# Escape (radio program)

Escape is an American radio drama. It was radio's leading anthology series of high-adventure radio dramas, airing on CBS from July 7, 1947 to September 25, 1954.

## Overview

Since the program did not have a regular sponsor like Suspense (a sister program that often used the same actors and scripts), it was subjected to frequent schedule shifts and lower production budgets, although Richfield 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 combined Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain with this introduction, as intoned by William Conrad and later Paul Frees:
    "Tired of the everyday grind? Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you... Escape!"
Following the opening theme, a second announcer (usually Roy Rowan) would add:
    "Escape! Designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half-hour of high adventure!"

## Adaptations

Of the more than 230 Escape 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 more science fiction and supernatural tales than Suspense. Some of the memorable adaptations include Daphne 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's Earth Abides (the program's only two-parter), Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" and F. 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 a Stephen Sondheim musical starring Anthony Perkins. William Conrad, Harry Bartell and Elliott 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 an Esquire short story by the French writer George Toudouze and later remade for the March 17, 1950 broadcast starring Vincent Price, Harry Bartell and Jeff Corey and again for the August 9, 1953 broadcast starring Paul Frees, Ben Wright and Jay Novello.
Other actors on the series included Elvia 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, and Will Wright.
Music was supplied by Del Castillo, organist Ivan Ditmars, Cy Feuer, Wilbur Hatch and Leith Stevens. The primary announcer was Roy Rowan, while the introductory signature voice (the dramatic "voice of Escape") was played most often by either Paul Frees or William Conrad, with other actors filling in at various times.
A television 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.

## List of episodes

| 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 by Les 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 by Les Crutchfield | Jack Edwards Jr. | 07-21-47 |
| 4 | "Typhoon" | Joseph Conrad, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Frank Lovejoy | 07-28-47 |
| 5 | "The Sire de Maletroit's Door" | Robert Louis Stevenson, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Elliott Lewis | 08-04-47 |
| 6 | "The Ring of Thoth" | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted by Les 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 by Les Crutchfield | Jack Webb | 10-15-47 |
| 11 | "The Fall of the House of Usher" | Edgar Allan Poe, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Paul Frees | 10-22-47 |
| 12 | "Pollock and the Porroh Man" | H.G. Wells, adapted by John Dunkel | Barton Yarborough | 10-29-47 |
| 13 | "Evening Primrose" | John Collier, adapted by John Dunkel | Elliott Lewis | 11-05-47 |
| 14 | "The Young Man With the Cream Tarts" | Robert Louis Stevenson, adapted by William 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 by John Dunkel | Paul Frees | 11-26-47 |
| 17 | "Taboo" | Geoffrey Household, adapted by John Dunkel | Paul Frees | 12-03-47 |
| 18 | "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" | Ambrose Bierce, adapted by William N. Robson | Harry Bartell | 12-10-47 |
| 19 | "Wild Oranges" | Joseph Hergesheimer, adapted by John 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 by John Dunkel | William Conrad | 12-31-47 |
| 22 | "The Second Class Passenger" | Percival Gibbons, adapted by William 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 by John Dunkel | Frank Lovejoy | 01-21-48 |
| 25 | "Three Good Witnesses" | Harold Lamb, adapted by John Dunkel | Morgan Farley | 01-28-48 |
| 26 | "The Vanishing Lady" | Alexander Woollcott, adapted by William 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 by Les Crutchfield | Paul Frees | 02-15-48 |
| 29 | "How Love Came to Professor Guildea" | Robert Hichens, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Luis Van Rooten | 02-22-48 |
| 30 | "The Grove of Ashtaroth" | John Buchan, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Paul Frees | 02-29-48 |
| 31 | "Jimmy Goggles...the God" | H.G. Wells, adapted by Les Crutchfield | | 03-07-48 |
| 32 | "Log of the Evening Star" | Alfred Noyes, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Jack Webb | 03-14-48 |
| 33 | "Misfortune's Isle" | Richard Matthew Hallet, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Paul Frees | 03-21-48 |
| 34 | "A Shipment of Mute Fate" | Martin Storm, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Harry Bartell | 03-28-48 |
| 35 | "Action" | C.E. Montague, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Berry Kroeger | 04-04-48 |
| 36 | "The Brute" | Joseph Conrad, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Dan O'Herlihy | 04-11-48 |
| 37 | "The Drums of the Fore and Aft" | Rudyard Kipling, adapted by Les 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 by Les 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 by Les Crutchfield | Jay Novello | 06-06-48 |
| 44 | "The Country of the Blind" | H.G. Wells, adapted by John Dunkel | Paul Frees | 06-20-48 |
| 45 | "A Tooth for Paul Revere" | Stephen Vincent Benét, adapted by John Dunkel | Harry Bartell | 07-04-48 |
| 46 | "She" | H. Rider Haggard, adapted by John Dunkel | Ben Wright | 07-11-48 |
| 47 | "Habit" | F. R. Buckley, adapted by Les Crutchfield | John Dehner | 07-18-48 |
| 48 | "The Man Who Would Be King" | Rudyard Kipling, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Ben Wright | 08-01-48 |
| 49 | "The Fugitive" | Vincent Starrett, adapted by John Dunkel | Luis Van Rooten | 08-15-48 |
| 50 | "S.S. San Pedro" | James Gould Cozzens, adapted by Les Crutchfield | John Dehner | 08-22-48 |
| 51 | "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" | F. Scott Fitzgerald, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Sam Edwards | 08-29-48 |
| 52 | "A Dream of Armageddon" | H.G. Wells, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Betty Lou Gerson | 09-05-48 |
| 53 | "Evening Primrose" | John Collier, adapted by John Dunkel | Harry Bartell | 09-12-48 |
| 54 | "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" | H.G. Wells, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Ben Wright | 09-19-48 |
| 55 | "The Lost Special" | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted by Les 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 and Les Crutchfield | Jeff Chandler | 02-26-49 |
| 58 | "Conqueror's Isle" | Nelson Bond, adapted by John Meston | David Ellis | 03-05-49 |
| 59 | "He Who Rides the Tiger" | James Norman, adapted by Les Crutchfield | William Conrad | 03-12-49 |
| 60 | "A Shipment of Mute Fate" | Martin Storm, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Berry Kroeger | 03-13-49 |
| 61 | "Finger of Doom" | Cornell Woolrich, adapted by John Dunkel | Harry Bartell | 03-19-49 |
| 62 | "The Country of the Blind" | H.G. Wells, adapted by John Dunkel | Edmond O'Brien | 03-20-49 |
| 63 | "The Adaptive Ultimate" | Stanley G. Weinbaum, adapted by John Dunkel | Edgar Barrier | 03-26-49 |
| 64 | "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" | F. Scott Fitzgerald, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Sam Edwards | 03-27-49 |
| 65 | "Confidential Agent" | Graham Greene, adapted by Ken Crossen | Berry Kroeger | 04-02-49 |
| 66 | "When the Man Comes, Follow Him" | Ralph Bates, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Paul Dubov | 04-09-49 |
| 67 | "The General Died at Dawn" | Charles Booth, adapted by Walter Newman | William Conrad | 04-16-49 |
| 68 | "The Great Impersonation" | E. Phillips Oppenheim, adapted by Walter 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 by Les Crutchfield | Ben Wright | 07-14-49 |
| 71 | "Action" | C.E. Montague, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Joseph Kearns | 07-21-49 |
| 72 | "The Second Class Passenger" | Percival Gibbons, adapted by William 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 by John 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 by John Dunkel | Harry Bartell | 08-25-49 |
| 77 | "The Fortune of Vargas" | Geoffrey Household, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Victor Mature | 09-21-49 |
| 78 | "Wild Oranges" | Joseph Hergesheimer, adapted by John 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 by Walter Newman | Tony Barrett | 10-22-49 |
| 82 | "The Blue Wall" | | | 10-29-49 |
| 83 | "Plunder of the Sun" | David Dodge, adapted by John Dunkel | Paul Frees | 11-08-49 |
| 84 | "Flood on the Goodwins" | David Devine, adapted by James Poe | Jack Edwards | 11-01-49 |
| 85 | "Three Skeleton Key" | George Toudouze, adapted by James 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 by William 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 by Morton 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 by William 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 by Morton Fine | Frank Lovejoy | 02-07-50 |
| 98 | "Two if by Sea" | Roger Bax, adapted by E. Jack Neuman & John Michael Hayes | John Dehner | 02-14-50 |
| 99 | "The Red Mark" | John Russell, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Harry Bartell | 02-21-50 |
| 100 | "The Man Who Won the War" | Robert Buckner, adapted by William 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 by James 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 by William N. Robson | William Conrad | 03-31-50 |
| 105 | "Ambassador of Poker" | Achmed Abdullah, adapted by John Dunkel | Elliott Reid | 04-07-50 |
| 106 | "The Golden Snake" | Paul Pierce, adapted by Les 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 by Silvia 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 by William 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 by William 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 by Les 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 by James 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 by John Meston | Barney Phillips | 08-25-50 |
| 126 | "A Sleeping Draught" | Weston Martyr, adapted by Antony 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 by Antony 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 by Norman Macdonnell | John Dehner | 12-10-50 |
| 137 | "Wild Jack Rhett" | Ernest Haycox, adapted by John 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 by Les 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 by Antony Ellis | John Dehner | 02-11-51 |
| 143 | "The Follower" | Patrick Quentin, adapted by Les 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 by Walter Newman | Byron Kane | 07-25-51 |
| 147 | "The Gladiator" | Millard Kaufman | William Conrad | 08-01-51 |
| 148 | "Up Periscope" | Alex Hudson, adapted by William 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 by Les 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 by John Meston | William Conrad | 10-19-52 |
| 154 | "Robert of Huntingdon" | Adapted by Antony 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 by John 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 by John 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 by Norman Macdonnell | John Dehner | 02-08-53 |
| 170 | "Wild Jack Rhett" | Ernest Haycox, adapted by John 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 by Antony 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 by Antony 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 by Antony 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 by Antony Ellis | Alistair Duncan | 07-12-53 |
| 192 | "Open Boat" | Stephen Crane, adapted by E. 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 by James 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 by Antony 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 by Antony Ellis | James Nusser | 09-20-53 |
| 202 | "The Untouchable" | James Henderson | John Dehner | 09-27-53 |
| 203 | "Zero Hour" | Ray Bradbury, adapted by Antony 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 by John Meston | John Dehner | 03-11-54 |
| 206 | "Violent Night" | Les Crutchfield | William Conrad | 03-18-54 |
| 207 | "The Second Shot" | Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Les Crutchfield | John Dehner | 03-25-54 |
| 208 | "The Return" | Kathleen Hite | Lawrence Dobkin | 04-01-54 |
| 209 | "The Scarlet Plague" | Jack London, adapted by Les Crutchfield | Barney Phillips | 04-08-54 |
| 210 | "Affair at Mandrake" | Ben Wright | Ben Wright | 04-15-54 |
| 211 | "The Adversary" | John Russell, adapted by Norman 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 by James 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 by John 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 by John 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 |