Suspense (1949)
An anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. 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.
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Episode 1 - Paradise Junction
Release Date: 1953-09-01The story of a traveling circus and its unhappy owner.
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Episode 2 - Reign of Terror
Release Date: 1953-09-08An innocent woman is sentenced to death during the French Revolution.
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Episode 3 - The Darkest Night
Release Date: 1953-09-15Murder and blackmail ruin a bride-to-be's bridal shower.
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Episode 4 - The Riddle of Mayerling
Release Date: 1953-09-22A dramatic adaptation of the famous and true story of a commoner's ill-fated romance with the Archduke Rudolph of Hapsburg.
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Episode 5 - The Sister
Release Date: 1953-09-29The tragic tale of a pair of recluses whose lives are brought into focus for the first time after years of frustration and jealousy.
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Episode 6 - Death at Skirerud Pond
Release Date: 1953-10-06The 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.
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Episode 7 - The Accounting
Release Date: 1953-10-13The 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.
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Episode 8 - The Valley of the Kings
Release Date: 1953-10-20The 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.
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Episode 9 - The Others
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Episode 10 - The Interruption
Release Date: 1953-11-03An English gentleman gloats over the murder of his wife only to learn that his evil housekeeper knows his secret.
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Episode 11 - Needle in a Haystack
Release Date: 1953-11-10The 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.
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Episode 12 - The Newcomer
Release Date: 1953-11-17A story of a brash stranger in a small Western town who changes his ways when arrested for the murder of a local belle.
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Episode 13 - My Short Walk to Freedom
Release Date: 1953-11-24When 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.
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Episode 14 - Laugh It Off
Release Date: 1953-12-01A 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.
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Episode 15 - The Dance
Release Date: 1953-12-08This 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.
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Episode 16 - Cagliostro and the Chess Player
Release Date: 1953-12-15A 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.
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Episode 17 - The Gift of Fear
Release Date: 1953-12-22A little boy in a department store and a night watchman who likes toys better than people are featured in this odd Christmas tale.
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Episode 18 - Mr. Nobody
Release Date: 1953-12-29A wealthy, vicious woman turns a goodhearted but naive tramp into a pawn in her evil plans.
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Episode 19 - Diamonds in the Sky
Release Date: 1954-01-05A gang of smugglers, diamonds and a beautiful woman add up to trouble for the pilot on a trans-Atlantic flight.
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Episode 20 - The Scrap Iron Curtain
Release Date: 1954-01-12The 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.
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Episode 21 - The Haunted
Release Date: 1954-01-19The second wife of a ski-lodge owner suspects her husband of the murder of his first wife.
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Episode 22 - An Affair With a Ghost
Release Date: 1954-01-26A dead French underground leader returns to save a band of hostages when a Nazi collaborator goes back on his promise.
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Episode 23 - The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Release Date: 1954-02-02A 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.
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Episode 24 - The Moonstone
Release Date: 1954-02-09A precious stone taken from India is coveted by many parties.
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Episode 25 - The Execution
Release Date: 1954-02-16Her son's heroic death in battle unseals the lips of a mother about a 10-year-old tragedy involving her brutal husband.
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Episode 26 - Death on the Screen
Release Date: 1954-02-23A frantic wife sits by her TV set, watching a public dinner where a deranged man is getting ready to kill her husband.
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Episode 27 - I Do Solemnly Swear
Release Date: 1954-03-02The story of the first woman juror in the United States, in 1870 in Laramie, Wyoming.
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Episode 28 - Before the Act
Release Date: 1954-03-09A young bank official is the intended scapegoat of a carefully designed plan to rob the vault of $100,000.
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Episode 29 - The Fourth Degree
Release Date: 1954-03-16A psychiatrist makes a weird experiment in a last ditch attempt to get a key witness in a homicide case to talk.
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Episode 30 - The Tenth Reunion
Release Date: 1954-03-23A college reunion crowd discover that one of the gang has been missing since graduation. Those present have had reasons to do away with her.
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Episode 31 - Torment
Release Date: 1954-03-30Behind the Iron Curtain, a condemned prisoner's wife tries to save him by appealing to an old friend, the police chief.
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Episode 32 - Open Transom
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Episode 33 - Operation: Barracuda
Release Date: 1954-04-13Operation: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
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Episode 34 - The Return Journey
Release Date: 1954-04-20A window washer is tempted by an unguarded amount of money and realizes the error in his judgment all too soon.
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Episode 35 - The Terror Begins
Release Date: 1954-04-27The story of how Stalin held a grip on the Russian people after assassinating S.M. Kirov.
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Episode 36 - Smoke
Release Date: 1954-05-04The two sons of a disgusting and destructive old man stand to benefit as a result of his violent death.
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Episode 37 - Operation: Nightmare
Release Date: 1954-05-11A dramatization of the heroics of nurse Ann Bernatitus during the Battle of Bataan.
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Episode 38 - Breakout
Release Date: 1954-05-18A prison riot breaks out and a guard is taken hostage. The inmates want the keys to the main gate in exchange for the guard.
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Episode 39 - Fingerprints
Release Date: 1954-05-25A 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.
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Episode 40 - Race Against Murder
Release Date: 1954-06-01A young doctor leaves his practice to find a cure for polio after watching his patients suffer.
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Episode 41 - North Side
Release Date: 1954-06-08The true story of the workings of a New York homicide squad as it goes about the solution of a brutal murder.
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Episode 42 - The Pistol Shot
Release Date: 1954-06-15An Army Captain wants revenge on a fellow officer in 19th century Russia. The young Captain has bested him in cards and love.
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Episode 43 - String
Release Date: 1954-06-22Thirty men in a secret unit, started by President Roosevelt during World War II, are captured and tortured at the Belsen concentration camp before escaping.
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Episode 44 - The Hunted
Release Date: 1954-06-29An 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.
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Episode 45 - The Girl in Car Thirty-Two
Release Date: 1954-07-06An investigator puts his life in danger after he falls for the woman he is tailing.
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Episode 46 - Conversation at an Inn
Release Date: 1954-07-13A 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.
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Episode 47 - Once a Killer
Release Date: 1954-07-20A woman's faith in a hoodlum is destroyed when the police prevail upon her to get him to surrender.
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Episode 48 - Main Feature: Death
Release Date: 1954-07-27A woman gets locked in movie theater by mistake and encounters a pair of killers who break in to rob the safe.
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Episode 49 - The Last Stand
Release Date: 1954-08-03A 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.
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Episode 50 - The Iron Cop
Release Date: 1954-08-10A 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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Episode 51 - Barn Burning
Release Date: 1954-08-17A mentally incapacitated war hero seeks revenge against society.