The Empty Chair

Suspense - Radio’s Outstanding Theater of Thrills · Aug 21, 2026 · 29m

Originally Aired: September 21, 1953

Suspense #518, "The Empty Chair," stars Agnes Moorhead as Barbara Warner, a new high school teacher who takes up residence with her student Bobby Morrison and his anxious mother. On the first day of school, Miss Warner arranges her homeroom seats alphabetically but instructs the students to leave one chair empty for David Cooper. After school, Bobby drives his teacher home in his prized car, a vehicle he built himself, speeding through residential streets at nearly seventy miles per hour despite the traffic safety lessons he learned in driver education…