Escape

CBS high-adventure anthology mixing original radio stories and literary adaptations.

The run breaks into several distinct periods: Audition recordings (February 28, 1947 to March 21, 1947) on CBS Radio Network, First regular CBS run (July 7, 1947 to August 30, 1951) on CBS Radio Network, and Post-hiatus CBS run (October 12, 1952 to September 25, 1954) on CBS Radio Network.

Names that turn up again and again in the surviving run include William Conrad (performer and announcer), Norman Macdonnell (director, producer, and assistant producer), Roy Rowan (announcer), William N. Robson (producer, director, and radio adaptor), Leith Stevens (conductor, composer, and music), Paul Frees (performer), and Ben Wright (performer, narrator, and writer).

Across its run, the surviving broadcasts are tied to CBS Radio Network, Armed Forces Radio and Television Service, Armed Forces Radio Service, and KNX.

The stories often return to survival in extreme danger, wartime danger, danger at sea, dangerous animals, wilderness survival, and crime, pursuit, and captivity.

The show also sits in a wider radio history that includes the postwar adventure-anthology boom, radio adaptations of literature, and radio drama moving toward television anthology formats.

If you are following the same actors and creative circles, related programs worth opening next include Lux Radio Theatre, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, The Whistler, The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, and Broadway Is My Beat.