episodes of Escape
Paul Frees, who promised us "Escape!" "We Offer You...Escape!" makes a suitable counterpoint to those tales "Well-Calculated to Keep You in...Suspense!" -- an anthology of high adventure to contrast with Suspense's low cunning. Some stories could adapt to either program (and several were) , but Escape emphasized the thrills to Suspense's chills. Three Skeleton Key may be Escape's best-remembered episode, and creating the sound of hundreds of rats is still a challenge for any audio effects artist today.
Paul Frees and William Conrad were two of the brilliant late-era radio talents who added a dose of testosterone to the exiting adventures for listeners who "tired of the everyday grind."
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| Jul 21 1947 | Diamond as Big as the Ritz |
| Aug 18 1947 | The Fourth Man |
| Oct 01 1947 | The Most Dangerous Game |
| Oct 22 1947 | Fall of the House of Usher |
| Nov 05 1947 | Evening Primrose |
| Nov 19 1947 | Casting the Runes |
| Nov 26 1947 | The Country of the Blind |
| Dec 10 1947 | An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |
| Jan 14 1948 | Leiningen vs the Ants (version 1) |
| Apr 11 1948 | The Brute |
| Mar 26 1949 | The Adaptive Ultimate |
| Aug 04 1949 | Leiningen vs the Ants (version 2) |
| Nov 15 1949 | Three Skeleton Key |
| Mar 17 1950 | Three Skeleton Key (Repeat Performance) |
| Jul 07 1950 | A Shipment of Mute Fate |
| Jul 28 1950 | Poison |
| Oct 22 1950 | The Time Machine |
| Dec 17 1950 | Wild Jack Rhett |
| Feb 01 1953 | A Study in Wax |
| Feb 22 1953 | I Saw Myself Running |
| Jul 19 1953 | The Open Boat |
| Sep 13 1953 | The Abominable Snowman |
| Apr 08 1954 | The Scarlet Plague |
| Oct 07 1954 | The Birds |