Escape, Volume 6

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Escape
Volume 6

"...designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half-hour of high adventure..."

Inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame back in 1997; William Conrad began his radio career in California in the late 1930s. When the United States entered into the global conflict of the Second World War, Conrad put his radio acting career on hold and enlisted, becoming a fighter pilot. After the war ended, he returned to radio and picked up right where he left off. In addition to lending his voice in a record 90 episodes of Escape; Conrad also shared narrating duties on the show. One of the hardest working actor in radio, Conrad appeared in some 7,500 radio shows during his career.

Despite being perhaps one of the greatest adventure anthologies produced during Radio’s Golden Age, Escape never had a regular time slot. During its seven year run starting back in 1947 and ending in 1954, Escape was shifted between time-slots for a record of 18-times. Sometimes Escape even disappeared completely off the weekly radio schedule altogether. Why was Escape treated so poorly by CBS when regular established time slots were crucial in Radio’s Golden Age to build an audience? It’s perhaps one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Golden Age of Radio especially since Radio Life wrote about Escape: “These stories all possess many times the reality that most radio writing conveys.” Perhaps the answer lies in the cold financial fact that Escape had no regular sponsors.

Escape did have sponsors – just not regular, long term ones. Among the companies that sponsored Escape in a fairly limited fashion were the Richfield Oil Corporation of New York, the Ford Motor Company, and the Chrysler-Plymouth Company. One of the reasons why Escape never was able to obtain long term corporate sponsorship was that CBS kept moving the radio program all over a wide range of broadcast times and days.

Here is the complete content of this 6 CD collection of Escape, Volume 6 fully restored by Radio Archives.

Command

Tuesday, December 6, 1949 - 30:00 - CBS, sustaining

Border Town

Tuesday, December 13, 1949 - 30:00 - CBS, sustaining

Figure a Dame

Tuesday, December 20, 1949 - 30:00 - CBS, sustaining

Seeds of Greed

Tuesday, December 27, 1949 - 30:00 - CBS, sustaining

The Pistol

Tuesday, January 3, 1950 - 30:00 - CBS, sustaining

The Vanishing Lady

Tuesday, January 10, 1950 - 30:00 - CBS, sustaining

Treasure Inc.

Tuesday, January 24, 1950 - 30:00 - CBS, sustaining

Present Tense

Tuesday, January 31, 1950 - 30:00 - CBS, sustaining

The Outer Limit

Tuesday, February 7, 1950 - 30:00 - CBS, sustaining

Two if by Sea

Tuesday, February 14, 1950 - 30:00 - CBS, sponsored by Ford Dealers of America

The Red Mark

Tuesday, February 21, 1950 - 30:00 - CBS, sustaining

The Man Who Won the War

Tuesday, February 28, 1950 - 30:00 - CBS, sustaining

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	June 25, 2022
Reviewer: Timothy Schumacher from Bluffton, OH United States

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Intriguing stories by noted Authors........	May 28, 2022
Reviewer: Richard McLeod from RIVERSIDE, CA United States

I can't fully comment on the other Volumes, but if they are in anyway similar to the Episodes on this Volume 6, the other Volumes are a must to buy. Three specific stories in this Volume 6 stand out to me and they include: Present Tense, The Outer Limit and The Man Who Won the War. Many of these stories are were written by noted Authors, and have some of the most talented Radio, Stage and Screen Actors of the time, especially Frank Lovejoy and Vincent Price, to mention only a few. As usual, the Radio Archives Staff have restored these Escape Episodes in crystal clarity and probably clearer in sound than when originally Broadcast.

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	May 28, 2022
Reviewer: John Tefteller from Grants Pass, OR United States

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