What happens
Captain Paul Graham leads a small team of desert commandos, including Sergeant Healy and Hutchins, behind Nazi lines to destroy a hidden German airfield near the coast highway. Watching a camel trail used by supply trucks, they discover a convoy of twelve trucks and decide to slip into the line as a thirteenth. The men must bluff their way past German guards and plant dynamite among the parked fighter planes. This Escape episode, first broadcast on August 16, 1953, is based on the story of Captain Douglas M. Smith and features Richard Peele in the cast.
The North African desert behind German lines, near the coast highway and a hidden Nazi airfield about a hundred miles behind enemy territory.
Characters: Captain Paul Graham, Sergeant Healy, Hutchins, Corporal Guffey, Twombly, Kwame, Kofi
Listen for: Listen for the moment the team joins the German convoy as an extra truck, and for the tense bluff at the airfield gate.
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.