Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE!
This is a rebroadcast of the original Suspense! Radio Show. Suspense is a radio drama series broadcast on CBS Radio from 1940 through 1962. One of the premier drama programs of the Golden Age of Radio, was subtitled "radio's outstanding theater of thrills" and focused on suspense thriller-type scripts, usually featuring leading Hollywood actors of the era. Approximately 945 episodes were broadcast during its long run, and more than 900 still exist. Suspense went through several major phases, characterized by different hosts, sponsors, and director/producers. Formula plot devices were followed for all but a handful of episodes: the protagonist was usually a normal...
The Flame Blue Glove (1949)
Shadow never liked Dutch or working for his detective agency. She’d done her final case and thought she was through with Dutch when she married Jimmy Conway but then one day Dutch turned up wanting her to work on a case for him, a closed case that had been nagging him as he still felt that it was murder. A case that Shadow had done the groundwork for, the Conway case! Dutch was convinced that Shadow’s husband had killed his first wife but Shadow was sure that he was clean and decent.
Stars Lana Turner
Mission Completed (1949)
A paralyzed World War II veteran sees Sukey, the man who tortured him when he was a POW, and is determined to kill him, no matter how difficult that may prove.
Stars James Stewart
About Us
Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).
Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the...
The Long Wait (1949)
He has spent the last three years in prison and he has a debt to repay. He wants to murder Lois Williams, the woman responsible for her brothers death. He goes to her apartment, takes out his gun, opens the door and steps in. Lois Williams stands in front of him looking as radiant as ever, but there is one big problem – Lois isn’t scared, she wants him to kill her and it’s not very satisfying getting revenge by killing somebody who wants to die.
Stars Burt Lancaster
About Us
Suspense! is a r...
Blind Date (1949)
Gloria Lafaye is a stage actress and wonders how she is ever going to meet anyone so she goes on a blind date with Mr Vincent Hawthorne who sent her a note that afternoon. She never would have accepted but she thought he was going to be a nice person because of his handwriting and it was just a little late supper together. But they never left the little dressing room backstage in the theater, Gloria, Hawthorne and his knife…
Stars June Havoc and Charles Laughton
About Us
Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the...
Death Has A Shadow (1949)
Harvey Warren Counselor of Law had it all. He had everything the best, a house that rambled for 14 rooms, a house that he built for his wife Lily. She was beautiful and he had it all until the day his wife Lily was murdered…
Stars Bob Hope and William Conrad
About Us
Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).
Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the...
The Copper Tea Strainer
Betty Grable as Jeanie who lives with her sick mother and has been in love with Ted for the last year. But now a police man has turned up asking questions about her life.
Stars Betty Grable, Raymond Burr, and William Conrad
About Us
Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).
Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Ni...
Backseat Driver (1949)
Fibber McGee and Molly star as Joe and Ellie a couple who are the victims of a carjacking when the criminal known as the Hampshire murderer hides in the back of their car and forces them at gunpoint to help him get away. Ellie is frightened when he forces them to take them to their house to hide knowing that their two children are there and that he, the Hampshire Murderer had killed a family in New Hampshire. But this time he had gotten in to the wrong car.
Stars Jim and Marian Jordan
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The Morrison Affair (1949)
Mrs Sheila Morrison is in desperate trouble and goes to see a lawyer named Mr Baloo. Her husband is the prominent surgeon Paul Morrison from Boston. Mrs Morrison is English and met he husband in London in 1939. He was different then deeply concerned and caring but the war changed him. They were happy for the first years of their marriage then Mrs Morrison wanted to adopt a child but Paul was against it. When Paul went back to America to join the corps service Sheila went to stay with her mother in the country. While on the train she...
Deep Into Darkness (1949)
Ken spent seven years in jail for manslaughter and was let out early for good behaviour. He left Chicago for New York to a start a new life where nobody knew him. With seventeen dollars in his pocket he tried to get a job but no one would employ him. For some unknown reason he decides to spend $14 on a gun and when he leaves the shop he stops to light a cigarette a notices a big chauffeur driven car pull up. He is shocked when a man gets out of the car and Ken recognises him as Lee...
The Black Angel/Eve (1949)
When a Hollywood producer is framed for murder, his actress-wife swears to get the real killer...but there's more to Eve than meets the eye.
Stars June Havoc and Prince Michael Romanoff
About Us
Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).
Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at Ni...
