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Episode Guide
version 8.0 December 2007

(Ep 4.38, 4.47, 6.51)
compiled by
The Classic TV Archive

http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Stage/2950/

with contributions by:
Rina Fox
references:
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UCLA Film and Television Archive

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SUSPENSE

March 1, 1949 to September 9, 1954

Mar 1949-Jun 1950 CBS Tue 9:30-10:00

Aug 1950-Aug 1954 CBS Tue 9:30-10:00

Producers: Martin Manulis, Robert Stevens, David Herlwell

Directors: Robert Milligan, David Heilweil, Byron Paul

The Auto-Lite Theatre presents: SUSPENSE

Narrated by Paul Frees.

Announcer Rex Marshall.

Suspense had been a fixture on the CBS Radio Network since 1942 for 20 years.

The television plays were broadcast live from New York.

Opening narration: "Well calculated tales to keep you in suspense."
 

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*Note began 1/2 season

1.01 [--]Suspense: REVENGE

01-Mar-1949 CBS Tue

Based on a story by Cornell Woolrich

directed by Robert Stevens

starring

Eddie Albert

Margo

1.02 [--]Suspense: SUSPICION

15-Mar-1949 CBS Tue

starring

Charlton Heston

Sylvia Field

Ernest Truex

Viola Roache

1.03 [--]Suspense: CABIN B-13

29-Mar-1949 CBS Tue

Based on a story by John Dickson Carr

starring

Charles Korvin

Eleanor Lynn

1.04 [--]Suspense: THE MAN UPSTAIRS

05-Apr-1949 CBS Tue

Based on a story by Cornell Woolrich

starring

Mildred Natwick

Anthony Ross

1.05 [--]Suspense: AFTER DINNER STORY

12-Apr-1949 CBS Tue

Based on a story by Cornell Woolrich

starring

Otto Kruger

1.06 [--]Suspense: THE CREEPER

19-Apr-1949 CBS Tue

Adapted for television by Frank Gabrielson

Based on a story by Joseph Ruscoll

starring

Nina Foch

Anthony Ross

Edgar Stehli

1.07 [--]Suspense: A NIGHT AT THE INN (confirmed on film)

26-Apr-1949 CBS Tue

Adapted for television by Halsted Welles
From a play by Lord Dunsany
Directed by Robert Stevens

starring

Boris Karloff ..... Toff
Joan Stanley ...... Innkeeper
Jack Manning ...... Bill
Anthony Ross ...... Albert
Barry Macollum .... Sniggers
Synopsis:
Three crooks seek refuge at an Inn after stealing a cursed ruby.
 

1.08 [--]Suspense: DEAD ERNEST (confirmed on film)

03-May-1949 CBS Tue

Adapted for television by Reginald Denham & Mary Orr
From the original radio script by Merwin Gerard & Seelag Lester (spellt Seelog on film)
Directed by Robert Stevens
starring
Margaret Phillips ............ Fran Prince

(Margaret Prince on film but her name was Fran, Margaret  was Ernest's wife's name).
Tod Andrews ....... Henry Prince
Joshua Shelley .... Tony the Morgue Worker
Fred Stewart ...... Al the Caretaker

Barry Macollum .... Jerry Murdock
Will Hare ......... Ernest Bowers
Patricia Jenkins .. Margaret Bowers
Mac McLeod ........ Police Officer
Harry Davis ....... Cab Driver

Synopsis:

A man suffering from cataleptic attacks is hit by a taxi and sent to the morgue,

everyone thinks he's dead. The Cataleptic condition is marked by suspension

of sensation and muscular rigidity. A seizure which closely resembles death in

all aspects including the primary stages of rigor mortise. [RF]

1.09 [--]Suspense: POST MORTEM

10-May-1949 CBS Tue

Adapted for television by Frank Gabrielson

Based on a story by Cornell Woolrich

starring

Sidney Blackmer

Peggy Conklin

Richard Coogan

Julian Noe

Darren Dublin

Harry Laskos

1.10 [--]Suspense: THE MONKEY'S PAW

17-May-1949 CBS Tue

Adapted for television by Frank Gabrielson

story by W.W. Jacobs

starring

Boris Karloff

Mildred Natwick

1.11 [--]Suspense: MURDER THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

24-May-1949 CBS Tue

Adapted for television by Mary Orr & Reginald Denham

Based on a story by Craig Rice

starring

William Prince

Ruth Madison

Peter von Zerneck

1.12 [--]Suspense: THE DOOR'S ON THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR

31-May-1949 CBS Tue

Adapted for television by Edward Mabley

story by Marie Rodell

starring

Louisa Horton

Anthony Ross

Robert Sterling

1.13 [--]Suspense: THE YELLOW SCARF

07-Jun-1949 CBS Tue

Adapted for television by Halsted Welles

story by Thomas Burke

starring

Boris Karloff

1.14 [--]Suspense: HELP WANTED (on film)

14-Jun-1949 CBS Tue

Produced & Directed by Robert Stevens
Adapted for television by Mary Orr & Reginald Denham

From an original story by Stanley Ellin

starring

Otto Kruger ...... Chester Crabtree
Douglas Clark-Smith .. Mr. X
Peggy French ..... Mrs. X
George Mathews ...... Detective
Ruth McDevitt .... Mrs. Griffin
Synopsis:
An old man is displaced from his boarding house because he can't pay his rent.

 All his funds go toward the expense of keeping his daughter in a sanitarium.

When he is offered a job that seems too good to be true, he leaps

at the chance to get out of debt.

Synopsis 2:

A cat named Discretion is blamed for murder.

Line from Mr. X "No one will believe that cat and bull story".
 

1.15 [--]Suspense: STOLEN EMPIRE

21-Jun-1949 CBS Tue

Adapted for television by Halsted Welles

Based on a story by James Sheehan

starring

Audrey Christie

Ken Lynch

1.16 [--]Suspense: THE HANDS OF MR. OTTERMOLE

28-Jun-1949 CBS Tue

Adapted for television by Frank Gabrielson

Based on a story by Thomas Burke

starring

Ralph Bell

Synopsis:
London is being plagued by a strangler who baffles police.

Sgt. Ottermole investigates but has a difficult time when an

obnoxious reporter constantly gets in his way.

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2.01 [17] Suspense: LUNCH BOX

06-Sep-1949 CBS Tue

Adapted for television by Turner Bullock & Frank Gabrielson

story by Larry Malone

starring

Lon McCallister

Abe Vigoda

2.02 [18] Suspense: COLLECTOR'S ITEM

13-Sep-1949 CBS Tue

Adapted for television by Doris Frankel

story by Robert Stevens

starring

Lon McCallister

2.03 [19] Suspense: DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE

20-Sep-1949 CBS Tue

Adapted for television by Halsted Welles

Based on a story by Robert Louis Stevenson

starring

Ralph Bell ..... Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde

2.04 [20] Suspense: THE COMIC STRIP MURDER (on film)

29-Sep-1949 CBS Tue

Produced & Directed by Robert Stevens

Adapted for television by Turner Bullock & Frank Gabrielson

From an original play by Fred Methot
Music by Hank Sylvern
Settings Gil Hancox
Cartoons Dick Ayers
starring
Lilli Palmer ..... Julia
Don Briggs ....... Mark
Eva Marie Saint .. Francie (as Eve Marie Saint)
King Calder ...... Handley
John Hudson ...... John
Henry Lascoe ..... Waiter
Synopsis:
A housewife, whose husband uses her likeness as one of the characters

 in his detective comic strip, believes her spouse is planning her

death when he decides to kill the character in the strip.
 

2.05 [21] Suspense: DOCTOR VIOLET (on film)

04-Oct-1949 CBS Tue

Produced & Directed by Robert Stevens
Written by Halstead Welles

starring

Hume Cronyn ...... Dr. Violet
Evelyn Varden .... Mrs. Violet
Anne Francis ..... Lois
Ray Walston ...... Mousey
Frank Thomas Jr... Art
Jack Overman ..... Detective
Mike Kellin ...... Johnny the Policeman
Flody Buckley .... Texan
Synopsis:
A young, engaged couple wandering the carnival enters a sideshow that

displays wax figures of famous killers and their crimes. Dr. Violet,

 the tour guide, is particularly fond of the final wax figure,

a man who murders young women who are about to be married.
 

2.06 [22] Suspense: THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO

11-Oct-1949 CBS Tue

Adapted for television by Halsted Welles

Based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe

starring

Bela Lugosi

Romney Brent
Ray Walston

Synopsis:

Montresor vows revenge against Fortunato who has repeatedly injured

 and insulted him. Fortunato is unaware of the animosity which Montresor has

 against him and so during carnival time the plot unfolds. [RF]

2.07 [23] Suspense: THE SERPENT RING

18-Oct-1949 CBS Tue

Adapted for television by John Gearon

Based on a story by Louis Pollock

starring

Ray Walston

Steven Hill

Royal Dano

Joan Wetmore

Peter Von Zernick

Donald Buka

2.08 [24]Suspense: THE MURDERER (on film)

25-Oct-1949 CBS Tue

Produced & Directed by Robert Stevens
Adapted for television by Joseph Hayes

Based on a story by Joel Townsley Rogers

Commercial Director John Peyser
Music by Hank Sylvern
starring
Jeffrey Lynn ..... John Bantreagh
John McQuade ..... Roy Clade
Eileen Heckart ... Mollie
Don Hanmer ....... Mac
Marilyn Erskine .. Lillybelle
Larry Fletcher ... Frank

Synopsis:
A man finds his wife lying dead on his front lawn after being

 bludgeoned with a tire iron. She had been cheating

on him for some time, and was leaving him.

2.09 [25]Suspense: BLACK PASSAGE (on film)

01-Nov-1949 CBS Tue

Produced and directed by Robert Stevens
Adapted for television by Halsted Welles
From a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson

starring

Stella Adler ....... Lola

William Prince ........ Cunningham

Mary Sinclair ...... Mother

Mort Stevens ..... Padre

Peter Fernandez .. Miguel
Carlos Montalban . Pedro

Synopsis:

Obsessed with the beautiful Lola, Cunningham is unaware that

 the women of the family are vampires.

2.10 [26]Suspense: SUSPICION

08-Nov-1949 CBS Tue

Adapted for television by Joseph Liss

Based on a story by Billy Rose

starring

Russell Collins

Charlton Heston

Meg Mundy

Edgar Stehli

* Restaged from Season 1 episode of the same name different cast.

2.11 [27]Suspense: THE THIN EDGE OF VIOLENCE

15-Nov-1949 CBS Tue

Based on a story by William O'Farrell

starring

George Reeves

Lénore Aubert

Emily Lawrence

2.12 [28]Suspense: THE THIRD ONE

22-Nov-1949 CBS Tue

story by Arthur Heinemann

starring

Iris Mann

Theodore Newton

Margaret Phillips

2.13 [29]Suspense: THE MAN IN THE HOUSE (on film)

29-Nov-1949 CBS Tue

Produced and directed by Robert Stevens
Adapted for television by Joseph Liss
Based on the radio play by Leslie Edgby
Music by Hank Sylvern

starring

Kim Hunter ....... Emily
Alan Baxter ...... The Intruder
Boyd Crawford .... Ted
Ruth McDevitt .... Mrs. Barret
Jay Eastman ...... Teen in library
Lores Lambert .... Teen in library
Joan Lawrence .... Teen in library

Synopsis:
A young married couple has problems because the wife is living

separately with her elderly mother. The situation becomes even more

 strained when a killer on the lam forces his way into her home.

2.14 [30]Suspense: THE SCAR

06-Dec-1949 CBS Tue

Adapted for television by Shirl Hendryx

story by H.R. Hays

starring

Edgar Stehli

2.15 [31]Suspense: THE GRAY HELMET

13-Dec-1949 CBS Tue

Adapted for television by Halsted Welles

story by Robert Carse

starring

Jack Lemmon

Bernard Kates

Mort Stevens

2.16 [32]Suspense: THE SEEKER AND THE SOUGHT

20-Dec-1949 CBS Tue

Adapted for television by Halsted Welles

story by Marie Baumer

starring

Eileen Heckart

Joseph Holland

Philip Loeb

Grace Valentine

2.17 [33] Suspense: THE CASE OF LADY SANNOX

27-Dec-1949 CBS Tue

Adapted for television by Robert Wallsten

Based on a story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

starring

Stella Adler

Henry Brandon

Berry Kroeger

2.18 [34] Suspense: MORNING BOAT TO AFRICA

03-Jan-1950 CBS Tue

starring

Nina Foch

2.19 [35] Suspense: THE BOMBER COMMAND

10-Jan-1950 CBS Tue

starring

George Reeves

Susan Douglas

2.20 [36] Suspense: SUMMER STORM

17-Jan-1950 CBS Tue

Produced and Directed by Robert Stevens
Adapted for television by Marie Baumer
Based on a story by Louis Este
Music by Hank Sylvern
starring
E.G. Marshall .... Eddie Hunt
Jack Dimond ...... Jimmy Hunt
Morton Stevens ... Mr. O'Farrell
King Calder ...... Mr. Waters
Ruth McDevitt .... Mrs. Waters
Royal Dano ....... Policeman
Joe Boland ....... Mr. Graham
Leslie Litomy .... Casey
Martin Greenlee .. Mike

2.21 [37] Suspense: THE HORIZONTAL MAN

24-Jan-1950 CBS Tue

starring

Mildred Natwick

2.22 [38] Suspense: THE DISTANT ISLAND

31-Jan-1950 CBS Tue

starring

Patricia Kirkland

2.23 [39] Suspense: ESCAPE THIS NIGHT

07-Feb-1950 CBS Tue

starring

Donald Buka

Peter Capell

Robert H. Harris

2.24 [40] Suspense: THE SUICIDE CLUB

14-Feb-1950 CBS Tue

Produced and Directed by Robert Stevens
Adapted for television by Reginald Denham & Mary Orr
Based on a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
starring
Ralph Bell ....... Prince Florizel/Theophilus Goode
Ralph Clanton .... Col. Gerard/Alfred Hammersmith
Donald Buka ...... Mr. X
Richard Fraser ... Club President
 

2.25 [41] Suspense: ROMAN HOLIDAY

21-Feb-1950 CBS Tue

starring

Leslie Nielsen

Jack Dimond

2.26 [42] Suspense: THE MAN WHO TALKED IN HIS SLEEP

28-Feb-1950 CBS Tue

starring

Edith Atwater

Donald Briggs

2.27 [43] Suspense: THE LEDGE

07-Mar-1950 CBS Tue

starring

Dick Foran

E.G. Marshall

2.28 [44] Suspense: THE PARCEL (on film)

14-Mar-1950 CBS Tue

Produced and Directed by Robert Stevens
Original script by Alvin Sapinsley (idea from Robert Stevens)
Music by Hank Sylvern
starring
Conrad Janis ..... Tommy
Ray Walston ...... Herbert the Hook
Ann Thomas ....... Sally
Royal Dano ....... Marvin the Push

Lee Marvin ....... Barrow
Harold J. Stone .. Eagle Moran
Peter Capell ..... Gunner

2.29 [45] Suspense: THE OLD MAN'S BADGE (on film)

21-Mar-1950 CBS Tue

Produced and Directed by Robert Stevens
Original script by Ferguson Findley & Robert Tallman
Music by Hank Sylvern
starring
Steven Hill ...... Dolph Romano
Barry Nelson ..... Johny Malone
Will Hare ........ Tony Grisalla
Charles Mendick .. Herman
Philip Sterling .. Ciro
Ann Thomas ....... Billie
Julian Noa ....... Captain

2.30 [46] Suspense: THE SECOND CLASS PASSENGER

28-Mar-1950 CBS Tue

starring

Leslie Nielsen

Monica Boyer

Alfreda Wallace

2.31 [47] Suspense: ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS TO ONE FOR YOUR MONEY

04-Apr-1950 CBS Tue

starring

Tom Drake

Betty Garde

Paul Stewart

Carol Williams

2.32 [48] Suspense: STEELY, STEELY EYES

11-Apr-1950 CBS Tue

starring

Betty Garde

2.33 [49] Suspense: MURDER AT THE MARDI GRAS

18-Apr-1950 CBS Tue

starring

Hume Cronyn

Tom Drake

Robert Emhardt
George Reeves
Mary Sinclair
John Marriott

2.34 [50] Suspense: THE GENTLEMAN FROM AMERICA

25-Apr-1950 CBS Tue

starring

Barry Nelson

2.35 [51] Suspense: DEATH OF A DUMMY

02-May-1950 CBS Tue

starring

Conrad Janis

2.36 [52] Suspense: RED WINE

09-May-1950 CBS Tue

starring

Hume Cronyn

Tom Drake

2.37 [53] Suspense: ONE AND ONE'S A LONESOME

16-May-1950 CBS Tue

starring

Robert Emhardt

Nina Foch

Scott McKay

Meg Mundy

2.38 [54] Suspense: PHOTO FINISH (on film)

23-May-1950 CBS Tue

Produced & Directed by Robert Stevens
Original television script by Alvin Sapinsley (idea by Robert Stevens)
Music by Hank Sylvern
starring
Ralph Clanton .... Robert Quartermain
Eileen Heckart ... Margaret Quartermain
Richard Boone .... Mercer
Don Appell ....... Willy Fergus
Lou Herbert ...... Mack

2.39 [55] Suspense: LISTEN, LISTEN

30-May-1950 CBS Tue

starring

Mildred Natwick

2.40 [56] Suspense: BLACK BRONZE

06-Jun-1950 CBS Tue

starring

Franchot Tone

Joan Diener

2.41 [57] Suspense: I'M NO HERO

20-Jun-1950 CBS Tue

Based on a story by Henry Kane

starring

Hume Cronyn

Mark Roberts

2.42 [58] Suspense: WISTERIA COTTAGE (on film)

27-Jun-1950 CBS Tue

Produced & Directed by Robert Stevens
Adapted for television by Charles Robinson
Based on a novel by Robert M. Coates
Music by Hank Sylvern
starring
Marjorie Gateson .. Florence Hackett
Conrad Janis ...... Richard
Joan Copeland ..... Louisa Hackett
Carlotta Sherwood.. Elinor Hackett
James MacDonald ... Jeff
Mark Roberts ...... Ned Bassett
Ruth McDevitt ..... Jenny

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3.01 [59] Suspense: POISON

29-Aug-1950 CBS Tue

starring

Arnold Moss

3.02 [60] Suspense: A POCKETFUL OF MURDER

05-Sep-1950 CBS Tue

starring

Steven Hill

Barry Nelson

3.03 [61] Suspense: EDGE OF PANIC

12-Sep-1950 CBS Tue

starring

Louisa Horton

Patrick McVey

Haila Stoddard

3.04 [62] Suspense: DARK SHADOWS

19-Sep-1950 CBS Tue

starring

Robert H. Harris

William Redfield

3.05 [63]Suspense: SIX TO ONE

26-Sep-1950 CBS Tue

starring

Edith Atwater

3.06 [64]Suspense: THE MONKEY'S PAW

03-Oct-1950 CBS Tue

story by W.W. Jacobs

starring

Mildred Natwick

Stanley Ridges

*Note restaged from previous episode.

3.07 [65]Suspense: CRIMINALS MARK

10-Oct-1950 CBS Tue

starring

Richard Kiley

Catherine McLeod

Joseph Wiseman

3.08 [66]Suspense: THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING

17-Oct-1950 CBS Tue

story by Rudyard Kipling

starring

Francis L. Sullivan

3.09 [67]Suspense: BREAKDOWN

24-Oct-1950 CBS Tue

written by Francis Cockrell & Louis Pollock

story by Louis Pollock

starring

Ellen Violett

Don Briggs

Synopsis:

The story focuses on a cruel and tyrannical office boss who breaks his neck in

a plane crash and is taken for dead until just before his body is cremated. [RF]

3.10 [68]Suspense: HALLOWEEN HOLD-UP

31-Oct-1950 CBS Tue

starring

Conrad Janis

3.11 [69]Suspense: NIGHTMARE

07-Nov-1950 CBS Tue

story by Cornell Woolrich

starring

Richard Kiley

Berry Kroeger

3.12 [70]Suspense: THE BRUSH-OFF (on film)

14-Nov-1950 CBS Tue

Produced & Directed by Robert Stevens
Adapted by Siegfried Herzig
From a story by Mort Lewis
Host Rex Marshall
starring
Leslie Nielsen ... Ralph Farley
Mary Sinclair .... Paula Davis
George Reeves .... Roger Sherman
Gene Lyons ....... Steve
Royal Dano ....... Lucky
Synopsis:
A struggling actor overhears a plot to snuff out a big time movie agent.
The Newspaper headlines read: Attorney's Wife Commits Suicide

 Helen Nelson Takes overdose of Sleeping Tablets. [RF]
 

3.13 [71]Suspense: THE DEATH CARDS

21-Nov-1950 CBS Tue

starring

Francis L. Sullivan

3.14 [72]Suspense: THE HANDS OF MR. OTTERMOLE

28-Nov-1950 CBS Tue

story by Thomas Burke

starring

Robert Emhardt

Lawrence Fletcher

* Restaged from a previous episode.

3.15 [73]Suspense: THE GUY FROM NOWHERE

05-Dec-1950 CBS Tue

starring

Lawrence Fletcher

Catherine McLeod

Barry Nelson

3.16 [74]Suspense: THE MALLET

12-Dec-1950 CBS Tue

starring

Walter Slezak

Pamela Gordon

Victor Beecroft

Claire Williams

3.17 [75]Suspense: DANCING DAN'S CHRISTMAS

19-Dec-1950 CBS Tue

starring

Wally Cox

3.18 [76]Suspense: THE TIP

26-Dec-1950 CBS Tue

starring

Felicia Montealegre

Stanley Ridges

3.19 [77]Suspense: DEATH IN A RIVER

02-Jan-1951 CBS Tue

3.20 [78]Suspense: TOUGH COP

09-Jan-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Katharine Bard

Barry Nelson

3.21 [79]Suspense: THE FOOL'S HEART

16-Jan-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Henry Hull

3.22 [80]Suspense: DEAD FALL

23-Jan-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Barry Nelson

3.23 [81]Suspense: THE ROSE GARDEN

30-Jan-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Mildred Natwick

Estelle Winwood

3.24 [82] Suspense: NIGHT BREAK

06-Feb-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Anne Bancroft (as Anne Marno)

E.G. Marshall

Jane Seymour

3.25 [83] Suspense: DOUBLE ENTRY

13-Feb-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Robert Emhardt

Virginia Gilmore

3.26 [84] Suspense: THE VICTIMS

20-Feb-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Eileen Heckart

Stanley Ridges

3.27 [85] Suspense: MARGIN FOR SAFETY

27-Feb-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Francis Bethencourt

Denholm Elliott

3.28 [86] Suspense: DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE

06-Mar-1951 CBS Tue

story by Robert Louis Stevenson

starring

Basil Rathbone ........ Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde

* Restaged from a previous episode.

3.29 [87] Suspense: ON A COUNTRY ROAD

13-Mar-1951 CBS Tue

story by Walter Bazar

starring

John Forsythe

Mildred Natwick

Mary Sinclair

3.30 [88] Suspense: TELEPHONE CALL

20-Mar-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Russell Collins

Robert Emhardt

Eileen Heckart

3.31 [89] Suspense: THE THREE OF SILENCE

27-Mar-1951 CBS Tue

written by Alvin Sapinsley

starring

Betty Garde

Walter Slezak

3.32 [90] Suspense: GO HOME DEAD MAN

03-Apr-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Jackie Cooper

3.33 [91] Suspense: THE FOGGY NIGHT VISITOR

10-Apr-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Cloris Leachman

Leslie Nielsen

3.34 [92] Suspense: THE JUICE MAN

17-Apr-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Cloris Leachman

3.35 [93] Suspense: THE MEETING

24-Apr-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Jackie Cooper

Wally Cox

Mildred Natwick

3.36 [94] Suspense: NO FRIEND LIKE AN OLD FRIEND

01-May-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Judith Evelyn

Ruth Ford

Tom Helmore

3.37 [95] Suspense: MURDER IN THE RING

08-May-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Donald Briggs

Audrey Christie

Hiram Sherman

3.38 [96] Suspense: TOO HOT TO LIVE

15-May-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Olive Deering

William Redfield

3.39 [97] Suspense: ESCAPE THIS NIGHT

22-May-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Judith Evelyn

Theo Goetz

3.40 [98] Suspense: VAMP TILL DEAD

29-May-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Mary Sinclair

3.41 [99] Suspense: THE CALL

05-Jun-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Lawrence Fletcher

Paul Langton

Cloris Leachman

William Redfield

3.42 [100] Suspense: DE MORTUIS

12-Jun-1951 CBS Tue

story by John Collier

starring

Olive Deering

Walter Slezak

Synopsis:

An older, rather dull college professor thinks he is happily

 married to a much younger woman. [RF]

3.43 [101] Suspense: A KILLING IN ABILENE

19-Jun-1951 CBS Tue

starring

William Prince

3.44 [102] Suspense: THE GREATEST CRIME

26-Jun-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Walter Slezak

3.45 [103] Suspense: BLOOD ON THE TRUMPET

03-Jul-1951 CBS Tue

starring

John Forsythe

Virginia Gibson

Cloris Leachman

3.46 [104] Suspense: TENT ON THE BEACH

10-Jul-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Eileen Heckart

Paul Langton

3.47 [105] Suspense: WISTERIA COTTAGE

17-Jul-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Marjorie Gateson

William Redfield

3.48 [106] Suspense: THE INCIDENT AT STONY POINT

24-Jul-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Donald Buka

Russell Hardie

Rusty Lane

3.49 [107] Suspense: A VISION OF DEATH

31-Jul-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Jerome Cowan

Henry Hull

3.50 [108] Suspense: KILLERS OF THE CITY

07-Aug-1951 CBS Tue

written by Victor Wolfson

story by Anthony Ellis based on "The Truth about Jerry Baxter"

starring

Conrad Janis

3.51 [109] Suspense: DEATH SABRE

14-Aug-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Felicia Montealegre

Leslie Nielsen

3.52 [110] Suspense: THIS IS YOUR CONFESSION Part 1

21-Aug-1951 CBS Tue

starring

William Bishop

Sidney Blackmer

Eva Gabor

3.53 [111] Suspense: THIS IS YOUR CONFESSION Part 2

28-Aug-1951 CBS Tue

William Bishop

Sidney Blackmer

Eva Gabor

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##### season 4 1951-52 ######

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4.01 [112] Suspense: THIS WAY OUT

04-Sep-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Richard Coogan

Jean Parker

4.02 [113] Suspense: STRANGE FOR A KILLER

11-Sep-1951 CBS Tue

starring

John Forsythe

Anthony Ross

4.03 [114] Suspense: MERRYMAN'S MURDER

18-Sep-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Red Buttons

4.04 [115]Suspense: DOCTOR ANONYMOUS

25-Sep-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Josephine Brown

Walter Slezak

4.05 [116]Suspense: SANTA FE FLIGHT

02-Oct-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Charlton Heston

Margaret Phillips

4.06 [117]Suspense: HIGH STREET

09-Oct-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Mildred Natwick

Mary Sinclair

4.07 [118]Suspense: THE FIFTH DUMMY

16-Oct-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Francis L. Sullivan

4.08 [119]Suspense: THE TRAIN FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA

23-Oct-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Richard Kiley

Maria Riva

Lucius D. Clay

4.09 [120]Suspense: COURT DAY

30-Oct-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Richard Coogan

Parker Fennelly

Steve Holland

4.10 [121]Suspense: MOONFLEET Part 1

06-Nov-1951 CBS Tue

starring

John Baragrey

Jack Diamond

Edgar Stehli

4.11 [122]Suspense: MOONFLEET Part 2

13-Nov-1951 CBS Tue

starring

John Baragrey

Jack Diamond

Edgar Stehli

4.12 [123]Suspense: FRISCO PAYOFF

20-Nov-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Paul Langton

Anthony Ross

4.13 [124]Suspense: MIKKI

27-Nov-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Brandon Peters

Joan Chandler

4.14 [125]Suspense: THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE

04-Dec-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Judith Evelyn

Henry Jones

Douglas Watson

4.15 [126]Suspense: MEDIATION IN MEXICO

11-Dec-1951 CBS Tue

4.16 [127]Suspense: PIER 17

18-Dec-1951 CBS Tue

4.17 [128]Suspense: THE LONELY PLACE

25-Dec-1951 CBS Tue

starring

Judith Evelyn

Boris Karloff

Robin Morgan

4.18 [129]Suspense: ROUTINE PATROL

01-Jan-1952 CBS Tue

4.19 [130]Suspense: FLARE WEEK

08-Jan-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Eileen Heckart

Conrad Janis

Edmon Ryan

4.20 [131]Suspense: THE SPIDER

15-Jan-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Olive Deering

Arnold Moss

4.21 [132]Suspense: THE RED SIGNAL

22-Jan-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Thomas Helmore

Beatrice Straight

4.22 [133]Suspense: DEATH DRUM

29-Jan-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Maria Riva

4.23 [134]Suspense: BETRAYAL IN VIENNA

05-Feb-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Claude Dauphin

Irja Jensen

4.24 [135]Suspense: NORTH OF SHANGHAI

12-Feb-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Thomas Mitchell

Dorothy Peterson

4.25 [136]Suspense: SUMMER NIGHT

19-Feb-1952 CBS Tue

Based on a story by Ray Bradbury

starring

Parker Fennelly

Carmen Mathews

*NOTE: This episode is based on the Ray Bradbury short story

"The Summer Night" also known as "The Spring Night".

It was first published in Arkham Sampler (Winter, 1949).

4.26 [137]Suspense: NIGHT DRIVE

26-Feb-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Robert H. Harris

Neva Patterson

4.27 [138]Suspense: DAY OF INFAMY

04-Mar-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Signe Hasso

4.28 [139]Suspense: FOUR DAYS TO KILL

11-Mar-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Joseph Buloff

Brian Keith

4.29 [140]Suspense: THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD Part 1

18-Mar-1952 CBS Tue

story by Charles Dickens

starring

John Baragrey

4.30 [141]Suspense: THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD Part 2

25-Mar-1952 CBS Tue

story by Charles Dickens

starring

John Baragrey

4.31 [142]Suspense: BLACK PANTHER

08-Apr-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Chester Morris

4.32 [143]Suspense: NIGHT OF EVIL

15-Apr-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Patricia Crowley

Skip Homeier

Henry Hull

4.33 [144]Suspense: ALIBI ME

22-Apr-1952 CBS Tue

story by Therd Jaffe & Walter Brown Newman

starring

Don Hanmer

4.34 [145]Suspense: THE LETTER

29-Apr-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Arnold Moss

Mary Sinclair

4.35 [146]Suspense: THE MANDARIN MURDERS

06-May-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Cloris Leachman

William Redfield

4.36 [147]Suspense: FINGERS OF FEAR

13-May-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Lawrence Fletcher

Brian Keith

4.37 [148]Suspense: HUNTED DOWN

20-May-1952 CBS Tue

starring

John Baragrey

4.38 [149]Suspense: THE DEBT (on film)

27-May-1952 CBS Tue

Produced by Robert Stevens
Written for television by Max Ehrlich
Story by Lawrence Treat
Directed by Robert Stevens
Settings by Paul Sylbert
starring
Conrad Janis ...... Brad
Brian Keith ....... Idaho (as Robert Keith Jr.)
Rusty Lane ........ Jesse
Paul Ford ......... Tom Allison
Connie Clausen .... Martha
William Sharon .... Sheriff
.... Ed (looked like Pa Kettle)
Rex Marshall ...... Himself
Synopsis:
A train tramp makes his way to a country store and weasels his

 way into the affections of the store owners daughter. [RF]
 

4.39 [150]Suspense: MURDER OF NECESSITY

03-Jun-1952 CBS Tue

starring

John Forsythe

4.40 [151]Suspense: HOME OF MASKS

10-Jun-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Geraldine Fitzgerald

William Redfield

4.41 [152]Suspense: PHANTOM OF THE RIVERIA

17-Jun-1952 CBS Tue

starring

John Baragrey

Olive Deering

4.42 [153]Suspense: NIGHT OF RECKONING

24-Jun-1952 CBS Tue

starring

John Baragrey

Gusti Huber

4.43 [154]Suspense: FIFTY BEAUTIFUL GIRLS

01-Jul-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Grace Kelly

Joseph Anthony

Brian Keith

Rusty Lane

4.44 [155]Suspense: FOR THE LOVE OF RANDI

15-Jul-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Jack Banning

Rita Lynn

Darren McGavin

4.45 [156]Suspense: THE CROOKED FRAME

29-Jul-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Richard Kiley

Neva Patterson

4.46 [157]Suspense: DEATH CARGO

05-Aug-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Brian Keith

Anthony Ross

4.47 [158]Suspense: REMEMBER ME? (on film)

12-Aug-1952 CBS Tue

Produced by Robert Stevens
Written for TV by Raphael Hayes
Story by Gus Bayz
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Music by Hank Sylvern
Host Rex Marshall
starring
Martin E. Brooks .. Harry Raymond
Cloris Leachman ... Ruth Shaw
Eva Condon ........ Mrs. Dooley
Frieda Altman ..... Mrs. Liebowitz
Henry Sharp ....... Mr. Liebowitz
Synopsis:
A wife is concerned with her husband staying at the shop so late, she's afraid of all the hoods in the neighborhood when her husband gets ready to close up shop he's robbed and killed. [RF]

4.48 [159]Suspense: HER LAST ADVENTURE

19-Aug-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Lloyd Bridges

Arlene Francis

4.49 [160]Suspense: WOMAN IN LOVE (on film)

26-Aug-1952 CBS Tue

Producer Robert Stevens
Adapted for television by Victor Wolfson
Story by Geoffrey Household
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Settings by Paul Sylbert

Music by Hank Sylvern
starring
Arnold Moss ....... Theotaki
Gaby Rodgers ...... Alexia
Berry Kroeger ..... Fulco
Isobel Elsom ...... Mme. Constancia
Paul Newman ....... Captain Radetski
Robert Nelson ..... Soldier

? ........ Maria, the maid

Synopsis:
Budapest 1952, Alexia wishes to marry Lars Andersson a foreigner,

 her family asks her to take a message to Sweden for the underground resistance.

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##### season 5 1952-53 ######

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5.01 [161] Suspense: THE OLD LADY OF BAYEUX

02-Sep-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Luis van Rooten
Edgar Stehli

Nicole Stephan

5.02 [162] Suspense: CALL FROM A KILLER

09-Sep-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Anne Jackson

5.03 [163] Suspense: THE RETURN OF DR. BOURDETTE

16-Sep-1952 CBS Tue

starring

John Baragrey

William Prince

5.04 [164] Suspense: SET-UP FOR DEATH

23-Sep-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Brian Keith

Mary Sinclair

5.05 [165] Suspense: THE BEACH OF FALSEA

30-Sep-1952 CBS Tue

story by Robert Louis Stevenson

starring

John Forsythe

5.06 [166] Suspense: THE MAN IN THE MIRROR

07-Oct-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Constance Ford

Gerald S. O'Loughlin

5.07 [167] Suspense: BLUE PANTHER

14-Oct-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Phyllis Brooks

5.08 [168] Suspense: THE MAN WHO HAD SEVEN HOURS

21-Oct-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Robert Sterling

5.09 [169] Suspense: ALL HALLOW'S EVE

28-Oct-1952 CBS Tue

Produced by Martin Manulis

story by Robert Louis Stevenson

starring

Franchot Tone ....... Markheim

*Note:

Based on the story "Markheim" by Robert Louis Stevenson, this is the account

of a man who murders his pawnbroker and is then visited by the devil who urges

him to kill the man's housekeeper in order to cover up his crime. In an attempt

 to atone for his utterly delinquent life, the man draws back at the last moment and

tells the housekeeper to call the police because he has just murdered her master.

Thwarted in his efforts to gain another soul, the devil disappears. [RF]

5.10 [170] Suspense: THE MOVING TARGET

11-Nov-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Joseph Anthony

Irja Jensen

Jamie Smith

5.11 [171] Suspense: MONSIEUR VIDOCQ

18-Nov-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Jacques Aubuchon

Nigel Green

Luis Van Rooten

5.12 [172] Suspense: THE WHISPERING KILLER

25-Nov-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Bert Conway

George Mathews

Nita Talbot

Richard Webb

5.13 [173] Suspense: A TIME OF INNOCENCE

02-Dec-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Patricia Hitchcock

Louise Larabee

Thomas Mitchell

5.14 [174] Suspense: THE GIRL WHO SAW TOMORROW

09-Dec-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Thomas Coley

Lois Wheeler

Eugene Ruyman

5.15 [175] Suspense: THE TORTURED HAND

16-Dec-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Peter Lorre

5.16 [176] Suspense: THE DEADLY LAMB

23-Dec-1952 CBS Tue

starring

Patricia Breslin

Dick Haymes

5.17 [177] Suspense: THE INVISIBLE KILLER

30-Dec-1952 CBS Tue

Producer Martin Manulis
Directed by Robert Mulligan
starring

Jackie Cooper .... Dan Crowley
John Dall ........ Jim
Anne Sargent ..... Mary
Roy Roberts ...... Dr. Main
Synopsis:
A mentally unbalanced and delusional man thinks his boss' girlfriend is his.

When Mary, her dad and fiance fly away for the weekend to their cabin at

Lake Wanabaga things go terribly wrong when Dan stalks them.
 

5.18 [178]Suspense: LITTLE CAMORRA

06-Jan-1953 CBS Tue

starring

William Prince

Mary Sinclair

5.19 [179]Suspense: MR. MATCHES

13-Jan-1953 CBS Tue

starring

Henry Jones

Warren Stevens

Eleanor Wilson

5.20 [180]Suspense: VACANCY FOR DEATH (on film)

20-Jan-1953 CBS Tue

Produced by Martin Manulis
Written by Richard Lortz
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Music by Hank Sylvern
Settings by John Ward

starring
Joan Blondell ..... Clara
Steven Elliott .... Sam
Dorothy Hart ...... Miss Barry
Oliver Thorndike .. Jojo
Douglas Taylor .... Addams
Elliott Martin .... Intern
Don Kennedy ....... First Cop
George McCoy ...... Second Cop

Synopsis:
A boarding house run by scam artists where you check in but never check out.
Record playing music "You Made Me Love You".

5.21 [181]Suspense: CAREER

27-Jan-1953 CBS Tue

starring

Fay Bainter

Synopsis:

A story of espionage.

5.22 [182]Suspense: MUTINY BELOW

03-Feb-1953 CBS Tue

starring

Eddie Albert

Murray Hamilton

5.23 [183]Suspense: A STUDY IN STONE

10-Feb-1953 CBS Tue

starring

Wesley Addy

Jay Barney

Roger Dann

Joan Wetmore

5.24 [184]Suspense: THE QUARRY

17-Feb-1953 CBS Tue

starring

James Daly

Jeffrey Lynn

Robert Middleton

5.25 [185]Suspense: THEY HAVEN'T KILLED ME YET

24-Feb-1953 CBS Tue

starring

Harry Lowe Jr.

Shizu Moriya

5.26 [186]Suspense: THE KISS-OFF (on film)

03-Mar-1953 CBS Tue

Producer Martin Manulis
Adapted for television by Richard Lortz
Based on the story by John P. Foran
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Music by Hank Sylvern
Settings by John Ward

starring
Jack Palance ..... Tom Walker
Virginia Baker ... Ellen
Peter Hobbs ...... Cooper
Alan Tower ....... Bennett
Victor Thorley ... District Attorney
Janet Fox ........ Miss Taylor
Leonard Barry .... Cabbie
Harry Davis ...... Blind Man
Joey Fallon ...... Little Boy

Synopsis:
During a parade the tax office is held up, the manager is perplexed

 when the crook doesn't take all the money and swears he can identify him.

5.27 [187]Suspense: THE LEGEND OF LIZZIE

10-Mar-1953 CBS Tue

 5.28 [188] Suspense: THE BLACK PROPHET

17-Mar-1953 CBS Tue

written by Michael Dyne

starring

Boris Karloff ....... Rasputin

5.29 [189] Suspense: PORTRAIT OF CONSTANCE

24-Mar-1953 CBS Tue

starring

Hugh Reilly

Ann Rutherford

5.30 [190] Suspense: DEATH IN THE CAVE

31-Mar-1953 CBS Tue

written by Halsted Welles

starring

Zachary Scott

5.31 [191] Suspense: I, CHRISTOPHER BELL

07-Apr-1953 CBS Tue

starring

Lilia Skala

5.32 [192]Suspense: KISS ME AGAIN, STRANGER (on film)

14-Apr-1953 CBS Tue

Produced by Martin Manulis
Adapted for television by James P. Cavanagh
Based on the novel by Daphne DuMaurier
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Settings by John Ward

Music by Hank Sylvern
starring
Maria Riva ....... Anna Hoffmann
Richard Waring ... Tim Matthews
Esther Mitchell .. Emma Thompson
Denis Green ...... Chief Inspector Dale
J.R. Wilson ...... Harry Thompson
Stephen Courtleigh ... Police Sergeant
Synopsis:
London 1946, an unknown killer claims four victims perplexing the police.
 

5.33 [193] Suspense: THE DUEL (on film)

21-Apr-1953 CBS Tue

Producer Martin Manulis
Adapted for television by Ben Radin
Based on the story by Alexander Dumas
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Music by Hank Sylvern
Settings by John Ward

starring
Eva Gabor ........ Madeleine De Rochefort
Roger Dann ....... Lt. Andre Duport
Arnold Moss ...... Colonel De Rochefort
Harold Gordon .... Lt. Raoul Stamm
Charles Andre .... Major Longville
Rene Paul ........ Capt. Tourel
Peter Mark Richman ... Young Officer (as Mark Richman)

Synopsis:
France, 1806 at Fort Mont Louis, the Colonel's beautiful Madeleine rebuffs

Lt. Raoul Stamm's marriage proposal in favor of Lt. Andre Duport.

5.34 [194] Suspense: F.O.B. VIENNA (on film)

28-Apr-1953 CBS Tue

Producer Martin Manulis
Written by Raphael Hayes
Directed by Robert Mullgan
starring
Walter Matthau .... Lawrence Stevens
Jayne Meadows ..... Helen Brady
Robert Webber ..... James Forsythe
Mike Kellin ....... Herr Wohler
Clem Fowler ....... Kremer
E.A. Krumschmidt .. Herr Ploss

Synopsis:

The story of an American businessman who has accompanied a shipment of

lathes to Austria and is trying to keep them out of the hands of Communists.

The shipment ends up in Hamburg, and he tracks it there with the help of a

newspaper reporter. At the last minute, he is able to destroy the shipment as

the police arrive to round up the Communists. [RF]

5.35 [195] Suspense: THE SUITOR

05-May-1953 CBS Tue

written by Edmund Morris

starring

Mildred Natwick

5.36 [196] Suspense: THE DEATH OF AN EDITOR

12-May-1953 CBS Tue

written by Ben Radin

starring

Wolfe Barzell

Mario Gallo

Frank Marth

Anthony Ross

5.37 [197] Suspense: COME INTO MY PARLOR

19-May-1953 CBS Tue

written by Philip Bloom & Billings Brown

starring

John Carradine

John Kerr

Martin Newman

5.38 [198]Suspense: THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLACK BARONET

26-May-1953 CBS Tue

Adapted for television by Michael Dyne

Based on the series by Arthur Conan Doyle

starring

Basil Rathbone ....... Sherlock Holmes

Martyn Green ....... Dr. John H. Watson

* Note Rathbone was not happy with the casting of Martyn Green as his sidekick

and wanted Nigel Bruce who played Watson on the radio with Rathbone.

5.39 [199]Suspense: THE QUEEN'S RING

02-Jun-1953 CBS Tue

written by Michael Dyne

starring

Mildred Dunnock

Scott Forbes

Jack Livesey

5.40 [200]Suspense: THE MAN WHO CRIED WOLF

09-Jun-1953 CBS Tue

written by Robert Anderson

starring

Marion Winters

Martin E. Brooks

Logan Ramsey

David J. Stewart

5.41 [201]Suspense: SEE NO EVIL

16-Jun-1953 CBS Tue

written by James P. Cavanagh

starring

John Conte

Betty Jane Watson

Hildy Parks

Alan Devitt

Hank Sylvern

Synopsis:

A night club singer helps a gang to plan a robbery believing their promise

not to harm the night watchman, her father. [RF]

5.42 [202]Suspense: THE SIGNAL MAN

23-Jun-1953 CBS Tue

story by Charles Dickens

starring

Boris Karloff

Alan Webb

Synopsis:

A demented railroad signalman is tortured by fears that he is responsible

 for a series of train wrecks. [RF]

5.43 [203]Suspense: THE FURY OF SENORITA GOMEZ

30-Jun-1953 CBS Tue

written by Ben Radin

starring

Nina Foch

Harold Gordon

Synopsis:

A highborn lady in the 19th century of Peru, plots with her stableman to murder her uncle. [RF]

5.44 [204]Suspense: THE MASCOT

07-Jul-1953 CBS Tue

written by Robert J. Shaw

starring

Margaret Hayes

Mike Wallace

Synopsis:

AN American correspondent risks his life to secretly record a candid interview

with an army deserter, exposing his evil plan to become dictator of a Mediterranean Island. [RF]

5.45 [205]Suspense: THE DUTCH SCHULTZ STORY

14-Jul-1953 CBS Tue

written by Jess Lazarus

narrated by Walter Cronkite

starring

Harry Bellaver

Rod Steiger

Synopsis:

True story of Dutch Schultz who became kingpin of the underworld, only

to be knocked from his throne by blazing guns in a New Jersey tavern. [RF]

 5.46 [206]Suspense: PIGEON IN THE CAGE

21-Jul-1953 CBS Tue

written by Alvin Sapinsley

starring

John Howard

Jacqueline Susann

 5.47 [207]Suspense: THE DANCE

28-Jul-1953 CBS Tue

written by James P. Cavanagh

story by F. Scott Fitzgerald

starring

Katharine Bard

John Baragrey

 5.48 [208]Suspense: VIAL OF DEATH

04-Aug-1953 CBS Tue

written by Arnold Schulman

starring

Claude Dauphin

 5.49 [209]Suspense: POINT BLANK

11-Aug-1953 CBS Tue

written by Ben Radin

starring

Janis Carter

Chester Morris

 5.50 [210]Suspense: NIGHTMARE AT GROUND ZERO

18-Aug-1953 CBS Tue

written by Rod Serling

directed by Robert Stevens

starring

Louise Larabee

O.Z. Whitehead

 5.51 [211]Suspense: DEATH IN THE PASSING

25-Aug-1953 CBS Tue

written by James P. Cavanagh

starring

Cedric Hardwicke

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######### Suspense ##########

##### season 6 1953-54 ######

###########################

final season

6.01 [212] Suspense: PARADISE JUNCTION

01-Sep-1953 CBS Tue

written by Meade Roberts

starring

Tod Andrews

Dorothy Donahue

6.02 [213] Suspense: REIGN OF TERROR

08-Sep-1953 CBS Tue

written by Michael Dyne

starring

Leonard Barry

Peter Capell

Rose Stradner

 6.03 [214] Suspense: THE DARKEST NIGHT

(The Runaway written by Manya Starr)

15-Sep-1953 CBS Tue

starring

Sally Forrest

6.04 [215] Suspense: THE RIDDLE OF MAYERLING

22-Sep-1953 CBS Tue

written by Michael Dyne

starring

Viveca Lindfors

Ross Martin

Christopher Plummer

Lilia Skala ........ Countess Larisch

 6.05 [216] Suspense: THE SISTERS

29-Sep-1953 CBS Tue

written by William K. Wells

starring

Judith Evelyn

Martha Scott

 6.06 [217] Suspense: DEATH AT SKIRKERUD POND

06-Oct-1953 CBS Tue

written by James P. Cavanagh

Narrated by Quentin Reynolds

 6.07 [218] Suspense: THE ACCOUNTING

13-Oct-1953 CBS Tue

written by Ben Radin

story by Emile Zola

starring

Everett Sloane

 6.08 [219] Suspense: THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS

20-Oct-1953 CBS Tue

starring

Herbert Berghof

Jack Livesey

 6.09 [220] Suspense: THE OTHERS

27-Oct-1953 CBS Tue

written by Richard Lortz

starring

Geraldine Fitzgerald

Hugh Reilly

 6.10 [221] Suspense: THE INTERRUPTION

03-Nov-1953 CBS Tue

written by Denis Green

starring

Cedric Hardwicke

Evelyn Varden

 6.11 [222] Suspense: NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK

(Back to the Mines, Boys written by Paul Monash)

10-Nov-1953 CBS Tue

starring

Lee Marvin

Edwin Cooper

Ross Martin

 6.12 [223] Suspense: THE NEWCOMER

17-Nov-1953 CBS Tue

written by Robert Skutch

starring

Zachary Scott

 6.13 [224] Suspense: MY SHORT WALK TO FREEDOM

24-Nov-1953 CBS Tue

written by James P. Cavanagh

starring

Joseph Anthony

John Baragrey

 6.14 [225] Suspense: LAUGH IT OFF

01-Dec-1953 CBS Tue

starring

Dick Haymes

 6.15 [226] Suspense: DAY NEVER CAME

08-Dec-1953 CBS Tue

written by Ben Radin

 6.16 [227] Suspense: CAGLIOSTRO AND THE CHESS PLAYER

15-Dec-1953 CBS Tue

starring

Jack Palance

 6.17 [228] Suspense: THE GIFT OF FEAR

22-Dec-1953 CBS Tue

written by James P. Cavanagh

starring

Paul Hartman

Dennis O'Keefe

 6.18 [229] Suspense: MR. NOBODY

29-Dec-1953 CBS Tue

written by Richard Lortz

starring

Constance Bennett

Art Carney

6.19 [230] Suspense: DIAMONDS IN THE SKY

05-Jan-1954 CBS Tue

written by John Clare

starring

Annabella

Eddie Garr

Synopsis:

A gang of smugglers, diamonds and a beautiful woman add up to trouble

 for the pilot on a trans-Atlantic flight. [RF]

 6.20 [231] Suspense: THE SCRAP IRON CURTAIN

12-Jan-1954 CBS Tue

written by Reginald Lawrence

starring

Bart Burns ....... Baclav Uhlik

Synopsis:

Dramatization of 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

to the town of Waldmuenchen in the Western zone of Germany. [RF]

* Note: Presented in conjunction with Radio Free Europe.

6.21 [232] Suspense: THE HUNTED

19-Jan-1954 CBS Tue

starring

John Archer

Augusta Dabney

Helmut Dantine

Synopsis:

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

 6.22 [233] Suspense: AN AFFAIR WITH A GHOST

26-Jan-1954 CBS Tue

written by Ben Radin

starring

Darren McGavin

Felicia Montealegre

Synopsis:

A dead French underground leader returns to save a band of hostages when

a Nazi collaborator goes back on his promise. [RF]

6.23 [234] Suspense: THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T TALK

02-Feb-1954 CBS Tue

written by Paul Monash

narrated by Quentin Reynolds

starring

Peter Capell

Harry Townes

 6.24 [235] Suspense: THE MOONSTONE

09-Feb-1954 CBS Tue

starring

Phyllis Kirk

Noel Leslie

 6.25 [236] Suspense: THE EXECUTION

16-Feb-1954 CBS Tue

written by James P. Cavanagh

story by Faith Baldwin

starring

Joseph Anthony

Katharine Bard

 6.26 [237] Suspense: DEATH ON THE SCREEN

23-Feb-1954 CBS Tue

written by James P. Cavanagh

starring

Don Hanmer

Paul Langton

Synopsis:

A frantic wife sits by her TV set, watching a public dinner where

a deranged man is getting ready to kill her husband. [RF]

 6.27 [238] Suspense: I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR

02-Mar-1954 CBS Tue

written by James P. Cavanagh

starring

Royal Dano

Nancy Kelly

6.28 [239] Suspense: BEFORE THE ACT

09-Mar-1954 CBS Tue

written by Ben Radin

starring

Jeffrey Lynn

Jo Van Fleet

 6.29 [240] Suspense: THE FOURTH DEGREE

16-Mar-1954 CBS Tue

written by Frank P. DeFelitta

starring

Joseph Wiseman

Synopsis:

Police try to get a confession without using the third degree. [RF]

 6.30 [241] Suspense: THE TENTH REUNION

23-Mar-1954 CBS Tue

starring

Patricia Barry ....... Daisy

John Dall ....... Ernest

Margaret Hayes

6.31 [242] Suspense: TORMENT

30-Mar-1954 CBS Tue

written by Michael Dyne

starring

Martin Kosleck ....... Hagen

Luise Rainer

 6.32 [243] Suspense: THE OPEN TRANSOM

06-Apr-1954 CBS Tue

written by James P. Cavanagh

 6.33 [244] Suspense: OPERATION: BARRACUDA

13-Apr-1954 CBS Tue

written by Von Stuart

starring

Frank Marth ....... Lt. Captain Richter

Otto Preminger ....... Captain von Weissenborn

Dana Wynter ....... Patricia Richter

 6.34 [245] Suspense: THE RETURN JOURNEY

20-Apr-1954 CBS Tue

starring

Art Carney

Kay Medford

Roxanne

 6.35 [246] Suspense: THE TERROR BEGINS

27-Apr-1954 CBS Tue

starring

Stefan Schnabel ....... Stalin

Everett Sloane ....... Nikolayev

 6.36 [247] Suspense: SMOKE

04-May-1954 CBS Tue

Adapted for television by Gore Vidal

Based on a story by William Faulkner

starring

E.G. Marshall

George Mitchell

 6.37 [248] Suspense: OPERATION: NIGHTMARE

11-May-1954 CBS Tue

written by James P. Cavanagh

starring

Anne Burr

Douglas Rodgers

 6.38 [249] Suspense: BREAKOUT

18-May-1954 CBS Tue

written by George Bellak

starring

Anthony Ross

6.39 [250] Suspense: FINGERPRINT

25-May-1954 CBS Tue

starring

John Emery

 Synopsis:
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. [RF]

 6.40 [251] Suspense: RACE AGAINST MURDER

01-Jun-1954 CBS Tue

written by Ben Radin

 6.41 [252] Suspense: NORTH SIDE

08-Jun-1954 CBS Tue

Adapted by Stanley Niss

Based on a magazine article by George Barrett called, "Dial LE 4-6466 for Murder"

starring

Edward Binns

Synopsis:

The true story of the workings of a New York homicide squad

 as it goes about the solution of a brutal murder. [RF]

 6.42 [253] Suspense: THE PISTOL SHOT

15-Jun-1954 CBS Tue

starring

Hurd Hatfield

Dana Wynter

 6.43 [254] Suspense: STRING

22-Jun-1954 CBS Tue

starring

Jack Lord

Harry Townes ....... Douglas Stringfellow

Richard Merrill

 6.44 [255] Suspense: THE HUNTED

29-Jun-1954 CBS Tue

written by Ben Radin

starring

Ward Bond

John Kerr as Derek

 6.45 [256] Suspense: THE GIRL IN CAR THIRTY-TWO

06-Jul-1954 CBS Tue

written by Thomas Walsh

starring

Edie Adams

Gene Barry

6.46 [257] Suspense: CONVERSATIONS AT AN INN

13-Jul-1954 CBS Tue

written by Michael Dyne

starring

Jacques Aubuchon

Mildred Natwick

Maria Riva

 6.47 [258] Suspense: ONCE A KILLER

20-Jul-1954 CBS Tue

starring

Martin E. Brooks

Lenka Peterson

Michael Strong

 6.48 [259] Suspense: MAIN FEATURE: DEATH

(aka Weekend Special: Death)

27-Jul-1954 CBS Tue

written by Frank DeFelitta

starring

Nina Foch

 6.49 [260] Suspense: THE LAST STAND

03-Aug-1954 CBS Tue

starring

Pat Hingle

Joan Lorring

 6.50 [261] Suspense: THE IRON COP

10-Aug-1954 CBS Tue

written by Frank DeFelitta

starring

J. Pat O'Malley

Sara Seegar

Ray Walston

 6.51 [262] Suspense: BARN BURNING

17-Aug-1954 CBS Tue

Based on William Faulkner's short story
starring

E.G. Marshall

Charles Taylor

Synopsis:
A mentally incapacitated war hero seeks revenge against society.

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