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Get away was radio’s leading anthology group of secret and high-adventure, airing on CBS from July 7, 1947 until September 25, 1954. The series’s well-remembered opening combined Mussorgsky’s Night time on Bald Hill with an introduction intoned by Paul Frees and/or William about Get away, Vol. 4 Conrad. Many story premises, both originals and adaptations, involved a protagonist in dire life-or-death straits.

Actors on the series included Eleanor Audley, Parley Baer, Harry Bartell, William Conrad, Ted deCorsia, John Dehner, Sam Edwards, Virginia Gregg, Lou Merrill, Howard McNear, Jeanette Nolan, Alan Reed, Expenses Johnstone, Marvin Miller, Frank Lovejoy, Berry Kroeger, Vic Perrin, Elliott Lewis, Jack port Webb, Peggy Webber, and can Wright. Music was given by Del Castillo, organist Ivan Ditmars, Cy Feuer, Wilbur Hatch, and Leith Stevens.

1/7/51 – “Conquest”2/11/51 – “The Killer Mine”2/18/51 – “The Follower”7/18/51 – “Macao”8/1/51 – “The Gladiator”1/25/53 – “Diary of a Madman”2/8/53 – “Jetsam”3/1/53 – “The Tramp”3/15/53 – “The Man using the Steel Teeth”4/12/53 – “Classified Secret”4/26/53 – “The Derelict”6/7/53 – “The Voyage of Sinbad”7/12/53 – “The Out-Station”7/19/53 – “The Open Boat”7/26/53 – “The Notebook”8/2/53 – “The Crimson Forest”