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Suspense | Old Time Radio
Suspense | Old Time Radio brings you classic mystery, crime, psychological thrillers, and suspense from the golden age of radio. Enter gripping stories of murder, danger, deception, desperate choices, and unexpected twists performed by some of the era’s greatest stars. Each episode is an Old Time Retro Radio production, presenting the original broadcast with gently cleaned and mastered audio, a newly produced introduction and closing, and custom episode artwork. Suspense became one of radio’s…
Episodes
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Riabouchinska" (Old Time Radio, 1947)
Suspense presents “Riabouchinska,” episode 3, originally broadcast November 1, 1947. In a theater cellar, Detective-Lieutenant Krovitch investigates a murder…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Back for Christmas" (Old Time Radio, 1943)
Suspense presents “Back for Christmas,” originally broadcast December 23, 1943, as episode 71. The archival source labels this recording as episode 3 with a…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Too Hot to Live" (Old Time Radio, 1950)
Suspense presents “Too Hot to Live,” episode 6, with a supplied original broadcast date of October 2, 1950. In a sweltering small town, unemployed former…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Break-Up" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
Suspense presents “Break-Up,” listed in this archival source as episode 0, with an original broadcast date of December 3, 1948. William Bendix stars in this…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "I Won't Take a Minute" (Old Time Radio, 1945)
Suspense presents “I Won’t Take a Minute,” originally broadcast on December 6, 1945. This local archival recording is episode 6. Lee Bowman stars as Kenny in…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Blackbeard's Ace" (Old Time Radio, 1962)
Suspense presents “Blackbeard’s Ace,” episode 9, originally broadcast April 2, 1962. This local archival recording preserves a late-era tale of coastal mystery…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Wet Saturday" (Old Time Radio, 1942)
Suspense presents “Wet Saturday,” episode 4, originally broadcast June 2, 1942. This local archival recording features an early radio adaptation of John…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "The Blue Hour" (Old Time Radio, 1947)
Suspense presents “The Blue Hour,” identified in this archival source as episode 5, originally broadcast September 2, 1947. Claire Trevor stars as dancer Lois…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "The Night Reveals" (Old Time Radio, 1943)
Suspense presents “The Night Reveals,” originally broadcast December 9, 1943. This local archival recording is identified as episode 9, though established…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Three Skeleton Key" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
Suspense presents “Three Skeleton Key,” an archival recording labeled Episode 1 with an original broadcast date of November 1, 1956. Episode references…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Murder by the Book" (Old Time Radio, 1947)
Suspense presents “Murder by the Book,” listed in the supplied archival metadata as episode 0, with an original broadcast date of July 1, 1947. Multiple…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "An Evening's Diversion" (Old Time Radio, 1946)
Suspense presents “An Evening’s Diversion,” originally broadcast July 4, 1946. This archival recording is identified as episode 4, though established series…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Dame Fortune" (Old Time Radio, 1946)
Suspense presents “Dame Fortune,” listed in the supplied archival metadata as episode 4, with an original broadcast date of October 2, 1946. Independent…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Yellow Wall-paper" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
Suspense presents “Yellow Wall-paper,” episode 9, originally broadcast July 2, 1948. Agnes Moorehead stars as a woman sent to an isolated summer house while…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Dead Ernest" (Old Time Radio, 1947)
Suspense presents “Dead Ernest,” originally broadcast May 8, 1947. This archival recording is listed as episode 8. Written by Seeleg Lester and Merwin Gerard…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Beyond Reason" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
Suspense presents “Beyond Reason,” originally broadcast on CBS on February 21, 1948. Episode 285 of the series, this hour-long drama stars Robert Ryan and Ruth…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "The Long Shot" (Old Time Radio, 1958)
Suspense presents “The Long Shot,” originally broadcast February 9, 1958, and supplied here as episode 9. This CBS thriller is a remake of Harold Swanton’s…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Deep into Darkness (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr )" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
Suspense presents “Deep into Darkness,” listed in this archival collection as episode 2, with an original broadcast date of July 2, 1948. Episode-level radio…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Allen in Wonderland" (Old Time Radio, 1952)
Suspense presents “Allen in Wonderland,” identified in this archival recording as episode 7, originally broadcast October 2, 1952. Episode listings also…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "The Long Wait" (Old Time Radio, 1949)
Suspense presents “The Long Wait,” episode 4, originally broadcast November 2, 1949. This archival recording features a hard-boiled drama of revenge, loyalty…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "The Thing in the Window" (Old Time Radio, 1946)
Suspense presents “The Thing in the Window,” episode 9, originally broadcast December 1, 1946. Joseph Cotten stars in this original radio play by Lucille…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Lazarus Walks" (Old Time Radio, 1943)
Suspense presents “Lazarus Walks,” episode 9, originally broadcast October 1, 1943. After Roger Holcombe survives a period of clinical death during surgery, he…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Life Ends at Midnight" (Old Time Radio, 1944)
Suspense presents “Life Ends at Midnight,” listed as episode 7, originally broadcast February 1, 1944. When Mrs. Bates’s troubled son Walter arrives needing…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Portrait Without a Face" (Old Time Radio, 1944)
Suspense presents “Portrait Without a Face,” originally broadcast March 2, 1944. This local archival recording is identified as episode 2. The CBS drama was…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "The Man Who Thought He Was Edward G Robinson" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
Suspense presents “The Man Who Thought He Was Edward G. Robinson,” listed in the supplied episode metadata as originally broadcast September 3, 1948. Episode…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Beware the Quiet Man" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
Suspense presents “Beware the Quiet Man,” originally broadcast August 12, 1948, as episode 302. Some archival listings identify this recording as episode 2…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Deadline at Dawn" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
Suspense presents “Deadline at Dawn,” episode 5, originally broadcast May 1, 1948. Over one tense night in New York City, taxi dancer Bricky Coleman and…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "The Moonstone - Part One" (Old Time Radio, 1953)
Suspense presents “The Moonstone—Part One,” cataloged in this archive as episode 6 with an original date of November 1, 1953. Established episode logs identify…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "A Vision of Death" (Old Time Radio, 1951)
Suspense presents “A Vision of Death,” originally broadcast March 8, 1951. This archival presentation is identified as episode 8. Ronald Colman stars with…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Song of the Heart" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
Suspense presents “Song of the Heart,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 26, 1948, as episode 304. This Autolite-sponsored original drama was written by…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Formula for Death" (Old Time Radio, 1962)
Suspense presents “Formula for Death,” originally broadcast on CBS on June 10, 1962, as episode 929. The local archival recording is labeled episode 0 with a…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Death of an Old Flame" (Old Time Radio, 1961)
Suspense presents “Death of an Old Flame,” episode 9, originally broadcast October 2, 1961. Cocktail-lounge pianist Ronnie Warren is pulled back toward Anna…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Three Times Murder" (Old Time Radio, 1946)
Suspense presents “Three Times Murder,” originally broadcast October 3, 1946. This archival recording is identified as episode 3. Rita Hayworth stars as Laura…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "The Moonstone - Part Two" (Old Time Radio, 1953)
Suspense presents “The Moonstone - Part Two,” episode 3, originally broadcast November 2, 1953. In the conclusion of this adaptation of Wilkie Collins’s…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Will You Make a Bet with Death" (Old Time Radio, 1942)
Suspense presents “Will You Make a Bet with Death,” identified in the supplied archival source as episode 0, originally broadcast November 1, 1942. At Coney…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "The Death Parade" (Old Time Radio, 1951)
Suspense presents “The Death Parade,” episode 5, originally broadcast February 1, 1951. Amid the noise and crowds of a downtown parade, Ellen Johnson finds an…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Dead of Night" (Old Time Radio, 1947)
Suspense presents “Dead of Night,” episode 9, originally broadcast on June 1, 1947. This archival edition is drawn from a local surviving recording of the…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Death on My Hands" (Old Time Radio, 1951)
Suspense presents “Death on My Hands,” an archival episode listed with an original broadcast date of May 1, 1951, and episode number 0. Phil Harris and Alice…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Dead of the Night" (Old Time Radio, 1944)
Suspense presents “Dead of the Night,” documented as episode 118, originally broadcast on November 16, 1944. Local archival metadata lists the recording as…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "The Story of Markham's Death" (Old Time Radio, 1947)
Suspense presents “The Story of Markham’s Death,” originally broadcast on CBS on October 2, 1947. This local archival recording is identified as episode 2…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Dead Ernest" (Old Time Radio, 1947)
Suspense presents “Dead Ernest,” originally broadcast May 8, 1947. This local archival recording is identified as episode 8. Written by Seeleg Lester and…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Report on the Jolly Death Riders" (Old Time Radio, 1951)
Suspense presents “Report on the Jolly Death Riders,” identified in this archival source as episode 7, with an original broadcast date of August 2, 1951. Other…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "The Strange Death of Gordon Fitzroy" (Old Time Radio, 1946)
Suspense presents “The Strange Death of Gordon Fitzroy,” originally broadcast November 2, 1946, as episode 8. Chester Morris stars as Johnny Malone, a recently…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "The Dead Sleep Lightly" (Old Time Radio, 1943)
Suspense presents “The Dead Sleep Lightly,” identified in this archival recording as episode 0, originally broadcast March 3, 1943. In John Dickson Carr’s…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Death Went Along for the Ride" (Old Time Radio, 1944)
Suspense presents “Death Went Along for the Ride,” listed in this archival collection as episode 7, with an original broadcast date of April 2, 1944. On a…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "The Doctor Prescribed Death" (Old Time Radio, 1943)
Suspense presents “The Doctor Prescribed Death,” an archival episode originally broadcast on February 2, 1943. This local recording is identified as episode 2…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Death Flies Blind" (Old Time Radio, 1943)
Suspense presents “Death Flies Blind,” originally broadcast May 4, 1943. This archival presentation is episode 4 of the series. Written by John Dickson Carr…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "The White Rose Murders" (Old Time Radio, 1943)
Suspense presents “The White Rose Murders,” originally broadcast July 6, 1943. This local archival recording is identified as episode 6. Starring Maureen…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Death on Highway 99" (Old Time Radio, 1945)
Suspense presents “Death on Highway 99,” originally broadcast on CBS on October 4, 1945. Often listed as episode 161, this archival recording is identified in…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Crime Without Passion" (Old Time Radio, 1946)
Suspense presents “Crime Without Passion,” originally broadcast on May 2, 1946. This archival recording is supplied as episode number 2. Joseph Cotten stars as…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Death at Live Oak" (Old Time Radio, 1947)
Suspense presents “Death at Live Oak,” listed in this archival recording as episode 5, originally broadcast May 1, 1947. Financially ruined David Sutherland…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Till Death Do Us Part" (Old Time Radio, 1942)
Suspense presents “Till Death Do Us Part,” identified in this archival recording as episode 5, originally broadcast December 1, 1942. In an isolated English…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "The Angel of Death" (Old Time Radio, 1946)
Suspense presents “The Angel of Death,” originally broadcast January 3, 1946. This archival recording is identified as episode number 3. Paul Henreid stars as…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Death Has a Shadow" (Old Time Radio, 1949)
Suspense presents “Death Has a Shadow,” originally broadcast on May 5, 1949. This local archival recording is episode 5. Bob Hope stars in an unusually…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "To None a Deadly Drug" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
Suspense presents “To None a Deadly Drug,” listed as episode 5 and originally broadcast October 2, 1955. This tense CBS drama was written by Hank Searls and…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "If the Dead Could Talk" (Old Time Radio, 1949)
This archival presentation of Suspense, “If the Dead Could Talk,” is listed in the supplied recording metadata as episode 0, dated January 2, 1949. Established…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Murder Goes for a Swim" (Old Time Radio, 1943)
Suspense presents “Murder Goes for a Swim,” listed as episode 0 and originally broadcast July 2, 1943. Michael Lanyard—the reformed jewel thief known as the…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Marry for Murder" (Old Time Radio, 1943)
Suspense presents “Marry for Murder,” originally broadcast on September 9, 1943. Commonly cataloged as episode 57, this archival recording is listed as episode…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Vamp Till Dead" (Old Time Radio, 1951)
Suspense presents “Vamp Till Dead.” The archival source identifies it as episode 1, dated January 1, 1951; surviving episode logs and broadcast documentation…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "The Customers Like Murder" (Old Time Radio, 1943)
Suspense presents “The Customers Like Murder,” identified in this archival recording as episode 3, originally broadcast March 2, 1943. English mystery novelist…