Old Time Radio Thriller — Suspense: "Headshrinker" (1958) | Full Episode

VintageRadioShows.com · Aug 30, 2026 · 28m

For twenty years Suspense was radio's outstanding theater of thrills, dropping ordinary people into extraordinary danger and letting the tension do the rest. In "Headshrinker," a psychiatrist crosses the line with the patient he is supposed to be healing, and the affair poisons the very thing that was meant to save her. When she finally understands what has been done to her, she walks back into his office with a gun and a demand that it end — all of it. Writer-director William N. Robson called this one a deliberate departure from the usual Suspense formula: naked passion instead of orchestral…