Escape

Escape was a long-running CBS Radio series hosted by and starring William Conrad. It ran on CBS from 1947 to 1954, broadcasting a wide range of adventure stories, including science fiction and horror. Over 200 half-hour episodes were broadcast, most of which still survive. The episodes below are the genre episodes.
Episode 1: A House of Cards

​​A family struggle to survive in a nuclear fallout shelter, while someone outside tries to dig their way in.

​First broadcast: 4 August 1964.
Original Story by George Bamber.
​Cast: Bryna Raeburn, Cecil Roy, George Petrie, Guy Sorel, Vicki Vola.​
Episode 2: Terror From Beyond
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​​Aliens take over the mind of a scientist searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.

First broadcast: 5 August 1964.
Original Story by Robert Newman.
​Cast: Robert Dryden, Ralph Camargo, Gilbert Mack.
Episode 3: Homecoming
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​​A widow believes her dead husband has returned to stay.

First broadcast: 6 August 1964.
Original Story by George Bamber.
​Cast: Dan Ocko, Margaret Hamilton, Mary Jane Higby.
Episode 4: Rebellion Next Week
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​​A group of mutant children plot to take over the world.
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​First broadcast: 10 August 1964.
Original Story by Robert Cenedella.
​Cast: Bryna Raeburn, Evelyn Juster, Ivor Francis, Bob Hastings.
Episode 5: The New Order

Government investigators stumble upon a conspiracy at a robot manufacturing plant.

​First broadcast: 18 August 1964.
Original Story by Don Haring.
​Cast: Robert Dryden, Jack Grimes, Jay Barney, Jack Manning, Owen Jordan.
Episode 6: Your Time Is Up

A woman has a premonition of her husband's death.

​First broadcast: 20 August 1964.
Original Story by Raphael David Blau.
​Cast: Natalie Priest, Betty Walker, Paul McGrath, Norman Rose.
Episode 7: Molecule Masquerade

​A US intelligence agent finds he has a doppelgänger accused of murder.
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​First broadcast: 21 August 1964.
Original Story by Sherman H. Dreyer.
​Cast: George Petrie, Vicki Vola, Luis Van Rooten, Peter Fernandez, James Monks.
Episode 8: Incident At Apogee

The world's first spacewalk is sabotaged by a jealous astronaut.

​First broadcast: 28 August 1964.
Original Story by William N. Robson.
​Cast: George Petrie, Joan Shea, Clifford Carpenter, Richard Hurd, Jack Manning, Ralph Camargo.
Episode 9: The Scream

A demolition worker is convinced he heard the house he is demolishing scream.

​First broadcast: 31 August 1964.
Original Story by Virginia Radcliffe.
​Cast: Roger De Koven, Peter Fernandez, Harry Belova, Albert Oppenheimer, Abby Lewis.
Episode 10: Outside Time
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​An astronaut vanishes and materialises back in mission control, with an important message for all Mankind.

​First broadcast: 1 September 1964.
Original Story by Lawrence Weinberg.
​Cast: Al Hodge, George Petrie, Jack Grimes, Maurice Tarplin, Richard Keith.
Episode 11: Incident At Shadow Valley

​Mysterious trucker Mr. Janus stops at a roadside diner and death follows in his wake.

​First broadcast: 8 September 1964.
Original Story by Raphael David Blau.
​Cast: Arlene Walker, George Petrie, Jackson Beck, John Gibson, Richard Hurd, Robert Dryden.
Episode 12: First Encounter

​The crew of the first expedition to the Moon are captured by invisible 'Lunies'.

First broadcast: 10 September 1964.
Original Story by Leonard Stadd.
​Cast: William Mason, Toni Darnay, Robert Dryden, Jackson Beck, Bret Morrison.
Episode 13: The Noon Stars

A highly religious town is thrown into turmoil when a young boy appears who claims he can see the stars in daytime.

​First broadcast: 14 September 1964.
Original Story by Richard McCracken.
​Cast: Paul McGrath, Alice Yourman, Cecil Roy, Tom McDermott, Lorraine MacMartin, Evelyn Juster, Bryna Raeburn.
Episode 14: The Big Freeze

A man with a fatal heart condition is cryogenically frozen and receives a shock when he awakes two years later.

​First broadcast: 16 September 1964.
Original Story by Sol Panitz.
​Cast: Jack Grimes, Jackson Beck.
Episode 15: Odyssey of Number Fourteen

A reporter investigates the disappearance of an American astronaut.

​First broadcast: 22 September 1964.
Original Story by Bruce Bassett.
​Cast: Jon Thomas, Lenka Peterson, Lon Clark, Cliff Carpenter, Jay Barney.
Episode 16: We Are All Alone

Radio astronomers pick up a message from outer space.

​First broadcast: 23 September 1964.
Original Story by Unknown.
​Cast: Ralph Camargo, Teri Keane, Guy Sorel.
Episode 17: The Evil That Men Do
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​A scientist fails to foresee the consequences when he invents a drug to cure all criminal tendencies.

​First broadcast: 24 September 1964.
Original Story by Raphael David Blau.
​Cast: Ian Martin, George Petrie, Court Benson, Jan Miner, Jackson Beck.
Episode 18: Look Who's Talking

A scientist learns to communicate with dolphins.

​First broadcast: 28 September 1964.
Original Story by Richard McCracken.
​Cast: William Redfield, Evelyn Juster, Edward Bryce, Bryna Raeburn, Owen Jordan, June Graham, Ralph Bell.
Episode 19: Subject Number 428A
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​The invention of a computer which can predict a person's every action leads to murder.

​First broadcast: 2 October 1964.
Original Story by Robert Cenedella.
​Cast: Court Benson, Donald Buka, Ivor Francis, Jack Manning.
Episode 20: The Last Land Rush

In an overpopulated future world, the Government grants plots of land on the highway divider to anyone who can defend their plot for 24 hours.
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​First broadcast: 6 October 1964.
Original Story by George Bamber.
​Cast: Dwight Weist, Wayne Tippett, Rosemary Rice, Sam Raskin, Fran Carlon, Cecil Roy.