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Suspense | Old Time Radio
by Old Time Retro Radio
https://www.OldTimeRetroRadio.com Experience the greatest thrillers ever broadcast — haunting tales of crime, fear, and human psychology from radio’s Golden Age. Each episode of Suspense has been fully restored and professionally remastered to capture the tension, atmosphere, and unforgettable storytelling that made it a legend. 🎧 Fully restored and professionally remastered with enhanced audio. Source: [OTRR.org] – Certified Public Domain Collection. Restoration and curation by Old Time Retro Radio.
Episodes
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Suspense - "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 program logs list this Robert Young and Margo production as episode 69. Insurance investigator Harry Jordan is drawn into a troubling series…
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Suspense - "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 identify this production as Suspense episode 673, originally broadcast on CBS on November 11, 1956. On an isolated lighthouse key off French...
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Suspense - "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 episode logs, however, identify it as episode 253, originally aired July 10, 1947. Gloria Swanson stars as mystery novelist Emily Carlyle, whose...
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Suspense - "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 logs list the broadcast as episode 200. Leon Ames stars, with Gerald Mohr also featured, in this CBS presentation sponsored by Roma Wines....
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Suspense - "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 program listings identify it as episode 216, broadcast October 24, 1946. Susan Hayward stars as Jean Nicholson, a successful singer whose...
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Suspense - "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 recovering from what her physician husband calls a temporary nervous depression. Adapted from Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s classic short…
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Suspense - "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 and directed by William Spier, the CBS Radio Network drama features Junius Matthews, Wally Maher, Howard Duff, and Cathy Lewis. After an...
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Suspense - "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 Warrick and was written by Devery Freeman. After businessman Payton Carr is killed in a hit-and-run, his estate passes to his three...
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Suspense - "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 earlier Suspense story, with Herbert Marshall starring as financially pressed gambler Kelly Raymond. Raymond answers an Englishman’s…
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Suspense - "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 logs also identify the Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. production as Suspense #299, originally broadcast July 22, 1948. After seven years in prison...
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Suspense - "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 associate the production with CBS’s Suspense broadcast of October 27, 1952, starring Cornell Wilde. Stranded in New York’s Pennsylvania Station,...
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Suspense - "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, and second chances. Recently released from prison, Dan Varrell returns to Manhattan still haunted by his brother’s death. His search leads...
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Suspense - "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 Fletcher. Actor Martin Aimes becomes obsessed with a shadowy figure he sees in a window across the street—though no one else can confirm it is...
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Suspense - "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 seems to possess an unsettling new relationship with truth and lies. Orson Welles stars as psychiatrist Dr. Graham, with Hans Conried as...
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Suspense - "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 $1,500 before midnight, a discovery involving her elderly lodger’s insurance policy turns an already strained household into a…
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Suspense - "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 written by Corporal Louis Pelletier and sponsored by Roma Wines. In wartime France, refugee Colette is drawn to an art gallery and a…
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Suspense - "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 number: 0. Edward G. Robinson stars as meek, put-upon Homer J. Hubbard, a man so captivated by Robinson’s hard-boiled screen persona in...
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Suspense - "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 with an August 1, 1948 date. In a neighborhood bar, Margie awaits her date when private detective Lem Clewson shares details of a disturbing...
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Suspense - "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 troubled hometown acquaintance Quinn Williams find themselves drawn into a dangerous race against time before dawn. Helen Walker and John Beal...
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Suspense - "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 the CBS broadcast as November 16, 1953, episode 526. In this first half of Wilkie Collins’s Victorian mystery, Franklin Blake brings a...
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Suspense - "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 Cathy Lewis in a CBS Radio thriller written by Walter Brown Newman from a story by Jerry Hausner. Judd and Aurora are a married nightclub...
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Suspense - "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 Elliott Lewis and stars Van Heflin, with Lurene Tuttle and Betty Lou Gerson. At a company picnic, a man living under the shadow of his...
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Suspense - "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 June 1, 1962 date. A crucial defense project rests on the work of the brilliant, reclusive Dr. Hoffman, whose complex optical formula must…
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Suspense - "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, the wife who left him years ago, when a lucrative fur robbery offers money—and a dangerous chance to revive the past. Larry Haines stars as...
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Suspense - "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 Williams, a woman who has rebuilt her life under a new name after being acquitted in the death of her first husband. Her security is…
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Suspense - "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 classic detective novel, Franklin Blake and Sergeant Cuff continue their investigation into the disappearance of the fabled yellow diamond known...
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Suspense - "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 Island’s Haunted Mill, Betty Andrews encounters Bob Penderel, a terrified young man racing to survive a deadly wager with his uncle. Written...
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Suspense - "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 alarming letter warning that a woman she has never met may be in danger. With only a name and a cryptic reference to “Jack,” she races to...
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Suspense - "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 classic radio suspense series. The supplied archival listing does not include a plot synopsis or verified production credits, leaving the...
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Suspense - "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 Faye, better known for comedy, take on dramatic roles in this tense small-town story. Touring dance-band leader Dixie arrives for a…
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Suspense - "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 episode 6, dated November 1, 1944. In this tense crime thriller by Mel Dinelli, Jimmy Barton returns to Los Angeles to find his sister Helen...
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Suspense - "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. Kirk Douglas stars in a drama written by Robert Platt and directed by producer William Spier. Mystery novelist Phil Markham, trapped in...
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Suspense - "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 Merwin Gerard, the CBS thriller features Wally Maher as Lieutenant Steve Healey, with Junius Matthews as Ernest Bowers. After a street…
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Suspense - "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 episode listings date the broadcast to August 27, 1951 and catalog it as Suspense #436. In this fact-based traffic-safety drama, a San...
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Suspense - "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 released prisoner determined to confront the former partner he blames for a disastrous safe robbery. On a cold city night, old associates...
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Suspense - "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 supernatural-tinged thriller, a wealthy elderly man fears that his long-dead wife has returned to haunt him after an impossible telephone call...
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Suspense - "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 cross-country drive from California to New York, a motorist picks up a young hitchhiker and finds their journey through lonely highways…
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Suspense - "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; established episode logs also list the broadcast as episode 27. Bela Lugosi stars as psychologist Dr. Antonio Bacile, with Geraldine...
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Suspense - "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, the CBS wartime thriller stars Richard Dix and Gale Page. A U.S. Navy lieutenant commander and his fiancée board a commercial flight from…
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Suspense - "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 O’Hara, the CBS drama adapts Cornell Woolrich’s “The Death Rose.” A serial killer is targeting young women and leaving a single white rose...
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Suspense - "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 the source collection as episode 4. The drama stars George Murphy as Morton Blake and Cathy Lewis as Pauline Blake, and was written by…
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Suspense - "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 Lew Hendricks, a prominent New York criminal lawyer whose volatile relationship with nightclub performer Carmen draws on every bit of his...
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Suspense - "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 meets the frightened Diana Blake and learns that he bears an uncanny resemblance to her estranged husband, Rex Melville. Robert Mitchum and...
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Suspense - "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 cottage during the early days of World War II, Professor Erwin Krafft becomes convinced that his wife’s attention has turned to a young...
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Suspense - "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 John Forsyth in a drama written by Alan Cameron and produced and directed by William Spier for CBS. On New Year’s Eve in London, the…
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Suspense - "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 dramatic role as Harvey Warren, a successful attorney, in a CBS presentation sponsored by Auto-Lite. Alone in his eighth-floor office after dark,...
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Suspense - "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 directed by Antony Ellis. A family pharmacist discovers that a dangerous prescription mix-up may put a young child at risk. With only...
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Suspense - "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 episode logs identify the original CBS broadcast as January 20, 1949, episode 324. On a traveling circus train, a flying-trapeze trio…
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Suspense - "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 Lone Wolf—arrives at an elegant house party with his valet, Jamison, after a mysterious invitation. When a society treasure hunt takes a...
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Suspense - "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 9 in the supplied source metadata. Lillian Gish stars in one of her rare radio appearances, alongside Ray Collins and Bramwell Fletcher.…
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https://www.OldTimeRetroRadio.com Experience the greatest thrillers ever broadcast — haunting tales of crime, fear, and human psychology from radio’s Golden Age. Each episode of Suspense has been fully restored and professionally remastered to capture the tension, atmosphere, and unforgettable storytelling that made it a legend.
🎧 Fully restored and professionally remastered with enhanced audio. Source: [OTRR.org] – Certified Public Domain Collection. Restoration and curation by Old Time Retro Radio.
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