What happens
Linengen, a large and stubborn plantation owner on the Amazon, refuses to flee when a vast army of ravenous ants approaches his property. District Commissioner visits him to warn him to leave, but Linengen insists that intelligence can master any danger. The commissioner returns to watch the plantation's defenses, a water-filled ditch and a dam, as the ants arrive in a relentless advance. Linengen tries one plan after another against the swarm and his ingenuity is tested. This episode of Escape is a 1948 broadcast from the CBS series, adapted by Robert Rife from a story by Carl Stephenson, with William Conrad as Linengen and Lou Merrill as the commissioner.
A remote plantation on the Amazon river in the jungle, with a ditch, a dam, and the surrounding plantation buildings.
Characters: Linengen, District Commissioner, Bloss
Listen for: The ants' advance and Linengen's increasingly desperate defenses against them.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.