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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 - "Murder Through the Looking Glass" (Old Time Radio, 1949)
This archival presentation of Suspense features “Murder Through the Looking Glass,” listed in the source recording as episode 7, dated March 1, 1949…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "A Murderous Revision" (Old Time Radio, 1951)
Suspense presents “A Murderous Revision,” originally broadcast December 3, 1951. This local archival recording is identified as episode 3; established…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "My Own Murderer" (Old Time Radio, 1945)
Suspense presents “My Own Murderer,” identified in this archival recording as episode 4, originally broadcast May 2, 1945. In this tense British crime drama…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "The Strange Death of Charles Umberstein" (Old Time Radio, 1943)
This archival episode of Suspense, “The Strange Death of Charles Umberstein,” is listed as episode 3, with an original broadcast date of November 2, 1943. In…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Murder in Black and White" (Old Time Radio, 1949)
Suspense presents “Murder in Black and White,” episode 4, originally broadcast April 1, 1949. This archival recording features Edmund Gwenn in a darkly ironic…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "A Plane Case of Murder" (Old Time Radio, 1946)
Suspense presents “A Plane Case of Murder,” listed in this archival source as originally broadcast October 1, 1946, episode 0. Other episode references…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Murder Aboard the Alphabet" (Old Time Radio, 1947)
Suspense presents “Murder Aboard the Alphabet,” originally broadcast on August 21, 1947, as episode 259. Written by Charles Turrell McNair, this CBS production…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Death Sentence" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
Suspense presents “Death Sentence,” originally broadcast November 4, 1948. Listed here as episode 4, this CBS thriller stars John Garfield as private…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Fragile-Contents Death" (Old Time Radio, 1951)
Suspense presents “Fragile-Contents Death,” originally broadcast on February 1, 1951. This local archival recording is identified as episode number 1. Paul…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Dead Ernest" (Old Time Radio, 1949)
Suspense presents “Dead Ernest,” listed in this archive as episode 4 with an original broadcast date of March 2, 1949. Contemporary listings and surviving…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Green-Eyed Monster" (Old Time Radio, 1947)
Suspense presents “Green-Eyed Monster.” The archival source lists this as episode 7, originally broadcast April 1, 1947; surviving episode catalogs also…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Nightmare" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
Suspense presents “Nightmare,” episode 3, originally broadcast March 1, 1948. This full-hour thriller stars Eddie Bracken in a dramatic role and is adapted by…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "The Waxwork" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
Suspense presents “The Waxwork (William Conrad Voices All CHARACTERS),” originally broadcast May 1, 1956. This local archival recording is identified as…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Ghost Hunt" (Old Time Radio, 1949)
Suspense presents “Ghost Hunt,” episode 3, with a listed original broadcast date of June 2, 1949. Radio disc jockey Smiley Smith turns stunt night into a ghost…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "The Abc Murders" (Old Time Radio, 1943)
Suspense presents “The Abc Murders,” episode 8, originally broadcast May 1, 1943. This archival drama is a compressed radio adaptation of Agatha Christie’s The…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "Neal Cream, Doctor of Poison" (Old Time Radio, 1951)
Suspense presents “Neal Cream, Doctor of Poison,” episode 7, originally broadcast September 1, 1951. Charles Laughton stars in this fact-based historical crime…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "The Death of Barbara Allen" (Old Time Radio, 1952)
Suspense presents “The Death of Barbara Allen,” originally broadcast October 2, 1952. This archival recording is listed as episode 0. In this music-centered…
Suspense | Old Time RadioSuspense - "The Dunwich Horror" (Old Time Radio, 1945)
Suspense presents “The Dunwich Horror (Ronald Colman) Lq,” originally broadcast November 1, 1945. This archival recording is listed as episode 1 in the…
Suspense | Old Time RadioThe Man Who Knew How [episode 104], Broadcast 8/10/1944
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Spoils for Victor [episode 803], Broadcast 5/24/1959
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The Chain [episode 382], Broadcast 4/27/1950
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Goodnight Mrs Russell [episode 563], Broadcast 8/3/1954
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Easy Money [episode 218], Broadcast 11/7/1946
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Pearls Are a Nuisance [episode 381], Broadcast 4/20/1950
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Infanticide [episode 822], Broadcast 10/11/1959
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Beirut by Sunrise [episode 600], Broadcast 5/31/1955
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You'll Never See Me Again [episode 109], Broadcast 9/14/1944
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A Friend to Alexander [episode 96], Broadcast 6/15/1944
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Jack Ketch [episode 479], Broadcast 9/22/1952
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The Treasure Chest of Don Jose [episode 772], Broadcast 10/12/1958
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The Lost Special [episode 60], Broadcast 9/30/1943
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Spoils for Victor [episode 194], Broadcast 5/23/1946
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Tarawa Was Tough [episode 698], Broadcast 5/12/1957
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The Stool Pigeon [episode 616], Broadcast 9/20/1955
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Statement of Mary Blake [episode 383], Broadcast 5/4/1950
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Suspense | Old Time RadioCircumstantial Terror [episode 542], Broadcast 3/8/1954
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Never Follow a Banjo Act [episode 740], Broadcast 3/2/1958
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Five Buck Tip [episode 739], Broadcast 2/23/1958
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One Chef Well Done [episode 738], Broadcast 2/16/1958
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The Long Shot [episode 737], Broadcast 2/9/1958
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The Silver Frame [episode 736], Broadcast 2/2/1958
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Nineteen Deacon Street [episode 735], Broadcast 1/26/1958
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The Crowded Void [episode 734], Broadcast 1/19/1958
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The Island [episode 733], Broadcast 1/12/1958
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A Week Ago Wednesday [episode 732], Broadcast 1/5/1958
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A Vision of Death [episode 419], Broadcast 3/8/1951
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Present Tense [episode 688], Broadcast 3/3/1957
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Two Hundred and Twenty-Seven Minutes of Hate [episode 687], Broadcast 2/24/1957
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Murder and Aunt Delia [episode 686], Broadcast 2/17/1957
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Door of Gold [episode 685], Broadcast 2/10/1957
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Frankie and Johnny [episode 684], Broadcast 2/3/1957
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Freedom This Way [episode 683], Broadcast 1/27/1957
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Second Class Passenger [episode 682], Broadcast 1/20/1957
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Russian New Year [episode 681], Broadcast 1/13/1957
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A Shipment of Mute Fate [episode 680], Broadcast 1/6/1957
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Quiet Night [episode 640], Broadcast 3/6/1956
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In a Lonely Place [episode 287], Broadcast 3/6/1948
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Elwood [episode 235], Broadcast 3/6/1947
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The Thirty-Nine Steps [episode 463], Broadcast 3/3/1952
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Listen Young Lovers [episode 637], Broadcast 2/14/1956
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