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Suspense

Season 6 1953 - 1954
TV-PG

  • 1953-09-02T01:30:00Z on CBS
  • 25m
  • 20h 49m (50 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Drama
Suspense was one of network television's earliest series and, like many of the medium's first efforts, was adapted from a long-running radio program. With a few exceptions, this anthology was not an outright "horror" program but was designed to put characters in dangerous or threatening situations that built to a suspenseful climax. The somewhat low-budget series was performed live each week so it had its share of flubbed lines and technical snafus and episodes were generally confined to a couple of minimal sets. The program was rather highly regarded for it's overall quality (for the time) and the calibre of it's scripts. Like practically all of TV's earliest live series, Suspense was never rerun. Most episodes were considered lost but, as luck would have it, a huge cache of Suspense programs were "discovered" and released on DVD in 2007.

50 episodes

Season Premiere

1953-09-02T01:30:00Z

6x01 Paradise Junction

Season Premiere

6x01 Paradise Junction

  • 1953-09-02T01:30:00Z25m

The story of a traveling circus and its unhappy owner.

1953-09-09T01:30:00Z

6x02 Reign of Terror

6x02 Reign of Terror

  • 1953-09-09T01:30:00Z25m

An innocent woman is sentenced to death during the French Revolution.

1953-09-16T01:30:00Z

6x03 The Darkest Night

6x03 The Darkest Night

  • 1953-09-16T01:30:00Z25m

Murder and blackmail ruin a bride-to-be's bridal shower.

1953-09-23T01:30:00Z

6x04 The Riddle of Mayerling

6x04 The Riddle of Mayerling

  • 1953-09-23T01:30:00Z25m

A dramatic adaptation of the famous and true story of a commoner's ill-fated romance with the Archduke Rudolph of Hapsburg.

1953-09-30T02:30:00Z

6x05 The Sisters

6x05 The Sisters

  • 1953-09-30T02:30:00Z25m

After shopping for her own casket and picking one for her future use, a woman returns home to her naive younger sister. The young woman refuses to believe her older sister's proclamations that she's mentally unbalanced. The truth is, the elder sister is jealous of her engagement.

1953-10-07T02:30:00Z

6x06 Death at Skirkerud Pond

6x06 Death at Skirkerud Pond

  • 1953-10-07T02:30:00Z23m

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.

1953-10-14T02:30:00Z

6x07 The Accounting

6x07 The Accounting

  • 1953-10-14T02:30:00Z25m

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.

1953-10-21T02:30:00Z

6x08 The Valley of the Kings

6x08 The Valley of the Kings

  • 1953-10-21T02:30:00Z25m

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.

1953-10-28T02:30:00Z

6x09 The Others

6x09 The Others

  • 1953-10-28T02:30:00Z24m

1953-11-04T02:30:00Z

6x10 The Interruption

6x10 The Interruption

  • 1953-11-04T02:30:00Z25m

An English gentleman gloats over the murder of his wife only to learn that his evil housekeeper knows his secret.

1953-11-11T02:30:00Z

6x11 Needle in a Haystack

6x11 Needle in a Haystack

  • 1953-11-11T02:30:00Z25m

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.

1953-11-18T02:30:00Z

6x12 The Newcomer

6x12 The Newcomer

  • 1953-11-18T02:30:00Z25m

1953-11-25T02:30:00Z

6x13 My Short Walk to Freedom

6x13 My Short Walk to Freedom

  • 1953-11-25T02:30:00Z25m

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.

1953-12-02T02:30:00Z

6x14 Laugh It Off

6x14 Laugh It Off

  • 1953-12-02T02:30:00Z25m

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.

1953-12-09T02:30:00Z

6x15 Day Never Came

6x15 Day Never Came

  • 1953-12-09T02:30:00Z29m

In 1948 Shanghai, an accused spy is jailed at an American Marine station. Sure that his fiance is the reason for his arrest, the prisoner plans to escape, murder her, and then return to his cell.

6x16 Cagliostro and the Chess Player

  • 1953-12-16T02:30:00Z25m

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.

1953-12-23T02:30:00Z

6x17 The Gift of Fear

6x17 The Gift of Fear

  • 1953-12-23T02:30:00Z25m

A little boy in a department store and a night watchman who likes toys better than people are featured in this odd Christmas tale.

1953-12-30T02:30:00Z

6x18 Mr. Nobody

6x18 Mr. Nobody

  • 1953-12-30T02:30:00Z25m

A wealthy, vicious woman turns a goodhearted but naive tramp into a pawn in her evil plans.

1954-01-06T02:30:00Z

6x19 Diamonds in the Sky

6x19 Diamonds in the Sky

  • 1954-01-06T02:30:00Z25m

A gang of smugglers, diamonds and a beautiful woman add up to trouble for the pilot on a trans-Atlantic flight.

1954-01-13T02:30:00Z

6x20 The Scrap Iron Curtain

6x20 The Scrap Iron Curtain

  • 1954-01-13T02:30:00Z25m

1954-01-20T02:30:00Z

6x21 The Haunted

6x21 The Haunted

  • 1954-01-20T02:30:00Z25m

The second wife of a ski-lodge owner suspects her husband of the murder of his first wife.

1954-01-27T02:30:00Z

6x22 An Affair With a Ghost

6x22 An Affair With a Ghost

  • 1954-01-27T02:30:00Z25m

A dead French underground leader returns to save a band of hostages when a Nazi collaborator goes back on his promise.

1954-02-03T02:30:00Z

6x23 The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

6x23 The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

  • 1954-02-03T02:30:00Z25m

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.

1954-02-10T02:30:00Z

6x24 The Moonstone

6x24 The Moonstone

  • 1954-02-10T02:30:00Z25m

A precious stone taken from India is coveted by many parties.

1954-02-17T02:30:00Z

6x25 The Execution

6x25 The Execution

  • 1954-02-17T02:30:00Z25m

Her son's heroic death in battle unseals the lips of a mother about a 10-year-old tragedy involving her brutal husband.

1954-02-24T02:30:00Z

6x26 Death on the Screen

6x26 Death on the Screen

  • 1954-02-24T02:30:00Z25m

A frantic wife sits by her TV set, watching a public dinner where a deranged man is getting ready to kill her husband.

1954-03-03T02:30:00Z

6x27 I Do Solemnly Swear

6x27 I Do Solemnly Swear

  • 1954-03-03T02:30:00Z25m

The story of the first woman juror in the United States, in 1870 in Laramie, Wyoming.

1954-03-10T02:30:00Z

6x28 Before the Act

6x28 Before the Act

  • 1954-03-10T02:30:00Z25m

A young bank official is the intended scapegoat of a carefully designed plan to rob the vault of $100,000.

1954-03-17T02:30:00Z

6x29 The Fourth Degree

6x29 The Fourth Degree

  • 1954-03-17T02:30:00Z25m

A psychiatrist makes a weird experiment in a last ditch attempt to get a key witness in a homicide case to talk.

1954-03-24T02:30:00Z

6x30 The Tenth Reunion

6x30 The Tenth Reunion

  • 1954-03-24T02:30:00Z25m

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.

1954-03-31T02:30:00Z

6x31 Torment

6x31 Torment

  • 1954-03-31T02:30:00Z25m

Behind the Iron Curtain, a condemned prisoner's wife tries to save him by appealing to an old friend, the police chief.

1954-04-14T02:30:00Z

6x32 Operation: Barracuda

6x32 Operation: Barracuda

  • 1954-04-14T02:30:00Z25m

1954-04-21T02:30:00Z

6x33 The Return Journey

6x33 The Return Journey

  • 1954-04-21T02:30:00Z25m

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

1954-04-28T01:30:00Z

6x34 The Terror Begins

6x34 The Terror Begins

  • 1954-04-28T01:30:00Z25m

A window washer is tempted by an unguarded amount of money and realizes the error in his judgment all too soon.

1954-05-05T01:30:00Z

6x35 Smoke

6x35 Smoke

  • 1954-05-05T01:30:00Z25m

The story of how Stalin held a grip on the Russian people after assassinating S.M. Kirov.

1954-05-12T01:30:00Z

6x36 Operation: Nightmare

6x36 Operation: Nightmare

  • 1954-05-12T01:30:00Z25m

The two sons of a disgusting and destructive old man stand to benefit as a result of his violent death.

1954-05-19T01:30:00Z

6x37 Breakout

6x37 Breakout

  • 1954-05-19T01:30:00Z25m

A dramatization of the heroics of nurse Ann Bernatitus during the Battle of Bataan.

1954-05-26T01:30:00Z

6x38 Fingerprint

6x38 Fingerprint

  • 1954-05-26T01:30:00Z25m

Dramatization of the true story of Alfonse Bertillon, who was chief of the Identification Bureau during the early 20th century in Paris. His inventions and techniques changed the way police gathered evidence in criminal investigations.

1954-06-02T01:30:00Z

6x39 Race Against Murder

6x39 Race Against Murder

  • 1954-06-02T01:30:00Z25m

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.

1954-06-09T01:30:00Z

6x40 North Side

6x40 North Side

  • 1954-06-09T01:30:00Z25m

A young doctor leaves his practice to find a cure for polio after watching his patients suffer.

1954-06-16T01:30:00Z

6x41 The Pistol Shot

6x41 The Pistol Shot

  • 1954-06-16T01:30:00Z25m

The true story of the workings of a New York homicide squad as it goes about the solution of a brutal murder.

1954-06-23T01:30:00Z

6x42 String

6x42 String

  • 1954-06-23T01:30:00Z25m

An Army Captain wants revenge on a fellow officer in 19th century Russia. The young Captain has bested him in cards and love.

1954-06-30T01:30:00Z

6x43 The Hunted

6x43 The Hunted

  • 1954-06-30T01:30:00Z23m

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.

6x44 The Girl in Car Thirty-Two

  • 1954-07-07T01:30:00Z25m

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.

1954-07-14T01:30:00Z

6x45 Conversation at an Inn

6x45 Conversation at an Inn

  • 1954-07-14T01:30:00Z25m

An investigator puts his life in danger after he falls for the woman he is tailing.

1954-07-21T01:30:00Z

6x46 Once a Killer

6x46 Once a Killer

  • 1954-07-21T01:30:00Z25m

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.

1954-07-28T01:30:00Z

6x47 Main Feature: Death

6x47 Main Feature: Death

  • 1954-07-28T01:30:00Z25m

A woman's faith in a hoodlum is destroyed when the police prevail upon her to get him to surrender.

1954-08-04T01:30:00Z

6x48 The Last Stand

6x48 The Last Stand

  • 1954-08-04T01:30:00Z25m

A woman gets locked in movie theater by mistake and encounters a pair of killers who break in to rob the safe.

1954-08-11T01:30:00Z

6x49 The Iron Cop

6x49 The Iron Cop

  • 1954-08-11T01:30:00Z25m

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.

1954-08-18T01:30:00Z

6x50 Barn Burning

6x50 Barn Burning

  • 1954-08-18T01:30:00Z25m

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.

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