Suspense - "Deadline at Dawn" (1948)

Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio · Aug 28, 2026 · 1h · transcript

Suspense presents “Deadline at Dawn,” originally broadcast on CBS on May 15, 1948. Commonly cataloged as episode 296, this was the final one-hour Suspense broadcast before the series returned as a half-hour program later that summer. Helen Walker stars as Bricky Coleman, with John Beal as Quinn Williams, in an adaptation of Cornell Woolrich’s novel, written under his William Irish pen name.

Over a single night in New York City, taxi dancer Bricky Coleman offers refuge to troubled young Quinn Williams after the pair discover a shared small-town past. Hoping to catch an early-morning bus out of…