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Suspense Season 5 Episodes

26 Episodes 2018 - 2019

Episode 1

I, the Vampire

Fri, Oct 5, 2018

A Hollywood director begins to suspect that the studio's new star might not just be playing a vampire- and that his own daughter is to be the next victim. Adapted from the short story by Henry Kuttner.

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Episode 2

The First Snowfall of Winter

Fri, Oct 12, 2018

The crew of a listening post on Pluto pick up a mysterious object heading into the center of the solar system- and after its passing, receive no more word from any other humans, anywhere.

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Episode 3

Grotesquerie

Fri, Oct 19, 2018

A lonely, disfigured woman is courted and swindled by a heartless suitor, but her vengeance upon him is beyond all imagining. Adapted from the short story by Harold Lawlor.

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Episode 4

Risus Sardonicus

Fri, Oct 26, 2018

A student stops by a local mortuary for a tour, but just what it is that she's trying to learn about is open to debate.

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Episode 5

No Woman Born

Fri, Nov 2, 2018

After being killed in a fire, an actress finds her brain transplanted into a shining golden robotic body- but will she be able to retain any semblance of her humanity? Adapted from the short story by C.L. Moore.

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Episode 6

A Pound of Feathers

Fri, Nov 9, 2018

Which one is more likely to kill you: a pound of feathers or a pound of lead? In this case, either is liable to be fatal.

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Episode 7

Past Tense

Fri, Nov 16, 2018

An inventor uses his time machine to bring penicillin to the world decades before its discovery, but will his efforts bear fruit? Adapted from the teleplay by Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert.

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Episode 8

Things You Can't See

Fri, Nov 23, 2018

When a beloved pet cat dies, her owners try different ways to deal with the passing- but then make a most unexpected, unbelievable discovery.

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Episode 9

The Dancers

Fri, Nov 30, 2018

Refugees from a dead Earth arrive on their new home world, only to find that a mystery they thought had been left behind has come along. Adapted from the short story by Wilton Hazzard.

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Episode 10

Wish Upon a Star

Fri, Dec 7, 2018

There's nothing as serene as a desert sunset, right? Of course, it depends entirely on the circumstances.

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Episode 11

A Gun for Dinosaur

Fri, Dec 14, 2018

Big-game hunting in the Mesozoic requires some very serious firepower- but what if that firepower was to fall into the wrong hands? Inspired by the short story by L. Sprague de Camp.

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Episode 12

Moonrise, Sunset

Fri, Dec 21, 2018

A troubled young woman is admitted to a mental health facility- but will the path to finding peace within herself cost her the life of her eccentric new friend?

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Episode 13

Terror for Two

Fri, Dec 28, 2018

A pair of classic short stories featuring two actresses. 'The Floor Above', adapted from the short story by M. Humphreys, concerns a woman who goes to visit a friend long thought to be dead- but finds that the truth is rather more complicated. 'The Picture in the House', adapted from the short story by H.P. Lovecraft, tells the tale of a traveler who ventures into a seemingly-deserted old house to escape a storm- only to learn that the storm may be preferable.

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Episode 14

The Last of the Ghost Breakers

Fri, Feb 15, 2019

On the anniversary of Harry Houdini's death, a phony supernatural investigator is challenged to spend the night in the 'Haunted House of the World'.

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Episode 15

Evening Primrose

Fri, Feb 22, 2019

A poet decides to flee the world and make her home in a department store, only to find that the store has an entire colony of like-minded folk- including a fragile young woman whom she befriends. Adapted from the short story by John Collier.

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Episode 16

Isolation

Fri, Mar 1, 2019

A shady audio engineer designs a pair of headphones that not only isolate vocals like no other, but also pick up something deep beneath- peoples' thoughts.

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Episode 17

The Signal-Man

Fri, Mar 8, 2019

While visiting her childhood home, a reporter decides to do a story on the local railroad signalman- who seems to be haunted by a unknown specter. Adapted from the short story by Charles Dickens.

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Episode 18

Mr. Rhodes

Fri, Mar 15, 2019

No sooner do a detective and his identical triplet brothers settle in a new town then a series of murders begins- and the detective's prime suspect is close to home.

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Episode 19

A Question of Fear

Fri, Mar 22, 2019

A professional soldier is bet $1,000 that he can't spend one night in a haunted house...but is there more to this bet than meets the eye? Adapted from the short story by Bryan Lewis.

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Episode 20

Tinker, Tailor, Martian, Spy

Fri, Mar 29, 2019

On a snowy night, a group of strangers find themselves waiting at an isolated train station. But one of them may be a foreign spy- or something else altogether. Suggested by a story by Rod Serling.

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Episode 21

To Kill a Mandarin

Fri, Apr 5, 2019

Sisters receive a mysterious package in the mail- a package that presents them with a proposition that could leave them either very rich or very dead. Suggested by 'Le Pere Goriot' by Honore de Balzac.

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Episode 22

The Matter of the Mattimores

Fri, Apr 12, 2019

When the matriarch of an eccentric wealthy family falls under the sway of a slick flim-flam artist, it's up to her children to save the day- with some help from an unexpected source.

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Episode 23

This Was a Hero

Fri, Apr 19, 2019

A cop becomes a citywide celebrity for foiling a robbery and killing the perpetrator, but the man's widow is convinced of his innocence. Adapted from the short story by Lang Miller.

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Episode 24

Nine Minutes, 57 Seconds

Fri, Apr 26, 2019

An otherwise very normal night suddenly becomes a nightmare, as a woman and her two granddaughters must react to an emergency siren.

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Episode 25

The Dark

Fri, May 3, 2019

An ambulance crew receives a call to proceed to a suspected mob burial site, but what they find there is far worse than mere corpses. Adapted from the radio play by Arch Oboler.

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Episode 26

'Mystery at Melrose Music'

Fri, May 10, 2019

The arrival of a new writer for the anthology show 'Suspense' coincides with the disappearance of every actor who appears in one of the episodes. Is it coincidence, or something more sinister?

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