| Genre | Adventure |
|---|---|
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Language | English |
| Home station | CBS |
| Written by | Les Crutchfield, John Dunkel |
| Directed by | Norman MacDonnell, William N. Robson |
| Produced by | Norman MacDonnell |
| Narrated by | Paul Frees, William Conrad |
| Original release | July 7, 1947 – September 25, 1954 |
| No. of episodes | 228 |
Escape is an Americanradio drama. It was radio's leadinganthology series of high-adventure radio dramas, airing onCBS from July 7, 1947 to September 25, 1954.[1]
Since the program did not have a regular sponsor likeSuspense (a sister program that often used the same actors and scripts), it was subjected to frequent schedule shifts and lower production budgets, althoughRichfield Oil signed on as a sponsor for five months in 1950.
Despite these problems,Escape enthralled many listeners during its seven-year run. The series' well-remembered opening combinedMussorgsky'sNight on Bald Mountain with this introduction, as intoned byWilliam Conrad and laterPaul Frees:
Following the opening theme, a second announcer (usually Roy Rowan) would add:
Of the more than 230Escape episodes, most have survived in good condition. Many story premises, both originals and adaptations, involved a protagonist in dire life-or-death straits, and the series featured morescience fiction andsupernatural tales thanSuspense. Some of the memorable adaptations includeDaphne du Maurier's "The Birds",Carl Stephenson's "Leiningen Versus the Ants",Algernon Blackwood's "Confession",Ray Bradbury's oft-reprinted "Mars Is Heaven",George R. Stewart'sEarth Abides (the program's only two-parter),Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" andF. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz".
John Collier's "Evening Primrose", about people who live inside a department store, was later adapted to TV as aStephen Sondheim musical starringAnthony Perkins.William Conrad,Harry Bartell andElliott Reid were heard in the chilling "Three Skeleton Key" (broadcast on 15 November 1949), the tale of three men trapped in an isolated lighthouse by thousands of rats; the half-hour was adapted from anEsquire short story by the French writer George Toudouze and later remade for the March 17, 1950 broadcast starringVincent Price,Harry Bartell andJeff Corey and again for the August 9, 1953 broadcast starringPaul Frees,Ben Wright andJay Novello.
Other actors on the series includedElvia Allman,Eleanor Audley,Parley Baer, Michael Ann Barrett,Tony Barrett,Harry Bartell, Ted Bliss, Lillian Buyeff,Ken Christy,William Conrad,Ted de Corsia,John Dehner,Don Diamond,Paul Dubov,Sam Edwards,Virginia Gregg,Lou Merrill,Howard McNear,Jess Kirkpatrick, Dee J. Thompson,Shep Menken,Frank Gerstle,George Neise,Jeanette Nolan,Dan O'Herlihy,Barney Phillips,Forrest Lewis,Robert Griffin,Alan Reed,Bill Johnstone,Sandra Gould,Junius Matthews,Carleton G. Young,Marvin Miller,Frank Lovejoy,Berry Kroeger,Vic Perrin,Elliott Lewis, Eleanore Tanin,Herb Vigran,Jack Webb,Peggy Webber, andWill Wright.
Music was supplied by Del Castillo, organist Ivan Ditmars,Cy Feuer,Wilbur Hatch andLeith Stevens. The primary announcer was Roy Rowan, while the introductory signature voice (the dramatic "voice of Escape") was played most often by eitherPaul Frees orWilliam Conrad, with other actors filling in at various times.
Atelevision counterpart aired on CBS TV for a few months during 1950.
The program's opening announcement—"Tired of the everyday grind?"—was employed as a slogan for the counterculture magazine,New Escapologist.[2]
| Episode No | Title | Author | Star | Release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pilot | "Dead of Night" | John Baines | Art Carney | 03-21-47 |
| 1 | "The Man Who Would Be King" | Rudyard Kipling, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Raymond Lawrence | 07-07-47 |
| 2 | "Operation Fleur de Lis" | William N. Robson | Jack Webb | 07-14-47 |
| 3 | "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" | F. Scott Fitzgerald, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Jack Edwards Jr. | 07-21-47 |
| 4 | "Typhoon" | Joseph Conrad, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Frank Lovejoy | 07-28-47 |
| 5 | "The Sire de Maletroit's Door" | Robert Louis Stevenson, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Elliott Lewis | 08-04-47 |
| 6 | "The Ring of Thoth" | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Jack Webb | 08-11-47 |
| 7 | "The Fourth Man" | John Russell, adapted by Irving Ravetch | William Johnstone | 08-18-47 |
| 8 | "The Most Dangerous Game" | Richard Connell, adapted by Irving Ravetch | Hans Conreid | 10-01-47 |
| 9 | "Run of the Yellow Mail" | 10-08-47 | ||
| 10 | "A Shipment of Mute Fate" | Martin Storm, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Jack Webb | 10-15-47 |
| 11 | "The Fall of the House of Usher" | Edgar Allan Poe, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Paul Frees | 10-22-47 |
| 12 | "Pollock and the Porroh Man" | H.G. Wells, adapted byJohn Dunkel | Barton Yarborough | 10-29-47 |
| 13 | "Evening Primrose" | John Collier, adapted byJohn Dunkel | Elliott Lewis | 11-05-47 |
| 14 | "The Young Man With the Cream Tarts" | Robert Louis Stevenson, adapted byWilliam N. Robson | Paul Frees | 11-12-47 |
| 15 | "Casting the Runes" | M. R. James, adapted by Irving Ravetch | John McIntire | 11-19-47 |
| 16 | "The Country of the Blind" | H.G. Wells, adapted byJohn Dunkel | Paul Frees | 11-26-47 |
| 17 | "Taboo" | Geoffrey Household, adapted byJohn Dunkel | Paul Frees | 12-03-47 |
| 18 | "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" | Ambrose Bierce, adapted byWilliam N. Robson | Harry Bartell | 12-10-47 |
| 19 | "Wild Oranges" | Joseph Hergesheimer, adapted byJohn Dunkel | Paul Frees | 12-17-47 |
| 20 | "Back for Christmas" | John Collier, adapted by Robert Tallman | Paul Frees | 12-24-47 |
| 21 | "Confession" | Algernon Blackwood, adapted byJohn Dunkel | William Conrad | 12-31-47 |
| 22 | "The Second Class Passenger" | Percival Gibbons, adapted byWilliam N. Robson | Harry Bartell | 01-07-48 |
| 23 | "Leinengen vs. the Ants" | Carl Stephenson, adapted by Robert Ryf | William Conrad | 01-14-48 |
| 24 | "Papa Benjamin" | Cornell Woolrich, adapted byJohn Dunkel | Frank Lovejoy | 01-21-48 |
| 25 | "Three Good Witnesses" | Harold Lamb, adapted byJohn Dunkel | Morgan Farley | 01-28-48 |
| 26 | "The Vanishing Lady" | Alexander Woollcott, adapted byWilliam N. Robson | Joan Banks | 02-01-48 |
| 27 | "Snake Doctor" | Irvin S. Cobb, adapted by Fred Howard | William Conrad | 02-08-48 |
| 28 | "Ancient Sorceries" | Algernon Blackwood, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Paul Frees | 02-15-48 |
| 29 | "How Love Came to Professor Guildea" | Robert Hichens, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Luis Van Rooten | 02-22-48 |
| 30 | "The Grove of Ashtaroth" | John Buchan, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Paul Frees | 02-29-48 |
| 31 | "Jimmy Goggles...the God" | H.G. Wells, adapted byLes Crutchfield | 03-07-48 | |
| 32 | "Log of the Evening Star" | Alfred Noyes, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Jack Webb | 03-14-48 |
| 33 | "Misfortune's Isle" | Richard Matthew Hallet, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Paul Frees | 03-21-48 |
| 34 | "A Shipment of Mute Fate" | Martin Storm, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Harry Bartell | 03-28-48 |
| 35 | "Action" | C.E. Montague, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Berry Kroeger | 04-04-48 |
| 36 | "The Brute" | Joseph Conrad, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Dan O'Herlihy | 04-11-48 |
| 37 | "The Drums of the Fore and Aft" | Rudyard Kipling, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Gil Stratton | 04-18-48 |
| 38 | "The Fourth Man" | John Russell, adapted by Irving Ravetch | Joseph Kearns | 04-25-48 |
| 39 | "John Jock Todd" | Robert Simpson | Wilms Herbert | 05-02-48 |
| 40 | "The Time Machine" | H.G. Wells, adapted by Irving Ravetch | Jeff Corey | 05-09-48 |
| 41 | "The Match" | James Oliver Curwood, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Frank Lovejoy | 05-16-48 |
| 42 | "Leinengen vs. the Ants" | Carl Stephenson, adapted by Robert Ryf | William Conrad | 05-23-48 |
| 43 | "Beau Geste" | Percival Christopher Wren, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Jay Novello | 06-06-48 |
| 44 | "The Country of the Blind" | H.G. Wells, adapted byJohn Dunkel | Paul Frees | 06-20-48 |
| 45 | "A Tooth for Paul Revere" | Stephen Vincent Benét, adapted byJohn Dunkel | Harry Bartell | 07-04-48 |
| 46 | "She" | H. Rider Haggard, adapted byJohn Dunkel | Ben Wright | 07-11-48 |
| 47 | "Habit" | F. R. Buckley, adapted byLes Crutchfield | John Dehner | 07-18-48 |
| 48 | "The Man Who Would Be King" | Rudyard Kipling, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Ben Wright | 08-01-48 |
| 49 | "The Fugitive" | Vincent Starrett, adapted byJohn Dunkel | Luis Van Rooten | 08-15-48 |
| 50 | "S.S. San Pedro" | James Gould Cozzens, adapted byLes Crutchfield | John Dehner | 08-22-48 |
| 51 | "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" | F. Scott Fitzgerald, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Sam Edwards | 08-29-48 |
| 52 | "A Dream of Armageddon" | H.G. Wells, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Betty Lou Gerson | 09-05-48 |
| 53 | "Evening Primrose" | John Collier, adapted byJohn Dunkel | Harry Bartell | 09-12-48 |
| 54 | "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" | H.G. Wells, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Ben Wright | 09-19-48 |
| 55 | "The Lost Special" | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Ben Wright | 02-12-49 |
| 56 | "Orient Express" | Graham Greene, adapted by Sheldon Stark | Edgar Barrier | 02-19-49 |
| 57 | "Red Wine" | Lawrence Blochman, adapted by Morton Lewis andLes Crutchfield | Jeff Chandler | 02-26-49 |
| 58 | "Conqueror's Isle" | Nelson Bond, adapted byJohn Meston | David Ellis | 03-05-49 |
| 59 | "He Who Rides the Tiger" | James Norman, adapted byLes Crutchfield | William Conrad | 03-12-49 |
| 60 | "A Shipment of Mute Fate" | Martin Storm, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Berry Kroeger | 03-13-49 |
| 61 | "Finger of Doom" | Cornell Woolrich, adapted byJohn Dunkel | Harry Bartell | 03-19-49 |
| 62 | "The Country of the Blind" | H.G. Wells, adapted byJohn Dunkel | Edmond O'Brien | 03-20-49 |
| 63 | "The Adaptive Ultimate" | Stanley G. Weinbaum, adapted byJohn Dunkel | Edgar Barrier | 03-26-49 |
| 64 | "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" | F. Scott Fitzgerald, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Sam Edwards | 03-27-49 |
| 65 | "Confidential Agent" | Graham Greene, adapted byKen Crossen | Berry Kroeger | 04-02-49 |
| 66 | "When the Man Comes, Follow Him" | Ralph Bates, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Paul Dubov | 04-09-49 |
| 67 | "The General Died at Dawn" | Charles Booth, adapted byWalter Newman | William Conrad | 04-16-49 |
| 68 | "The Great Impersonation" | E. Phillips Oppenheim, adapted byWalter Newman | Edgar Barrier | 04-23-49 |
| 69 | "The Fourth Man" | John Russell, adapted by Irving Ravetch | Lawrence Dobkin | 07-07-49 |
| 70 | "The Drums of the Fore and Aft" | Rudyard Kipling, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Ben Wright | 07-14-49 |
| 71 | "Action" | C.E. Montague, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Joseph Kearns | 07-21-49 |
| 72 | "The Second Class Passenger" | Percival Gibbons, adapted byWilliam N. Robson | Parley Baer | 07-28-49 |
| 73 | "Leinengen vs. the Ants" | Carl Stephenson, adapted by Robert Ryf | Tudor Owen,Gerald Mohr | 08-04-49 |
| 74 | "Red Wine" | Lawrence Blochman, adapted byJohn Dunkel | Willard Waterman | 08-11-49 |
| 75 | "Snake Doctor" | Irvin S. Cobb, adapted by Fred Howard | William Conrad | 08-18-49 |
| 76 | "Evening Primrose" | John Collier, adapted byJohn Dunkel | Harry Bartell | 08-25-49 |
| 77 | "The Fortune of Vargas" | Geoffrey Household, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Victor Mature | 09-21-49 |
| 78 | "Wild Oranges" | Joseph Hergesheimer, adapted byJohn Dunkel | Van Heflin | 09-28-49 |
| 79 | "The Primitive" | 10-08-49 | ||
| 80 | "The Sure Thing" | John &Gwen Bagni | William Conrad | 10-15-49 |
| 81 | "Night in Havana" | Burnham Carter, adapted byWalter Newman | Tony Barrett | 10-22-49 |
| 82 | "The Blue Wall" | 10-29-49 | ||
| 83 | "Plunder of the Sun" | David Dodge, adapted byJohn Dunkel | Paul Frees | 11-08-49 |
| 84 | "Flood on the Goodwins" | David Devine, adapted byJames Poe | Jack Edwards | 11-01-49 |
| 85 | "Three Skeleton Key" | George Toudouze, adapted byJames Poe | William Conrad,Elliott Reid,Harry Bartell | 11-15-49 |
| 86 | "Maracas" | John &Gwen Bagni | William Conrad | 11-22-49 |
| 87 | "Letter From Jason" | George F. Wert, adapted by Selig Lester | Frank Lovejoy | 11-29-49 |
| 88 | "Command" | James Warner Bellah, adapted byWilliam N. Robson | Elliott Reid,Will Geer | 12-06-49 |
| 89 | "Border Town" | John &Gwen Bagni | Jack Webb | 12-13-49 |
| 90 | "Figure a Dame" | Richard Sales, adapted byMorton Fine & David Fiedkin | Frank Lovejoy | 12-20-49 |
| 91 | "Seeds of Greed" | Freud A. Nelson | Gary Merrill | 12-27-49 |
| 92 | "The Pistol" | Les Crutchfield | Betty Lou Gerson | 01-03-50 |
| 93 | "The Vanishing Lady" | Alexander Woollcott, adapted byWilliam N. Robson | Joan Banks | 01-10-50 |
| 94 | "The Sure Thing" | John &Gwen Bagni | Anthony Ross | 01-17-50 |
| 95 | "Treasure, Inc." | John &Gwen Bagni | Frank Lovejoy | 01-24-50 |
| 96 | "Present Tense" | James Poe | Vincent Price | 01-31-50 |
| 97 | "The Outer Limit" | Graham Doar, adapted byMorton Fine | Frank Lovejoy | 02-07-50 |
| 98 | "Two if by Sea" | Roger Bax, adapted byE. Jack Neuman & John Michael Hayes | John Dehner | 02-14-50 |
| 99 | "The Red Mark" | John Russell, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Harry Bartell | 02-21-50 |
| 100 | "The Man Who Won the War" | Robert Buckner, adapted byWilliam N. Robson | John Dehner | 02-28-50 |
| 101 | "Port Royal" | Harry Rieseberg, adapted by Gil Doud | John Dehner | 03-10-50 |
| 102 | "Three Skeleton Key" | George Toudouze, adapted byJames Poe | Vincent Price,Harry Bartell,Jeff Corey | 03-17-50 |
| 103 | "Danger at Matacumbe" | John &Gwen Bagni | Frank Lovejoy | 03-24-50 |
| 104 | "Green Splotches" | T.S. Stribling, adapted byWilliam N. Robson | William Conrad | 03-31-50 |
| 105 | "Ambassador of Poker" | Achmed Abdullah, adapted byJohn Dunkel | Elliott Reid | 04-07-50 |
| 106 | "The Golden Snake" | Paul Pierce, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Tony Barrett | 04-14-50 |
| 107 | "The Shanghai Document" | John &Gwen Bagni | Ben Wright | 04-21-50 |
| 108 | "Something for Nothing" | H. Vernon Dickson, adapted bySilvia Richards | Anne Morrison | 04-28-50 |
| 109 | "The Man Who Stole the Bible" | John &Gwen Bagni | Rick Vallin | 05-05-50 |
| 110 | "The Rim of Terror" | Hildegard Teilhet, adapted byWilliam N. Robson | Barton Yarborough | 05-12-50 |
| 111 | "Pass to Berlin" | David Friedkin &Morton Fine | Ben Wright | 05-19-50 |
| 112 | "Command" | James Warner Bellah, adapted byWilliam N. Robson | Harry Bartell,John Hoyt | 05-26-50 |
| 113 | "Mars Is Heaven" | Ray Bradbury, adapted by David Friedkin | Ben Wright | 06-02-50 |
| 114 | "The Big Sponge" | 06-09-50 | ||
| 115 | "Serenade for a Cobra" | Joel Murcott | Charles McGraw | 06-16-50 |
| 116 | "Sundown" | Joel Murcott | Barton Yarborough | 06-23-50 |
| 117 | "Blood Bath" | James Poe | Vincent Price,Paul Frees | 06-30-50 |
| 118 | "A Shipment of Mute Fate" | Martin Storm, adapted byLes Crutchfield | William Conrad | 07-10-50 |
| 119 | "Shark Bait" | Antony Ellis | Harry Bartell | 07-14-50 |
| 120 | "The Yellow Wake" | Bud Nelson | Paul Frees | 07-21-50 |
| 121 | "Poison" | Roald Dahl, adapted byJames Poe | Jack Webb | 07-28-50 |
| 122 | "Two Came Back" | Jules Archer | Stacy Harris | 08-04-50 |
| 123 | "The Red Forest" | Antony Ellis | William Conrad | 08-11-50 |
| 124 | "The Footprint" | Gouverneur Morris, adapted by Richard Chandlee | Charles Davis | 08-18-50 |
| 125 | "Crossing Paris" | Marcel Ayme, adapted byJohn Meston | Barney Phillips | 08-25-50 |
| 126 | "A Sleeping Draught" | Weston Martyr, adapted byAntony Ellis | Ben Wright | 10-01-50 |
| 127 | "Roulette" | Antony Ellis | John Dehner | 10-08-50 |
| 128 | "The Power of Hammer" | Antony Ellis | Anne Morrison | 10-15-50 |
| 129 | "The Time Machine" | H.G. Wells, adapted by Irving Ravetch | Lawrence Dobkin | 10-22-50 |
| 130 | "Seven Hours to Freedom" | Bud Nelson | Barney Phillips | 10-29-50 |
| 131 | "Earth Abides" Part 1 | George Stewart, adapted by David Ellis | John Dehner | 11-05-50 |
| 132 | "Earth Abides" Part 2 | George Stewart, adapted by David Ellis | John Dehner | 11-12-50 |
| 133 | "Journey into Fear" | Eric Ambler, adapted byAntony Ellis | Ben Wright | 11-19-50 |
| 134 | "Funeral Fires" | Charles E. Israel | Ben Wright | 11-26-50 |
| 135 | "This Side of Nowhere" | Antony Ellis | William Conrad | 12-03-50 |
| 136 | "A Passenger to Bali" | Ellis St. Joseph, adapted byNorman Macdonnell | John Dehner | 12-10-50 |
| 137 | "Wild Jack Rhett" | Ernest Haycox, adapted byJohn Meston | John Dehner | 12-17-50 |
| 138 | "The Cave" | Antony Ellis | John Dehner | 12-24-50 |
| 139 | "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" | H.G. Wells, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Ben Wright | 12-31-50 |
| 140 | "Conquest" | Leonard Lee, adapted by David Ellis | William Conrad | 01-07-51 |
| 141 | "A Bullet for Mr. Smith" | Antony Ellis | John Dehner | 01-14-51 |
| 142 | "The Killer Mine" | Hammond Innis, adapted byAntony Ellis | John Dehner | 02-11-51 |
| 143 | "The Follower" | Patrick Quentin, adapted byLes Crutchfield | William Conrad | 02-18-51 |
| 144 | "The Island" | Millard Kaufman | Harry Bartell | 07-11-51 |
| 145 | "Macao" | Herb Purdum | Raymond Burr | 07-18-51 |
| 146 | "The Earthmen" | Ray Bradbury, adapted byWalter Newman | Byron Kane | 07-25-51 |
| 147 | "The Gladiator" | Millard Kaufman | William Conrad | 08-01-51 |
| 148 | "Up Periscope" | Alex Hudson, adapted byWilliam Froug | Hy Averback | 08-08-51 |
| 149 | "A Rough Shoot" | Geoffrey Household, adapted by Arthur Ross | Ben Wright | 08-15-51 |
| 150 | "The Silent Horror" | Hugh Cave, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Lou Krugman | 08-22-51 |
| 151 | "The Man Who Stole the Bible" | John &Gwen Bagni | Sam Pierce | 08-29-51 |
| 152 | "Gringo" | E. Jack Neuman | William Conrad | 10-12-52 |
| 153 | "The Price of the Head" | John Russell, adapted byJohn Meston | William Conrad | 10-19-52 |
| 154 | "Robert of Huntingdon" | Adapted byAntony Ellis | William Conrad | 10-26-52 |
| 155 | "The Running Man" | Herb Purdum | Vic Perrin | 11-02-52 |
| 156 | "The Return" | Kathleen Hite | Lawrence Dobkin | 11-09-52 |
| 157 | "The Loup-Garou" | William Froug | William Conrad | 11-16-52 |
| 158 | "Transport to Terror" | William Conrad | 11-23-52 | |
| 159 | "Pagosa" | William Conrad | 11-30-52 | |
| 160 | "Incident in Quito" | Ross Murray | Larry Thor | 12-07-52 |
| 161 | "Four Went Home" | Antony Ellis | William Conrad | 12-14-52 |
| 162 | "The Man Who Liked Dickens" | Evelyn Waugh, adapted byJohn Meston | Terry Kilburn | 12-21-52 |
| 163 | "Nightmare in the Sun" | 12-28-52 | ||
| 164 | "Dangerous Man" | 01-04-53 | ||
| 165 | "A Matter of Conscience" | Antony Ellis | John Dehner | 01-18-53 |
| 166 | "Conqueror's Isle" | Nelson Bond, adapted byJohn Meston | Harry Bartell | 01-11-53 |
| 167 | "Diary of a Madman" | Les Crutchfield | Ben Wright | 01-25-53 |
| 168 | "A Study in Wax" | Antony Ellis | William Conrad | 02-01-53 |
| 169 | "Jetsam" | John Russell, adapted byNorman Macdonnell | John Dehner | 02-08-53 |
| 170 | "Wild Jack Rhett" | Ernest Haycox, adapted byJohn Meston | John Dehner | 02-15-53 |
| 171 | "I Saw Myself Running" | Antony Ellis | Georgia Ellis | 02-22-53 |
| 172 | "The Tramp" | Antony Ellis | Ben Wright | 03-01-53 |
| 173 | "The Island" | Millard Kaufman | William Conrad | 03-08-53 |
| 174 | "The Man With the Steel Teeth" | John Dehner | Jack Kruschen | 03-15-53 |
| 175 | "Pressure" | Richard Chandlee | Larry Thor | 03-22-53 |
| 176 | "The Invader" | Michael Gray | Howard McNear | 03-29-53 |
| 177 | "A Sleeping Draught" | Weston Martyr, adapted byAntony Ellis | Ben Wright | 04-05-53 |
| 178 | "Classified Secret" | Antony Ellis | Parley Baer | 04-12-53 |
| 179 | "El Guitarero" | E. Jack Neuman | Eddie Firestone | 04-19-53 |
| 180 | "Derelict" | Victor Schwartz, adapted by Larry Roman | Charlotte Lawrence | 04-26-53 |
| 181 | "Lily and the Colonel" | John Dehner | Ben Wright | 05-03-53 |
| 182 | "The Vessel of Wrath" | Somerset Maugham, adapted byAntony Ellis | Alan Reed | 05-10-53 |
| 183 | "North of Polaris" | Charles Smith | William Conrad | 05-17-53 |
| 184 | "The Blue Hotel" | 05-24-53 | ||
| 185 | "A Good Thing" | Kathleen Hite | Jack Kruschen | 05-31-53 |
| 186 | "The Voyages of Sinbad" | Adapted byAntony Ellis | Ted de Corsia | 06-07-53 |
| 187 | "Clear for Action" | Antony Ellis | Ben Wright | 06-14-53 |
| 188 | "The Far Away Island" | Charles Smith | Ted de Corsia | 06-21-53 |
| 189 | "One-Eighth Apache" | William Conrad | 06-28-53 | |
| 190 | "A Source of Irritation" | Stacey Aumonier, adapted by Mayer Dolinsky | Ben Wright | 07-05-53 |
| 191 | "The Out-Station" | Somerset Maugham, adapted byAntony Ellis | Alistair Duncan | 07-12-53 |
| 192 | "Open Boat" | Stephen Crane, adapted byE. Jack Neuman | Bob Sweeney | 07-19-53 |
| 193 | "The Notebook" | William J. Radcliff | John Dehner | 07-26-53 |
| 194 | "The Red Forest" | Antony Ellis | William Conrad | 08-02-53 |
| 195 | "Three Skeleton Key" | George Toudouze, adapted byJames Poe | Paul Frees,Ben Wright | 08-09-53 |
| 196 | "The Thirteenth Trunk" | Cecil Carnes, adapted by Gus Bayz | Alec Harford | 08-16-53 |
| 197 | "The Man from Tomorrow" | Irving Reis, adapted byAntony Ellis | Lawrence Dobkin | 08-23-53 |
| 198 | "The Game" | Antony Ellis | 08-30-53 | |
| 199 | "Train from Olbiefelde" | Ross Murray | William Conrad | 09-06-53 |
| 200 | "The Abominable Snowman" | Antony Ellis | William Conrad | 09-13-53 |
| 201 | "The Log" | Marianne Mosner, adapted byAntony Ellis | James Nusser | 09-20-53 |
| 202 | "The Untouchable" | James Henderson | John Dehner | 09-27-53 |
| 203 | "Zero Hour" | Ray Bradbury, adapted byAntony Ellis | Eve McVeagh | 10-04-53 |
| 204 | "Elementals" | Stephen Vincent Benét, adapted by Meyer Dolinsky | William Conrad | 10-11-53 |
| 205 | "The Bird of Paradise" | John Russell, adapted byJohn Meston | John Dehner | 03-11-54 |
| 206 | "Violent Night" | Les Crutchfield | William Conrad | 03-18-54 |
| 207 | "The Second Shot" | Alexandre Dumas, adapted byLes Crutchfield | John Dehner | 03-25-54 |
| 208 | "The Return" | Kathleen Hite | Lawrence Dobkin | 04-01-54 |
| 209 | "The Scarlet Plague" | Jack London, adapted byLes Crutchfield | Barney Phillips | 04-08-54 |
| 210 | "Affair at Mandrake" | Ben Wright | Ben Wright | 04-15-54 |
| 211 | "The Adversary" | John Russell, adapted byNorman Macdonnell | Lawrence Dobkin | 05-06-54 |
| 212 | "An Ordinary Man" | Kathleen Hite | Lawrence Dobkin | 06-03-54 |
| 213 | "Benchillina and the Fisherman" | John Dehner | Vic Perrin | 06-10-54 |
| 214 | "Blood Waters" | Tony Barrett | Tony Barrett | 06-17-54 |
| 215 | "Judgment Day at Crippled Deer" | Les Crutchfield | Lawrence Dobkin | 06-24-54 |
| 216 | "The Dark Wall" | Kathleen Hite | John Dehner | 07-01-54 |
| 217 | "The Birds" | Daphne du Maurier, adapted by Robert Wright | Paul Frees | 07-10-54 |
| 218 | "The Eye of Evil" | Kathleen Hite | John Dehner | 07-17-54 |
| 219 | "Flood on the Goodwins" | David Devine, adapted byJames Poe | Vic Perrin | 07-24-54 |
| 220 | "Night of the Guns" | David Friedkin &Morton Fine | Herb Ellis | 07-31-54 |
| 221 | "The Price of the Head" | John Russell, adapted byJohn Meston | Ben Wright | 08-07-54 |
| 222 | "The Coward" | E. Jack Neuman | Barney Phillips | 08-14-54 |
| 223 | "Two and Two Make Four" | Walter Newman | Shepard Menken | 08-21-54 |
| 224 | "The King of Owanatu" | Robert Tallman | Tony Barrett | 08-28-54 |
| 225 | "The Boiling Sea" | Vincent McHugh, adapted byJohn Dunkel | Clayton Post | 09-04-54 |
| 226 | "Carnival in Vienna" | Morton Fine &David Friedkin | Barney Phillips | 09-11-54 |
| 227 | "The Target" | Tony Barrett | Edgar Barrier | 09-18-54 |
| 228 | "The Heart of Kali" | Ross Murray | Paul Richards | 09-25-54 |