Violent Night (Aired March 18, 1954)
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 Algernon Blackwood's "Confession", Ray Bradbury's oft-reprinted "Mars Is Heaven," George R. Stewart's Earth Abides, Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game," F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," John Collier's "Evening Primrose", later adapted to TV as a Stephen Sondheim musical starring Anthony Perkins. Vincent Price and Harry Bartell were heard in the chilling "Three Skeleton Key," 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.
THIS EPISODE:
March 18, 1954. CBS network.
"Violent Night". Sustaining. An excellent story about an American plantation owner in a Latin American country who must avoid the local revolutionary who has sworn to kill him. The program is possibly dated April 1, 1954. William Conrad, Norman Macdonnell (director). 29:28.
Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.
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