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Suspense

Season 4 1951 - 1952
TV-PG

  • 1951-09-05T01:30:00Z on CBS
  • 25m
  • 22h 41m (49 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Drama
Suspense was one of network television's earliest series and, like many of the medium's first efforts, was adapted from a long-running radio program. With a few exceptions, this anthology was not an outright "horror" program but was designed to put characters in dangerous or threatening situations that built to a suspenseful climax. The somewhat low-budget series was performed live each week so it had its share of flubbed lines and technical snafus and episodes were generally confined to a couple of minimal sets. The program was rather highly regarded for it's overall quality (for the time) and the calibre of it's scripts. Like practically all of TV's earliest live series, Suspense was never rerun. Most episodes were considered lost but, as luck would have it, a huge cache of Suspense programs were "discovered" and released on DVD in 2007.

50 episodes

Season Premiere

1951-09-05T01:30:00Z

4x01 This Way Out

Season Premiere

4x01 This Way Out

  • 1951-09-05T01:30:00Z30m

girl and fiance argue about carnival - goes in, watches show about murderers - displays about their deeds. is told to wait, as she has questions - he does not return, leaving her alone with likenesses of murderers. forced to find way out.

1951-09-12T01:30:00Z

4x02 Strange For a Killer

4x02 Strange For a Killer

  • 1951-09-12T01:30:00Z30m

The story of a hunted criminal who loses his nerve.

1951-09-19T01:30:00Z

4x03 Merryman's Murder

4x03 Merryman's Murder

  • 1951-09-19T01:30:00Z30m

A taut mystery based on an incident in the life of entertainer Joe E. Lewis.

1951-09-26T01:30:00Z

4x04 Doctor Anonymous

4x04 Doctor Anonymous

  • 1951-09-26T01:30:00Z30m

An espionage agent on the run.

1951-10-10T02:30:00Z

4x06 High Street

4x06 High Street

  • 1951-10-10T02:30:00Z30m

Tale of a house painter whose homicidal designs on a rich client are complicated by an old romance.

1951-10-17T02:30:00Z

4x07 The Fifth Dummy

4x07 The Fifth Dummy

  • 1951-10-17T02:30:00Z30m

Mystery set against a chamber of horrors in a traveling circus.

4x08 The Train from Czechoslovakia

  • 1951-10-24T02:30:00Z30m

A documentary based on the activities of the voice of Radio Free Europe and its impact on the people behind the Iron Curtain. The story is based on the passengers and crew of the train that recently passed thru from Czechoslovakia to the American zone. General Lucius D. Clay, national chairman of the Crusade for Freedom, is a special guest on the program.

1951-10-31T02:30:00Z

4x09 Court Day

4x09 Court Day

  • 1951-10-31T02:30:00Z30m

1951-11-07T02:30:00Z

4x10 Moonfleet (1)

4x10 Moonfleet (1)

  • 1951-11-07T02:30:00Z30m

A tale of pirates and buried treasure.

1951-11-14T02:30:00Z

4x11 Moonfleet (2)

4x11 Moonfleet (2)

  • 1951-11-14T02:30:00Z30m

A tale of pirates and buried treasure.

1951-11-21T02:30:00Z

4x12 Frisco Payoff

4x12 Frisco Payoff

  • 1951-11-21T02:30:00Z24m

Postal inspector Winters has infiltrated a criminal gang and their big plan is about to go down.

1951-11-28T02:30:00Z

4x13 Mikki Knows

4x13 Mikki Knows

  • 1951-11-28T02:30:00Z30m

With the cryptic words "Mikki Knows" from the lips of her dying father, a young socialite hunts down the murderer of her parent.

1951-12-05T02:30:00Z

4x14 The Far-Off House

4x14 The Far-Off House

  • 1951-12-05T02:30:00Z23m

Mrs. Collins returns to town during a raging storm after a three week stay with her mother. Despite the warnings of everyone at the train station that she should stay at a hotel, because of the storm and a killer on the loose, she returns to her empty house. She regretfully discovers that she is not alone.

1951-12-12T02:30:00Z

4x15 Mediation in Mexico

4x15 Mediation in Mexico

  • 1951-12-12T02:30:00Z30m

1951-12-19T02:30:00Z

4x16 Pier 17

4x16 Pier 17

  • 1951-12-19T02:30:00Z24m

The dock workers who load nitroglycerin onto freighters at Pier 17 are on edge. A recent explosion at the harbor killed four men and the FBI believes it was sabotage by an insider. Dave Delaney and his foreman, with their eyes peeled for trouble, have decided the new guy is really a G-man working on the case.

1951-12-26T02:30:00Z

4x17 The Lonely Place

4x17 The Lonely Place

  • 1951-12-26T02:30:00Z30m

1952-01-02T02:30:00Z

4x18 Routine Patrol

4x18 Routine Patrol

  • 1952-01-02T02:30:00Z30m

1952-01-09T02:30:00Z

4x19 Flare Week

4x19 Flare Week

  • 1952-01-09T02:30:00Z30m

The story of death and terror which springs from a sports scandal on a college campus.

1952-01-16T02:30:00Z

4x20 The Spider

4x20 The Spider

  • 1952-01-16T02:30:00Z30m

Scientists Bob and Muriel Torres honeymoon in rural Florida. Despite being warned that a professor and his son had gotten lost in the nearby swamp and were never seen again, Muriel goes exploring alone.

1952-01-23T02:30:00Z

4x21 The Red Signal

4x21 The Red Signal

  • 1952-01-23T02:30:00Z24m

A supposedly fake medium is hired to a conduct a séance so Sir Alington, a psychiatrist, can observe a patient under stress. She warns the doctor, Clair and her husband Jack to avoid their homes because they are in danger. Her premonition turns out to be true because of insanity, murder, and secret loves.

1952-01-30T02:30:00Z

4x22 Death Drum

4x22 Death Drum

  • 1952-01-30T02:30:00Z24m

The mayor of a French town reveals the identities of underground members, he says, to save the country from destruction by the invading Nazis. Having been moved to a neutral country, he's quickly kidnapped by allies and carried to the home of an English gentlemen to be executed as a traitor.

1952-02-06T02:30:00Z

4x23 Betrayal in Vienna

4x23 Betrayal in Vienna

  • 1952-02-06T02:30:00Z30m

In 1913, an Italian intelligence Colonel is on the run from his own agency because the government things he is a spy. But when a spy is later uncovered in his office, and as the Colonel flees, the spy confesses that he is not working alone.

1952-02-13T02:30:00Z

4x24 North of Shanghai

4x24 North of Shanghai

  • 1952-02-13T02:30:00Z23m

American medical missionaries Dr. Paul Morgan and his wife are told to leave China as the Communists advance on the city. When he refuses, a Communist general kills his own wife who's under the doctor's care, then charges Morgan with murder and sentences him to death. The surgeon's execution is unexpectedly postponed when he's ordered to perform an emergency operation.

1952-02-20T02:30:00Z

4x25 Summer Storm

4x25 Summer Storm

  • 1952-02-20T02:30:00Z30m

The story of a woman's brush with death when she undersold the emotion of fear.

1952-02-27T02:30:00Z

4x26 Night Drive

4x26 Night Drive

  • 1952-02-27T02:30:00Z23m

Mrs. Haley takes her horse to blacksmith Bob to have its shoes checked since she'll be traveling alone by buggy to meet her husband at the train station. She's delighted when Dr. Tabor, whose wife was one of two women murdered in the woods along the way, asks if his sister can ride along. As they approach the spot of the two unsolved crimes, the behavior of Mrs. Haley's passenger becomes unsettling.

1952-03-05T02:30:00Z

4x27 Day of Infamy

4x27 Day of Infamy

  • 1952-03-05T02:30:00Z30m

The story opens in Germany, where a young girl loses face with Herr Goebels and enlists into the espionage service of the Japanese and sets herself up in Hawaii.

1952-03-12T02:30:00Z

4x28 Four Days to Kill

4x28 Four Days to Kill

  • 1952-03-12T02:30:00Z24m

Johnny, a professional assassin with a hair-trigger temper, is sent by his boss to Havana to do a job. His target is his former mentor, Barney Moyer, the man who taught him everything he knows about killing.

4x29 The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1)

  • 1952-03-19T02:30:00Z30m

A two-part dramatization of Dickens' "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," about a man and his uncle vying for the same girl.

4x30 The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2)

  • 1952-03-26T02:30:00Z30m

A two-part dramatization of Dickens' "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," about a man and his uncle vying for the same girl.

1952-04-09T02:30:00Z

4x31 Black Panther

4x31 Black Panther

  • 1952-04-09T02:30:00Z24m

A criminal uses a rare doll store as the front for his diamond smuggling racket. A detective starts snooping around after a man carrying a doll is shot in the subway and the murderer steals the doll's arm. The mobster gets wise to the cop, and to an inside job being pulled by people he trusts.

1952-04-16T02:30:00Z

4x32 Night of Evil

4x32 Night of Evil

  • 1952-04-16T02:30:00Z30m

Frenzy, fire and death are the results of an attempt to separate an old man from his fortune.

1952-04-23T02:30:00Z

4x33 Alibi Me

4x33 Alibi Me

  • 1952-04-23T02:30:00Z24m

Ex-con Georgie Lennox has been tormented his entire life by Leo Whaley who's now out and moving in on his punch-board racket. Finally pushed too far, he shoots Leo to death.

1952-04-30T01:30:00Z

4x34 The Purloined Letter

4x34 The Purloined Letter

  • 1952-04-30T01:30:00Z23m

In 1880 France, wealthy Danielle is determined that her husband, Victor, becomes a success in politics. She pays 2 million francs to the elderly Premiere Marcord to name Victor the minister of justice and, in exchange, he writes her a note guaranteeing the job. The unscrupulous Marin, who presently holds that title, steals the letter and threatens to make it public and destroy Marcord. It is up to Danielle to find the letter and save the government.

1952-05-07T01:30:00Z

4x35 The Mandarin Murders

4x35 The Mandarin Murders

  • 1952-05-07T01:30:00Z30m

A drama based on the revolutionary activities that preceded the founding of the Chinese Republic.

A young woman's body is found by her classmate in a small farming town. We learn that she had received a corsage and a love note from a secret admirer and was on her way to discover who he was when she met her demise.

1952-05-21T01:30:00Z

4x37 Hunted Down

4x37 Hunted Down

  • 1952-05-21T01:30:00Z30m

1952-05-28T01:30:00Z

4x38 The Debt

4x38 The Debt

  • 1952-05-28T01:30:00Z24m

A young drifter is robbed by two other hobos after hopping off a train. Making his way to a country store, he's offered refuge from the rain by the young woman and her father who run the business. During the night the store is robbed and the old man is murdered. The drifter's first instinct is to run, but he quickly figures out who the real murderers are.

1952-06-04T01:30:00Z

4x39 Murder of Necessity

4x39 Murder of Necessity

  • 1952-06-04T01:30:00Z30m

A murder of necessity is caused by blackmail when an eavesdropper gets involved.

1952-06-11T01:30:00Z

4x40 House of Masks

4x40 House of Masks

  • 1952-06-11T01:30:00Z23m

Anna, a delicate and unstable young woman, despises having her life controlled by her older, practical sister. The sister is ready sign the papers to have Anna committed after she hires a mysterious young poet to be the gardener and plies him with cash. Billy has a history of being involved with young women who suddenly die.

1952-06-18T01:30:00Z

4x41 Phantom of the Riviera

4x41 Phantom of the Riviera

  • 1952-06-18T01:30:00Z30m

Tale is of a will-o'-the-wisp jewel thief whose area of operations is a Mediterranean resort. Six suspects are involved before the thief is captured.

1952-06-25T01:30:00Z

4x42 Night of Reckoning

4x42 Night of Reckoning

  • 1952-06-25T01:30:00Z30m

1952-07-02T01:30:00Z

4x43 Fifty Beautiful Girls

4x43 Fifty Beautiful Girls

  • 1952-07-02T01:30:00Z30m

A serial killer is murdering the dance hall girls.

1952-07-16T01:30:00Z

4x44 For the Love of Randi

4x44 For the Love of Randi

  • 1952-07-16T01:30:00Z24m

Dr. Ted Larson's engagement to head nurse Randi Sloan is getting under the skin of Dr. David Bonnell, her ex-lover and current roommate of Ted. When a box of candy arrives one morning, supposedly from Randi, David and a neighbor kid try a piece and both become extremely sick from arsenic poisoning. Accusations of attempted murder fly between the members of the love triangle as each accuses the other of poisoning the candy.

1952-07-30T01:30:00Z

4x45 The Crooked Frame

4x45 The Crooked Frame

  • 1952-07-30T01:30:00Z24m

Kelly Davis, the unscrupulous creator of 'Sally Forth' comic books, announces she's retiring the character. This move puts her resentful staff of cartoonists out of work. She offers Webb the chance to write the stories for her "new idea" -
an idea she's stealing from him. Kelly is found dead the next morning, and Webb is the obvious suspect.

1952-08-06T01:30:00Z

4x46 Death Cargo

4x46 Death Cargo

  • 1952-08-06T01:30:00Z30m

A freighter bound for New Orleans for a cargo delivery encounters a great risk of spoiled fruit.

1952-08-13T01:30:00Z

4x47 Remember Me?

4x47 Remember Me?

  • 1952-08-13T01:30:00Z22m

A former high-school basketball star, now broke and reduced to committing small-time hold-ups, kills an old man. With the police after him, he hides out in the apartment of a lonely woman who once had a crush on him in his high-school days.

1952-08-20T01:30:00Z

4x48 Her Last Adventure

4x48 Her Last Adventure

  • 1952-08-20T01:30:00Z25m

Eva, a wealthy middle-aged woman, marries a man she barely knows and moves into his family estate, a dark, run-down mansion on the Massachusetts coast. She learns James was recently engaged to a young woman, but he dismisses it as an unimportant mistake. Investigating noises in the cellar, she finds the corpse of a young woman, half-buried in the coal pile.

Season Finale

1952-08-27T01:30:00Z

4x49 Woman in Love

Season Finale

4x49 Woman in Love

  • 1952-08-27T01:30:00Z29m

A female secret agent operating in 1952 Budapest is preoccupied with her upcoming marriage. In her thoughtlessness, she loses a valuable document resulting in her life being in jeopardy.

4x99 Unknown

  • no air date25m
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