Suspense Series

A story about a bumbling small town assistant police chief who's not as dumb as he seems to be. A wanted man is captured and later found hanging in his cell. The program has a surprise ending.

A young girl about to inherit a fortune, is going mad. A picture of a man in her room comes closer and closer to her. There is a picture hanging on a wall, you look at it casually, an extraordinary picture you’ll say skilfully done, look at those fine brush stokes those superb colors, but isn’t the subject matter a little bizarre? It is something more than just bizarre, but let us begin from the beginning with the death of Benjamin Powell.

A man and his wife sit beside the fire in their country cottage. They are Professor Craft and his wife Cynthia. The cottage is rather isolated, 3 miles from the nearest house, no electricity, central heating or telephone. Professor Craft is convinced that his wife is having an affair with a young Doctor from the village so he devises a plan to rid himself of them both.

A haunted balcony in an Italian villa encourages a madman to try a second murder.

One of the premiere drama programs of the Golden age of Radio, Suspense was subtitled “radio’s outstanding theater of thrills”. The protagonist was usually a normal person suddenly dropped into a bizarre or threatening situation; solutions were “withheld until the last possible second” and evildoers were usually punished in the end.

A story about two ham radio fanatics who are working on a secret defense weapon and talking to each other by shortwave. One of them is killed while talking to the other on the air....is the other one a suspect?

A man who has just finished writing a symphony hears the exact same symphony on the radio. He had just set down the last note on paper he was happy and weary and full of peace. There was a radio near the couch, he sat down and turned it on and felt great horror as he heard the music playing on the radio, the music that he had just set down on paper. Then as the music finished the announcer said, you have just been listening to eulogy for orchestra opus 42 by Henri Lefevre. But who was Henri Lefevre?

The Beast Must Die is a powerful story of vengeance and retribution. Herbert Marshall plays the part of Felix Laine, a writer by profession of detective novels, who was planning to kill a man. He didn’t know his name, where he lived or what he looked like but he knew that he was going to find him and kill him. He recorded all of the details in a diary, which was either the best murder novel he had ever written, or an incriminating document.

The story of a very personal reaction to the Hamilton-Burr duel. Before the Suspense story begins you will hear a CBS World News bulletin from an American wartime correspondent at Normandy beach. Harry Andrews was a laughing happy-go-lucky fellow before he began to have dreams about Aaron Burr dreams in which Burr would be mean to his friend Alexander Hamilton, dreams that became nightmares that began to plague him…

A man driving across country (with a beautiful hitchhiker) is shot at everywhere he goes. Death Went Along For The Ride is a suspense play that tells of fear, suspicion and dangerous adventure on a long highway from California to New York.

The Blackout Killer is hiding somewhere aboard a ship. Olivia De Havilland stars as Judith Webster, who found herself embarked upon a journey into darkness. It is 1939, shortly before England and Germany were at war. Judith was in London serving as travelling companion to wealthy American Mrs Prescott. When Mrs Prescott died, Judith had promised to arrange her a burial at sea. It was on this journey that she learned of the “Blackout Killer” and feared that he was the man she had befriended and fallen in love with.

Case History On Edgar Lowndes is a story in which psychiatry is called upon to deal with a sick mind, which has unknowingly been tempted thrice by murder. Thomas Mitchell stars as the millionaire tycoon Edgar Lowndes and Donald Crisp as the psychiatrist Dr Erinson. A railroad magnate visits a psychiatrist with complaints of headaches and bad dreams...

Peter Lorre is typecast as The Maestro, a prizefight manager planning revenge on his star fighter by scalding him to death in the steamroom!

Maude Haskin was living in fear that her husband was going to kill her, but in the papers the headlines stated it was her husband, Harry Haskins who had been murdered a week ago last Wednesday with an ice pick

A man is lucky enough to be the one millionth visitor to the Los Angeles airport...or is he? The lucky guy seems to be very interested in that free trip to Brazil, and for a very interesting reason! Al Jessant dreamed up a publicity stunt for the bureau of better business promotion whereby the one-millionth person to walk through the gate at the airport would be photographed for the newspapers and receive various prizes including a flight to anywhere in the world. A woman was just about to walk through when a man in a rush pushes in front of her. Surprised he tells them to get someone else he doesn’t want anything... but the free airplane pass to Brazil makes Mr Thompson perk up. But his reason for wanting only a flight to Brazil makes him appear suspicious especially when later Jessant reads about a hold-up in the newspaper and a murderer being persued by the police.

A man and his strangely silent son are on the run from the police.

When a man kills a stranger in a hit-and-run accident, his not-too-loving wife decides to frame him.

A comedy/gangster story about two boxes. One box contains an ermine coat, the other has a bomb. Which is which?

A scheming phoney doctor is delighted to discover that his wife has a brain tumor that will kill her in three months! Dr Ferrari knew what kind of woman Nora was the moment he laid eyes on her. She was very beautiful and equally utterly heartless. She was the kind of a woman who wants everything, gives nothing and still thinks she’s a passionate bargain for any man completely unconscious of the fact that he only motivation in life is to humiliate, dominate and finally destroy any man she can get her hands on. But that didn’t matter because she had three million dollars and Dr Ferrari had already made up his mind if his plans worked out that he was going to kill her…

A very hot day finds strange predictions of the future starting to come true.

Lou has collected for the Red Cross and built a TV. The men discuss sailing and girls. Lou wrote a song and wants to sing.

This radio program was one of the best drama shows to come from the Golden Age of radio, and often featured a protagonist who was suddenly dropped into a bizarre situation.

Two members of a movie crew arrive at a ghost town to shoot a picture. Two desperate criminals have arrived there ahead of the movie crew, but the Hollywood types think the two crooks are a practical joke