The Great Escape (book) a live drama adaptation as an episode of "The Philco Television Playhouse", starring E.G. Marshall, Everett Sloane, Horace Braham, and Kurt Katch. The live broadcast was praised for engineering an ingenious set design for the live broadcast, including creating the illusion of underground tunnels. In 1963, the Mirisch brothers worked with United Artists to adapt the book to produce the film "The Great Escape" starring Steve McQueen, James Garner and Richard Attenborough. The film itself was also an inspiration for the film "Chicken Run". In 1986, Ocean Software released the first "Great Escape" video game for the Commodore 64, ZX
The Great Escape (U.S. TV series) The Great Escape (U.S. TV series) The Great Escape is a reality television series on TNT that premiered on June 24, 2012, at 10:00 pm EDT. The competition series, hosted by Rich Eisen, features three two-person teams each week who are dropped "into the middle of their own epic action/adventure movie" and competing for a cash prize. The show is produced by Imagine Television directors Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, and "The Amazing Race" producers, Bertram Van Munster and Elise Doganieri. The series finished airing on August 26, 2012 and was cancelled in October 2012. TNT ordered a pilot episode