Leiningen Versus the Ants
Short story by Carl StephensonWikipedia
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Oct 10, 2026
William ConradVOICE_ACTOR
[suspenseful music] You are isolated on a remote plantation in the crawling Amazon jungle, and an immense army of ravenous ants is closing in on you, swarming in to eat you alive.
William ConradVOICE_ACTOR
A deadly black army from which there is no escape.
William ConradVOICE_ACTOR
[dramatic music] Escape, produced by William N. Robeson and carefully contrived to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure.
William ConradVOICE_ACTOR
[suspenseful music] Today we escape to the Amazon jungle and to a creeping, crawling terror as Carl Stephenson told it in his gripping story, Leiningen Versus the Ants.
William ConradVOICE_ACTOR
[dramatic music]
27 MINS LATER
William ConradVOICE_ACTOR
I told you I'd come back.
William ConradVOICE_ACTOR
Even if I am a bit streamlined.
William ConradVOICE_ACTOR
Escape, produced by William N. Robeson and directed by Norman MacDonald.
Lou MerrillVOICE_ACTOR
[dramatic music] Escape, produced and directed by William N. Robson, and carefully contrived to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure.
Lou MerrillVOICE_ACTOR
[dramatic music] Tonight we escape to the Amazon jungle and to a creeping, crawling terror, as Carl Stephenson told it in his gripping story, Leiningen Versus the Ants.
Lou MerrillVOICE_ACTOR
[dramatic music] I first met Leiningen while performing my duty as district commissioner.
Lou MerrillVOICE_ACTOR
As my boat neared his plantation landing, I saw him upon the riverbank regarding me with mild interest, a great hulk of a man with bristling gray hair, bulky nose, and pale eyes.
27 MINS LATER
speaker_8NARRATOR
Next week...
William ConradVOICE_ACTOR
You are groping through a dark alleyway in the French Quarter of New Orleans with terror driving you on, and always before your eyes is the malevolent stare of a voodoo man striking you with a deadly curse from which you must escape.
speaker_8NARRATOR
Next week, we escape with William Irish's eerie story of a voodoo-haunted bandleader, Papa Benjamin.
speaker_8NARRATOR
Good night then until this same time next week when we again offer you Escape.
speaker_5NARRATOR
A deadly black army from which there is no escape.
speaker_14NARRATOR
Next week, we escape with Carl Stephenson's terrifying story, Leiningen versus the Ants.
speaker_14NARRATOR
Goodbye, then, until next week at this same time, when again we offer you Escape.
speaker_14NARRATOR
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
speaker_3VOICE_ACTOR
A deadly black army from which there is no escape.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Next week, we escape with Carl Stephenson's terrifying story, Leiningen versus the Ants.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Goodbye then, until next week at this same time, when again we offer you Escape.
speaker_4NARRATOR
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
An immense army of deadly ants is advancing through Brazil's Amazon jungle toward an isolated plantation, and its owner refuses to abandon the land or the people who depend upon it.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
On January 17th, 1948, CBS presented Escape, episode 4801, Leiningen versus the Ants.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
William Conrad stars as Leiningen, with Lou Merrill as the district commissioner who brings the warning.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Robert Reif adapted Carl Stevenson's short story under the direction of William N. Robson.