 1/31/1950, a restored classic from the golden age of radio. A classic old…
Aug 10, 2026 · 29:31
https://www.oldtimeretroradio.comThis episode features Escape - Border Town [episode 89] Broadcast 12/13/1949, a restored classic from the golden age of radio. A classic old time…
Aug 9, 2026 · 29:31
https://www.oldtimeretroradio.comThis episode features Escape - Pressure [episode 175] Broadcast 3/22/1953, a restored classic from the golden age of radio. A classic old time…
Aug 7, 2026 · 29:15
https://www.oldtimeretroradio.com This episode features Escape - A Shipment Of Mute Fate -Harry Bartell [episode 34] Broadcast 3/28/1948, a restored classic from the golden age…
Jul 31, 2026 · 28:14
https://www.oldtimeretroradio.com This episode features Escape - Misfortunes Isle -National Broadcast [episode 33] Broadcast 3/21/1948, a restored classic from the golden age of…
Jul 24, 2026 · 29:21
https://www.oldtimeretroradio.com This episode features Escape - Misfortunes Isle -National Broadcast [episode 33] Broadcast 3/21/1948, a restored classic from the golden age of…
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