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Two “hams” who are working on a secret defense weapon and talking to each other by shortwave. One of them is killed while talking to the other on the air. Original Air Date: March 30, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Sonny Tufts Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence […]

A lawyer gets his client acquitted, even though he’s in love with the client’s wife. After a murder, a contract of death is agreed to. A framer is framed for a murder he actually committed. Original Air Date: February 05, 1945Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The Whistler Stars:• Bill Forman• Bob Anderson Producer:• George W. Allen Music:• […]

A Hollywood movie director joins the New York police in a hunt for a Nazi spy, murderer, and all-around bad guy. Original Air Date: March 23, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Star:• Joseph Cotten Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

A businessman is swindled out of his share of a construction company. A perfect murder is promptly planned. You can’t be accused of murder…if you’re dead! Original Air Date: February 19, 1945Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The Whistler Stars:• Bill Forman• Bob Anderson Producer:• George W. Allen Music:• Wilbur Hatch Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by […]

Astronauts landing on Mars discover a nostalgic, idyllic small town from their childhoods, complete with deceased relatives, only to realize it’s a trap set by telepathic aliens who kill them after lulling them into a false sense of security. Original Air Date: June 02, 1950Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Escape Stars:• Jeff Corey• Florence Bates• Bill Johnstone• […]

A conflict between a veteran cavalry captain (Nathan Brittles) and a younger, by-the-book lieutenant (Flint Cohill) in the American Southwest Original Air Date: May 26, 1950Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Escape Stars:• Harry Bartell (Lt. Cohill)• John Hoyt (Captain Brittles)• Wally Maher (Sgt. Utterback)• David Ellis (Opdyke)• Paul Frees• Walter Burke (Mittendorf)• Hugh Thomas Producer:• William N. […]

Escape to Berlin and the story of an occupation G.I. trying desperately to break through a web of death that is being spun around him Original Air Date: May 19, 1950Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Escape Stars:• Stacy Harris• Peggy Webber• Ben Wright Authors:• Morton Fine• David Friedkin Producer:• William N. Robson Music:• Ivan Ditmars For more […]

A spy on the desert and a beautiful girl with a Bentley! Original Air Date: May 12, 1950Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Escape Stars:• Nancy Kelly• Hans Conried (Alex) Author:• Hildegarde Tolman Teilhet Producer:• William N. Robson Music:• Ivan Ditmars For more great shows check out our site: https://www.otnetcast.comIntro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

It’s Mardi Gras time in New Orleans, and a salesman has a date with the devil! Original Air Date: May 05, 1950Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Escape Stars:• Rick Vallin (Cummings)• Nan Boardman (The Girl)• Ben Wright (House Detective)• Will Geer (The Devil)• Lou Merrill (The Clown) Special Guests:• Mary Shipp• Harry Bartell• Peter Leeds• Paul Frees […]

A handsome ex-movie actor witnesses a murder and sees a nice extortion scheme. Original Air Date: April 28, 1950Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Escape Stars:• William Conrad• Anne Morrison• Frances Chaney• Will Geer• Rick Vallin• Paul Frees Adaptation:• Sylvia Richards Author:• Vernon Dickson Producer:• William N. Robson Music:• Ivan Ditmars For more great shows check out our […]

Escape to the interior of China and a journey of terror down the Yangtzee river from Chanking to Shanghai aboard a river steamer. Original Air Date: April 21, 1950Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Escape Stars:• John Dehner• Joan Banks• Ben Wright• William Conrad• Benson Fong• Charlie Lung• Paul Frees Authors:• John Bagni• Gwen Bagni Producer:• William N. […]

A pilot finds the offer of a job in Mexico too financially attractive to turn down, but when he arrives it turns out that the rewards are far higher than he could ever have imagined and, as if things couldn’t get any better, he will be working alongside a very beautiful young woman. Unfortunately, there […]

Virginia gentleman adept at cards, who matches wits with a motley band of Chinese cutthroats and war lords. Original Air Date: April 07, 1950Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Escape Stars:• Elliott Reid• Lucille Meredith• Ben Wright• Benson Fong• Richard Loo Special Guests:• John Dehner• John Ramsey Hill• William Conrad• Rick Vallin Adaptation:• John Dunkel Author:• Achmed Abidar […]

A pop singer, trying to get out of a contract with his greedy manager, sings a song of death! Success is a curious thing. Sometimes it comes very slowly the result of a lifetime of dull drudgery and sometimes it comes quickly almost overnight. Original Air Date: September 17, 1945Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The Whistler Stars:• […]

A scientific expedition in South America is captured by super-intelligent plants from another planet who travel in a flying saucer at the speed of light! Original Air Date: March 31, 1950Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Escape Stars:• William Conrad• Paul Frees Special Guests:• Ted de Corsia• Harry Bartell• Barton Yarborough• Jay Novello Producer:• William N. Robson Music:• […]

A woman’s best friend is murdered while she’s on the phone with the woman…or was she? Original Air Date: September 10, 1945Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The Whistler Stars:• Bill Forman• Bob Anderson Author:• Leslie Edgley Producer:• George W. Allen Music:• Wilbur Hatch Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

A Florida drifter is given a job impersonating a famous author and finds himself in a frame for murder. Original Air Date: March 24, 1950Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Escape Stars:• Frank Lovejoy• Marie Windsor• Ted de Corsia Special Guests:• Rick Vallin• Robert Clark• Harry Bartell• Dee Tatum• Jerry Hausner• Lawrence Dobkin Writers:• John Bagni• Gwen Bagni […]

A scheming politicians plan to further his career by giving a job to an ex-con he helped send to jail has interesting results. Original Air Date: September 03, 1945Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The Whistler Stars:• Bill Forman• Bob Anderson Author:• Harriet Reig Producer:• George W. Allen Music:• Wilbur Hatch Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by […]

Tonight we escape to a lonely lighthouse off the steaming jungle coast of French Guyana, and a nightmare world of terror and violence. Original Air Date: March 17, 1950Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Escape Star:• Vincent Price Special Guests:• Harry Bartell• Jeff Corey Writer:• James Poe Producer:• William N. Robson Music:• Lloyd Del Castillo Intro and Exit […]

A meek book salesman is mistaken for a crook marked for death by his accomplices. To save his own life, the salesman agrees to kill the original victim. Original Air Date: August 27, 1945Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The Whistler Stars:• Bill Forman• Bob Anderson Author:• Leslie Edgley Producer:• George W. Allen Music:• Wilbur Hatch Intro and […]

A salvage ship recovers nearly $1 million dollars in loot with no trouble, except for infectious greed among the crew. Original Air Date: March 10, 1950Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Escape Stars:• Charles McGraw• John Dehner• William Conrad Special Guests:• Dee Tatum• Paul Frees• Ted de Corsia Writer:• Gil Doud Producer:• William N. Robson Music:• Lloyd Del […]

You are in command of an English destroyer sailing to join the North Sea patrol in October 1914. It is midnight and from the coast of Flanders comes a desperate signal for help which you want to ignore but which destiny forces you to answer and to become the man who won the war. Original […]

Set in London in the year 1888, a London terrorized by the fifth in a succession of recent murders, murders of young attractive women. The unknown killer at large and little else absorbed their horrified imagination of the great city. A couple suspects that their lodger is really “The Avenger,” a homicidal maniac. Original Air […]

A woman has a theory about a series of murders, a very interesting theory. Original Air Date: August 20, 1945Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The Whistler Stars:• Bill Forman• Bob Anderson Producer:• George W. Allen Writer:• Joseph Cochran Music:• Wilbur Hatch Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

Escape to the prison island of New Caledonia and to the murderous conflict between one of the prisoners and the monstrous Monsieur Denu official executioner as John Russell tells it in his terrifying story The Red Mark. Original Air Date: February 21, 1950Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Escape Stars:• William Conrad• Harry Bartell• Will Geer• Barbara Whiting• […]

A man wakes up lying on a street, with no memories of the previous three and one half years! Original Air Date: November 30, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Star:• Cary Grant Writer:• John Dickson Carr Author:• Cornell Woolrich Producer:• William Spier Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

There comes a time when a meek stockbroker gets fed up with his humdrum life and chucks it all for romance and adventure in Florida…and actually finds both! Original Air Date: August 13, 1945Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The Whistler Stars:• Bill Forman• Bob Anderson Producer:• George W. Allen Author:• Everett T. Tomlinson Adaptation:• Harold Swanton Music:• […]

An English journalist attempts to rescue his Russian wife, a famous ballerina, who is being held captive is Moscow. Original Air Date: February 14, 1950Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Escape Stars:• John Dehner• Barton Yarborough• Paul Frees• Marta Mitrovich Special Guests:• Inge Jollos• Jack Kruschen• William Conrad• Paul Dubov Producer:• William N. Robson Author:• Roger Bax Adaptations:• […]

The Fountain Plays is an unusual murder study. It deals with the fortunes and misfortunes of a middleclass Englishman by the name of Archibald Spiller. He lives on a little country estate with a cook and a manservant and in the garden a fountain. Original Air Date: November 23, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Star:• Charles […]

Wendell has been taking care of wealthy old Aunt Ellen’s finances because she hasn’t much time left. When her condition improves, Wendell has to take certain steps to keep her from discovering his thievery! Original Air Date: August 06, 1945Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The Whistler Stars:• Bill Forman• Bob Anderson Producer:• George W. Allen Music:• Wilbur […]

A famous science fiction story about a test pilot who gets a warning from beyond. Original Air Date: February 07, 1950Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Escape Star:• Frank Lovejoy Special Guests:• Charles McGraw• Jeff Corey• Stanley Waxman• Ian Wolfe Producer:• William N. Robson Author:• Graham Doar Adaptations:• Morton Fine• David Friedkin Experts:• Gene May• Hartley Caldwell Music:• […]

A story about the troubles getting rid of a dead body at a seaside resort. Original Air Date: November 16, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Star:• Robert Cummings Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

Claudia suspects that Terry has committed murder during a British storm. Original Air Date: July 30, 1945Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The Whistler Stars:• Bill Forman• Bob Anderson Writer:• Harold Swanton Producer:• George W. Allen Music:• Wilbur Hatch Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

Escape into the mind of a man who has been sentenced to die. A man who attempts to refuse the bitter fate society has imposed upon him. Original Air Date: January 31, 1950Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Escape Star:• Vincent Price Special Guests:• Charles McGraw• Joan Banks• Harry Bartell• Ben Wright• Tom Tully• William Lally• Jeff Corey• […]

You Were Wonderful stars Lena Horne as a noted entertainer called Lorna Dean who finds herself embroiled with dangerous intrigue and murder in a South American capital. Original Air Date: November 09, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Star:• Lena Horne Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Author:• Robert L. Richards Intro and Exit music from: […]

On a tourist island, a crazy hermit sees to it that the customers get their money’s worth. Original Air Date: January 24, 1950Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Escape Stars:• Frank Lovejoy (Eddie)• Jack Holt (Clive)• Mary Lansing (Amanda)• Harry Bartell (Brewar) Special Guests:• Eileen Prince• Paul Frees Producer:• William N. Robson Music:• Lloyd Del Castillo Authors:• John […]

A cop’s brother wakes from a drugged stupor to find himself a killer! Original Air Date: November 02, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Star:• Van Johnson Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

A strange cruise in the Caribbean, a triple murder, and that all important bank draft for $2 million dollars. Original Air Date: January 17, 1950Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Escape Stars:• Anthony Ross (The Doctor)• Jeff Corey (Felix)• Fay Baker (Stephanie)• Ian Wolfe (Joseph Ingram) Special Guests:• Harry Bartell• Ruth Parrot• John Ramsey Hill• Paul Frees Producer:• […]

Ten years ago Tom Nixon had killed Miss Rhodes’ mother in cold blood and was now in jail for it or so Rose thought until that day that she saw him in her building in the elevator and discovered he was the night man. She fears that he has escaped and come back to kill […]

A retelling the classic tale about the English girl whose mother disappears without a trace from a Paris hotel Original Air Date: January 10, 1950Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Escape Stars:• Joan Banks (Cynthia)• Ben Wright (Bruce)• Anthony Ross (The Doctor)• John Hoyt (Hotel Manager) Special Guests:• Irene Tedrow• John Ramsey Hill• Humphrey Bogart• Nan Boardman• Daphne […]

A wife with a shady past tries to get the evidence needed to clear her husband of a charge of murder. Original Air Date: October 19, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Star:• Nancy Kelly Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

An action-packed western about the first Colt six-shooter, the California gold fields, and a double-crossing dance hall queen. Original Air Date: January 03, 1950Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Western StoriesPhone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739) Stars:• Gerald Mohr• Betty Lou Gerson• Charles McGraw• Will Geer Special Guests:• Eddie Marr Writers:• Les Crutchfield Producer:• William N. Robson Music:• Lloyd […]

A story about a music box that plays the famous title waltz, and the strange effect that it has on a strange man. Original Air Date: October 12, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Star:• Reginald Gardiner Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Adaptation:• Robert L. Richards Author:• Roy Vickers Based on a short story The […]

Adrift at sea, Lamont Cranston and Margot Lane come across a passing ship who rescues them, but once they’re on board they soon realize the ship has been taken over by thugs who are smuggling natives from the West Indies into the States. Original Air Date: February 16, 1941Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The Shadow Stars:• Bill […]

During the war, in a neutral port, Nazi and Allied spies are everywhere. A young photographer becomes involved in intrigue when she accidentally photographs a lobby full of them. Original Air Date: October 05, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Star:• John HodiakWriter:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter […]

Original Air Date: February 09, 1941Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The Shadow Stars:• Bill Johnstone (Lamont Cranston)• Marjorie Anderson (Margot Lane) Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

A story about an incredible run of luck…both bad and good! By day Leonard Snell is a rather pathetic insurance salesman, but he has a penchant for betting on the horses. Unfortunately, he is as bad at gambling as he is at selling insurance policies and he’s up to his eyeballs in debt. The consequences […]

Margo’s has a headache that leads to more than a simple pill can solve. Might need a Doctors help. Original Air Date: February 02, 1941Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The Shadow Stars:• Bill Johnstone (Lamont Cranston)• Marjorie Anderson (Margot Lane) Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc

During the Nazi occupation of France, an amateur murderer is at work, filling the town with mutilated bodies. The story takes place in occupied France. The Bluebeard of Bellac has taken another victim. This time it is Captain Franz Murdoch, a medical officer… Original Air Date: September 21, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Star:• Merle Oberon […]

Original Air Date: January 26, 1941Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The Shadow Stars:• Bill Johnstone (Lamont Cranston)• Marjorie Anderson (Margot Lane) Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc