I won’t reveal a further, and final, solution, save to say that Conrad’s performance is one of his best, and the fear he brings to his role almost palpable. Harry is given some antivenin as a precaution. Several methods are used to try to get the snake to leave, all unsuccessful. The English doctor is unavailable, thus as a last resort the Indian doctor is brought in. Timber is told to summon an English doctor, for Harry wants nothing to do with an Indian doctor. Visiting Harry, Timber finds him in his bed, panicked and sweating in his covers, telling Timber there is a deadly snake–a krait–resting on his stomach beneath the blankets. The bigot, Harry Pope, is played by William Conrad, and his friend Timber Woods is played by Jack Webb. The story takes place in British controlled colonial India and centers on two men working there, one of whom is an outright, disgusting bigot. Roald Dahl (1916-1990) saw his short story published in the Jissue of Collier’s, so Escape wasted no time in adapting it for radio a little over a month later. indvidual, not repeated) stories, each of its 29-episode seasons for 7 years giving the 201 final count. Escape (1947-54) aired “Poison” on Jas the 121st of its 201 unique (i.e.
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