

Suspense
Season 6
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Network: CBS
Season aired: 1953-09-01
Seasons
Overview
An anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program, many scripts were adaptations of literary classics by well-known authors. Classic authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, and Charles Dickens all had stories adapted for the series, while contemporary authors such as Roald Dahl and Gore Vidal also contributed.
Episodes ยท 51
Paradise Junction
The story of a traveling circus and its unhappy owner.
Reign of Terror
An innocent woman is sentenced to death during the French Revolution.
The Darkest Night
Murder and blackmail ruin a bride-to-be's bridal shower.
The Riddle of Mayerling
A dramatic adaptation of the famous and true story of a commoner's ill-fated romance with the Archduke Rudolph of Hapsburg.
The Sister
The tragic tale of a pair of recluses whose lives are brought into focus for the first time after years of frustration and jealousy.
Death at Skirerud Pond
The story of a tense trial in Norway when a jury was asked to remember what it was like in their homeland during the war. The actual verdict is revealed at the end of the program.
The Accounting
The story of a corrupt supply captain, son of an illustrious military hero, and a fiercely loyal major who challenges him to a duel to preserve the family's honor.
The Valley of the Kings
The tense story of an archaeological expedition searching for the tomb of King Tutmose. They finally find it and its treasures untouched; but then the curse of the Pharaoh on anyone defiling his tomb's sacred precincts begin to strike.
The Others
The Interruption
An English gentleman gloats over the murder of his wife only to learn that his evil housekeeper knows his secret.
Needle in a Haystack
The behind-the-scenes story of how the U. S. Navy ferreted out the secret of Communist minefields in Wonsan Harbor, enabling minesweepers to clear the way for the safe landing of 22,000 Marines.
The Newcomer
A story of a brash stranger in a small Western town who changes his ways when arrested for the murder of a local belle.
My Short Walk to Freedom
When a fugitive from a Russian concentration camp is cornered in his Budapest home, he disguises himself and his brother to try a get beyond the Iron Curtain.
Laugh It Off
A kindly young man believes a girl's story that she is marked for murder and risks his life to save her, despite warnings from friends that she is a habitual liar and thrill-seeker.
The Dance
This episode is a remake of an episode previously shown on the series. This episode and the previous one were both shown live and featured different casts.
Cagliostro and the Chess Player
A dramatization based on the life of the 18th Century Italian magician, Count Alessandro di Cagliostro. The cunning magician inveigles King Stanislaus into a chess game with his mechanical genius. That, in the end, becomes his downfall.
The Gift of Fear
A little boy in a department store and a night watchman who likes toys better than people are featured in this odd Christmas tale.
Mr. Nobody
A wealthy, vicious woman turns a goodhearted but naive tramp into a pawn in her evil plans.
Diamonds in the Sky
A gang of smugglers, diamonds and a beautiful woman add up to trouble for the pilot on a trans-Atlantic flight.
The Scrap Iron Curtain
The true story of Baclav Uhlik, a Czech machinist who built an armored car and last July transported his wife, two children and four friends 40 miles through the Bohemian forests to the town of Waldmeunchen in the western zone of Germany.
The Haunted
The second wife of a ski-lodge owner suspects her husband of the murder of his first wife.
An Affair With a Ghost
A dead French underground leader returns to save a band of hostages when a Nazi collaborator goes back on his promise.
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
A drama based on the hoax of Canadian George DuPre, who claimed service in the French underground as a British intelligence officer during World War II.
The Moonstone
A precious stone taken from India is coveted by many parties.
The Execution
Her son's heroic death in battle unseals the lips of a mother about a 10-year-old tragedy involving her brutal husband.
Death on the Screen
A frantic wife sits by her TV set, watching a public dinner where a deranged man is getting ready to kill her husband.
I Do Solemnly Swear
The story of the first woman juror in the United States, in 1870 in Laramie, Wyoming.
Before the Act
A young bank official is the intended scapegoat of a carefully designed plan to rob the vault of $100,000.
The Fourth Degree
A psychiatrist makes a weird experiment in a last ditch attempt to get a key witness in a homicide case to talk.
The Tenth Reunion
A college reunion crowd discover that one of the gang has been missing since graduation. Those present have had reasons to do away with her.



