ESCAPE opened with the gripping voice of William Conrad booming out over the airwaves: "Tired of the everyday grind? Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you - ESCAPE!" Moussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain", the show's theme, assisted Conrad in creating the right opening atmosphere.
ESCAPE was heard on CBS from July 1947 to September 1954, although there were two pilot shows before it's first run. The first pilot was OUT OF THIS WORLD: "Dead of Night" on February 28, 1947. This show was repeated as ESCAPE: "Dead of Night" on March 21.
ESCAPE, as a series, started as a summer replacement for SUSPENSE. It then aired for the 1947-1948 season, on Sundays. During the early half of 1948, broadcast day was different on east and west coast. It switched to Thursdays in July of 1949 and continued to bounce broadcast days for the remainder of it's run. There were a couple of long gaps where ESCAPE didn't run, for example, from August 30, 1951 to October 12, 1952.
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