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EARLY DROP: Escape Double Bill: Finger of Doom & The Adaptive Ultimate You're getting this one early, because the Tale Teller is packing a bag. I'm heading over east for an event this weekend, so rather than leave you waiting, I've lit the candle a few days ahead of schedule. This week I've been in the restoration workshop with two episodes from Escape , CBS's great high-adventure anthology. Both have been repaired and cleaned up, crackle tamed and voices brought forward, so they sound as close to that 1949 broadcast as I can get them. What's in today's episode: A man vanishes without a trace, and a dying woman becomes something that cannot die. Finger of Doom: Cornell Woolrich, master of noir dread, delivers one of his disappearance stories. Harry Bartell stars and narrates in this lean, haunting adaptation. The Adaptive Ultimate: Stanley G. Weinbaum's 1935 science-fiction tale. A young woman with nothing left to lose is given an experimental serum. It saves her life, and then it keeps going. These two aired just a week apart in March 1949, and they make a lovely, unsettling pair: one about a person disappearing, one about a person who becomes far too present. Thank you to my Oud Night Tea Titan , White Tea Warlords and Earl Grey Enforcers . You're the reason these old voices get a second life!!! I'll be back from over east with stories to tell next weekend however and back to the normal cadence! Until then, keep the candle lit. — The Tale Teller