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Suspense

Season 1 1949
TV-PG

  • 1949-03-02T02:30:00Z on CBS
  • 25m
  • 7h 17m (16 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Drama
Suspense was one of network television's earliest series and, like many of the medium's first efforts, was adapted from a long-running radio program. With a few exceptions, this anthology was not an outright "horror" program but was designed to put characters in dangerous or threatening situations that built to a suspenseful climax. The somewhat low-budget series was performed live each week so it had its share of flubbed lines and technical snafus and episodes were generally confined to a couple of minimal sets. The program was rather highly regarded for it's overall quality (for the time) and the calibre of it's scripts. Like practically all of TV's earliest live series, Suspense was never rerun. Most episodes were considered lost but, as luck would have it, a huge cache of Suspense programs were "discovered" and released on DVD in 2007.

16 episodes

Series Premiere

1949-03-02T02:30:00Z

1x01 Goodbye New York

Series Premiere

1x01 Goodbye New York

  • 1949-03-02T02:30:00Z26m

Ray Gardner is unable to find work because of a contract with his ruthless ex-boss. In a move of desperation, he kills the man and steals some money. His wife, Mary, stands by him, but knows they can not stay in New York. The two spend a paranoid day trying to make it onto an out of town train without being noticed.

1949-03-16T02:30:00Z

1x02 Suspicion

1x02 Suspicion

  • 1949-03-16T02:30:00Z24m

Everyone's in a tizzy over the arsenic poisoner who's still at large; police think the murder might be a woman. In the Thomas household, doting old George acts surprised to find his weed poison (with arsenic) under the kitchen sink. His wife, a delicate woman with bad nerves, defends their cook, a woman they hired who came with no references. George becomes suspicious of their employee and has the hot cocoa she left for him analyzed. When the results come back positive, he races home to save his wife before it's too late.

1949-03-30T02:30:00Z

1x03 Cabin B-13

1x03 Cabin B-13

  • 1949-03-30T02:30:00Z30m

After boarding a transcontinental steamer with her new husband, a woman suspects foul play when he vanishes and no one on board ever remembers seeing him on the ship.

1949-04-06T02:30:00Z

1x04 The Man Upstairs

1x04 The Man Upstairs

  • 1949-04-06T02:30:00Z30m

Shortly after a newlywed couple board a luxury liner for their honeymoon cruise, the man vanishes along with the fortune his wife game him as a wedding present. She reports his disappearance to the captain and is told that there is no record of either herself or her husband as passengers and that what she claims to have been their cabin doesn't exist.

1949-04-13T02:30:00Z

1x05 After Dinner Story

1x05 After Dinner Story

  • 1949-04-13T02:30:00Z30m

A woman complains about the man upstairs, but no one has ever seen him.

1949-04-20T02:30:00Z

1x06 The Creeper

1x06 The Creeper

  • 1949-04-20T02:30:00Z30m

1949-04-27T01:30:00Z

1x07 A Night at the Inn

1x07 A Night at the Inn

  • 1949-04-27T01:30:00Z26m

Three merchant sailors and their enigmatic leader hide out at a British inn. They've been followed from India after stealing the priceless ruby eye from a holy statue. The grimy sailors ambush and kill the men who've come to retrieve the gem, unaware of how badly the statue wants its eye back. It arrives at the inn and, one by one, makes the thieves pay for their offense.

1949-05-04T01:30:00Z

1x08 Dead Ernest

1x08 Dead Ernest

  • 1949-05-04T01:30:00Z26m

Ernest Bowers suffers an attack of catalepsy while crossing the street, lapsing into a coma that resembles death. Believing he was killed by a passing car, his body is sent to the city morgue. His coat, with a note in the pocket describing his medical condition, is swiped by a owner of a second-hand clothing store and quickly sold. The couple who purchase the jacket finds the note and begins a race to save Ernest from a premature embalming.

1949-05-11T01:30:00Z

1x09 Post Mortem

1x09 Post Mortem

  • 1949-05-11T01:30:00Z24m

Following the sudden death of her husband, Josie marries Doc Archer, the man named beneficiary of her husband's life insurance policy. Investigator Westin is suspicious after learning the doctor has a history of collecting such payouts. Westin informs Josie that she is in danger of becoming her husband's next heavily insured "accident"

1949-05-18T01:30:00Z

1x10 The Monkey's Paw

1x10 The Monkey's Paw

  • 1949-05-18T01:30:00Z30m

Following the sudden death of her husband, Josie marries Doc Archer, the man named beneficiary of her husband's life insurance policy. Investigator Westcott is suspicious after learning the doctor has a history of collecting such payouts. Westcott informs Josie that she is in danger of becoming her husband's next heavily insured "accident." She doesn't believe him--until she's almost killed when Doc "accidentally" knocks a sunlamp into the tub while she's bathing.

1x11 Murder Through the Looking Glass

  • 1949-05-25T01:30:00Z30m

A talisman of great power can grant three wishes to its owner.

1x12 The Doors on the 13th Floor

  • 1949-06-01T01:30:00Z24m

Elderly Agatha Leighton returns from a trip to find her apartment on the thirteenth floor has been robbed. As she attempts to call the police, someone grabs her. Sally, who lives down the hall, attempts to visit the old lady as she'd promised, but finds she's been locked in her apartment and the phone is dead. Through the door's peephole, she sees the building's desk clerk leaving Agatha's apartment. Sally realizes something bad has happened to the old lady

1949-06-08T01:30:00Z

1x13 The Yellow Scarf

1x13 The Yellow Scarf

  • 1949-06-08T01:30:00Z23m

In 1897 London, mysterious Mr. Bronson marries an attractive young woman, Hettie, to distract attention from his odd medical work. His demand: she must stay out of his laboratory! Restless in the loveless marriage, she strikes up a romance with Tom, a young Mission worker. Suddenly, the cold Bronson turns jealous.

1949-06-15T01:30:00Z

1x14 Help Wanted

1x14 Help Wanted

  • 1949-06-15T01:30:00Z24m

An elderly man who's barely getting by looks for employment to continue giving his daughter the institutional help she requires. He receives an offer from a "Mr. X" that turns things around for him. That is, until he finds out that he must kill "Mr. X"'s wife's first husband who is blackmailing them.

1949-06-22T01:30:00Z

1x15 Stolen Empire

1x15 Stolen Empire

  • 1949-06-22T01:30:00Z30m

An elderly man who's barely getting by looks for employment to continue giving his daughter the institutional help she requires. He receives an offer from a "Mr. X" that turns things around for him. That is, until he finds out that he must kill "Mr. X"'s wife's first husband who is blackmailing them

1x16 The Hands of Mr. Ottermole

  • 1949-06-29T01:30:00Z30m
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