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Suspense(TV show/series, 1949-1954)

25min per episode | Genre: Drama

Scripted Reality in 6 seasons with 262 episodes

SuspenseRating: 2.1/5 (with 4 votes)
Suspense is an American television anthology series that ran on CBS Television from 1949 to 1954. It was adapted from the radio program of the same name which ran from 1942 to 1962. ()
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Suspense is an American television anthology series that ran on CBS Television from 1949 to 1954. It was adapted from the radio program of the same name which ran from 1942 to 1962. Like many early television programs, the show was broadcast live from New York City. It was sponsored by the Auto-Lite corporation, and each episode was introduced by host Rex Marshall, who promoted Auto-Lite spark plugs, car batteries, headlights, and other car parts. Some of the early scripts were adapted from Suspense radio scripts, while others were original for television. Like the radio program, many scripts were adaptations of literary classics by well-known authors. Classic authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, and Charles Dickens all had stories adapted for the series, while contemporary authors such as Roald Dahl and Gore Vidal also contributed. Many notable actors appeared on the program, including Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Franchot Tone, Robert Emhardt, Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges, and many more. The program was a live television series, but most episodes were recorded on kinescope. However, only about 90 of the 260 episodes survive today.

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Suspense Seasons and Episodes

09/01/1953Season 6 - 51 episodes
#1 | 09/01/1953Paradise Junction
The story of a traveling circus and its unhappy owner.
#2 | 09/08/1953Reign of Terror
An innocent woman is sentenced to death during the French Revolution.
#3 | 09/15/1953The Darkest Night
Murder and blackmail ruin a bride-to-be's bridal shower.
#4 | 09/22/1953The Riddle of Mayerling
A dramatic adaptation of the famous and true story of a commoner's ill-fated romance with the Archduke Rudolph of Hapsburg.
#5 | 09/29/1953The Sister
The tragic tale of a pair of recluses whose lives are brought into focus for the first time after years of frustration and jealousy.
#6 | 10/06/1953Death at Skirerud Pond
The story of a tense trial in Norway when a jury was asked to remember what it was like in their homeland during the war. The actual verdict is revealed at the end of the program.
#7 | 10/13/1953The Accounting
The story of a corrupt supply captain, son of an illustrious military hero, and a fiercely loyal major who challenges him to a duel to preserve the family's honor.
#8 | 10/20/1953The Valley of the Kings
The tense story of an archaeological expedition searching for the tomb of King Tutmose. They finally find it and its treasures untouched; but then the curse of the Pharaoh on anyone defiling his tomb's sacred precincts begin to strike.
#9 | 10/27/1953The Others
#10 | 11/03/1953The Interruption
An English gentleman gloats over the murder of his wife only to learn that his evil housekeeper knows his secret.
#11 | 11/10/1953Needle in a Haystack
The behind-the-scenes story of how the U. S. Navy ferreted out the secret of Communist minefields in Wonsan Harbor, enabling minesweepers to clear the way for the safe landing of 22,000 Marines.
#12 | 11/17/1953The Newcomer
A story of a brash stranger in a small Western town who changes his ways when arrested for the murder of a local belle.
#13 | 11/24/1953My Short Walk to Freedom
When a fugitive from a Russian concentration camp is cornered in his Budapest home, he disguises himself and his brother to try a get beyond the Iron Curtain.
#14 | 12/01/1953Laugh It Off
A kindly young man believes a girl's story that she is marked for murder and risks his life to save her, despite warnings from friends that she is a habitual liar and thrill-seeker.
#15 | 12/08/1953The Dance
This episode is a remake of an episode previously shown on the series. This episode and the previous one were both shown live and featured different casts.
#16 | 12/15/1953Cagliostro and the Chess Player
A dramatization based on the life of the 18th Century Italian magician, Count Alessandro di Cagliostro. The cunning magician inveigles King Stanislaus into a chess game with his mechanical genius. That, in the end, becomes his downfall.
#17 | 12/22/1953The Gift of Fear
A little boy in a department store and a night watchman who likes toys better than people are featured in this odd Christmas tale.
#18 | 12/29/1953Mr. Nobody
A wealthy, vicious woman turns a goodhearted but naive tramp into a pawn in her evil plans.
#19 | 01/05/1954Diamonds in the Sky
A gang of smugglers, diamonds and a beautiful woman add up to trouble for the pilot on a trans-Atlantic flight.
#20 | 01/12/1954The Scrap Iron Curtain
The true story of Baclav Uhlik, a Czech machinist who built an armored car and last July transported his wife, two children and four friends 40 miles through the Bohemian forests to the town of Waldmeunchen in the western zone of Germany.
#21 | 01/19/1954The Haunted
The second wife of a ski-lodge owner suspects her husband of the murder of his first wife.
#22 | 01/26/1954An Affair With a Ghost
A dead French underground leader returns to save a band of hostages when a Nazi collaborator goes back on his promise.
#23 | 02/02/1954The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
A drama based on the hoax of Canadian George DuPre, who claimed service in the French underground as a British intelligence officer during World War II.
#24 | 02/09/1954The Moonstone
A precious stone taken from India is coveted by many parties.
#25 | 02/16/1954The Execution
Her son's heroic death in battle unseals the lips of a mother about a 10-year-old tragedy involving her brutal husband.
#26 | 02/23/1954Death on the Screen
A frantic wife sits by her TV set, watching a public dinner where a deranged man is getting ready to kill her husband.
#27 | 03/02/1954I Do Solemnly Swear
The story of the first woman juror in the United States, in 1870 in Laramie, Wyoming.
#28 | 03/09/1954Before the Act
A young bank official is the intended scapegoat of a carefully designed plan to rob the vault of $100,000.
#29 | 03/16/1954The Fourth Degree
A psychiatrist makes a weird experiment in a last ditch attempt to get a key witness in a homicide case to talk.
#30 | 03/23/1954The Tenth Reunion
A college reunion crowd discover that one of the gang has been missing since graduation. Those present have had reasons to do away with her.
#31 | 03/30/1954Torment
Behind the Iron Curtain, a condemned prisoner's wife tries to save him by appealing to an old friend, the police chief.
#32 | 04/06/1954Open Transom
#33 | 04/13/1954Operation: Barracuda
Operation:Barracuda is a 1954 TV episode or short film directed by Robert Mulligan. "The heartless captain of a German u-boat crashes his vessel along the Atlantic coast at the close of WWII. Only the captain and his lieutenant escape the sinking vessel containing the personal fortune of Nazi leader Herman Goering. After eight years, the captain returns to salvage the loot and tries to recruit his former shipmate in the effort." - Episode Summary from TV.com
#34 | 04/20/1954The Return Journey
A window washer is tempted by an unguarded amount of money and realizes the error in his judgment all too soon.
#35 | 04/27/1954The Terror Begins
The story of how Stalin held a grip on the Russian people after assassinating S.M. Kirov.
#36 | 05/04/1954Smoke
The two sons of a disgusting and destructive old man stand to benefit as a result of his violent death.
#37 | 05/11/1954Operation: Nightmare
A dramatization of the heroics of nurse Ann Bernatitus during the Battle of Bataan.
#38 | 05/18/1954Breakout
A prison riot breaks out and a guard is taken hostage. The inmates want the keys to the main gate in exchange for the guard.
#39 | 05/25/1954Fingerprints
A true story taken from the cases of Alfonse Bertillon, chief of the Identification Bureau of the Paris Police in the early 1900's. Bertillon invented the first system of crime detection through the use of physical features.
#40 | 06/01/1954Race Against Murder
A young doctor leaves his practice to find a cure for polio after watching his patients suffer.
#41 | 06/08/1954North Side
The true story of the workings of a New York homicide squad as it goes about the solution of a brutal murder.
#42 | 06/15/1954The Pistol Shot
An Army Captain wants revenge on a fellow officer in 19th century Russia. The young Captain has bested him in cards and love.
#43 | 06/22/1954String
Thirty men in a secret unit, started by President Roosevelt during World War II, are captured and tortured at the Belsen concentration camp before escaping.
#44 | 06/29/1954The Hunted
An unethical hunter is caught shooting a tame animal on a wildlife preserve. The game warden delivers an unexpected punishment: three bullets and a ten minute head start.
#45 | 07/06/1954The Girl in Car Thirty-Two
An investigator puts his life in danger after he falls for the woman he is tailing.
#46 | 07/13/1954Conversation at an Inn
A bicyclist makes up fantastic tales of murder on "clues" she finds along her rides. When she finds a shoe and a lighter, she tells an elaborate tale that turns out to be very close to the truth.
#47 | 07/20/1954Once a Killer
A woman's faith in a hoodlum is destroyed when the police prevail upon her to get him to surrender.
#48 | 07/27/1954Main Feature: Death
A woman gets locked in movie theater by mistake and encounters a pair of killers who break in to rob the safe.
#49 | 08/03/1954The Last Stand
A would-be recluse's best friend discovers gold on his land. He realizes his only security is his friend's death, but he is thwarted in the effort of murder by some fast-traveling news.
#50 | 08/10/1954The Iron Cop
A policeman's niece is murdered. He resolves to find the killer but has to pit his wits against an "electronic brain" to do so.
#51 | 08/17/1954Barn Burning
A mentally incapacitated war hero seeks revenge against society.
09/02/1952Season 5 - 50 episodes
09/04/1951Season 4 - 49 episodes
08/29/1950Season 3 - 53 episodes
09/06/1949Season 2 - 42 episodes
01/06/1949Season 1 - 17 episodes

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 3 languages: English (EN), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Ended
First episode released on: 01/06/1949
Last episode released on: 08/17/1954
Director: Robert Mulligan
Executive Producer: William Dozier
Composer: Henry (Hank) Sylvern
Keywords: anthology
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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