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Suspense Season 4 Episodes

53 Episodes 1951 - 1952

Episode 1

Merryman's Murder

Tue, Sep 18, 195130 mins

A taut mystery based on an incident in the life of entertainer Joe E. Lewis.

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Episode 2

Doctor Anonymous

Tue, Sep 25, 195130 mins

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Episode 3

Santa Fe Flight

Tue, Oct 2, 195130 mins

An espionage agent on the run.

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Episode 4

High Street

Tue, Oct 9, 195130 mins

Tale of a house painter whose homicidal designs on a rich client are complicated by an old romance.

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Episode 5

The Fifth Dummy

Tue, Oct 16, 195130 mins

Mystery set against a chamber of horrors in a traveling circus.

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Episode 6

The Train from Czechoslovakia

Tue, Oct 23, 195130 mins

A documentary based on the activities of the voice of Radio Free Europe and its impact on the people behind the Iron Curtain. The story is based on the passengers and crew of the train that recently passed thru from Czechoslovakia to the American zone. General Lucius D. Clay, national chairman of the Crusade for Freedom, is a special guest on the program.

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Episode 7

Court Day

Tue, Oct 30, 195130 mins

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Episode 8

Moonfleet: Part 1

Tue, Nov 6, 195130 mins

A tale of pirates and buried treasure.

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Episode 9

Moonfleet: Part 2

Tue, Nov 13, 195130 mins

A tale of pirates and buried treasure.

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Episode 10

Frisco Payoff

Tue, Nov 20, 195130 mins

Postal inspector Winters has infiltrated a criminal gang and their big plan is about to go down. A postal employee drops a $120,000 in bonds out a back window to Winters waiting in an alley. Needing time to switch the real bonds with phonies, he makes up a story about being robbed and knocked unconscious. The boss, Cruze is not amused and gives Winters two hours to find the bonds and bring them back, or be rubbed out.

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Episode 11

Mikki

Tue, Nov 27, 195130 mins

With the cryptic words "Mikki Knows" from the lips of her dying father, a young socialite hunts down the murderer of her parent.

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Episode 12

The Far-Off House

Tue, Dec 4, 195130 mins

Mrs. Collins arrives at the train station in town after a long stay with her mother. Despite the storm that's raging, her husband being away, and, she learns, a killer on the loose, she's determined to get back to her isolated house. Once home, the phone goes dead, the lights go out, and she realizes she's not alone.

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Episode 13

Mediation in Mexico

Tue, Dec 11, 195130 mins

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Episode 14

Pier 17

Tue, Dec 18, 195130 mins

The dock workers who load nitroglycerin onto freighters at Pier 17 are on edge. A recent explosion at the harbor killed four men and the FBI believes it was sabotage by an insider. Dave Delaney and his foreman, with their eyes peeled for trouble, have decided the new guy is really a G-man working on the case. The true saboteur initially goes unnoticed.

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Episode 15

The Lonely Place

Tue, Dec 25, 195130 mins

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Episode 16

Routine Patrol

Tue, Jan 1, 195230 mins

The story of a murder in a cabin in the Yukon territory.

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Episode 17

Flare Week

Tue, Jan 8, 195230 mins

The story of death and terror which springs from a sports scandal on a college campus.

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Episode 18

The Spider

Tue, Jan 15, 195230 mins

Scientists Bob and Muriel Torres honeymoon in rural Florida. Despite being warned that a professor and his son had gotten lost in the nearby swamp and were never seen again, Muriel goes exploring alone. With night approaching, she stumbles upon a shack inhabited by a blind former explorer. Muriel's fear escalates when the doctor shows off the two shrunken heads he made himself; he learned the skill directly from jungle natives.

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Episode 19

The Red Signal

Tue, Jan 22, 195230 mins

A supposedly fake medium is hired to a conduct a séance so Sir Alington, a psychiatrist, can observe a patient under stress. She warns the doctor, Clair and her husband Jack to avoid their homes because they are in danger. Her premonition turns out to be true because of insanity, murder, and secret loves.

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Episode 20

Death Drum

Tue, Jan 29, 195230 mins

The mayor of a French town reveals the identities of underground members, he says, to save the country from destruction by the invading Nazis. Having been moved to a neutral country, he's quickly kidnapped by allies and carried to the home of an English gentlemen to be executed as a traitor.

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Episode 21

Betrayal in Vienna

Tue, Feb 5, 195230 mins

An Austrian intelligence chief, his debasement and eventual self-destruction, are set in motion by an act of betrayal and blackmail.

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Episode 22

North of Shanghai

Tue, Feb 12, 195230 mins

American medical missionaries Dr. Paul Morgan and his wife are told to leave China as the Communists advance on the city. When he refuses, a Communist general kills his own wife who's under the doctor's care, then charges Morgan with murder and sentences him to death. The surgeon's execution is unexpectedly postponed when he's ordered to perform an emergency operation.

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Episode 23

Summer Night

Tue, Feb 19, 195230 mins

The story of a woman's brush with death when she undersold the emotion of fear.

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Episode 24

Night Drive

Tue, Feb 26, 195230 mins

Mrs. Haley takes her horse to blacksmith Bob to have its shoes checked since she'll be traveling alone by buggy to meet her husband at the train station. She's delighted when Dr. Tabor, whose wife was one of two women murdered in the woods along the way, asks if his sister can ride along. As they approach the spot of the two unsolved crimes, the behavior of Mrs. Haley's passenger becomes unsettling.

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Episode 25

Day of Infamy

Tue, Mar 4, 195230 mins

The story opens in Germany, where a young girl loses face with Herr Goebels and enlists into the espionage service of the Japanese and sets herself up in Hawaii.

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Episode 26

Four Days to Kill

Tue, Mar 11, 195260 mins

Johnny, a professional assassin with a hair-trigger temper, is sent by his boss to Havana to do a job. His target is his former mentor, Barney Moyer, the man who taught him everything he knows about killing. That's why the intended victim knows Johnny will spend three days watching him and move in for the kill on the fourth; Barney anticipates Johnny's every move.

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Episode 27

The Mystery of Edwin Drood: Part 1

Tue, Mar 18, 195230 mins

A two-part dramatization of Dickens' "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," about a man and his uncle vying for the same girl.

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Episode 28

The Mystery of Edwin Drood: Part 2

Tue, Mar 25, 195230 mins

A two-part dramatization of Dickens' "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," about a man and his uncle vying for the same girl.

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Episode 29

Black Panther

Tue, Apr 8, 195230 mins

A criminal uses a rare doll store as the front for his diamond smuggling racket. A detective stars snooping around after a man carrying a doll is shot in the subway and the murderer steals the doll's arm. The mobster gets wise to the cop, and to an inside job being pulled by people he trusts.

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Episode 30

Night of Evil

Tue, Apr 15, 195230 mins

Frenzy, fire and death are the results of an attempt to separate an old man from his fortune.

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Episode 31

Alibi Me

Tue, Apr 22, 195230 mins

Ex-con Georgie Lennox has been tormented his entire life by Leo Whaley who's now out and moving in on his punch-board racket. Finally pushed too far, he shoots Leo to death. Knowing he'll be the prime suspect when Leo doesn't check in with his parole officer, Georgie goes in search of an airtight alibi. Desperate, he turns to the wife he'd walked out on earlier. Despite her cooperation, Georgie is undone by a delivery boy bringing a giant sucker from Leo.

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Episode 32

The Purloined Letter

Tue, Apr 29, 195230 mins

In 1880 France, a wealthy woman's determined her husband, becomes a success. After paying to the have him named the minister of justice, in exchange, he writes her a note guaranteeing the job. Only the notes's disappears, and she must find the letter and save the government.

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Episode 33

The Mandarin Murders

Tue, May 6, 195230 mins

A drama based on the revolutionary activities that preceded the founding of the Chinese Republic.

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Episode 34

The Corsage

Tue, May 13, 195230 mins

A policeman searches for the killer of a young woman.

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Episode 35

Hunted Down

Tue, May 20, 195230 mins

Tale about a greedy killer trapped by social ambition and the lure of an inheritance.

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Episode 36

The Debt

Tue, May 27, 195230 mins

A young drifter is robbed by two other hobos after hopping off a train. Making his way to a country store, he's offered refuge from the rain by the young woman and her father who run the business. During the night the store is robbed and the old man is murdered. The drifter's first instinct is to run, but he quickly figures out who the real murderers are.

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Episode 37

Murder of Necessity

Tue, Jun 3, 195230 mins

A murder of necessity is caused by blackmail when an eavesdropper gets involved.

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Episode 38

House of Masks

Tue, Jun 10, 195230 mins

Anna, a delicate and unstable young woman, despises having her life controlled by her older, practical sister. The sister is ready sign the papers to have Anna committed after she hires a mysterious young poet to be the gardener and plies him with cash. Billy has a history of being involved with young women who suddenly die.

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Episode 39

Phantom of the Riveria

Tue, Jun 17, 195230 mins

Tale is of a will-o'-the-wisp jewel thief whose area of operations is a Mediterranean resort. Six suspects are involved before the thief is captured.

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Episode 40

Night of Reckoning

Tue, Jun 24, 195230 mins

Story of counterespionage behind Chinese Communist lines in Korea.

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Episode 41

Fifty Beautiful Girls

Tue, Jul 1, 195230 mins

A serial killer is murdering the dance hall girls.

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Episode 42

For the Love of Randi

Tue, Jul 15, 195230 mins

Dr. Ted Larson's engagement to head nurse Randi Sloan is getting under the skin of Dr. David Bonnell, her ex-lover and current roommate of Ted. When a box of candy arrives one morning, supposedly from Randi, David and a neighbor kid try a piece and both become extremely sick from arsenic poisoning. Accusations of attempted murder fly between the members of the love triangle as each accuses the other of poisoning the candy.

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Episode 43

The Crooked Frame

Tue, Jul 29, 195230 mins

Kelly Davis, the unscrupulous creator of "Sally Forth" comic books, announces she's retiring the character. This move puts her resentful staff of cartoonists out of work. She offers Webb the chance to write the stories for her "new idea"--an idea she's stealing from him. Kelly is found dead the next morning, and Webb is the obvious suspect.

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Episode 44

Death Cargo

Tue, Aug 5, 195230 mins

A freighter bound for New Orleans for a cargo delivery encounters a great risk of spoiled fruit.

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Episode 45

Remember Me?

Tue, Aug 12, 195230 mins

A former high-school basketball star, now broke and reduced to committing small-time hold-ups, kills an old man. With the police after him, he hides out in the apartment of a lonely woman who once had a crush on him in his high-school days.

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Episode 46

Her Last Adventure

Tue, Aug 19, 195230 mins

Eva, a wealthy middle-aged woman, marries a man she barely knows and moves into his family estate, a dark, run-down mansion on the Massachusetts coast. She learns James was recently engaged to a young woman, but he dismisses it as an unimportant mistake. Investigating noises in the cellar, she finds the corpse of a young woman, half-buried in the coal pile.

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Episode 47

Woman in Love

Tue, Aug 26, 195230 mins

In Budapest, 1952, a woman, who's a secret agent is preoccupied with her upcoming marriage. In her preoccupation, she loses a valuable document which puts in life in jeopardy.

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Episode 48

The Old Lady of Bayeux

Tue, Sep 2, 195230 mins

Cécile Ledru, the companion of a rich widow, Joséphine Crozier, calls the police when she finds her dead body at the estate of her nephew, where they were staying. Mrs. Crozier has apparently died of a heart attack but Maigret, the investigating police inspector is not convinced...

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Episode 49

Call from a Killer

Tue, Sep 9, 195230 mins

The tale is about a killer who tries to hide out with his wartime buddy, unaware that the buddy is now a policeman.

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Episode 50

The Return of Dr. Bourdette

Tue, Sep 16, 195230 mins

A detective searches for a killer and traces him to a wax museum.

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Episode 51

Set-Up for Death

Tue, Sep 23, 195230 mins

Mobster Kip Caley is released from prison after serving ten years and proclaims he's "going straight." His old criminal cronies, however, intend to involve him in a hold-up after breaking his resolve to stay honest. Boss McLean gets him a greeters job at a hotel restaurant where he falls for a woman who works there. Her intention to help Kip by warning the police about the impending robbery put Kip's life on the line.

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Episode 52

The Beach of Falesa

Tue, Sep 30, 195230 mins

Wiltshire is the third man sent by a trading company to work on a small Polynesian island; the previous two had strangely died. Upon arriving he encounters his competitor, Case, a man determined to keep the island to himself. Months later after Wiltshire marries a native woman, the natives refuse to trade with him because Case has convinced the superstitious people that the woman is "taboo" and cursed. Wiltshire refuses to leave the island as Case wants and takes him on in the jungle.

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Episode 53

The Man in the Mirror

Tue, Oct 7, 195230 mins

Two men look exactly alike. One is the actual criminal and the other the innocent sap who gets nailed.

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