Escape: The Target (EP4502s)
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
Adam Graham
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 18, 1954
Originating in Hollywood
Starring: Whitfield Connor as Vic Kennedy; Jay Novello; Mary Jane Croft; Herb Butterfield; Hans Conreid
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| 0:00.0 | The The Welcome to the great detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it to me, Box 13 at great detectives. Net, follow us on Twitter at radio detectives and check us out on |
| 0:46.7 | Instagram Instagram dot com slash great detectives if you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite |
| 0:55.2 | podcast software. Well, it is time for a 4,500 episode special and after last week's special featuring an episode of Escape, I decided to be good to play an episode of Escape that's a little closer to the type of stories we usually do and I found this |
| 1:16.2 | episode which was written by Pony Barrett who appeared in so many great detective programs in supporting roles and as various |
| 1:28.2 | thugs, a policeman and of course his biggest ongoing role as Gabby Mark Donovan on the Adventures of |
| 1:36.3 | Frank Rice and we've already heard some of his writing on yours truly Johnny |
| 1:41.5 | Daller I decided to give this episode a try and it's a little bit different |
| 1:46.3 | than what we normally play but I think it's still worth a listen. This is actually the second to last episode of Escape, the original air date, September the 18th, |
| 1:58.0 | 1954, and the title is The target. |
| 2:13.0 | tired of the everyday grind, ever dream of a life of romantic adventure. |
| 2:17.0 | What to get away from it all? We offer you escape! |
| 2:20.0 | Escape! Escape. |
| 2:25.0 | Escape, designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high Adventure. You still. You stare down from the height of your plane and your brain keeps whispering. |
| 2:50.0 | It's Masa Fueira, that's all it is. |
| 2:53.0 | Just an island 300 miles of the coast of Chile. |
| 2:57.0 | But both you and the beautiful girl beside you know it's more than that. |
| 3:02.0 | It's the last stop, the last time around, a death trap from which there is. No escape. |
| 3:11.2 | Listen now as Escape brings you Tony Barrett's story, The Target. Oh, The drinks, señor, you see how quick? |
| 3:46.2 | Another one of your talents, you can make like a waiter when necessary, huh? |
| 3:49.7 | In Chile, señor, a man does many things to live. The weather was busy so I got the drinks is not a reason for. |
| 3:56.5 | All right, Pepi, all right, forget it. You, you are angry. |
| 3:59.7 | Look, let's not play games. He's an hour late now. Where is he? |
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