Theater of the Mind
Suspense
908 episodes · 1942–1962 · CBS, Armed Forces Radio Service · Thriller
Radio Hall of Fame inductee.
Suspense, "radio's outstanding theater of thrills," ran on CBS from 1940 to 1962, about 945 episodes, more than 900 of which survive. Its formula was Hollywood stars cast against type in tightly plotted thrillers. Early shows were introduced by the mysterious Man in Black. Lucille Fletcher's "Sorry, Wrong Number," with Agnes Moorehead, became its most popular episode and was restaged seven times.
Sources: Suspense (radio drama), Wikipedia
Episodes
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194215 episodes
- The Burning Court
The series' first broadcast: a poisoning at a dinner party, a hint of the supernatural, and the question of which guest is the killer. - Wet Saturday (1942)
A very British family has a curate's body on its hands, and nearly everyone has a reason. John Collier's story, which Suspense did several more times. - The Cave of Ali Baba
Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey breaks up a masked crime society, with the help of a vault that opens to the sound of a voice. - The Hitch-Hiker
Driving across the country, a motorist keeps passing the same quiet man waiting by the road, no matter how far he goes. - The Kettler Method
A visitor to an asylum finds the patients have taken over, and they have a cure in mind for her headache. - A Passage to Benares
A young woman is murdered in a temple on Trinidad, and the story ends with a shock. - One Hundred in the Dark
A party game in the dark: someone counts slowly to one hundred, all the way through, on the air. - The Lord of the Witch Doctors
English diplomats in Zanzibar outwit German agents for the Caliph's favor. Written by John Dickson Carr. - The Devil in the Summer House
A recorded confession brings an old crime back to light. A John Dickson Carr period piece first done on the BBC. - Will You Make a Bet with Death?
A young man bets his life against his wicked stepfather for $25,000. - Menace in Wax
Two English reporters find a secret code in Madame Tussaud's waxworks and race to stop sabotage at a bomber factory. - The Body Snatchers
Old England, when doctors bought bodies for their research and asked no questions. - The Bride Vanishes
A haunted balcony at an Italian villa tempts a madman to kill again. - Till Death Do Us Part
Peter Lorre in a John Dickson Carr tale of murder and suicide in a lonely English village. - Two Sharp Knives (1942)
Stu Erwin is a small-town deputy who isn't as slow as he looks, after a wanted man is found hanged in his cell. From a Dashiell Hammett story.
194344 episodes
- Nothing Up My Sleeve
Money vanishes from a locked room. A John Dickson Carr puzzle. - The Pit and the Pendulum (1943)
Edgar Allan Poe's tale of a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition facing its tortures, introduced by the Man in Black. - The Devil's Saint
Peter Lorre is a sinister nobleman who invites his daughter's suitor to spend a night in the Tapestry Room. A fine twist at the end. - The Doctor Prescribed Death
Bela Lugosi is a doctor who believes a person about to commit suicide can be turned into a murderer, and sets out to prove it. - In Fear and Trembling
Mary Astor plays a nervous woman sure her husband and his lover mean to kill her, so she decides to strike first. - The Customers Like Murder
Roland Young is a mystery writer who, kidnapped with his secretary, uses the tricks of his trade against real killers. - The Dead Sleep Lightly
A rich old man hears from the wife he forgot long ago. A ghost story with Susan Hayward. - Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble
Paul Lukas investigates the death of a famous actress, killed while watching Macbeth. - Fear Paints a Picture (1943)
A young heiress fears she's losing her mind: the man in the painting in her room seems to come closer every night. - The Moment of Darkness
A man is killed at a seance where everyone was holding hands. Peter Lorre stars. - The Diary of Sophronia Winters (1943)
Agnes Moorehead in Lucille Fletcher's horror story: a new bride, a madman and a hotel with 125 empty rooms. - Death Flies Blind
A Nazi spy hijacks a plane carrying a millionaire with plans for cargo submarines. Richard Dix stars. - Mr. Markham, Antique Dealer
A blackmailer, a murderer and a room full of clocks, one of which talks. Paul Lukas stars. - The ABC Murders
Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester in Agatha Christie's story of a meek little man who seems to be a killer. - Sorry, Wrong Number
A bedridden woman, fighting with the telephone system, overhears two men planning a murder and slowly realizes who the victim is. - Banquo's Chair (1943)
A detective stages a dinner with a ghost to trap a murderer. Donald Crisp stars. - Five Canaries in the Room
A bachelor party turns serious with a body, an apartment that vanishes and five canaries. - Last Night
A corpse in the rumble seat and a dude ranch deep in debt. From a Cornell Woolrich story. - The Man Without a Body
An invisible man terrorizes the English countryside. What is his secret? - Uncle Henry's Rosebush
What is Aunt Julie up to, and where is Uncle Henry? Agnes Moorehead stars. - The White Rose Murders
A killer of young women leaves a white rose behind. Maureen O'Hara in a Cornell Woolrich story. - Murder Goes for a Swim
The Lone Wolf's first time on radio: a society treasure hunt turns up a dead bathing beauty and a dead gossip columnist. Warren William stars. - The Last Letter of Dr. Bronson
A scientist has a theory about the five things that stop a person from committing murder. Laird Cregar stars. - A Friend to Alexander (1943)
Robert Young plays a man who keeps dreaming of the Hamilton-Burr duel. From a James Thurber story. - The Fountain Plays (1943)
A neat little British murder from Dorothy L. Sayers, with Edmund Gwenn. - Sorry, Wrong Number (August 1943)
Agnes Moorehead's second performance of the invalid who overhears a murder plot on a crossed telephone line. - The King's Birthday
A touch of the supernatural in Nazi-occupied Denmark, with a surprise ending. - The Singing Walls (1943)
Has a man committed murder? And where is that music coming from? From a Cornell Woolrich story. - Marry for Murder
Lillian Gish and Otto Kruger as a couple on foggy Cape Cod, headed for a murder. Whose? - The Cross-Eyed Bear
Three heirs to a millionaire's estate are out to kill each other, with twist after twist. - The Most Dangerous Game (1943)
Orson Welles is the hunter who hunts men, in Richard Connell's classic story. - The Lost Special
Orson Welles in Arthur Conan Doyle's tale of a special train that vanishes between two stations. - Philomel Cottage
Orson Welles and Geraldine Fitzgerald as newlyweds in an English cottage, each keeping secrets. From Agatha Christie. - Lazarus Walks
Orson Welles is a man brought back from the dead who can tell a lie when he hears one, and must set it right. - The After Dinner Story
Six men were trapped in an elevator, and one died. The dead man's father finds an unusual way to learn who did it. - Statement of Employee Henry Wilson
Gene Lockhart is an office worker whose crime begins to prey on his mind. - Cabin B-13
A bride's husband vanishes aboard an ocean liner, and the crew says he was never there. John Dickson Carr's story later became its own series. - Thieves Fall Out
Gene Kelly tangles with black marketeers and a double murder. - The Strange Death of Charles Umberstein
Vincent Price is an Allied spy in Berlin who feels the net closing in. - The Black Curtain (1943)
Cary Grant is a man who recovers from amnesia to find he's wanted for murder. The first show sponsored by Roma Wines. - The Night Reveals
Robert Young is an insurance investigator who comes to believe his own wife sets fires. - Wet Saturday (1943)
Charles Laughton heads a very British family with a dead curate on its hands. - Back for Christmas
Peter Lorre is a meek botany professor who plans a special spot in the cellar for his nagging wife. From John Collier. - Finishing School
Murder at a girls' school, played by an all-woman cast including Elsa Lanchester.
194451 episodes
- One-Way Ride to Nowhere
Alan Ladd is a private eye with a body on a roller coaster and a wrecked getaway car. - Dime a Dance
Lucille Ball is a dance-hall girl, and a killer is murdering her coworkers. From Cornell Woolrich. - A World of Darkness
A girl is murdered, and the only witness is a blind man. Paul Lukas stars. - The Locked Room
Murder stalks the owner of the world's second-largest diamond. A John Dickson Carr mystery. - The Sisters
Ida Lupino and Agnes Moorehead as sisters alone in a big house. One is mad, and the sane one buys a coffin. - Suspicion
A cook who poisons her employers is on the loose, and Charles Ruggles fears she's working in his house. From Dorothy L. Sayers. - Life Ends at Midnight (1944)
A thoroughly bad son comes home to visit his mother, and soon thinks of murder. Fay Bainter stars. - Sorry, Wrong Number (1944)
Agnes Moorehead's third performance of Lucille Fletcher's classic, the invalid who overhears a murder plot on the phone. - Portrait Without a Face
Who sat for this strange painting, and why was it made? Michele Morgan stars. - The Defense Rests
Alan Ladd is an ex-convict framed for murder, with a very good lawyer, and a surprise at the end. - Narrative About Clarence
Laird Cregar is a hypnotist who means to kill a man's wife and daughter. - Sneak Preview
Joseph Cotten is a Hollywood director helping New York police hunt a Nazi spy and killer. - Cat and Mouse
Two radio hams working on a secret weapon talk by shortwave, until one is killed on the air. Sonny Tufts stars. - The Woman in Red
Katina Paxinou is a German spy who, with her nephew, kidnaps and kills. - The Marvelous Barastro
Orson Welles plays two roles, in two different Italian accents, in a Ben Hecht story. - The Palmer Method
Ed Gardner, Archie of Duffy's Tavern, plays it straight as a forger looking for a hiding place after fighting in Spain. - Death Went Along for the Ride
Gene Kelly drives across the country with a pretty hitchhiker, and someone shoots at him everywhere he goes. - The Dark Tower
Orson Welles plays several parts in a Kaufman and Woollcott tale of actors, one of whom comes back from the dead. - The Visitor
A boy believed dead comes home. Or does he? Eddie Bracken stars. - Donovan's Brain, Part One
A scientist keeps a dying millionaire's brain alive in his laboratory, and the experiment begins to take control of him. - Donovan's Brain, Part Two
The conclusion: the scientist struggles against the will of the brain he has kept alive. Orson Welles's last appearance on Suspense. - Fugue in C Minor
Ida Lupino and Vincent Price in Lucille Fletcher's ghost story of a house built around a pipe organ that plays by itself. The Archive file is labeled as a rehearsal. - Case History of Edgar Lowndes
A railroad tycoon tells a psychiatrist about his headaches and bad dreams, and he has good reason for them. Thomas Mitchell and Donald Crisp star. - A Friend to Alexander (1944)
Richard Whorf in James Thurber's story of a man haunted by the Hamilton-Burr duel. The show starts late for an attempted report from the Normandy beachhead. - The Ten Grand
Lucille Ball is a broke dancer whose empty purse is stolen on the subway, and comes back full of money. - The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Keenan Wynn is a newspaperman hunting for a priceless hidden mural. - The Search for Henri LeFevre
Paul Muni finishes writing a symphony, then hears the very same music on the radio. By Lucille Fletcher. - The Beast Must Die
Herbert Marshall swears to kill the hit-and-run driver who killed his son, and keeps a diary of his plans. From Nicholas Blake. - Of Maestro and Man
Peter Lorre is a fight manager planning revenge on his star boxer in the steam room. - The Black Shawl
Maureen O'Sullivan is a young woman kept in the mansion of a madwoman and her strange son. Dame May Whitty co-stars. - Banquo's Chair (1944)
Donald Crisp again as the detective who uses a ghost to trap a murderer. - The Man Who Knew How
Charles Laughton meets a man who knows a chemical that kills without a trace. From Dorothy L. Sayers. - The Diary of Sophronia Winters (1944)
Agnes Moorehead again in Lucille Fletcher's tale of a new bride, a madman and an empty hotel. - Actor's Blood
Fredric March in Ben Hecht's murder story, with a touch of the ghostly and a pinch of madness. - Black Path of Fear
Brian Donlevy in Cornell Woolrich's story of murder and revenge in old Havana. - Voyage Through Darkness
Olivia de Havilland is aboard a ship where the Blackout Killer is hiding. - You'll Never See Me Again
Joseph Cotten's wife goes home to her mother, with a surprise ending. From Cornell Woolrich. - The Bluebeard of Bellac
Merle Oberon in occupied France, where an amateur murderer is leaving bodies around town. - The Man Who Couldn't Lose
Gene Kelly has an incredible run of luck, good and bad. - Dateline: Lisbon
In wartime Lisbon, full of spies, a young photographer accidentally takes a picture of a lobby full of them. John Hodiak stars. - The Merry Widower
A music box plays the Merry Widow waltz, with a strange effect on Reginald Gardiner. - Eve
Nancy Kelly is a wife with a shady past who goes after the evidence to clear her husband of murder. From Cornell Woolrich, with more than one twist. - The Night Man
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - The Singing Walls (1944)
Van Johnson wakes from a drugged sleep to find he may be a killer. - You Were Wonderful
Lena Horne is a nightclub singer in South America caught up in a Nazi spy plot. She sings "America" during the story. - Dead of Night
Robert Cummings has a body to get rid of at a seaside resort. - The Fountain Plays (1944)
Charles Laughton in Dorothy L. Sayers' little British murder. - The Black Curtain (1944)
Cary Grant again as the man who wakes in the street with three and a half years missing from his memory. - The Lodger
A couple begins to suspect their lodger is the Avenger, a London killer. Robert Montgomery stars. - The Brighton Strangler
John Loder is a British actor, struck on the head in the Blitz, who becomes the strangler he plays on stage. - A Thing of Beauty
The rise and fall of a famous actress, and a murder. Ida Lupino was to star but was ill; June Duprez steps in.
194549 episodes
- I Had an Alibi
Keenan Wynn's wife has a bad heart and a million-dollar inheritance, and he plans the perfect crime. - Drive-In
Nancy Kelly is a car-hop menaced by a killer. - To Find Help
Frank Sinatra, cast against type, terrorizes Agnes Moorehead as an old woman alone in her house. - Drury's Bones
Boris Karloff is a Scotland Yard inspector with no memory of his past, on his hardest case. - The Most Dangerous Game (1945)
Joseph Cotten is the hunted man this time, J. Carrol Naish the hunter. - Tale of Two Sisters
A madwoman takes revenge on the son of the sister she hates. Claire Trevor and Nancy Kelly star. - Sell Me Your Life
A woman talks a man out of suicide, and then he's framed for murder. Lee Bowman stars. - John Barbie and Son
Thomas Mitchell and his strangely silent son are on the run from the police. - My Wife, Geraldine
Edward G. Robinson is a meek man who invents an ideal wife, then is accused of murdering her. - Love's Lovely Counterfeit
Humphrey Bogart is a double-crossing gangster who falls for a reformer. From James M. Cain. - Cricket
Margaret O'Brien is a little girl in the London Blitz with a strange friend no one else can see. - Heart's Desire
Lloyd Nolan is a bank messenger, still a messenger after fifty years. A fine use of a single sound effect. - The Taming of the Beast
A phony doctor is delighted to learn his wife has only three months to live. Helmut Dantine and Nancy Kelly star. - A Guy Gets Lonely
An old man in a penny arcade introduces lonely fellows to a beautiful girl, and runs an unusual racket. Dane Clark stars. - Pearls Are a Nuisance
Raymond Chandler's comic caper of thieves, detectives and a trip to the underworld, with William Bendix and Allyn Joslyn. - Fear Paints a Picture (1945)
Lana Turner is the heiress haunted by a painting of her murderer that seems to come closer each night. - Reprieve
John Garfield, on death row, looks back on how he got there. - Two Birds with One Stone
Dana Andrews is a writer who makes his wife's murder look like suicide, but forgets about the dog. - My Own Murderer
Herbert Marshall is an English lawyer forced to hide a murderer, who hatches an elaborate plan to be rid of him. - August Heat
Ronald Colman on a blazing hot day when strange predictions start coming true. From W. F. Harvey's classic story. - Two Sharp Knives (1945)
John Payne in Dashiell Hammett's story of a prisoner found hanged in a small-town jail. - The Burning Court (1945)
Clifton Webb in John Dickson Carr's tale of poison and witchcraft, the story of the very first Suspense. - The Story of Ivy
Lovely Ivy's career, from ambition to the gallows. Ann Richards stars. - The Dealings of Mr. Markham
An antique dealer who also deals in blackmail is murdered by two of his victims. Or is he? Henry Daniell stars. - The Last Detail
George Coulouris lays an elaborate plan to frame a professor for murder. - Footfalls
J. Carrol Naish is a blind cobbler with a lazy, good-for-nothing son. From Wilbur Daniel Steele, with a surprise ending. - Bank Holiday
Bonita Granville is a bank teller kidnapped by robbers and rescued by her fiance, an officer of the bank. - A Man in the House
A librarian and her invalid mother are held captive in their home by a madman who calls himself their guest. - Murder for Myra
A wife's lover waits in the closet with a hammer while her husband sleeps. Lloyd Nolan stars, with fine sound effects. - Short Order
A disfigured man comes into a diner every day to bring the owner bad luck. Gerald Mohr stars. - This Will Kill You (1945)
Dane Clark is a not-too-bright war plant worker, jealous of his boss, who decides to kill him. - Nobody Loves Me
Peter Lorre holds a whole police station at gunpoint while he relives his childhood. - Sorry, Wrong Number (1945)
Agnes Moorehead's fourth performance of the woman who overhears a murder plot on the telephone. - The Furnished Floor
After his wife dies, a man moves back into his old rented room, and something strange is going on up there. A ghost story by Lucille Fletcher. - Library Book
Myrna Loy is a prim librarian who uncovers a kidnapping from a torn page in Gone with the Wind. - The Earth Is Made of Glass
Joseph Cotten sets out to commit a murder just to prove he can get away with it. - Death on Highway 99
George Murphy kills a stranger in a hit-and-run, and his unloving wife sees her chance to frame him. - Beyond Good and Evil
Joseph Cotten is an escaped convict who kills a man and takes his place in a small town. From Ben Hecht. - Summer Storm
Henry Fonda is a simple man who becomes a killer as a storm builds outside. This copy runs about four minutes short of the broadcast. - A Shroud for Sarah
Lucille Ball is a scheming woman who double-crosses once too often. - The Dunwich Horror
Ronald Colman in H. P. Lovecraft's tale of a monster loose in the New England hills, with striking sound effects. - The Bet
A $50,000 bet on whether an artist can do good work locked away for two years. Lee J. Cobb stars. - Murder Off Key
Zachary Scott can't stand his neighbor's terrible singing or her yapping poodle. Then the dog disappears, and the woman is strangled. - Nineteen Deacon Street
Lloyd Nolan is a brash tie salesman in Chicago who stumbles onto an old theatrical murder. - A Week Ago Wednesday
Nancy Kelly has a horrible dream of the future. - I Won't Take a Minute
A young woman goes into an apartment house to deliver a package and vanishes. Lee Bowman stars, from Cornell Woolrich. - The Argyle Album
Robert Taylor goes after blackmail evidence that leads to murder after murder. - Double Entry
A comedy: Keenan Wynn and Hume Cronyn, a bookkeeper's bookie and a 100-to-1 shot. This copy runs about 26 minutes. - Pink Camellias
Marsha Hunt is a quiet young woman who decides to poison her rich aunt.
194650 episodes
- The Angel of Death
Paul Henreid is a brilliant murderer who picks his wife and her lover as his next victims. - The Pasteboard Box
Joseph Cotten kills his twin brother, then can't find a way to get rid of the evidence in the box. - My Dear Niece
Dame May Whitty is a little old lady held hostage by a murderer, with a surprise ending. - The Long Shot
A cross-country drive with $200,000 waiting at the finish. George Coulouris stars. - Too Little to Live on
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - The Lucky Lady
Murders at a boarding house for young women, and the odd handyman is a suspect. Fay Bainter stars. - Consequence (1946)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Black Path of Fear (1946)
Cary Grant in Cornell Woolrich's story of murder and revenge in old Havana. - No More Alice
Paul Henreid is a psychiatrist with a new way to kill his wife, using an escaped convict. - The Lonely Road
Gregory Peck stars as a man who plans to kill his wife, egged on by a beautiful, mysterious woman named Jenny. - Out of Control
Brian Donlevy is a blind detective who solves an impossible murder. - Post Mortem
Agnes Moorehead's winning sweepstakes ticket is in the pocket of a dead man, buried with him. From Cornell Woolrich. - The Name of the Beast
Vincent Price is a slightly mad painter who shelters a murderer and dabbles in death himself. - The Night Reveals (1946)
Keenan Wynn is a fire inspector who suspects his own wife of setting fires. - Dark Journey
A thwarted woman plans a terrible revenge. Lucille Fletcher's drama is played with only two voices, Nancy Kelly and Cathy Lewis. - Crime Without Passion
Joseph Cotten is a lawyer who kills his chorus-girl lover and builds his own alibi and defense. From Hecht and MacArthur's film. - The Clock and the Rope (1946)
Jackie Cooper faces the gallows while the one witness who can clear him is missing. - The Plan
Claire Trevor is terrorized by her husband's mad brother, with a surprise ending. - Spoils for Victor
- The Leading Citizen of Pratt County
Alan Hale is a con man out to take a small town for $50,000 with a water scheme. - The High Wall
Robert Young wakes up in a hospital for the criminally insane. How did he get there? - Too Many Smiths
Hume Cronyn kills the winner of a slogan contest to collect the $25,000 prize himself. - Your Devoted Wife
June Duprez takes her insane husband to Chicago on an overnight train. - Return Trip
Four people are trapped in a snowbound bus, and one of them is a killer. Which one? - An Evening's Diversion
Leon Ames overhears a murder plot and follows the killer to stop it. Guess who's next. - Feast of the Furies
A friendly, not-too-bright killer is about to do away with his victim, who tries to talk him out of it while the tide comes in. Sheldon Leonard stars. - Photo Finish
Michael O'Shea is a street photographer who snaps a picture of a murder. A young Jeff Chandler is in the cast. - Can't We Be Friends?
Elliott Lewis wrote and stars as a man who decides to murder his ex-girlfriend, with fine use of the song of the same name. - Commuter's Ticket
J. Carrol Naish is a commuter whose perfect alibi for murder backfires. - Dead Ernest (1946)
The classic: a man who is not quite dead lies in the morgue as the embalmers get to work. Bob Bailey stars. - The Last Letter of Dr. Bronson (1946)
Henry Daniell is a doctor slowly going mad who tries five times to get someone to murder him. - The Great Horrell
Joan Lorring tries to escape the grip of her mind-reading husband. - Blue Eyes
Hume Cronyn is a meek man who finally quits his job and decides to poison his wife. - You'll Never See Me Again (1946)
Robert Young's new bride goes home to her mother after a spat, and vanishes. From Cornell Woolrich. - Hunting Trip
Lloyd Nolan is sure his hunting partner, Vincent Price, means to kill him. - Till the Day I Die
Dane Clark and his girl hide out after a killing, and the dead man looks exactly like him, for good reason. - Statement of Employee Henry Wilson (1946)
Gene Lockhart again as the office worker whose perfect murder starts to haunt him. - Three Times Murder
Rita Hayworth is the widow of an executed man, and a greedy prosecutor swears to hang her too. - A Plane Case of Murder
A scheming wife and her old flame plan to kill her rich husband, with a private plane. John Lund stars. - The Man Who Thought He Was Edward G. Robinson
A meek man wants to kill his wife and asks the toughest guy he knows for advice: Edward G. Robinson, who plays both parts. - Dame Fortune
Susan Hayward is a rich man's wife being blackmailed, and she has ideas of her own. - Lazarus Walks (1946)
Brian Donlevy dies for four minutes and comes back able to read minds and unable to lie. - Easy Money
Jack Carson plans to kill his rich wife, but madness and a big macaw get in the way. - The One Who Got Away
A bank auditor forces an embezzling teller to give him an alibi while he kills his wife. Hume Cronyn stars. - Drive-In (1946)
Judy Garland is a car-hop menaced by a killer. - The Strange Death of Gordon Fitzroy
Chester Morris is a scarred convict who gets out with one thought: revenge. - The House in Cypress Canyon
One of the most famous Suspense shows: Robert Taylor and Cathy Lewis move into a new house, and something howls in the closet. The third anniversary show. - They Call Me Patrice
Susan Peters takes the identity of a woman killed in a train wreck, and the dead woman's ex-husband starts making trouble. From Cornell Woolrich. - The Thing in the Window
Joseph Cotten, an actor, keeps seeing a dead body in an apartment window that no one else can see. By Lucille Fletcher; Cotten's seventh Suspense. - Philomel Cottage (1946)
Lilli Palmer discovers her husband plans to kill her tonight. From Agatha Christie.
194748 episodes
- Tree of Life
Mark Stevens walks into the wrong house and interrupts murderers at work. - The Will to Power
Dan Duryea is a secretary who kills his millionaire boss, marries the widow, then frames her. - Overture in Two Keys
A musician falls for the wife of a deaf conductor and kills him. Joan Bennett stars. - One Way Street
Roddy McDowall is a London slum boy tempted to escape the easy way. - Three Blind Mice
Van Heflin frames one partner for the murder of another. - End of the Road
Glenn Ford is a fast-talking car salesman who runs off with a rich man's wife and learns she isn't what she seems. - The Thirteenth Sound
Agnes Moorehead kills her husband, then is haunted by a high, squeaking sound. Written by Cathy and Elliott Lewis. - Always Room at the Top
Anne Baxter is an art director in the cutthroat advertising business who falls from a skyscraper window, and comes back. - Three Faces at Midnight
William Bendix applies for a job and ends up blackmailing the governor. - Elwood
Eddie Bracken is a young gas station attendant whose thoughts we hear as people in his small town are murdered. - You Take Ballistics
A police drama with Jack Webb as a hard-bitten killer, in the clipped style he'd later use as a cop. From Cornell Woolrich. - The Swift Rise of Eddie Albright
Phil Silvers is an elevator operator who gets in with big-time gangsters. - Community Property
Kirk Douglas comes into a big inheritance and plans to kill his wife so he can keep it all. - Green-Eyed Monster
Lloyd Nolan's stolen car turns up with his dead wife in the trunk, twice. - Win, Place and Murder
Richard Conte in a Runyon-style tale of two bookies, two private eyes and a murder or two. - Lady in Distress
Ava Gardner picks up an escaped convict who plans to kill her husband, and she knows all about it. She announces the show's Peabody Award. - Dead Ernest (1947)
The Peabody-winning story again: a man mistaken for dead is about to be embalmed alive. A CBS vice president presents the award on the air. - Death at Live Oak
Robert Mitchum in a story of murder and mistaken identity. - Knight Comes Riding
Virginia Bruce falls for a young handyman and they plan to kill her husband, but the handyman has plans of his own. - A Thing of Beauty (1947)
Angela Lansbury is an actress who needs an alibi fast when her playwright is found murdered. - Make Mad the Guilty
Hume Cronyn is an out-of-work Shakespearean actor who fakes his own death when his wife leaves him. - Stand-In
June Havoc is a movie star's stand-in who plots murder with her new husband. The closing and two commercials are cut. - Dead of Night (1947)
Elliott Reid tries a novel way to get rid of a body: put it in a bathing suit and leave it on the beach. - Phobia
Who shot Henry: the invalid heiress who can't bear the touch of metal, or her light-fingered sister? Eva Le Gallienne stars. - Money Talks
A bank cashier spends three years planning the perfect job, but his partner has plans of her own. Alan Baxter stars. - Murder by the Book
Gloria Swanson is a mystery writer asked to look into a real death. - Murder by an Expert
Lynn Bari is a dancer planning the perfect crime with her lover, the man who killed her husband. - Mortmain
Jerome Cowan is a lawyer who double-crosses his partner into jail to steal his fiancee, and tries it a second time. - Quiet Desperation
Walter Abel is a bank clerk who sees a visiting Englishwoman as his ticket to wealth. - Smiley
Donald O'Connor is a slow but likable fellow wrongly jailed, who comes out hating women. - Murder Aboard the Alphabet
On a tugboat crossing the stormy Atlantic, the mad captain's crew is being murdered in alphabetical order. John Lund stars. - Double Ugly
Lloyd Nolan is an ugly boy who grows up unloved, and his hatred leads to murder. Two commercials are cut. - The Argyle Album (1947)
Edmond O'Brien is a reporter chasing the elusive Argyle Album through dames, bulletins and murder. - The Twist
Two radio comedy writers and the young woman who comes between them. Michael O'Shea stars. - The Visitor (1947)
Donald O'Connor as the young man who comes home to his rich parents after a long absence. Or does he? - The Blue Hour
Claire Trevor plays a Chicago dancer who teams up with a New York reporter to solve a murder and the mystery of the Blue Hour. - The Story of Markham's Death
Kirk Douglas is a has-been writer who finds a lost Edgar Allan Poe manuscript. - The Man Who Liked Dickens
Lost in the Amazon, Richard Ney is rescued by an old man who loves Dickens but can't read, and has a shotgun. From Evelyn Waugh. - Self Defense
Marsha Hunt tricks a man into killing her rich husband. - The X-Ray Camera
Dennis O'Keefe plans the perfect crime against his estranged wife, with a surprise at the end. - Subway
June Havoc is a failed actress who plans to kill the one who made it, in the subway, with scissors. - Dream Song
Comedian Henry Morgan plays a writer in an apartment house who keeps hearing the same record over and over. - Riabouchinska
Ray Bradbury's story of a murder solved with the help of a ventriloquist's dummy. - One Hundred in the Dark (1947)
Club members hear the story of a stolen ring and the odd way it was recovered. The last show sponsored by Roma Wines. - The Pit and the Pendulum (1947)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - The Clock and the Rope (1947)
Jackie Cooper again as the man facing the gallows while the one witness to his innocence is missing. - The Man Who Couldn't Lose (1947)
Dan Duryea is an insurance man who kills his wife, sells a big policy, wins the Irish Sweepstakes, and then really gets lucky. - Too Little to Live On
Ozzie and Harriet in a rare dramatic turn, deciding at last to do away with rich, mean Uncle Ed. A fine surprise ending.
194842 episodes
- The Black Curtain (1948)
Suspense ran a full hour in early 1948, hosted by Robert Montgomery. The first hour-long show: a man wakes to find he has another identity, as an accused murderer. From Cornell Woolrich. - The Kandy Tooth
Suspense ran a full hour in early 1948, hosted by Robert Montgomery. Howard Duff as Sam Spade in a sequel to The Maltese Falcon: the Fat Man and Joel Cairo are back, after a treasure worth even more. - Love's Lovely Counterfeit (1948)
Suspense ran a full hour in early 1948, hosted by Robert Montgomery. James Cagney is a gangster who rises on a reform politician's coattails. Author James M. Cain speaks afterward. - The Black Angel
Suspense ran a full hour in early 1948, hosted by Robert Montgomery. June Havoc is an actress out to find the real killer when her producer husband is framed. From Cornell Woolrich. - Donovan's Brain
Suspense ran a full hour in early 1948, hosted by Robert Montgomery. John McIntire takes Orson Welles's old part in the classic tale of the scientist who keeps a millionaire's brain alive in a tank. The whole story in one hour. - The Lodger (1948)
Suspense ran a full hour in early 1948, hosted by Robert Montgomery. Robert Montgomery is the strange lodger. Is he Jack the Ripper? - Beyond Reason
Suspense ran a full hour in early 1948, hosted by Robert Montgomery. Robert Ryan takes over a family's fortune and seems to be killing them off one by one. - The House by the River
Suspense ran a full hour in early 1948, hosted by Robert Montgomery. Who killed Emily Gaunt? An English mystery of a poet, his brother and a house by the river. From A. P. Herbert. - In a Lonely Place
Suspense ran a full hour in early 1948, hosted by Robert Montgomery. Robert Montgomery narrates as a strangler who kills once a month. - Nightmare
Suspense ran a full hour in early 1948, hosted by Robert Montgomery. Eddie Bracken dreams he committed a murder, then learns it really happened. From Cornell Woolrich. - Wet Saturday and August Heat
Suspense ran a full hour in early 1948, hosted by Robert Montgomery. Two stories in one hour: John Collier's very British murder and W. F. Harvey's hot day when predictions come true. - Night Must Fall
Suspense ran a full hour in early 1948, hosted by Robert Montgomery. Robert Montgomery and Dame May Whitty in Emlyn Williams's play about a charming young murderer. - Suspicion (1948)
Suspense ran a full hour in early 1948, hosted by Robert Montgomery. Sam Jaffe in Dorothy L. Sayers' story of a London poisoner, and a new cook who may be the one. - Crossfire
Suspense ran a full hour in early 1948, hosted by Robert Montgomery. Robert Young, Robert Ryan and Robert Mitchum: which of three soldiers killed a man out of anti-Jewish hatred? - The Search
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - The Blind Spot
Suspense ran a full hour in early 1948, hosted by Robert Montgomery. Edmond O'Brien is a writer trying to solve an executive's murder. - Life Ends at Midnight (1948)
A half hour on Mother's Day: Fay Bainter again as the mother whose bad son comes home needing something. - Deadline at Dawn
The last hour-long Suspense: a young man and woman, lost in the big city, are caught up in murder and robbery. From Cornell Woolrich. - Summer Night
Ida Lupino is a woman alone on a summer night while the Lipstick Killer is loose. From Ray Bradbury. Auto-Lite's first season as sponsor. - Deep into Darkness
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. served time for a murder, then sees his victim walking down the street. And no one can be tried twice. - The Yellow Wallpaper
Agnes Moorehead in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story of a woman who believes something is coming out of the wallpaper. - An Honest Man
Charles Laughton as a madman whose mother may not be his best friend. - Beware the Quiet Man
Ann Sothern is a cheating wife who learns her meek bank-teller husband plans to kill her. - Crisis
Martha Scott is a mother with a vision of the future. - Song of the Heart
Van Heflin meets a girl, and together they plan to murder her Aunt Alice. - The Morrison Affair
Madeleine Carroll steals a baby on a train and convinces her husband it's his. - The Big Shot
Burt Lancaster is an American engineer at a crooked Mexican gold mine who decides to keep the gold. Billed as his first radio drama. - Hitch-Hike Poker
Gregory Peck is a veteran hitchhiking home who gets a ride in a friendly stranger's convertible, and that's when the trouble starts. - Celebration
Robert Young and Virginia Bruce celebrate their eighth anniversary, and she is not well. - The Man Who Wanted to Be Edward G. Robinson
Edward G. Robinson again plays both the meek man who wants to kill his wife and the tough guy he goes to for advice. - Night Cry
Ray Milland is a bitter detective who kills a suspect, and then his girl is accused of it. - A Little Piece of Rope
Lucille Ball lures men, knocks them out and takes their wallets, until she picks the Strangler. - Give Me Liberty
William Powell escapes when the prison train crashes, with $250,000 hidden away and handcuffs he can't get off. A drama for two voices. - Death Sentence
A gangster gives John Garfield ten days to live; then he meets a beautiful woman at a resort hotel. Raymond Burr co-stars. - Muddy Track
Edmond O'Brien is a broke horseplayer who goes to work for a bookie and is framed for murder. - Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
Agnes Moorehead's fifth performance of the woman who overhears a murder plot on the telephone. - The Screaming Woman
Margaret O'Brien hears a woman screaming under the ground, and no grown-up believes her. From Ray Bradbury. - The Hands of Mr. Ottermole
A strangler stalks London, and a police sergeant suspects the newspaperman who's always nearby. Claude Rains and Vincent Price star. - The Sisters (1948)
Rosalind Russell plays the twin sisters alone in a big house, one of them mad. - No Escape
James Cagney is the town's safest driver, who becomes a hit-and-run killer of four people. - Holiday Story
Herbert Marshall in John Collier's "Back for Christmas": a meek professor plans a grave in the cellar for his nagging wife. - Break-Up
William Bendix is a crooked cop. Afterward Jack Benny drops by to plug his move to CBS.
194944 episodes
- To Find Help (1949)
Ethel Barrymore is an old woman terrorized by the handyman she hired, Gene Kelly. - The Too Perfect Alibi
Danny Kaye, in a dramatic role, builds a perfect alibi before killing his rival. - If the Dead Could Talk
Dana Andrews in a love triangle on the flying trapeze. From Cornell Woolrich. - The Thing in the Window (1949)
Robert Montgomery sees a dead body in an apartment across the street that no one else can see. By Lucille Fletcher. - Backseat Driver (1949)
Fibber McGee and Molly's Jim and Marian Jordan in a straight thriller: a killer takes over their car after the movies. - De Mortuis
Charles Laughton is an English doctor who tries murder and finds he likes it. From John Collier. - Catch Me If You Can
Jane Wyman kills her husband, then must find the evidence while guessing which snowbound companion is the detective. - Where There's a Will
James Mason is an Englishman deep in gambling debt who plans to frighten his rich aunt to death. From Agatha Christie. - The Lovebirds
Everyone thinks they're lovebirds, but Joan Fontaine is trying to kill her husband. - Three O'Clock
Van Heflin is tied up in his own cellar next to the time bomb he set. From Cornell Woolrich. - Murder Through the Looking Glass
Gregory Peck is a man with two personalities, wanted for murder, trying to learn the truth. - Dead Ernest (1949)
Pat O'Brien in the classic: a man who can't move or speak is about to be embalmed alive. - You Can't Die Twice
Edward G. Robinson is declared dead by mistake, and hides in another city while his wife collects the insurance. - The Noose of Coincidence
Ronald Colman is a mild bookseller who meets a man who really can predict the future. - Murder in Black and White
Edmund Gwenn carefully murders his business partner, then is surprised when nobody seems to notice. - The Copper Tea Strainer
Betty Grable poisons her nagging mother, and comes under suspicion. A whodunit with a surprise ending. - The Lie
Mickey Rooney, just expelled from college, confesses to a murder he didn't commit to save his father. From Cornell Woolrich. - Death Has a Shadow
Bob Hope plays it straight as a clever lawyer threatened by a killer in an empty office building. - The Light Switch
Claire Trevor hires a cheap detective to prove her husband is unfaithful, and plans to kill him once he does. - Consequence (1949)
James Stewart is a doctor who fakes his own death to run off with his nurse. - The Night Reveals (1949)
Fredric March is the fire inspector who suspects his own wife of setting the city's fires. - The Ten Years
Joan Crawford in a story of madness and revenge, the same script Suspense did as "Tale of Two Sisters." - Lunch Kit
John Lund plants a bomb in his factory and has to get out in time, but one thing after another slows him down. - The Trap
Agnes Moorehead seems to be going mad, because someone wants her sent away on a long vacation. - Ghost Hunt
Ralph Edwards is a disc jockey who broadcasts a night in a haunted house. A fine ghost story. - The Day I Died
Joseph Cotten kills his partner and becomes the prisoner of a wife who despises him. - Nightmare (1949)
Gregory Peck is a father out for revenge on the hit-and-run driver who killed his son. The National Safety Council presents an award on the air, and it doesn't go smoothly. - Chicken Feed
Ray Milland gets into one adventure after another, all over a nickel he doesn't have. - Last Confession
Dorothy McGuire is sure she's the killer the police are hunting. - Experiment 6-R
John Lund is an assistant hotel manager who plans to kill his boss with a deadly germ. - Blind Date
Charles Laughton is a madman with a knife, and June Havoc the vaudeville performer he corners in her dressing room. Two tour-de-force performances. - The Defense Rests (1949)
Van Johnson, an ex-convict going straight, lands a job in the same office as the district attorney who sent him up. - Account Payable
Edward Arnold is a meek bookkeeper who decides to kill his boss and take $50,000 from the safe. - Good Night, Mrs. Russell
Bette Davis is held by a madman who plans to kill her in half an hour, when his alarm clock goes off. - Momentum
Victor Mature is out of work and out of luck, and one killing leads to the next. From Cornell Woolrich. - The Search for Isabel
Red Skelton keeps getting phone calls for a strange woman named Isabel, so he sets out to find her. - The Murder of Aunt Delia
Van Heflin is a hitchhiker with a perfect crime in mind. Can you spot where he goes wrong? - The Red-Headed Woman
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz together: an embezzling redhead meets a bank robber in Texas. - The Long Wait
Burt Lancaster gets out of prison planning to avenge his brother's death, in a strange way. - Mission Completed
James Stewart is a paralyzed soldier in a veterans' hospital who can't move a muscle, yet plans a murder. Gracie Allen drops by afterward. - For Love or Murder
Mickey Rooney is a barroom piano player who kills for love. - The Flame Blue Glove
A detective is sure a woman was murdered, and Lana Turner, his former assistant, has married the widower. Is she next? - Double Entry (1949)
Eddie Cantor is a meek accountant who embezzles $2,000 at Christmas and bets it on a long shot. - The Bullet
Ida Lupino in a story of a jealous ex-convict husband, a straying wife and an unloaded gun.
195042 episodes
- I Never Met the Dead Man
Danny Kaye is a truck driver with a prison record, framed for murder, with a surprise ending. - Four Hours to Kill
Robert Taylor kills his brother, then must find and silence the woman who overheard it on the telephone. - The Escape of Lacey Abbott
William Powell escapes from Bellevue to kill the man he blames for his wife's death. - Mr. Diogenes
A penny scale tells Ozzie Nelson this will be the most memorable day of his life, and a strange fat man agrees. - Consideration
Rosalind Russell suspects her husband plans to kill her for the insurance. - The Butcher's Wife
Kirk Douglas is a grocery clerk fooling around with the big, strong butcher's wife. - Murder Strikes Three Times
Marlene Dietrich remarries four years after her husband died in the bathtub, and her new brother-in-law is the prosecutor who tried her for it. - Slow Burn
Dick Powell is a prizefighter out for revenge on the war hero who took his girl and wrecked his career. - Lady Killer
Loretta Young is sure a man is trying to kill her, though he's the police chief's best friend. - Banquo's Chair (1950)
James Mason is the Scotland Yard man who sets a ghostly trap for a murderer. - Motive for Murder
A dead salesman turns up in detective Alan Ladd's apartment, and the man's wife is accused. - One and One's a Lonesome
Ronald Reagan is a gambler plotting with a lumberyard owner's wife against the old man. - Blood Sacrifice
After a car crash, only a transfusion of the right blood can save an actor, and Joseph Cotten, the playwright, has it. From Dorothy L. Sayers. - Salvage
Van Johnson is a pilot on a treasure-diving trip with his ex-wife and her new husband, and everyone is double-crossing everyone. - Six Feet Under
Dan Dailey is buried alive every day in a carnival sideshow, and suspects his wife and her lover will shut off his air. - Pearls Are a Nuisance (1950)
Ray Milland in Raymond Chandler's comic caper about a stolen string of pearls. - The Chain
Agnes Moorehead is a spiteful woman who sends a cursed chain letter to an immigrant's wife, with disastrous results. - Statement of Mary Blake
A scientist poisons his wife and gets his assistant, Joan Bennett, blamed for it, but it costs him his eyes. - The Man in the Room
John Lund hires a typist in a building with a very protective elevator man, a mad poet inspired by Poe. - Angel Face
Claire Trevor fights to save her brother, framed for murder, with a surprise ending. From Cornell Woolrich. - Very Much Like a Nightmare
Dennis O'Keefe wakes up in an office building late at night and finds strange things going on. - A Case of Nerves
Edward G. Robinson is a nasty little man with an invalid wife, and he's tempted. - The Case of Henri Vibard
Charles Boyer has amnesia and denies knowing his wife, with good reason. - The One Millionth Joe
Jack Carson is the millionth visitor to the Los Angeles airport and wins a free trip to Brazil, which he wants very badly, for a reason. - Love, Honor, or Murder
A cab driver finds $12,000 in his cab, and his wife says she'll leave him if he gives it back. Elliott and Cathy Lewis star. - True Report
Pat O'Brien is a cop who traces a hit-and-run car to his own son. The first show of the season. - Over the Bounding Main
Dan Dailey fights off a charter-boat captain and his wife, who are trying to kill him. - The Crowd
Dana Andrews in Ray Bradbury's story of the same faces in the crowd at every accident. - Fly by Night
Kept awake until he confesses, Joseph Cotten uncovers a plot against him. The final tag and system cue are cut. - The Rose Garden
Widowed, Miriam Hopkins moves in with her cousin and a strange lodger who loves poisons. - Rave Notice
Milton Berle, in a serious role, is an actor who commits murder and tries to convince the police he's insane. - The Wages of Sin
Barbara Stanwyck is a tough girl who finally buys more trouble than she can handle. - Too Hot to Live
Richard Widmark is a drifting soldier on the run from a murder charge, with no shoes. - The Victoria Cross
Herbert Marshall is an English schoolmaster blackmailed by a bully, and then the bully is found murdered. - Blood on the Trumpet
William Holden is a jazzman who kills his wife and is hounded by a mysterious fat man. Ziggy Elman plays the trumpet. - On a Country Road
Cary Grant and Cathy Lewis run out of gas on a dark road while an escaped madwoman is loose. - Going, Going, Gone
Ozzie and Harriet buy a sealed trunk at auction, full of jewels, and it leads to murder. - The Lady in the Red Hat
A killer has murdered five women, all wearing red, and invites Van Heflin and others to meet him in a chapel at midnight. - After the Movies
Ray Milland is a juror who takes a $10,000 bribe and pays for it in an unexpected way. From Jack Finney. - A Killing in Abilene
A Western: Alan Ladd rides into town to kill his brother's murderer, and finds him about to be lynched for another killing. - Christmas for Carole
Dennis Day, in a serious role, is a bank teller who needs cash for Christmas and deals with a notorious criminal. - A Ring for Marya
Cornel Wilde plans to burn his store for the insurance, talks his wife into setting the fire, then double-crosses her.
195138 episodes
- Alibi Me
Mickey Rooney is a small-time hood who kills a rival and needs an airtight alibi, fast. - Vamp Till Dead
Ginger Rogers goes to work for a strange writer suspected of killing his wife, who was her sister. - The Well-Dressed Corpse
Eve Arden, one of the ten best-dressed women, is spurned by one of the ten best-dressed men, and hell hath no fury. - Aria from Murder
Opera star Ezio Pinza is a famous singer who confesses he killed twice for a woman who betrayed him. - Fragile: Contents Death
Paul Douglas is a postmaster hunting for a time bomb among thousands of packages. - The Windy City Six
Fred MacMurray leads a Chicago jazz band through speakeasies, gangsters and murder in the Twenties, with Red Nichols and His Five Pennies. - The Death Parade (1951)
Agnes Moorehead finds a letter warning of a murder, in a story much like "Sorry, Wrong Number." - Backseat Driver (1951)
Jim and Marian Jordan again as the couple whose car is taken over by a killer. - The Gift of Jumbo Brannigan
William Bendix is a safecracker out of prison and set on going back to his old ways, but his young son is a problem. - A Vision of Death
Ronald Colman is a nightclub mind reader who discovers his assistant really can read minds. The middle commercial is cut. - Three Lethal Words
Joan Crawford is a former screenwriter telling of an older woman who throws acid at her young lover. Hollywood madness. - Death Pitch
Jack Carson is a fast-talking circus pitchman in a story of love and brotherly hate under the big top. The middle commercial is cut. - Murder in G Flat
Jack Benny is a meek piano tuner whose tool bag gets swapped on the subway for one holding $25,000. - Early to Death
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz fight over $300,000 in stolen loot in the Mexican desert. - The Rescue
James Stewart and a woman threatening to jump from a hotel ledge, with a phony psychiatrist and kidnappers in the mix. - The Thirteenth Sound (1951)
Anne Baxter kills her husband and is haunted by a squeaking sound. - When the Bough Breaks (1951)
Rosalind Russell is a bride acquitted of murdering her grandfather, and the tension with her new husband builds. - Death on My Hands
Phil Harris and Alice Faye: a bandleader accidentally kills a girl and faces a lynch mob in a small town. - Another Man's Poison
Charles Boyer finds $98,000 in cash, and we follow what happens to him and the money. The commercials are cut from this copy. - Overdrawn
Dick Powell, a teller of seventeen faithful years, embezzles $28,311 and is spotted by a new teller on his first day. - Tell You Why I Shouldn't Die
Richard Widmark is a pitchman explaining himself to the man holding the gun. - The Truth About Jerry Baxter
Gregory Peck in a stark story, based on real events, of a teenage drug dealer in trouble within minutes of his parole. - The Greatest Thief in the World
Is James Mason "the Squire," a notorious jewel thief? A true story from the files of Scotland Yard. - The Case for Dr. Singer
Someone is passing atomic secrets to the Russians. A story suggested by real events, the last show of the season. - Report on the Jolly Death Riders
William Holden in a story of reckless hot-rodders, based on real events, with a highway safety message afterward. - Steel River Prison Break
Jeff Chandler in a prison break during a Pittsburgh flood. - The Evil of Adelaide Winters
Agnes Moorehead's twentieth Suspense: a phony medium convinces a grieving father she can reach his dead son, and succeeds all too well. - Neill Cream, Doctor of Poison
Charles Laughton as one of history's most notorious poisoners. - The McKay College Basketball Scandal
A young Tony Curtis is a small-town basketball star offered $2,000 to throw the big game. Based on real events. - The Case Study of a Murderer
Jeanne Crain's husband loses his job, then confesses to murders he didn't commit. Based on real events. - Betrayal in Vienna
Herbert Marshall is an Austrian colonel blackmailed into selling his country's military secrets. Based on real events. - The Flame
Cornel Wilde is a fire-setter who decides to help his best friend in the only way he knows. - The Log of the Marne
Ray Milland commands a British warship attacked during the Chinese civil war, based on a true 1949 incident. - The Hunting of Bob Lee
Richard Widmark in a true Texas feud to the death, 1868. - A Murderous Revision
Richard Widmark is a deranged radio writer who plans to kill his boss by transcription. - Blackjack to Kill
Victor Mature is sent to Havana to kill an old enemy, and it's harder than it sounds. - The Case History of a Gambler
John Hodiak rises and falls as a big-time racketeer of the Twenties. - Rogue Male
Herbert Marshall had Hitler in his rifle sights, and now he's the quarry of a Nazi manhunt. From Geoffrey Household.
195238 episodes
- The Case Against Loo Doc
Jeff Chandler in a story of the San Francisco tong wars. - The Fall River Tragedy
Agnes Moorehead as Lizzie Borden, telling her side of the story. - The Perfectionist
Richard Basehart is a killer who prides himself on perfection, until the trunk with the body goes to the wrong address. - Carnival
Joseph Cotten is a sideshow "mechanical man" with very human feelings. - The Treasure Chest of Don Jose
J. Carrol Naish is a poor Floridian who comes to Cape Cod hunting his ancestor's gold. - Odd Man Out (1952)
James Mason as a wounded Irish rebel on the run, from the novel that became his famous film. - The Track of the Cat
Richard Widmark hunts a killer mountain lion in the snow, and it's not all it seems. From Walter Van Tilburg Clark. - A Killing in Las Vegas
Linda Darnell becomes convinced her husband is trying to kill her. A strange, sad ending. - The Thirty-Nine Steps
Herbert Marshall in a brisk version of John Buchan's spy chase. - A Watery Grave
Joseph Cotten will do anything to get rich and get ahead, and it ruins him. - The Wreck of the Old 97
Frank Lovejoy in a possible story behind the famous 1903 train wreck, with the song sung between scenes. - A Murder of Necessity
Robert Young kills his blackmailer and finds someone on the phone heard it all. - The Lady Pamela
Deborah Kerr is a clever jewel thief, two years in jail, out to get the partner who double-crossed her. - Remember Me
Dan Duryea shoots an old shopkeeper in a robbery, then has to deal with the girl who saw it. - Mate Bram
Richard Widmark in an ax murder aboard ship, three victims, and a first mate who can't remember what happened. - The Diary of Captain Scott
Herbert Marshall as the explorer who reached the South Pole second and never made it home. - The Shooting of Billy the Kid
Frank Lovejoy in the life and violent end of Billy the Kid. - Frankie and Johnny
Dinah Shore acts the old song of love and betrayal, and sings it between scenes. - The Missing Person
MacDonald Carey is a magazine writer searching for a concert musician who has vanished. - The Flight of the Bumblebee
Fred MacMurray tries to bring a shot-up B-29 home from a bombing run over Korea. - The Death of Me
George Murphy sees a murder at a lonely lumber camp, and his own wife helped plan it. - A Good and Faithful Servant
Jack Benny, playing it straight, is a mild store bookkeeper with thirty years in and a private plan for his retirement. - Concerto for Killer and Eye Witnesses
An escaped killer goes after the witnesses who put him away. The season's last show. - Jack Ketch
Charles Laughton is England's royal hangman, and now he's the one in trouble with the law. - Vidocq's Final Case
Charles Boyer as Vidocq, the thief turned great French detective, back for one more puzzle. - The Diary of Dr. Pritchard
Cedric Hardwicke as Dr. Pritchard, a doctor remembered as one of history's worst poisoners. - How Long Is the Night
Richard Widmark is a soldier stranded on a Pacific island after an atomic test, and he isn't alone. Includes his Golden Mike award for best actor on Suspense. - The Death of Barbara Allen
Anne Baxter in the old folk ballad, told in drama and song. - Allen in Wonderland
Cornel Wilde is a Southern lawyer who quotes Lewis Carroll in a New York train station and lands in Balkan spy trouble. Larry Thor and Charles Calvert play cops, Broadway Is My Beat style. - Frankenstein
Herbert Marshall as Victor Frankenstein, hunted by the man he made. Mary Shelley's story. - The Frightened City (1952)
Frank Lovejoy comes home from the army to find his brother-in-law and three others murdered, and nobody will talk. - Death and Miss Turner
Agnes Moorehead is a painter who keeps painting the same faceless man: the one she killed. - Man Alive
Paul Douglas in a Cold War thriller on the San Francisco-Oakland ferry. - The Big Heist
John Hodiak is a top bank robber who takes on a new partner for his next job, and regrets it. - Joker Wild
A funny man tired of getting laughs tries tragedy, by way of murder, with music from Pagliacci between scenes. Elliott Lewis and Cathy Lewis. - The Man with Two Faces
Lloyd Nolan stars. A body three years dead turns up in a packing crate, covered in planted clues. - Arctic Rescue
Joseph Cotten in an early Arctic expedition and a rescue by a ship called the Christmas Star. - Melody in Dreams
John Lund stars. A father turns in his own daughter, and it leads narcotics detectives to a ring selling drugs to teenagers.
195339 episodes
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Part One
Herbert Marshall in Dickens's last, unfinished mystery. Part one of two. - The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Part Two
Edwin Drood has vanished. Is he dead? The conclusion. - Gold on the Adomar
John Hodiak dives for treasure in a sunken ship that's also carrying dynamite. - The Spencer Brothers
Richard Widmark stars in the story of three bank robbers and killers on the run on horseback across Kansas. - Plan X
Jack Benny stars. Zeno, a Martian, is sent to meet the first rocket from Earth and carry out Plan X. - The Man Who Cried Wolf
William Powell is a code clerk at the Russian embassy in Mexico City who steals secret papers to defect, and no one believes him. - The Love and Death of Joaquin Murieta
Victor Mature as the California bandit Joaquin Murieta, his rise and fall. - St. James Infirmary Blues
Rosemary Clooney in a story of 1920s gangsters built around the old blues song. - The Storm
Frank Lovejoy is a vain dancer who drops his partner and tries to outdance a storm. - The Dead Alive
Herbert Marshall in a Wilkie Collins tale of the supernatural, just after the Civil War. - The Mountain
John Hodiak and two others try an unclimbed peak. One falls to his death, and his rope was cut. - The Signalman
Agnes Moorehead in Dickens's ghost story of a strange light at a lonely railway post. - Tom Dooley
Joseph Cotten in the murder for love behind the old ballad, just after the Civil War. - Around the World
Van Johnson in the first around-the-world auto race, 1908. Broadcast live from the Waldorf Astoria during the 1953 New York auto show. - The Great Train Robbery
Fred MacMurray is an ordinary fellow who decides, with his uncle, to get rich by robbing a mail train. - Public Defender
Frank Lovejoy defends a killer who says he didn't do this robbery, and the victim was the lawyer's own wife. Interrupted by a Korean War prisoner-exchange bulletin. - The Man Within
Herbert Marshall in Graham Greene's story of a hardened smuggler and a frightened young man. - Othello, Part 1
Richard Widmark stars in Shakespeare's Othello, with music adapted from Verdi. Part one of two. - Othello, Part 2
Richard Widmark and Cathy Lewis in the conclusion of Shakespeare's tragedy. - Vial of Death
Lloyd Nolan stars. A vial of cholera germs is loose somewhere in the city, and it has to be found before dawn. - Pigeon in the Cage
Dick Haymes is a paperhanger stuck in an apartment elevator who sees a murder, and he's next. - A Vision of Death (1953)
Ronald Colman and Mary Jane Croft are a nightclub mind-reading act who find they don't need their secret codes anymore. A clever ending. - The Mystery of the Marie Celeste
Van Heflin in one possible answer to why the crew abandoned the ship found drifting at sea. Elliott Lewis speaks after the play. - A Message to Garcia
Richard Widmark is an American agent carrying a message to Cuba just before the Spanish-American War. Opens the show's eleventh year, and Widmark gets a Golden Mike award. - The Empty Chair
Agnes Moorehead in a safe-driving message story about a reckless teenage hot-rodder. Moorehead gets a Golden Mike award, and the president of Auto-Lite speaks. - Hellfire
John Hodiak is a wildcatter who strikes oil, loses it all when the well catches fire, and sets out to put the fire out himself. - Action
Herbert Marshall believes he's dying and decides to go out in style, climbing the wrong side of an ice mountain. - The Shot (1953)
Van Heflin in a Confederate-era affair of honor, from Pushkin. - My True Love's Hair
Jeff Chandler in a South Seas story of a sailor and the woman he loved. Listen for Harlow Wilcox's big fumble at the opening. - Dutch Schultz
Broderick Crawford stars in the life, times and murder of the gangster Dutch Schultz, told part drama, part documentary. - Ordeal in Donner Pass
Edmond O'Brien in the Donner Party story: a wagon train snowed in on a mountain pass for months, starving. Grim. - Needle in the Haystack
William Holden in a Navy minesweeper story from Korea: one sailor goes ashore to learn where the mines are. - The Moonstone, Part One
Peter Lawford in Wilkie Collins's classic: a mysterious diamond given as a gift, then stolen. Part one of two. - The Moonstone, Part Two
The hunt for the Moonstone concludes. - The Wreck of the Maid of Athens
Agnes Moorehead stars. A sailing ship goes down, leaving the crew, the captain and his wife on a deserted island. - Trent's Last Case
Ronald Colman is Trent, a British newspaperman, on one last murder, where it looks like the butler did it. From E. C. Bentley. - The Mystery of Marie Roget
Cornel Wilde in Poe's puzzle of a murdered Paris beauty, a case based on a real killing in New York. - 'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Greer Garson stars. A little girl's parents won't be home for Christmas: their plane is missing over the Atlantic. - The Queen's Ring
James and Pamela Mason in the stormy romance of Queen Elizabeth and Essex. Did he love her, or her crown?
195446 episodes
- On a Country Road (January 1954)
Frank Lovejoy and Joan Banks run out of gas on a stormy night, while an escaped madwoman with an ax is somewhere out in the dark. - The One Man Crime Wave
Dana Andrews stars. The only clue to a killer is an overcoat with a missing button. - The Face Is Familiar
Jack Benny is an innocent nobody that a gang of bank robbers uses in a job. - Want Ad
Robert Cummings is a small-time crook who answers classified ads and robs the sellers. Based on fact. - Never Follow a Banjo Act
Ethel Merman is a veteran nightclub singer hired to coach a young crooner who likes playing with knives. She sings a couple of songs, too. - Death at Skirkerud Pond
Jeff Chandler stars. An old couple fleeing the Nazis for Sweden put the whole underground at risk and are killed for it; after the war comes a murder trial. - The Outer Limit
William Holden stars. A warning to the human race from the Guardians of the Universe. - Murder by Jury
Herbert Marshall stars. A man is acquitted of killing his wife, and three years later the proof turns up. - The Barking Death
William Powell stars. A diseased dog is loose in the city, and a little boy has taken it home. - Circumstantial Terror
Ronald Reagan is a man out of work who steps out for cigarettes and is accused of robbery and murder. - The Girl in Car 32
Victor Mature stars. A plainclothes cop on a cross-country train gets friendly with a beautiful woman who may be a jewel thief's girl. - The Guilty Always Run
Tyrone Power stars. A man accused of murder runs, and finds a friend and blackmail. - Somebody Help Me
Cornel Wilde stars. A divorced loser kills a man, but first buys him a sandwich, and that's his mistake. - Grand Theft
David Niven is a gentleman who claims insurance on a jewel robbery that never happened, for jewels that never existed. - Parole to Panic
Broderick Crawford stars. An ex-con going straight is hunted down by his old gang. Elliott Lewis accepts a Radio-TV Mirror award for the show. - The Card Game
Richard Widmark is a compulsive gambler out for one big score. - The Bertillion Method
Charles Boyer stars. The French Surete's scientific detective hunts another killer. - The Giant of Thermopylae
Frank Lovejoy is framed for murder and trapped in an amusement-park fun house, with a strange mechanical giant in his way. - The Last Days of John Dillinger
Van Heflin stars in a hard-boiled portrait of the killer John Dillinger, up to the Lady in Red. - The Revenge of Captain Bligh
Charles Laughton as Captain Bligh, bringing his loyal men to safety after the mutiny on the Bounty. - Weekend Special: Death
Agnes Moorehead is trapped in a supermarket with two safecrackers, and once again the telephone operator is no help. - Listen, Young Lovers
Mona Freeman and Robert Wagner are a young Czech couple trying to escape Communism. Billed as a true story. - A Terribly Strange Bed
Peter Lawford in Wilkie Collins's horror tale of a bed that crushes whoever sleeps in it. Auto-Lite's last show as sponsor. - The Earth Is Made of Glass (1954)
Murder as a laboratory experiment turns out to be harder than it sounds. - Sequel to Murder
An editor with no imagination of his own borrows the plot of a novel for his perfect crime. - Too Hot to Live (1954)
A drifter passing through town ends up accused of murder, and barefoot. - The Tip
Lurene Tuttle is held captive in her own home by a man waiting for her husband to come home so he can kill him. - Run, Sheep, Run
Elliott and Cathy Lewis star. An ordinary henpecked man picks up a pretty hitchhiker and soon he's on the run from a murder charge. - Telling
A weak young man back from Ceylon finally works up the nerve to commit murder, and nobody will listen. From Elizabeth Bowen. - Destruction
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Goodnight Mrs Russell
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Never Steal a Butcher's Wife
A supermarket clerk fools around with the wife of the big, strong butcher. - A Little Matter of Memory
A mad killer is loose on the English moors. Where is he, and who? - Chicken Feed (1954)
For want of a nickel, a great deal is nearly lost. - Lost
A woman with amnesia is found wandering New York, and she's accused of murder. - Rave Notice (1954)
An actor commits murder, then tries to convince the police he's insane. - The Shelter
A man and a woman wait at a lonely bus stop, and one of them may be an escaped killer. - The Last Letter of Dr. Bronson (1954)
A doctor losing his mind tries five times to get someone to murder him. Then his luck changes. - The Sure Thing
A bookie bets $250,000 on a sure thing, and loses. - Blind Date (1954)
Shirley Mitchell is a vaudeville performer trapped in her dressing room with a knife-wielding madman. - Shooting Star
Virginia Christine is an aging movie star who takes a strange revenge on the studio boss who won't renew her contract. - The Shot (1954)
William Conrad in the Pushkin story of a Confederate-era affair of honor. - On a Country Road (December 1954)
A new cast for the story of a couple out of gas on a stormy night, with an ax-wielding madwoman somewhere in the dark. - Pretty Girl
A college flirt meets the one man who won't take no for an answer. - Premonition
Snowed in at a little inn in the Alps, an American can't shake the feeling that something terrible is coming. - Odd Man Out (1954)
A new cast for the story of a wounded Irish rebel on the run.
195550 episodes
- Final Payment
Two old army pals plan a foolproof insurance swindle. What could go wrong? - Study of a Murderer
William Conrad stars. A married man out of work confesses to a murder he didn't commit, and his mind keeps slipping. Billed as based on real events. - The Operation
A gunman holding up a doctor's office ends up helping a nurse perform surgery at gunpoint. - A Killing in Abilene (1955)
A Texan rides in to bring his brother's killer to justice, but the town would rather hang him. - Diagnosis of Death
A hypochondriac overhears someone else's diagnosis, thinks he's dying, and has to be found before he takes his own life. - The Man with the Steel Teeth
An American reporter is jailed by the Moscow secret police and tortured to confess, by a man with steel teeth. Then comes an escape. Written by John Dehner. - Waiting (1955)
The family of a condemned man waits through the hours before his execution. - The Screaming Woman (1955)
Sherry Jackson stars in Ray Bradbury's story: two children hear a woman screaming from under the ground. She's been buried alive. - Nobody Ever Quits
Snowbound on a mountaintop, a man who went straight waits for his old gang boss to come for him. - The Game
Two boys, a bottle and a game of Russian roulette. A play for two voices. - The Cellar
An Englishman buries his wife in the cellar and plans to run off to Argentina with his girlfriend. Then his mother-in-law drops by. - Give Me Liberty (1955)
An escaped convict can't get his handcuffs off. - Zero Hour
Ray Bradbury's story of children playing a new game called Invasion, with a friend named Drill. - The Lunch Kit
A worker plants a bomb in his own factory, and one thing after another keeps him from getting out in time. - Speed Trap (1955)
Two highway patrolmen chase a drunk speeder down a rain-slick road. - Sight Unseen
In London, two ordinary-looking men are coming for a newspaper reporter. - Remember Me (1955)
A new version of the 1952 story: a killer alone in a room with his victim, and a surprise at the end. - Going, Going, Gone (1955)
A couple buys a locked trunk at auction and finds a fortune in jewels inside, which leads to murder. - Lili and the Colonel
Life and death in British Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising. - I Saw Myself Running
A dreamlike story of a woman fighting the creatures in her nightmares. - Beirut by Sunrise
Mary Jane Croft stars. A tourist goes looking for romance and intrigue in Beirut and finds more than she bargained for. - Frankenstein (1955)
Stacy Harris in a freer retelling of Mary Shelley's story than the 1952 version. - The Whole Town's Sleeping
Ray Bradbury's story of a small town where a strangler called the Lonely One is out after dark. William Conrad narrates. - Over the Bounding Main (1955)
A two-timing wife plans to kill her husband aboard a run-down fishing boat. The closing is cut, but the story is all there. - The Holdout
Eleven jurors to one, and one by one the minds start to change. - The Cave-In
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Kaleidoscope
Ray Bradbury's story of a rocket crew, blown apart and drifting through space, talking to each other one last time. - Backseat Driver (1955)
A new cast for the story of a killer who takes over a couple's car on the way home from the movies. - The Greatest Thief in the World (1955)
Scotland Yard goes after the Squire, a famous jewel thief. - Black Death (1955)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Love, Honor or Murder
A cab driver finds $12,000 in his cab, and his wife pushes him to kill to keep it. - A Study in Wax
William Conrad and Stacy Harris are two men trapped in an Arctic blizzard, with one phonograph record, the Sabre Dance, to drive them mad. - The Lady in the Red Hat (1955)
Two reporters and a detective hunting a killer called the Thirteenth Apostle each get an invitation from someone calling himself the Avenger. - Strange for a Killer
A cornered killer holding a family hostage turns out to have an odd sense of right and wrong. - A Story of Poison
The story of Dr. Neill Cream, the notorious poisoner. - The Stool Pigeon
Convicts on Devil's Island set out to find the informer who keeps wrecking their escapes. - The Frightened City (1955)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Good-bye, Miss Lizzie Borden
A what-if story that follows the Lizzie Borden ax murders to one possible answer. - Heavens to Betsy
A flying saucer lands in Henry Doyle's backyard, and Henry means to defend his castle. - Life Ends at Midnight (1955)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - To None a Deadly Drug
A druggist gives a little boy the wrong medicine, and has to find him before he takes it. - The Mountain (1955)
- Report on the X-915
- Once a Murderer
A Cockney finds the way to get away with murder: confess. - Classified Secret
Spies and counterspies match wits on a cross-country bus. - This Will Kill You (1955)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - When the Bough Breaks (1955)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - A Present for Benny
A gangster comedy about two boxes: one holds an ermine coat, the other a bomb. Which is which? - The Cave
A Christmas story: two boys wander into a cave full of pirates. - The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (1955)
John Dehner leads a new cast in one possible answer to the mystery of the ship found drifting with no one aboard.
195646 episodes
- Two Platinum Capsules
Two small boys find radium capsules a hospital lost, and carry death around in their pockets. - End of the String
A jeweler steals a million-dollar necklace, then finds out how hard it is to get rid of. - The Cellar Door
A couple trapped in their basement depend on their two-year-old son to let them out. - Arctic Rescue (1956)
A new cast for the 1852 attempt to rescue the lost Franklin expedition in the Arctic. - Variations on a Theme
The wife-in-the-trunk story, taken as far as it can go. - Listen, Young Lovers (1956)
A new cast for the young Czech couple escaping over the border to Germany. Dedicated to the Crusade for Freedom. - Hollywood Hostages
A movie crew arrives at a ghost town to shoot a picture and finds two desperate crooks already there. The movie people think it's a gag. - The Diary of Captain Scott (1956)
A new cast for Scott's tragic journey to the South Pole. - Quiet Night
Escaped convicts loose in the Florida swamps. - The Groom of the Ladder
Hans Conried stars. The troubles of a servant of the king: the royal hangman. - Gallardo
A love triangle on the flying trapeze. - The Murderess
Cathy Lewis stars. A guilty woman waits out the execution of an innocent one, for the crime she committed herself. - Game Hunt
A veteran big-game hunter leads a trophy-hungry amateur into the tall grass after a lion. They get the lion, but not the trophy. - The Lonely Heart
Scotland Yard is sure Stanley Leach killed his wife, but two years on, her body has never been found. - The Seventh Letter
A postman is killed and a letter goes missing, and a policeman means to find out who did it. - The Waxwork
William Conrad, alone at the microphone, plays every part: a reporter spends the night in a creepy wax museum. - The Phones Die First
Harry Bartell is a young convict on his last day before his execution, a quiet case against the death penalty that never names it. - The Death Parade (1956)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Fragile: Contents Death (1956)
A postmaster races to find a time bomb hidden among thousands of packages. - The Flame (1956)
A firebug sets out to help his best friend in the only way he knows. - The Twelfth Rose
Death comes with eleven roses. And the twelfth? - A Matter of Timing
A man hires a professional killer to get rid of his partner, and it doesn't go the way he planned. - A Sleeping Draught
Mutiny aboard a convict ship bound for Australia. - The Treasure Chest of Don Jose (1956)
A new cast for the hunt for Don Jose's gold, which goes a little too well. - The Music Lovers
Scotland Yard trails a ring of spies who torture and kill for what they want to know. - Want Ad (1956)
A new cast for the thief who finds mink coats to steal in the classified ads, until a murder gets in the way. - The Man Who Threw Acid
Once a punk, always a punk. - The Tramp
Three Englishmen try to steal an old cargo ship out from under her drunken captain. - Double Identity
A man takes $50,000 from the company safe and boards a plane for Paris, and his boss gets on too. - A Friend to Alexander (1956)
John Dehner in James Thurber's story of a man who takes the Hamilton-Burr duel very personally. - Hold-Up
A trigger-happy grocer has already killed three holdup men, and he's never going to be robbed again. - The Security Agent
A planned escape from behind the Iron Curtain by hijacking an airliner, one of the first. - A Case of Identity
A man buys $100,000 of life insurance, kills a tramp who looks just like him, and ends up arrested for his own murder. - Waiting (1956)
A condemned man's wife, mother and sister wait out the hours before his execution. A new production of the 1955 play. - The Digger
Three men trapped in a mine shaft filling with smoke, and with man-eating rats. - The Prophecy of Bertha Abbott
Two young boys and their short, doomed life of crime. - The Doll
Eleven-year-old Patty McCormack stars. The first show of Suspense's fifteenth year, William N. Robson's first as producer, and the first recorded on tape. - Red Cloud Mesa
Reed Hadley stars. A Native American veteran, his mind broken by combat, goes out on one last patrol. - The Signalman (1956)
Sarah Churchill in Dickens's ghost story of the lonely railway signalman. - Three Skeleton Key
Vincent Price stars. Three lighthouse keepers on a lonely rock island are overrun by swarms of rats. - The Long Night
Frank Lovejoy stars. An air traffic controller tries to talk a green pilot down through heavy overcast. - The Man Who Stole the Bible
John Lund stars. It's Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and a salesman has a date with the devil. - The Rim of Terror
A spy in the desert, and a beautiful girl with a Mercedes. - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1956)
Victor Jory narrates Ambrose Bierce's story of a man about to be hanged as a spy in the Civil War, or is he? - Eyewitness (1956)
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Back for Christmas (1956)
Herbert Marshall in John Collier's story of an Englishman, a nagging wife, and a plan to be back for Christmas.
195751 episodes
- A Shipment of Mute Fate
Jack Kelly stars. A deadly bushmaster snake gets loose somewhere on an ocean liner. - Russian New Year
Helmut Dantine stars. Three conspirators plot to kill the Tsar by blowing up the cathedral as he kneels to pray. - Second Class Passenger
Sterling Holloway is a meek man on a cruise ship docked in Mozambique who finds adventure, romance, murder and a muddy idol. - Freedom This Way
Hans Conried in a rare lead as a refugee from Eastern Europe, taken to New Jersey for questioning when he reaches America. - Frankie and Johnny (1957)
Margaret Whiting in the old ballad of love and betrayal, the 1952 script redone. - Door of Gold
Myron McCormick stars. Two archaeologists are trapped inside an Inca burial mound. A horror story. - Murder and Aunt Delia
Glenn Ford stars. A hitchhiker has the perfect crime worked out. Can you spot where he goes wrong? - Two Hundred and Twenty-Seven Minutes of Hate
Charles McGraw stars. Fired from a TV station, a man steals a plane to fly it into the station's towers, though he's never flown. - Present Tense
Vincent Price and Joe DeSantis in a strange ax-murder story where time itself bends. - The Paralta Map
Raymond Burr stars in a hunt for the Lost Dutchman Mine on Superstition Mountain, where no one comes back alive. - The Outer Limit (1957)
Frank Lovejoy stars. An experimental jet with ten minutes of fuel stays up for ten hours, and comes back with a warning. - Shooting Star (1957)
Hans Conried and June Lockhart. An aging movie star takes a strange revenge on the studio boss who dropped her. - A Good Neighbor
Jeff Chandler is a jewel thief hiding out on the Maine coast in a storm, pestered by a helpful old lady. - Vanishing Lady
Vanessa Brown stars in Alexander Woollcott's telling of the old tale: an English girl's mother vanishes without a trace from a Paris hotel. - Thou Shalt Not Commit
Victor Jory stars. On a tropical island, a doctor's wife is tempted to leave him when a brutal sea captain comes calling. - Chicken Feed (1957)
Lloyd Bridges stars. For want of a dime, a great deal is nearly lost. - Escape to Death
Francis Lederer stars. The Communists order a Hungarian doctor to kill an escapee, and his conscience gets in the way. - Celebration (1957)
Irene Tedrow stars. A woman checks out of her "club," which happens to be an insane asylum. - Tarawa Was Tough
John Lund and Richard Crenna in what it was like to hit the beach at Tarawa, with Tokyo Rose on the radio. - Death and Miss Turner (1957)
Agnes Moorehead returns to this story, now as a woman gone mad whom the hospital staff slowly bring back to reality. - The Big Day
John McIntire and Jeanette Nolan in a comic story of the man who sets out to prove the Stanley Steamer is the fastest car on earth. - Crossing Paris
Hans Conried and John Dehner. In Nazi-occupied Paris, a meek man and a bully carry four suitcases of black-market pork across town at midnight. - The Green-and-Gold String
Vincent Price stars. Dr. Alkazar, a Coney Island fortune teller, knows a good thing when he sees one. - Trial by Jury
Nancy Kelly stars. A woman lawyer married to a gambler has a plan for revenge that backfires when the frame-up fails. - A Load of Dynamite
A dynamite truck driver, his beautiful wife, and his brother just out of prison. - The Yellow Wallpaper (1957)
Agnes Moorehead stars in the story of a woman losing her mind over a summer in a room whose wallpaper comes alive. - Alibi
Everett Sloane stars. A businessman hires a killer to get rid of his partner, then changes his mind. - Flood on the Goodwins
Herbert Marshall and Hans Conried. A Nazi and a one-armed Englishman fight it out on a small boat in the English Channel. - America's Boyfriend
Mercedes McCambridge stars in a murder solved by a two-year-old. - Murder on Mike
Raymond Burr stars. A radio mystery writer fired by his producer plans the ultimate revenge: a real murder on the air. - Flesh Peddler
A strange ventriloquist with an even stranger secret. - Pigeon in the Cage (1957)
Lloyd Bridges stars. A paperhanger stuck in an elevator overhears a murder, and he's next. - Peanut Brittle
Skip Homeier stars. A new man in the penitentiary finds his life in danger over a box of peanut brittle. - Leiningen Versus the Ants
William Conrad stars. A stubborn planter stands his ground against an army of ants. - Man from Tomorrow
Frank Lovejoy stars. A Korean War jet pilot is picked for an experiment to sharpen his senses beyond any man's. - Old Army Buddy
Victor Jory stars. A pompous foreign correspondent is stunned to learn his wife wants a divorce. - Shadow on the Wall
A half-mad man kills his brother and walls the body up behind the fireplace of a house going up. What follows is diabolical. The closing is cut, but the story is all there. - Vamp 'Til Dead
Vanessa Brown stars. A woman goes to work for an unhinged writer suspected of killing his wife, who was her own sister. - Misfire
An atomic test bomb fails to go off because of a small wrench caught in a door. Written by a CBS sound-effects man, Tom Hanley. - The Well-Dressed Corpse (1957)
Margaret Whiting stars. One of the ten best-dressed women is turned down by one of the ten best-dressed men, and hell hath no fury. - Sorry, Wrong Number (1957)
Agnes Moorehead stars once more. An invalid woman overhears a murder plot on the telephone. Opens Suspense's sixteenth year. - The Country of the Blind
Raymond Burr in H. G. Wells's classic about a lost valley where everyone is blind. - Firing Run
Ruth Hussey stars. Two kids are trapped aboard a pilotless Flying Fortress that a test pilot is about to shoot down, and the pilot is their father. - The Pit and the Pendulum (1957)
Vincent Price in Poe's tale of a prisoner of the Inquisition, adapted by John Dickson Carr. - The City That Was
A murder story of old Hollywood, with silent star Francis X. Bushman in the cast. - The Star of Thessaly
Bandleader Ray Noble stars. An English gentleman takes on the job of guarding a huge diamond. - Jet Stream
Frank Lovejoy stars. An Air National Guard pilot kills his wife in Los Angeles and jets back to New York for his alibi. - Speed Trap (1957)
Everett Sloane and William Conrad. Two highway cops chase a drunk driver down a deadly mountain road. - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1957)
Joseph Cotten in Bierce's story of the Civil War spy at the end of a rope. - Dog Star
A Christmas story: a little girl wants a puppy, and gets one from outer space, a dog fallen from a Russian satellite. Evelyn Rudie's first radio role. - Never Steal a Butcher's Wife (1957)
William Conrad and Cathy Lewis. A supermarket clerk fools around with the big, strong butcher's wife. The opening and closing are cut.
195853 episodes
- A Week Ago Wednesday (1958)
Hillary Brooke stars in a dream of murder, and murder in return. - The Island
John Lund and Hans Conried. What secret, the most terrible weapon of the war, is hidden on a Japanese island? - The Crowded Void
- Nineteen Deacon Street (1958)
A brash necktie salesman arrives in Chicago and stumbles onto an old murder in a theater. - The Silver Frame
Charles McGraw stars. Just out of prison, a man plans to frame himself to get back at the D.A. who sent him up, and it doesn't work out. - The Long Shot (1958)
Herbert Marshall stars. A cross-country drive with $200,000 waiting at the finish line. - One Chef Well Done
A comedy: a new French chef finds out what really became of the old one. - Five Buck Tip
Karl Swenson plays twins: a condemned man tries to escape the electric chair by trading places with his brother. - Never Follow a Banjo Act (1958)
Margaret Whiting stars in a new version of the 1954 story: a veteran nightclub singer coaches a young crooner who likes knives. - The Chain (1958)
Agnes Moorehead stars. Her husband walks out, then her neighbor tries to kill her. - Game Hunt (1958)
Everett Sloane stars. An unsure white hunter, a cowardly client, and a wounded lion waiting in the tall grass. - Affair at Loveland Pass
Vanessa Brown and Jim Ameche. A man and a woman are stranded in the Colorado mountains with an escaped killer. - The Sisters (1958)
Frances Farmer and Cathy Lewis. Twin sisters live alone in a big house. One is mad, and the sane one has just bought a coffin. - Just One Happy Little Family
Ray Noble and Lee Patrick. A lady poisoner marries a gentleman who does away with wives, and they decide to work together. - Win, Place or Die
Frank Lovejoy stars. A bookkeeper deep in debt to a bookie does something desperate to get even. - Alibi Me (1958)
Stan Freberg is in the cast. A small-time hood kills a rival and needs an airtight alibi, fast. - Winner Lose All
- Sundown
A boy grows up wanting just one thing: to kill the fastest gun in the West. - Subway Stop
A man mugged in an empty subway station tries to get help, and everyone takes him for a drunk. - Zero Hour (1958)
Evelyn Rudie in a new production of Ray Bradbury's story of children, a game called Invasion, and a friend named Drill. - Like Man, Somebody Dig Me (1958)
Elliott Reid is a beatnik so cool that even his own lynching doesn't faze him. - Rave Notice (1958)
Vincent Price stars. An actor kills, then gives the performance of his life convincing his jailers he's insane. - The Invisible Ape
Larry Parks stars. A young scientist discovers the secret of invisibility and decides to use it for evil. - Strange for a Killer (1958)
Dan O'Herlihy stars. A cornered killer holding a family hostage turns out to have an odd sense of right and wrong. - The Last Kilometer
John Dehner and Marsha Hunt. The first show of Suspense's seventeenth year. - Rain Tonight
John McIntire stars. Convicts plan a break with the unwilling help of the prison chaplain. Written by a man who served five years in San Quentin. - Rub Down and Out
Lloyd Bridges and William Conrad. A gym owner carries on with Big Willie's wife, and regrets it. - The Long Night (1958)
Frank Lovejoy stars again (he had since become a licensed pilot) in the story of a lost pilot and an air traffic controller. - It's All in Your Mind
Mind-reading pills turn out to be more trouble than they're worth. - The Steel River Prison Break
- The Voice of Company A
A missile scientist puts a tape on a military satellite that says "Thou shalt not kill" in many languages. But who made the recording? - The Diary of Sophronia Winters (1958)
Mercedes McCambridge in Lucille Fletcher's horror story of a new bride, a madman, and a hotel with 125 empty rooms. - The Bridge
Cathy Lewis stars. A love triangle trapped in a wrecked car hanging off a bridge by its back wheels, ready to fall into the river. - Remember Me (1958)
Jackie Cooper stars. A killer's old schoolmate remembers too much for her own good. - The Whole Town's Sleeping (1958)
Agnes Moorehead in Ray Bradbury's story of a lonely woman crossing a dark ravine at night with a killer on the loose. - The Wait
Maria Palmer and John Dehner in a story of revolution, honor and betrayal. - Command
- No Hiding Place
A woman's crazy ex-husband threatens to kill her new husband, and nobody will lift a finger to stop him. - Affair at Aden
- The Man Who Won the War
Herbert Marshall stars. An Englishman really did win World War I, but almost no one will believe him. - The Treasure Chest of Don Jose (1958)
Raymond Burr in the Cape Cod treasure story once more, with a different kind of jackpot at the end. - Three Skeleton Key (1958)
Vincent Price again in the lighthouse overrun by rats. - Headshrinker (1958)
Helmut Dantine and Nina Foch. Psychiatrist, heal thyself. - The Dealings of Mr. Markham (1958)
James Mason in John Dickson Carr's story of an antiques dealer who dabbled in blackmail, and calmly came back from the dead. - Two for the Road
William Conrad and Charles McGraw are two TV actors driving cross-country who get accused of robbery and murder. - Affairat Aden
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - My Dear Niece (1958)
Lee Patrick stars. A sweet little old lady is held hostage by a murderer, with a surprise at the end. - A Statement of Fact (1958)
Cathy Lewis and John Dehner. An ambitious district attorney gets a confession from an accused murderess, and a look at himself. - Misfire (1958)
William Conrad narrates again: an atomic test bomb fails to go off because a small wrench is caught in a door. - Tom Dooley (1958)
Robert Horton in the murder for love behind the ballad, just after the Civil War. - For Old Times' Sake
John Lund stars. A reformed bank robber happens to be in a bank when his old partner holds it up. - Out for Christmas
Raymond Burr stars. This Santa Claus carries a gun: an ex-con out to get the rat who testified against him and the girl who ran off with him. - The Thirty-Second of December
Frank Lovejoy stars. A man buys a watch with many dials, and one of them travels through time.
195950 episodes
- Don't Call Me Mother
Agnes Moorehead stars. A possessive mother sets out to break up her son's marriage. - Night on Red Mountain (1959)
Richard Crenna stars. In a blizzard, a gas station owner on a California mountain is cornered by his old gang. - Ride Down Cajon
A ride down a very big hill in a truck with no brakes. - Four of a Kind
Elliott Reid stars. A hitchhiker learns to play license-plate poker, for very high stakes. - Return to Dust
A horror story: a biologist starts shrinking toward microscopic size. - Death Notice
Victor Jory stars. Told he hasn't long to live, a man gives up his girlfriend to spend his last days with his wife and children. - The Signalman (1959)
Ellen Drew in Dickens's ghost story of a strange light at a lonely railway post. - Star over Hong Kong
Marie Wilson in a comedy about a dim movie actress who nearly starts an international incident in Asia. - The Waxwork (1959)
Herbert Marshall alone at the microphone, with no sound effects: a night in a wax museum, and then one of the figures moves. - Mad Man of Manhattan
Myron McCormick stars. A madman strangles his lawyer and escapes from Bellevue, out for revenge. - Death in Box 234
Frank Lovejoy stars. An inside-job bank robbery is undone by a bird. - Script by Mark Brady
Marie Windsor stars. A radio writer goes after total realism, with deadly results. - John Barbey and Son
John McIntire stars. A man and his strangely silent son are on the run from the police. - Too Hot to Live (1959)
Van Heflin stars. A drifter with a hole in his shoe walks into a small town, a heat wave and a murder. - See How He Runs
Jim Backus stars. A blind man with larceny in his heart fingers the target for a gangland killing. - Deep, Deep Is My Love
Lloyd Bridges and the rapture of the deep, with a mermaid. - The Amateur
Jackie Cooper stars. A witness to a hit-and-run tries a little blackmail, and gets more than he bargained for. - On a Country Road (1959)
Ida Lupino and Howard Duff in the story of a couple stranded on a lonely road, with an escaped madwoman and her cleaver nearby. - Friend of Daddy's
Frank Lovejoy and Cathy Lewis. An old army friend of Daddy's comes to visit. - Spoils for Victor (1959)
Robert Horton stars. An out-of-work actor marries the richest girl in the world, and his agent wants his ten percent. - The Man Who Would Be King
Dan O'Herlihy and Ben Wright in Kipling's story of two adventurers who make themselves gods and kings in a remote land. - The Pit and the Pendulum (1959)
Raymond Burr in Poe's tale of a prisoner of the Inquisition. - Drive-In (1959)
Margaret Whiting stars. Hamburgers, with a murderer to go. - Ivy Is a Lovely Name for a Girl (1959)
Frank Lovejoy and Joan Banks race the clock down the Hollywood Freeway, with a baby on the way. - Analytical Hour
Jack Carson and John Hoyt in a play for two voices: a patient tells his psychiatrist he killed his wife, and why. - Blood Is Thicker
Everett Sloane and Cathy Lewis. A murder planned for the middle of a boat race runs into family ties. - Eyewitness (1959)
John Lund stars. A newspaperman is taken hostage in the middle of a prison riot. - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1959)
Vincent Price in Bierce's story of the thoughts racing through a man's mind as he's hanged in the Civil War. - Night Man (1959)
Marsha Hunt in a horror story by Lucille Fletcher. The credits and closing are cut. - Red Cloud Mesa (1959)
Joseph Cotten stars. A Native American veteran, his mind broken by combat, goes out on one last patrol. - Everything Will Be Different
Cathy Lewis stars. A new bride and her drinking husband. - Like Man, Somebody Dig Me (1959)
Dennis Day stars in the beatnik so cool that even his own lynching doesn't faze him. - Headshrinker (1959)
Agnes Moorehead stars. A woman seeing a psychiatrist has more problems than she knows. - A Matter of Execution
An eleven-year-old boy hears a deathbed confession and tries to save an innocent man from execution. - After the Movies (1959)
Kevin McCarthy stars in Jack Finney's story: a juror finds $10,000 in a drugstore, and the fix is clearly in. A surprise ending. - Death and the Escort
An honest citizen ready to testify against a killer is put under police protection, or is it? - The Beetle and Mr. Bottle
A mild little man who loves his garden marries a terrible shrew. - Room 203
A new bride sees a murder through a hotel window. Or did she? - Infanticide
An eight-year-old boy with asthma has been murdered, and questioning his father turns up surprises. - The Crisis of Dirk Diamond
A comic-strip artist invents the perfect villain, and ends up with a bad case of the funnies. - The Easy Victim
$10,000 in debt to gamblers, a man takes the easy way out: he marries for money. - Re-Entry
The first man to fly the X-15 rocket plane into space starts acting strangely. - The Last Trip
A woman and her lover plan to put a bomb on her husband's plane, a sort of birthday present. - The Companion
Virginia Payne stars. A night of horror for a young bride and her crippled mother, with a surprise ending. - The Thimble
A famous artist with a bad heart dies suddenly in a gallery. Everyone says heart attack, but the D.A. and the police aren't so sure. - Leiningen versus the Ants
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Dynamite Run
One last truckload of dynamite, and an escaped killer along for the ride. - The Country of the Blind (1959)
A New York cast in H. G. Wells's story of a lost valley where everyone is blind. The opening is cut. - A Korean Christmas Carol
A strange G.I., his AWOL bag, and an even stranger Christmas battle in Korea. - Moonlight Sail
An American charter-boat captain on the French Riviera tries to stop the murder of a beautiful girl.
196048 episodes
- Zero Hour (1960)
A New York cast for the Bradbury story: at five o'clock, the children start a new game. - The Long Night (1960)
An old farmer and his young wife are held by an escaped madman. He wants the farmer's hidden money; the wife wants something else. - The Time, the Place and the Death
A gypsy tells a rich man he'll be dead in two weeks, and he starts getting ready. - Turnabout
A murderer holds the district attorney's family captive in their own home, so an innocent man will be executed for his crime. - End of the Road (1960)
An unusual beauty-and-the-beast story. - The Mystery of Marie Roget (1960)
A New York cast for Poe's mystery of a murdered Paris girl, which Poe based on a real killing. - Sorry, Wrong Number (1960)
Agnes Moorehead's eighth and last Sorry, Wrong Number on Suspense, seventeen years after the first. - Crank Letter
A doctor is threatened by a very strange person. - Lt. Langer's Last Collection
A crooked cop shakes down an honest shopkeeper, then has a heart attack. - Sleep Is for Children
A killer preys on women alone at night, and a little-known fact about telephones matters. - The Revolution
In a dictatorship, a honeymoon turns into an execution over one snapshot of El Supremo. - Talk About Caruso
A so-so prizefighter is also a so-so opera singer, who thinks he's much better than he is. - Coffin for Mr. Cash
Easy come, easy go: $2,500,000 of it. - A Shipment of Mute Fate (1960)
A New York cast for the deadly bushmaster snake loose aboard an ocean liner. - Two Horse Parlay
A man needs $4,000 for his gambling debts, and the only place to get it is his blind old aunt, who thinks he's a concert pianist. - Tonight at 5:55
Armageddon: America's military leaders are locked in a room, waiting for the Russian missiles to fall. - One More Shot
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Bitter Grapes
A dying woman poisons her husband, records her confession on a phonograph record, then wishes she hadn't. - The Legend of Robbie
A young supermarket clerk gives in to money and a beautiful woman, but there's more on his mind than that. - Deadman's Story
Kevin McCarthy stars. An escaped convict cheats death in an air pocket inside a sinking ship. - Out the Window
A crooked politician nearly breaks free of the men who own him. - Perfect Plan
A couple has an unusual scheme for a quick $50,000 bank withdrawal. - Two Came Back
A love triangle in the jungle, with gold and headhunters. A news bulletin breaks in at the climax. - Elemental
Stephen Vincent Benet's question: can a man and a woman go a week without food and not fight over a crumb? - Sixty Grand Missing
- Daisy Chain
Bret Morrison stars. A killer is loose in England, and it isn't the obvious one. - Bon Voyage
An embezzler with $200,000 and a boat to catch runs into a robber. - Report from a Dead Planet
A spaceship lands on a beautiful world where every inhabitant has vanished. - Memorial Bridge
A man kills his wife and hides her in a highway bridge pillar just before the concrete is poured. - Cold Canvas
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - End Game
A chess master is forced into a game against a mad sheriff, with murder as the stakes. - The Big Dive
A sideshow high diver needs $10,000 and plans the perfect murder to get it. - Night Ferry to Paris
- Truck Stop
Two robbers use a roadside diner to set up an armored-truck holdup. - The Girl in the Powder Blue Jag
A couple sets out to cheat a rich woman with amnesia who's staying in their house. - A Rest for Emily
A farmer has just killed his wife and decides to bury her in the barn. - Rakovsky's Rubles
A poor Russian peasant plans to steal a fortune and hide it until he's out of prison. - A Statement of Fact (1960)
A New York cast: a deputy D.A. gets an accused husband-killer to tell her story, and it has a strange effect on him. - Time on My Hands
A middle-aged couple travel back in time to kill Hitler, and don't quite manage it. - Ivy Is a Lovely Name for a Girl (1960)
A New York cast for the race with the stork down the Los Angeles freeway. - Witness for Death
A man sees his best friend commit murder, and has to decide whether to lie for him on the witness stand. - Inferno
A couple crossing the desert are robbed by two prospectors and left to die in the heat. - Night Man (1960)
Lucille Fletcher's story of a woman sure the elevator man in her building is an escaped murderer who means to kill her. - The City That Was (1960)
A New York cast for the murder story of old Hollywood. - The Green Lorelei
A broke mystery writer hears a beautiful woman's voice from a room in his boarding house. - The Man Who Murders People
A commuter train ride into fear. Who is the Roseville Killer? - Night on Red Mountain (1960)
A New York cast for the gas station owner on a California mountain, cornered by his old gang in a blizzard. - Home Is Where You Find It
The rackets and a double double-cross in the big city, until a newcomer uses what he learned back home to pull a fast one.
196125 episodes
- Call Me at Half Past
A man is trapped in a hotel room by his mad wife, who means to kill him. A strange ending. - Night of the Storm
Teri Keane stars. A woman races to find the real killer before her husband is executed. - Epitaph
After a woman dies, her sister is courted by a man with an evil heart. A good surprise ending. - The Man Who Knew How to Hate
A commuter love triangle: how to get rid of her rich but creepy husband? A surprise ending. - Stranger with My Face
A man wakes four years in the future, in a strange city, wearing someone else's face. - You Can Die Laughing
A wife and her lover plot to kill Herbert, her always-laughing husband, but Herbert gets the last laugh. - Bells
A couple moves into a house haunted by poltergeists who like to use the telephone. - Murder Is a Matter of Opinion
Two college brothers stage a fake murder, but the blanks turn out to be real bullets. A good surprise ending. - Sold to Satan
Two business partners are bled by a blackmailing model, and see only one way out. - The Juvenile Rebellion
Mutant children plot to take over the world. - The Green Idol
Parker Fennelly stars. A Down East Yankee couple find themselves in Mecca. - The Man in the Fog
A killer stalks women through the London fog. - No Hiding Place (1961)
The family with the first fallout shelter in town has to use it sooner than they expected. - Dreams
A man's disturbing dreams start coming true, murder included. - Seeds of Disaster
- Witness to Murder
- Death of an Old Flame
Larry Haines stars. A cocktail-lounge pianist runs into the wife who walked out on him, and into trouble. - Till Death Do Us Part (1961)
Sam Grey stars. A man keeps poisoning his wife's wine, and no matter how much he uses, she doesn't die. - The Impostors
A butler and a maid kill their rich employers and move into their lives, with a twist. - The Black Door
Robert Readick narrates a search for the City of the Fire God, and the secret behind its black door. - Man Trap
Who blew up Artie Finch? Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets. - The Luck of the Tiger Eye
An eccentric millionaire's last wish: to be cremated with a strange ring still on his finger. - And So to Sleep, My Love
William Redfield stars. A man is set on killing his wife for her money. - Yuletide Miracle
A warm Christmas story starring a very mischievous ghost, Sir Benjamin. - The Old Man
A New Year's Eve comedy: old man 1961 cries age discrimination and refuses to step aside for 1962.
196239 episodes
- Breakthrough
A man and his mother break through the wall from East Berlin to freedom, at a high price. - Feathers
A ghost story: the spirit of his victim makes a gangster confess. - Twenty-Four Sixty-Two
A frightening look at a Brave New World kind of future. - Please Believe Me
Joan Lorring and Robert Readick in a tense play for two voices. - Friday
Ivor Francis stars. An 1860s English shipowner scoffs at the sailors' superstition: he starts his ship on a Friday, launches it on a Friday, and hires a Captain Friday. - The Man Who Went Back to Save Lincoln
A time traveler tries to change the present by stopping Lincoln's assassination. - The Old Boyfriend
Just out of prison, a man asks his old girlfriend for a meal and a bed, and repays her by kidnapping her daughter. Phil Silvers does the Ford commercial. - Date Night
A sixteen-year-old girl goes out on a date, and her father worries. - Doom Machine
In the year 2500, an electronic brain called Max is built, and its first job is to draw unlimited power from the sun. - Heads You Lose
A private eye hunts for Joshua Franklin, missing for years, and finds him. Sort of. - Perchance to Dream
A wife fears her husband, just home from the hospital, plans to kill himself. He is planning a death, but not his own. - Memory of a Murder
A theater janitor falls for a magician's assistant, and the magician means it when he threatens to kill him. - You Died Last Night
An Earthman has to talk an alien out of destroying the Earth, now that atomic power has made humans a danger to other worlds. - Let There Be Light
Four people in a snowbound cabin in the dark, and the blind man is the one who likes the odds. - Brother John
A plan to keep a blackmail racket going after the blackmailer is dead. Part of the closing is cut. - The Curse of Kamoshek
A bone from an ancient Egyptian, the curse on it, and a thoroughly miserable man add up to mayhem. - Blackbeard's Ace
A couple spends a week in a house haunted by pirate ghosts, and the ghosts decide to get in touch. - The Second Door
A man's neighbor has a door that takes you anywhere you want to go, instantly. - Hide and Seek
A small-time gangster meets his past in a rat-filled alley. - Dagger of the Mind
Claire Niesen stars. A woman losing her mind becomes sure her husband is cheating and lying to her. - That Real Crazy Infinity
Two hip jazzmen come across a machine that records sounds from the past. - Stand-In for Murder
A man kills his wife and has his girlfriend pose as her until he has an alibi, or so it seems. Garry Moore and Durward Kirby explain CBS's "Net-Alert" in a promo. - Formula for Death
Luis Van Rooten is a brilliant, eccentric scientist who kills himself rather than let a spy have his secret formula. Then there's the matter of thought transference. - The Lunatic Hour
A railroad stationmaster is haunted by the ghost of an engineer dead ten years. - With Murder in Mind
Jack Kruschen stars. When a nightclub mind reader's wife is killed by a hit-and-run driver, he uses his powers to find the killer. Or does he? - Black Death (1962)
A mad scientist invents a death ray. Guess what he plans to use it on. - The Sin Eater
Poor old Grandpappy is about to die, unless someone can be found to take his place. - Snow on 66
A couple driving through a snowstorm are pestered by LeRoy, a drunken local. - The Next Murder
Two men with a keen interest in murder meet by chance in a diner. Later one is found dead in a hotel room, and the other goes for a walk in the park. - Weekend at Gleebes
An American woman can't convince a British nobleman she's the mother of Wallace, a rich heir. He thinks she's the boy's nurse. - Run Faster
An air traffic controller talks down a plane low on fuel in bad weather, while an escaped mental patient menaces his wife. - The Silver Shoe
- Pages from a Diary
Jim and Henny Backus star. - The Lost Ship
A horror story: a couple on the run with $50,000 in stolen cash meet an old desert rat who tells of a treasure galleon buried under the sand, and it's true. - The Death of Alexander Jordan
A week after Uncle Alex dies, his heirs get a phone call from the Great Beyond. - A Strange Day in May
An astronaut comes home to a very puzzling Earth. Or does he? - Golden Years
His stepfather won't let him use the family car, so a sixteen-year-old decides to kill him. One commercial is cut. - At the Point of a Needle
Betty Garde and Walter Kinsella. A nagging wife and her patient husband rent a cottage by the ocean, and she won't stop nagging. - Devilstone
An Irishman goes to look into his haunted house. The last Suspense ever, and one of the last two dramas of network radio's golden age.