The Escapist “Two-in-the-Bush Venture” on Imagination Theatre!

All right, here comes The Escapist!

And here comes the debut of my latest radio script for Jim French’s Imagination Theatre!

The Escapist is the newest series created by IT’s incomparable head writer and all around good guy Matthew J. Elliott. And The Escapist is Barnaby Wilde, a (semi-)retired operative from some furtive agency or other who still gets called in on occasion to look into strange and sometimes bloody… uh… stuff. Joining Wilde on these adventures is Ms. Ampersand, his driver, bodyguard, and two-legged font of information.

The first episode of The Escapist pitted our pair against a former military officer who had become just a little bit too corrupt.

The second episode had our pair searching for the connection between attempts on a politician’s life and a series of science fiction novels.

Now comes episode three: “The Two-in-the-Bush Venture”! This time our pair head to Singapore to stop a secret society from trying to resurrect the legendary lost Kingdom of Singapura. Oh, and investigate the disappearance of a missing linguist who was translating the legendary Singapore Stone. And, oh, deal with an assassin named Schott Miller who Wilde is really, really, really sure he erased nine years ago.

So… you know… they’re going to be busy.

And if you haven’t picked up on it already, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that The Escapist harkens back to such classic and eccentric TV adventure series as The Protectors and most notably The Avengers.  In fact, if you didn’t get enough of John Steed and Mrs. Emma Peel or Dr. Cathy Gale or Tara King in the sixties and seventies or more recently on retro TV stations, then I cannot recommend The Escapist enough.

The Escapist would have fit right in with Sixties and Seventies adventure series like The Avengers (right) and The Protectors (left).

“The Two-in-the-Bush Venture” debuts May 9 on IT’s flagship station KIXI 880 in Seattle at 10:30 Pacific Time.  If you don’t happen to live in Seattle, just click here for a list of all the radio stations that IT is syndicated on.  If terrestrial radio isn’t your bag, you can listen to “The Two-in-the-Bush Venture” for a limited time on the Imagination Theater YouTube Channel starting around Saturday May 23. You can also download it or purchase it on a USB flash drive, both of which will be for sale at the Imagination Theater website starting May 16.