Taurus Express

[dramatic music] You are speeding through the Turkish night on the Taurus Express.

You are alone and unarmed, and somewhere on the train is a calm killer from whom you must escape.

[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.

[dramatic music] Tonight we escape to Turkey and the Taurus Express, which carries a shipment of death, as Harold Lamb told it in his exciting story, Three Good Witnesses.

[dramatic music]

I took the Taurus Express that night 'cause I was going home, back to the United States, back to California, and my routine job at the oil company.

Two days before, I'd given my final report to our State Department man in Istanbul, a negative report.

Then, Mr.

She is an English governess travelling home from Baghdad.

She and that tall, lean, military-looking gentleman at the next table... ...who is pointedly trying to give the impression that he does not know her... ...were travelling together on the Taurus Express, which I boarded at Aleppo.

They went through a very pretty comedy for my benefit... ...pretending not to know one another.

Very reserved.

Masterman, Desmond Llewellyn.

Miss Olsen, Kate Binchy, Poscarelli, Frank Coder, Hardman, John Church, Colonel Abuthnett, Stephen Hodson, the Count and Countess Andrenyi, David Thorpe, and Cyril Jenkins.

The hotel clerk, Kevork Malikyan, the Taurus Express guard, Vic Tavlian.

The music was composed and played by Michael Haslam.

And now, the original broadcast.

You are speeding through the Turkish night on the Taurus Express.

You are alone and unarmed, and somewhere on the train is a calm killer from whom you must escape.

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.

Tonight we escape to Turkey and the Taurus Express, which carries a shipment of death, as Harold Lamb told it in his exciting story, Three Good Witnesses.

I took the Taurus Express that night because I was going home.

Back to the United States.