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The Chase |
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The
episode opening said it all about what was to follow: The lone bugle of a fox hunt, Éthe braying of dogs,
É "In the animal world, there is the hunter
and the hunted, É hounds & fox, É hawk & sparrow, É
chicken & worm. We, in the top-most species have also joined
the hunt, É but who is to judge precisely which of us are hounds or foxes as we enter É The Chase! " An
alternate episode opening is also enlightening as to the content of these
programs: Slow footsteps, .. getting faster and faster, .. a
police whistle blows, É a gunshot rings out, É the footsteps slow and
eventually a body falls É. "There's always the hunter and the
hunted, the pursuer and the pursued. It may be the voice of authority or a race with death and destruction: the most
relentless of the hunt. There are times when laughter is heard as
counterpoint and moments when sheer terror is the theme. But always there is The Chase!" The
Chase is often considered to be
NBC's "version" of CBS's successful Escape (also available from this website). The Chase told high energy tales of people on the run being
either as hunter or hunted (mostly the latter). It was highly escapist fare
and very well done by some of New York's best radio actors and sound
technicians. The creator / writer was Lawrence Klee who fashioned stories from across a number of
genres. Although less reliant on some of the "classic escapist"
tales often told on Escape, The
Chase did not disappoint with their rendition of the most famous chase story
of all: 1952-11-30 The Most
Dangerous Game. The
series ran for 55 thirty minute episodes across 1952 / 53 and in that time
delivered nail-biting action packed adventure radio to a large audience.
Luckily all but one episode has survived. Note:
Trev feels that this series took a
few weeks to find its feet - with Episode No. 4 (1952-05-18 Elliott
Preston is Framed for Murder) being
the first one that really delivered
on the impressive openings above. Want
to check out an episode? - why not "taste & try"? This
episode (the 5th in the series and a beauty!) can be freely downloaded to
your computer - just right button click on any link below and chose
"Download Linked File" (or words to that effect). The file is on an
average about 21Mb - download time will depend on your (broadband) speed TC_1952-05-25
Newspaper Reporter After Germans in South America These two MP3 CD consists of all 54 surviving
episodes of The Chase - each has been carefully restored to a superb
audio rendition The
Chase 1.
TC_1952-04-27 The Big
Cat.mp3 2.
TC_1952-05-04 Harry
Troll's Diamond.mp3 3.
TC_1952-05-11 Countess
Treanna.mp3 4.
TC_1952-05-18 Elliott
Preston is Framed for Murder.mp3 5.
TC_1952-05-25
Newspaper Reporter After Germans in South America.mp3 6.
TC_1952-06-01 Easy
Riches, Sudden Death.mp3 7.
TC_1952-06-08 Hardluck
Ethel.mp3 8.
TC_1952-06-15
Terminate Professor Kolchek.mp3 9.
TC_1952-06-22 Bald
Artie Bender.mp3 10.
TC_1952-06-29 Stephan,
Monica and One Million Dollars.mp3 11.
TC_1952-07-10 Doug
Burton and a Mysterious Letter.mp3 12.
TC_1952-07-17 Joey.mp3 13.
TC_1952-07-24 The
Apprentice.mp3 14.
TC_1952-08-07 The
Painting.mp3 15.
TC_1952-08-14 The
Amusement Park.mp3 16.
TC_1952-08-21 The
Promotion.mp3 17.
TC_1952-09-21 The
Chinese Buddha.mp3 18.
TC_1952-09-28 Twenty
Million Dollar Bum.mp3 19.
TC_1952-10-05 Flight
from Istanbul.mp3 20.
TC_1952-10-12 The
Cat's Meow.mp3 21.
TC_1952-10-19 Man
Hunt.mp3 22.
TC_1952-10-26 Iron
Curtain Express.mp3 23.
TC_1952-11-02 Long
Distance.mp3 24.
TC_1952-11-09 Career
Girl.mp3 25.
TC_1952-11-16 My Love
is a Ghost.mp3 26.
TC_1952-11-23
Blackout.mp3 27.
TC_1952-11-30 The Most
Dangerous Game.mp3 28.
TC_1952-12-07
Dangerous Journey.mp3 29.
TC_1952-12-14 The
Murder.mp3 30.
TC_1952-12-28 No
Contact.mp3 31.
TC_1953-01-04 The
Fortune Hunter.mp3 32.
TC_1953-01-11
Professor Calvin and the Voice.mp3 33.
TC_1953-01-18 Killer
at Large.mp3 34.
TC_1953-01-25 The
Creeper.mp3 35.
TC_1953-02-01 Corpus
Delicti.mp3 36.
TC_1953-02-08
Pennypinching Boarding House Owners.mp3 37.
TC_1953-02-15 The
Will.mp3 38.
TC_1953-02-22 The
Jailbreak.mp3 39.
TC_1953-03-01 A Frame
for Murder.mp3 40.
TC_1953-03-08 Special
Delivery.mp3 41.
TC_1953-03-15 The
Laddy Is a Corpse.mp3 42.
TC_1953-03-21 Cathy
Sutter Meets James Carter.mp3 43.
TC_1953-03-29
Murderers' Row.mp3 44.
TC_1953-04-05 Johnny
and Ellen, Killer and Hostage.mp3 45.
TC_1953-04-19 King
Danno.mp3 46.
TC_1953-04-26 The
Leading Man Talent Search.mp3 47.
TC_1953-05-03
Circumstantial Evidence.mp3 48.
TC_1953-05-17 The
Hold-Up.mp3 49.
TC_1953-05-24 Tiger
Lily.mp3 50.
TC_1953-05-31
Lucifer.mp3 51.
TC_1953-06-07 Million
Dollar Hunt.mp3 52.
TC_1953-06-14 Playboy.mp3 53.
TC_1953-06-21 The
Monster.mp3 54.
TC_1953-06-28 Harry
and the Talking Horse.mp3 |