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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.
Episode 51 : Barn Burning
August. 17,1954
Episode 50 : The Iron Cop
August. 10,1954
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.
Episode 49 : The Last Stand
August. 03,1954
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.
Episode 48 : Main Feature: Death
July. 27,1954
A woman gets locked in movie theater by mistake and encounters a pair of killers who break in to rob the safe.
Episode 47 : Once a Killer
July. 20,1954
A woman's faith in a hoodlum is destroyed when the police prevail upon her to get him to surrender.
Episode 46 : Conversation at an Inn
July. 13,1954
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.
Episode 45 : The Girl in Car Thirty-Two
July. 06,1954
An investigator puts his life in danger after he falls for the woman he is tailing.
Episode 44 : The Hunted
June. 29,1954
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.
Episode 43 : String
June. 22,1954
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.
Episode 42 : The Pistol Shot
June. 15,1954
An Army Captain wants revenge on a fellow officer in 19th century Russia. The young Captain has bested him in cards and love.
Episode 41 : North Side
June. 08,1954
The true story of the workings of a New York homicide squad as it goes about the solution of a brutal murder.
Episode 40 : Race Against Murder
June. 01,1954
A young doctor leaves his practice to find a cure for polio after watching his patients suffer.
Episode 39 : Fingerprints
May. 25,1954
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.
Episode 38 : Breakout
May. 18,1954
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.
Episode 37 : Operation: Nightmare
May. 11,1954
A dramatization of the heroics of nurse Ann Bernatitus during the Battle of Bataan.
Episode 36 : Smoke
May. 04,1954
The two sons of a disgusting and destructive old man stand to benefit as a result of his violent death.
Episode 35 : The Terror Begins
April. 27,1954
The story of how Stalin held a grip on the Russian people after assassinating S.M. Kirov.
Episode 34 : The Return Journey
April. 20,1954
A window washer is tempted by an unguarded amount of money and realizes the error in his judgment all too soon.
Episode 33 : Operation: Barracuda
April. 13,1954
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
Episode 32 : Open Transom
April. 06,1954
Episode 31 : Torment
March. 30,1954
Behind the Iron Curtain, a condemned prisoner's wife tries to save him by appealing to an old friend, the police chief.
Episode 30 : The Tenth Reunion
March. 23,1954
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.
Episode 29 : The Fourth Degree
March. 16,1954
A psychiatrist makes a weird experiment in a last ditch attempt to get a key witness in a homicide case to talk.
Episode 28 : Before the Act
March. 09,1954
A young bank official is the intended scapegoat of a carefully designed plan to rob the vault of $100,000.
Episode 27 : I Do Solemnly Swear
March. 02,1954
The story of the first woman juror in the United States, in 1870 in Laramie, Wyoming.
Episode 26 : Death on the Screen
February. 23,1954
A frantic wife sits by her TV set, watching a public dinner where a deranged man is getting ready to kill her husband.
Episode 25 : The Execution
February. 16,1954
Her son's heroic death in battle unseals the lips of a mother about a 10-year-old tragedy involving her brutal husband.
Episode 24 : The Moonstone
February. 09,1954
Episode 23 : The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
February. 02,1954
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.
Episode 22 : An Affair With a Ghost
January. 26,1954
A dead French underground leader returns to save a band of hostages when a Nazi collaborator goes back on his promise.
Episode 21 : The Haunted
January. 19,1954
The second wife of a ski-lodge owner suspects her husband of the murder of his first wife.
Episode 20 : The Scrap Iron Curtain
January. 12,1954
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.
Episode 19 : Diamonds in the Sky
January. 05,1954
A gang of smugglers, diamonds and a beautiful woman add up to trouble for the pilot on a trans-Atlantic flight.
Episode 18 : Mr. Nobody
December. 29,1953
A wealthy, vicious woman turns a goodhearted but naive tramp into a pawn in her evil plans.
Episode 17 : The Gift of Fear
December. 22,1953
A little boy in a department store and a night watchman who likes toys better than people are featured in this odd Christmas tale.
Episode 16 : Cagliostro and the Chess Player
December. 15,1953
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.
Episode 15 : The Dance
December. 08,1953
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.
Episode 14 : Laugh It Off
December. 01,1953
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.
Episode 13 : My Short Walk to Freedom
November. 24,1953
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.
Episode 12 : The Newcomer
November. 17,1953
A story of a brash stranger in a small Western town who changes his ways when arrested for the murder of a local belle.
Episode 11 : Needle in a Haystack
November. 10,1953
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.
Episode 10 : The Interruption
November. 03,1953
An English gentleman gloats over the murder of his wife only to learn that his evil housekeeper knows his secret.
Episode 9 : The Others
October. 27,1953
Episode 8 : The Valley of the Kings
October. 20,1953
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.
Episode 7 : The Accounting
October. 13,1953
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.
Episode 6 : Death at Skirerud Pond
October. 06,1953
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.
Episode 5 : The Sister
September. 29,1953
The tragic tale of a pair of recluses whose lives are brought into focus for the first time after years of frustration and jealousy.
Episode 4 : The Riddle of Mayerling
September. 22,1953
A dramatic adaptation of the famous and true story of a commoner's ill-fated romance with the Archduke Rudolph of Hapsburg.
Episode 3 : The Darkest Night
September. 15,1953
Episode 2 : Reign of Terror
September. 08,1953
Episode 1 : Paradise Junction
September. 01,1953
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