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Episode 5 aired on CBS Radio January 10, 1974. Starring Larry Haines (Photo). Also starring Jackson Beck. The would-be CEO of his father-in-law's corporation is threatened with the revelation of a dark deed in his past.

Episode 8 "Hattie Pelfrey" aired on CBS Radio March 11, 1956. Captain Quince is wounded and seeks shelter from the Arapahos in the cabin of a strange old woman...Hattie Pelfrey is a mean old woman in most people’s eye but she did once save Lee Quince’s life and he promised if he was in her part of Texas again he would let her have his late mothers earrings. The diamond earrings were the only things his mother had ever owned and Lee wanted Hattie to have them.

Episode 44 aired on CBS Radio June 1, 1943. Starring veteran actor Donald Crisp. Banquo’s Chair” is the story of the ex-chief of England’s Criminal Investigative department, one William Brent, and the unusual method he devises to extract a confession from a murderer some 20 years after his being set free for lack of evidence. It was the only case in Brent’s case file where his quarry had escaped his clutches. Brent, much like Sherlock Holmes in many ways, is brilliant, cold, and calculating, with an ego that prevents him from letting go this one stain on his otherwise perfect crime-solving career.

Episode 11 was aired on October 22, 1947 by the CBS Radio Network. This radio adaptation of the Edgar Allen Poe story  for radio stars Paul Frees (Photo). A well-done dramatization of the horror classic. It was written by their ancestors many years ago that when the rains are blood red the house of Usher would crumble to the earth. There are three members of the Usher family still living, two in direct descent, the Lady Madeleine and her twin brother Roderick. Deana was engaged to marry Roderick long before she knew her cousin, it is the custom for the Usher family to intermarry. The Lady Madeleine has been confined to her bed these last few weeks, waiting for death.

ESCAPE's closing theme is from Mussorgsky's composition Pictures at an Exhibition. 

Episode 17 aired September 24, 1949 on NBC Radio. A mad killer is loose in Los Angeles. He always leaves the murder weapon behind but there are no finger prints or clues to the killers identity. Detective Sergeant Joe Friday has been assigned to the Homicide Division of the LAPD.  His team must get the killer before he strikes again. 

To Have and Have Not was adapted as an hour-long radio play for Lux Radio Theater, with Bogart and Bacall reprising their screen roles. It was broadcast on October 14, 1946.

Episode 2 aired January 7, 1974 on CBS Radio. Starring Patrick O'Neill (Photo) in a cat and mouse game.  A husband kills his wife for donating all their money. Now, he is certain that she has been reincarnated in the form of a cat to wreak revenge on him.

Episode 8 aired August 26, 1950. Western film star Joel McCrea portrayed Ranger Jace Pearson in NBC's Tales of the Texas Rangers, covering "more than 260,000 square miles" of modern-day frontier with "50 men who make up the most famous and oldest law enforcement body in North America". Their job was to solve major crimes, using old-fashioned tracking techniques and psychological analysis. The series was produced and directed by Stacy Keach, Sr., and was sponsored for part of its run by Wheaties. The series was broadcast on NBC Radio from 1950 through 1952, and was later revived on television. The shows were reenactments of actual Texas Ranger cases. 

Episode 27 aired on CBS Radio on February 3, 1943. Starring Bela Lugosi. A doctor has a theory that people who want to commit suicide, can instead be convinced to commit murder, and sets out to prove it.

Episode 6 aired October 25, 1953 on NBC Radio. Red Lawson says he's going to kill Britt's friend Dan to get revenge for the death of his brother, four years earlier. Britt is riding across the prairie when he comes across a man at a campfire. He prefers the company of people to coyotes so he stops and makes conversation with him. The man is Red Lawson and over a coffee he tells Britt about his plans to get revenge on the man who had murdered his brother. Britt wants to go and warn Dan, the man who Red is planning to shoot.