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A good tale of the hills. A weird old man seems a mite too friendly with the cottonmouths.
Escape – Snake Doctor
Morgan Farley, Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough, Jeanette Nolan, Harry Bartell, Harold Lamb (author), John Dunkel (adaptor), Cy Feuer (music conceiver, conductor).
CBS network. A sustaining show. The East coast version.
The classic suspense story about a young girl in Paris, whose mother has vanished off the face of the earth.
The script was subsequently used on the program on January 10, 1950 and again produced on Favorite Story as “The Mystery Of Room 323″.
Escape – Vanishing Lady
Alexander Woollcott (author), William N. Robson (producer, adaptor), Norman Macdonnell (director), Joan Banks, Ramsay Hill, Hy Averback, Cy Feuer (music conceiver), Eddie Dunstedter (organist).
CBS network. A sustaining show. The west coast version.
There are lots of spies and intrigue on a Turkish train entering Syria.
Jack Webb and Barton Yarborough, who later starred in Dragnet, are featured!
Escape – Three Good Witnesses
Morgan Farley, Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough, Jeanette Nolan, Harry Bartell, Harold Lamb (author), John Dunkel (adaptor), Cy Feuer (music conceiver, conductor).
CBS network. A sustaining show. The East coast version.
An excellent radio drama of voodoo in the slums of New Orleans. The program includes some very fine music and sound effects.
Escape – Papa Benjamin
Frank Lovejoy, Luis Van Rooten, Harry Bartell, Joan Banks, William N. Robson (producer, director), Cornell Woolrich (writer, billed as, “William Irish”), John Dunkel (adaptor), Cy Feuer (music conceiver, conductor).
CBS network. A sustaining show. The East coast version.
A determined man battles even more determined insects in the tropical jungles.
The script was produced on the program subsequently on May 23, 1948 and on August 4, 1949. The story was also produced on Suspense August 22, 1956, August 25, 1957 and on November 29, 1959.
Escape – Leinengen Vs. the Ants
Carl Stephenson (author), William N. Robson (producer, director), Robert Ryf (adaptor), William Conrad, Cy Feuer (music conceiver, conductor), Lou Merrill.
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