Welcome!

Thanks for stopping by A Mind Forever Wandering Old Time Radio (or AMFWOTR for short), a blog devoted to the enjoyment of the wonderful but sometimes forgotten magic of radio entertainment. You’ll find some of the best classic shows right here, with new posts each and every day!


Click to learn more about your hosts, Jeff McAleer and Elliott Miller.

Join Our Facebook Group

Site Statistics


32
Visitors
Today
Powered By Google Analytics

Escape: 2/8/1948 – Snake Doctor

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.

You can also download the show HERE!

  • Share/Bookmark

Escape: 2/7/1948 - Vanishing Lady

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.

You can also download the show HERE!

  • Share/Bookmark

Escape: 1/28/1948 – Three Good Witnesses

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.

You can also download the show HERE!

  • Share/Bookmark

Escape: 1/21/1948 – Papa Benjamin

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.

You can also download the show HERE!

  • Share/Bookmark

Escape: 1/14/1948 – Leinengen Vs. the Ants

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.

CBS network. A sustaining show.

You can also download the show HERE!

  • Share/Bookmark

Escape: 1/07/1948 – The Second Class Passenger

A good adventure yarn about an ordinary tourist on a cruise ship who finds a beautiful woman, murder and flight in the back alleys of Mozambique.

Escape – The Second Class Passenger

Harry Bartell, Jeanette Nolan, Cathy Lewis, Percival Gibbons (author), William N. Robson (adaptor, producer, director), Cy Feuer (music conceiver, conductor).

CBS network. A sustaining show.

You can also download the show HERE!

  • Share/Bookmark

Escape: 12/31/1947 - Confession

A good story about a shell-shocked soldier walking the fog-filled streets of London …finding murder and terror!

Escape – Confession

Algernon Blackwood (author), William Conrad, Peggy Webber, William N. Robson (producer, director), John Dunkel (adaptor), Cy Feuer (music, conductor), Ramsay Hill.

CBS network. A sustaining show.

You can also download the show HERE!

  • Share/Bookmark

Escape: 12/24/1947 – Back For Christmas

A botany professor digging a “Devil’s Garden” in the basement, decides to kill his wife and bury her in it.

Escape – Back For Christmas

John Collier (author), Paul Frees, Robert Tallman (adaptor), William N. Robson (director).

CBS network. A sustaining show.

You can also download the show HERE!

  • Share/Bookmark
Page 1 of 41234