Episode 6 of the series aired August 11, 1947 on CBS Radio. Starring Jack Webb as the sorcerer, a person who claims or is believed to have magic powers; a wizard. Based on the short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Escape 's adaptation is an interesting one with an unexpected ending. "The Ring of Thoth" was first published in 1890. Mr. John Vansittart Smith, a British student of Egyptology, has come to the Egyptian Room of the Louvre to study.