5.12 [--] Suspense: THE WHISPERING KILLER
25Nov1952 CBS Tue
Teleplay by Lois Jacoby
starring
George Mathews
Nita Talbot
Richard Webb
Bert Conway
Robert P. Lieb
Leonard Barry
Synopsis:
A mobster is tripped up by a simple law he overlooks. [RF]

5.13 [--] Suspense: A TIME OF INNOCENCE
02Dec1952 CBS Tue
Producer Martin Manulis
Written by Raphael Hayes
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Settings John Ward
Music Hank Sylvern
Announcer Rex Marshall
starring
Thomas Mitchell ... Henry Brown
Pat Hitchcock ..... Esther Stone
Guy Spaull ........ Inspector Palmer
Louise Larabee .... Carol Brown
William Roerich ... Paul Monard
Jock McGraw ....... Sea Captain
Harold Kennedy .... Policeman (as Harold J. Kennedy)
Doris Roberts ..... Woman
John W. Austin .... Mr. Cheever the printer
Synopsis:
A middle-aged businessman wants to divorce his wife and strikes up a romance with his young secretary. [RF]

*NOTE: Based on a true story that happened over 40 years ago only the names have been changed. [from opening narration]
Closing Narration: On April 12, 1911 Henry Brown the first murder was caught by trans-atlantic wireless
was hanged by the neck until he was dead.

5.14 [--] Suspense: THE GIRL WHO SAW TOMORROW
09Dec1952 CBS Tue
Teleplay by James P. Cavangh / From a story by Leslie Gordon Barnard
starring
Thomas Coley
Lois Wheeler
Eugene Ruyman
Naomi Riordan
Synopsis:
A neurotic woman becomes distressed when she sees her best friend becoming successful. [RF]

5.15 [--] Suspense: THE TORTURED HAND
16Dec1952 CBS Tue
Teleplay by Ben Radin / From a story by Karoly Kisfaludi
starring
Peter Lorre
Synopsis:
A 19th century nobleman is tortured with pain in his hand, the one he used to commit murder defending
his family's honor. [RF]

*NOTE: During the telecast, Rear Adm. Homer Wallen and Lt. Commander Arthur Godfrey gave the public their
first demonstration of a model of the Navy's new atomic submarine.

5.16 [--] Suspense: THE DEADLY LAMB
23Dec1952 CBS Tue
Teleplay by James P. Cavanagh / From an original story by W.A. Powers
starring
Patricia Breslin
Dick Haymes
Synopsis:
A woman becomes the object of affection between two brothers in this romantic triangle story. [RF]
*NOTE: Dick Haymes sings three songs during this program.

5.17 [--] Suspense: THE INVISIBLE KILLER
30Dec1952 CBS Tue
Producer Martin Manulis
Teleplay by Basil Beyea / From a story by Bruno Skoggard
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Music Hank Sylvern
Announcer Rex Marshall
starring
Jackie Cooper .... Dan Crowley
John Dall ........ Jim
Anne Sargent ..... Mary
Roy Roberts ...... Dr. Main
Synopsis:
A mentally unbalanced and delusional man thinks his boss' girlfriend is his. When Mary, her dad and fiance
fly away for the weekend to their cabin at Lake Wanabaga things go terribly wrong when Dan stalks them. [RF]

5.18 [--] Suspense: LITTLE CAMORRA
06Jan1953 CBS Tue
Written by Edmund Morris
starring
William Prince
Mary Sinclair
Synopsis:
Convinced that she is cursed by an old family vendetta, she tries to convince her American fiance of the threat. [RF]

5.19 [--] Suspense: MR. MATCHES
13Jan1953 CBS Tue
Written by Alvin Sapinsley
starring
Henry Jones
Warren Stevens
Eleanor Wilson
Synopsis:
A firebug literally meets his match in the persistent Fire Chief tracking him down. [RF]
*NOTE: Alternate title "Mr. Matches: A Documentary".

5.20 [--] Suspense: VACANCY FOR DEATH
20Jan1953 CBS Tue
Produced by Martin Manulis
Written by Richard Lortz
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Music by Hank Sylvern
Settings John Ward
starring
Joan Blondell ..... Clara
Steven Elliott .... Sam
Dorothy Hart ...... Miss Barry
Oliver Thorndike .. Jojo
Douglas Taylor .... Addams
Elliott Martin .... Intern
Don Kennedy ....... First Cop
George McCoy ...... Second Cop
Synopsis:
A boarding house run by scam artists where you check in but never check out. [RF]
Record playing music "You Made Me Love You".

5.21 [--] Suspense: CAREER
27Jan1953 CBS Tue
starring
Fay Bainter
Synopsis:
A British agent wants to give up her spying in Nazi Germany in this story of espionage. [RF]

5.22 [--] Suspense: MUTINY BELOW
03Feb1953 CBS Tue
Producer Martin Manulis
Teleplay by Raphael Hayes / Story by Cedric Mentiplay
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Settings John Ward
Music Hank Sylvern
Announcer Rex Marshall
starring
Eddie Albert ........ Danny Maguire
Murray Hamilton ..... Snow Pearson
Lee Madden .......... Buck Wales
Cameron Prud'homme .. McBeth
Basil Howes ......... Slops
Glen Gordon ......... Crew Mate
Synopsis:
A couple of men are hired as watch officers on a steamer after saving the life of the Chief Engineer.
A newspaper story about diamond smuggling leads the crew to believe that the two new hired men are the thieves. [RF]

5.23 [--] Suspense: A STUDY IN STONE
10Feb1953 CBS Tue
Teleplay by Ben Radin
starring
Wesley Addy
Jay Barney
Roger Dann
Joan Wetmore
Synopsis:
A sculptor is accused of planning to murder his intended wife and the drama unfolds in the courtroom. [RF]

5.24 [--] Suspense: THE QUARRY
17Feb1953 CBS Tue
Teleplay by James P. Cavanagh / Story by Marc Brandel
starring
James Daly
Jeffrey Lynn
Robert Middleton
Synopsis:
Gang members stalk a businessman who they believe witnessed a murder. [RF]

5.25 [--] Suspense: THEY HAVEN'T KILLED ME YET
24Feb1953 CBS Tue
Teleplay by Lawrence Hazard
From the Saturday Evening Post article by Gon Sam Mue with William J. Slocum
starring
Harry Lowe Jr.
Shizu Moriya
Synopsis:
An Asian-American agent's life is in jeopardy while attempting to break a powerful protection racket in Chinatown. [RF]

5.26 [--] Suspense: THE KISS-OFF
03Mar1953 CBS Tue
Producer Martin Manulis
Adapted for television by Richard Lortz / Based on the story by John P. Foran
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Music by Hank Sylvern
Settings by John Ward
starring
Jack Palance ..... Tom Walker
Virginia Baker ... Ellen
Peter Hobbs ...... Cooper
Alan Tower ....... Bennett
Victor Thorley ... District Attorney
Janet Fox ........ Miss Taylor
Leonard Barry .... Cabbie
Harry Davis ...... Blind Man
Joey Fallon ...... Little Boy
Synopsis:
During a parade the tax office is held up, the manager is perplexed when the crook doesn't take
all the money, and swears he can identify him. [RF]

5.27 [--] Suspense: THE LEGEND OF LIZZIE
10Mar1953 CBS Tue
Adapted by Reginald Lawrence
starring
Katharine Bard .... Lizze Borden
Synopsis:
The story of accused axe-murderer Lizzie Borden is dramatized. [RF]
*NOTE: Actual court transcripts were used in the telling of this true drama.

5.28 [--] Suspense: THE BLACK PROPHET
17Mar1953 CBS Tue
written by Michael Dyne
starring
Boris Karloff .... Rasputin
Synopsis:
Story of the Russian mystic Rasputin who influenced the Russian Tsar who believed him to be psychic. [RF]

5.29 [--] Suspense: PORTRAIT OF CONSTANCE
24Mar1953 CBS Tue
Written by Edgar Marvin
starring
Hugh Reilly
Ann Rutherford
Synopsis:
A woman aids her husband a Detective search for his missing ex-girlfriend. [RF]

5.30 [--] Suspense: DEATH IN THE CAVE
31Mar1953 CBS Tue
Written by Halsted Welles
starring
Zachary Scott
Synopsis:
The tale of two adventurers trapped by an earthquake in a vast cavern underground. [RF]

5.31 [--] Suspense: I, CHRISTOPHER BELL
07Apr1953 CBS Tue
starring
Lilia Skala

5.32 [--] Suspense: KISS ME AGAIN, STRANGER
14Apr1953 CBS Tue
Produced by Martin Manulis
Adapted for television by James P. Cavanagh
Based on the novel by Daphne DuMaurier
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Settings by John Ward
Music by Hank Sylvern
starring
Maria Riva ....... Anna Hoffmann
Richard Waring ... Tim Matthews
Esther Mitchell .. Emma Thompson
Denis Green ...... Chief Inspector Dale
J.R. Wilson ...... Harry Thompson
Stephen Courtleigh ... Police Sergeant
Synopsis:
London 1946, an unknown killer claims four victims perplexing the police. [RF]

5.33 [--] Suspense: THE DUEL
21Apr1953 CBS Tue

Suspense - The Duel (1/3)

Suspense - The Duel (2/3)

Suspense - The Duel (3/3)
Producer Martin Manulis
Adapted for television by Ben Radin
Based on the story by Alexander Dumas
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Settings by John Ward
Music by Hank Sylvern
starring
Eva Gabor ........ Madeleine De Rochefort
Roger Dann ....... Lt. Andre Duport
Arnold Moss ...... Colonel De Rochefort
Harold Gordon .... Lt. Raoul Stamm
Charles Andre .... Major Longville
Rene Paul ........ Capt. Tourel
Peter Mark Richman ... Young Officer (as Mark Richman)
Synopsis:
France, 1806 at Fort Mont Louis, the Colonel's beautiful Madeleine rebuffs Lt. Raoul Stamm's
marriage proposal in favor of Lt. Andre Duport. [RF]

5.34 [--] Suspense: F.O.B. VIENNA
28Apr1953 CBS Tue

Suspense - FOB Vienna (1/3)

Suspense - FOB Vienna (2/3)

Suspense - FOB Vienna (3/3)
Producer Martin Manulis
Written by Raphael Hayes
Directed by Robert Mullgan
Settings John Ward
Music Hank Sylvern
Announcer Rex Marshall
starring
Walter Matthau .... Lawrence Stevens
Jayne Meadows ..... Helen Brady
Robert Webber ..... James Forsythe
Mike Kellin ....... Herr Wohler
Clem Fowler ....... Kremer
E.A. Krumschmidt .. Herr Ploss
Synopsis:
The story of an American businessman who has accompanied a shipment of lathes to Austria and is trying to
kethem out of the hands of Communists. The shipment ends up in Hamburg, and he tracks it there with the help
of a newspaper reporter. At the last minute, he is able to destroy the shipment as the police arrive to
round up the Communists. [RF]

5.35 [--] Suspense: THE SUITOR
05May1953 CBS Tue
Written by Edmund Morris
starring
Mildred Natwick
Synopsis:
A lonely widow lives on a farm where weird and baffling mysteries are occuring. [RF]

5.36 [--] Suspense: THE DEATH OF AN EDITOR
12May1953 CBS Tue
Written by Ben Radin
Narrated by Walter Cronkite
starring
Wolfe Barzell
Mario Gallo
Frank Marth
Anthony Ross
Synopsis:
A militant editor's death is plotted and carried out by foreign agents. [RF]

5.37 [--] Suspense: COME INTO MY PARLOR
19May1953 CBS Tue
Written by Philip Bloom & Billings Brown
starring
John Carradine
John Kerr
Martin Newman
Synopsis:
A man becomes involved with a teenage gang. [RF]

5.38 [--] Suspense: THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLACK BARONET
26May1953 CBS Tue
Teleplay by Michael Dyne
From a story by Arthur Conan Doyle
starring
Basil Rathbone .... Sherlock Holmes
Martyn Green ...... Dr. John H. Watson
Synopsis:
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called upon to solve the case of Colonel Jocelyn Dalcy who found
stabbed to death while visiting at the home of Sir Reginald Lavington. [RF]
*NOTE: Rathbone was not happy with the casting of Martyn Green as his sidekick and wanted
NigelBruce who played Watson on the radio with Rathbone.

5.39 [--] Suspense: THE QUEEN'S RING
02Jun1953 CBS Tue
Written by Michael Dyne
starring
Mildred Dunnock
Scott Forbes
Jack Livesey
Synopsis:
The story is based on an experience in the life of Elizabeth I. [RF]

5.40 [--] Suspense: THE MAN WHO CRIED WOLF
09Jun1953 CBS Tue
Teleplay by Robert Anderson / Story by David Friedkin
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Music Hank Sylvern
Announcer Rex Marshall
starring
Marion Winters .... Lilja
Martin E. Brooks .. Meros Leckow
Logan Ramsey ...... Rivera
David J. Stewart .. Cardoza
Darryl Richard .... Ivan
Joe Abdullah ...... Alvarez
Fred Sadoff ....... Zapotin
Jack Carron ....... Pepe
Gilbert Green ..... Editor
Synopsis:
A Russian embassy employee is called back to the Russia and must face charges for aiding Mexican citizens. [RF]

5.41 [--] Suspense: SEE NO EVIL
16Jun1953 CBS Tue
Written by James P. Cavanagh
starring
John Conte
Betty Jane Watson
Hildy Parks
Alan Devitt
Hank Sylvern
Synopsis:
A night club singer helps a gang to plan a robbery believing their promise not to harm the night
watchman, her father. [RF]

5.42 [--] Suspense: THE SIGNAL MAN
23Jun1953 CBS Tue
Teleplay by Ben Radin / Story by Charles Dickens
starring
Boris Karloff
Alan Webb
Synopsis:
A demented railroad signalman is tortured by fears that he is responsible for a series of train wrecks. [RF]

5.43 [203] Suspense: THE FURY OF SENORITA GOMEZ
30-Jun-1953 CBS Tue
written by Ben Radin
starring
Nina Foch
Harold Gordon
Synopsis:
A highborn lady in the 19th century of Peru, plots with her stableman to murder her uncle. [RF]

5.44 [--] Suspense: THE MASCOT
07Jul1953 CBS Tue
Written by Robert J. Shaw
starring
Margaret Hayes
Mike Wallace
Synopsis:
AN American correspondent risks his life to secretly record a candid interview with an army deserter,
exposing his evil plan to become dictator of a Mediterranean Island. [RF]

5.45 [--] Suspense: THE DUTCH SCHULTZ STORY
14Jul1953 CBS Tue
Written by Jess Lazarus
Directed by Byron Paul
Narrated by Walter Cronkite
starring
Rod Steiger ....... Dutch Schultz
Harry Bellaver
Synopsis:
True story of the notorious gangster Dutch Schultz who became kingpin of the underworld,
only to be knocked from his throne by blazing guns in a New Jersey tavern. [RF]

5.46 [--] Suspense: PIGEON IN THE CAGE
21Jul1953 CBS Tue
Written by Alvin Sapinsley
starring
John Howard
Jacqueline Susann
Synopsis:
A drama of frustrated lovers caught in a web of crime and deceit. [RF]

5.47 [--] Suspense: THE DANCE
28Jul1953 CBS Tue
Producer Martin Manulis
Teleplay by James P. Cavanagh
Based on a story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Settings John Ward
Music Hank Sylvern
Annoucer Rex Marshall
starring
John Baragrey ..... Charles Kincaid
Katharine Bard .... Joan Hale
June Walker ....... Aunt Kate
Sally Gracie ...... Catherine Jones
William Smithers .. Joe Cable
Elizabeth York .... Marie Bannerman
G. Albert Smith ... Sheriff
Synopsis:
A woman has painful memories of the 20's and her first dance the Charleston and Charlie the man
she loves but is engaged to another. [RF]

5.48 [--] Suspense: THE VIAL OF DEATH
04Aug1953 CBS Tue
Teleplay by Arnold Schulman
Based on a story by Bus C. Bayz
starring
Claude Dauphin
Synopsis:
A deadly vial of cholera is stolen from a doctor's medical bag. [RF]

5.49 [--] Suspense: POINT BLANK
11Aug1953 CBS Tue
Written by Ben Radin
starring
Chester Morris
Janis Carter
Synopsis:
When a gang leader tries to burn his bridges behind him the backfires get awfully, warm. [RF]

5.50 [--] Suspense: NIGHTMARE AT GROUND ZERO
18Aug1953 CBS Tue

Suspense - Nightmare at Ground Zero (1/3)

Suspense - Nightmare at Ground Zero (2/3)

Suspense - Nightmare at Ground Zero (3/3)

Producer Martin Manulis
Written by Rod Serling
Directed by Robert Stevens
Composer Hank Sylvern
Settings John Ward
Announcer Rex Marshall
starring
O.Z. Whitehead ... George Vance
Louise Larabee ... Helen
Calvin Thomas .... Colonel
Lonnie Chapman ... Tom
Pat Hingle ....... Ted
Robert Willey .... Joe
Henry Garrett .... Frank
Cy Chermak ....... Moe
Norman Shelley ... Butch
Ken Buckridge .... Radio Announcer
Mort Marshall .... Electrician
Wyrly Birch ...... Painter
Synopsis:
Set in the atomic backdrop of the Yucca Flats as the test site comes under fire. [RF]

5.51 [--] Suspense: DEATH IN THE PASSING
25Aug1953 CBS Tue
Written by James P. Cavanagh
starring
Cedric Hardwicke
Synopsis:
A tale of murder on Manila's waterfront and an island detective with one of the most puzzling
cases of his career. [RF]
 

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final season

6.01 [--] Suspense: PARADISE JUNCTION
01Sep1953 CBS Tue
written by Meade Roberts
starring
Tod Andrews
Dorothy Donahue
Synopsis:
The story of a traveling circus and its unhappy owner. [RF]
*NOTE: Actual sideshow acts are featured, a fire eater, the strong man and the tattooed man.

6.02 [--] Suspense: REIGN OF TERROR
08Sep1953 CBS Tue
written by Michael Dyne
starring
Leonard Barry
Peter Capell
Rose Stradner
Synopsis:
An innocent woman is sentenced to death during the French Revolution. [RF]

6.03 [--] Suspense: THE DARKEST NIGHT
Written by Manya Starr ("The Runaway")
15Sep1953 CBS Tue
starring
Sally Forrest
Synopsis:
Murder and blackmail ruin a bride-to-be's bridal shower. [RF]

6.04 [--] Suspense: THE RIDDLE OF MAYERLING
22Sep1953 CBS Tue
written by Michael Dyne
starring
Viveca Lindfors ... Maria Vetsera
Christopher Plummer
Ross Martin
Lilia Skala ....... Countess Larisch
Synopsis:
A dramatic adaptation of the famous and true story of a commoner's ill-fated romance with the Archduke Rudolph
of Hapsburg. Maria Vetsera the young patriot whose love for Rudolph inspires him to join the movement to free
Hungary from the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1881. The romantic scenes and suspensful in its depiction of the struggle
between Rudolph and the Austrian prime minister which reaches a climax in the royal hunting lodge at Mayerling. [RF]

6.05 [--] Suspense: THE SISTERS
29Sep1953 CBS Tue
written by William K. Wells
starring
Judith Evelyn
Martha Scott
Synopsis:
The play tells the tragic tale of a pair of recluses whose lives are brought into focus for the first time
after years of frustration and jealousy. [RF]

6.06 [--] Suspense: DEATH AT SKIRKERUD POND
06Oct1953 CBS Tue
written by James P. Cavanagh
Narrated by Quentin Reynolds
Synopsis:
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. [RF]

*NOTE: It's a true incident of Word War 2, posing a question to the viewing audience was it murder or
patriotism when two members of the Norwegian underground killed their own countrymen to prevent exposure
of the resistance movement.

6.07 [--] Suspense: THE ACCOUNTING
13Oct1953 CBS Tue
written by Ben Radin
Based on the story "L'Honneur" by Emile Zola
starring
Everett Sloane
Joseph Anthony
Synopsis:
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. Involved in the captain's peccadillos are a temptress
for whom he forges butcher's receipts and his young son who is being groomed for entrance into St. Cyr. France's
West Point. [RF]

6.08 [--] Suspense: THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS
20Oct1953 CBS Tue
Written by Lois Jacoby
starring
Herbert Berghof
Jack Livesey
Synopsis:
The tense story of an archeological 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 tombs sacred precincts
begin to strike. [RF]

6.09 [--] Suspense: THE OTHERS
27Oct1953 CBS Tue
written by Richard Lortz
starring
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Hugh Reilly
Doreen Lang
Roni Dengel
Donny Bilworth
Synopsis:
A young married woman who with her husband revisits a newly bought country estate during a blizzard and is
terrified to see a ghostly family occupying the place. The hallucinations resolve into an ironic twist of fate. [RF]

6.10 [--] Suspense: THE INTERRUPTION
03Nov1953 CBS Tue
written by Denis Green
starring
Cedric Hardwicke
Evelyn Varden
Synopsis:
An English gentleman gloats over the murder of his wife only to learn that his evil housekeeper knows his secret. [RF]

6.11 [--] Suspense: NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK
(Back to the Mines, Boys written by Paul Monash)
10Nov1953 CBS Tue
Teleplay by Paul Monash
Based on Walter Karig's book "Battle Report"
starring
Lee Marvin
Edwin Cooper
Ross Martin
Synopsis:
The behind-the-scenes story of how the U. S. Navy ferreted out the secret of Communist minefields in Wonsan Harbor.
Central figure in this account is a courageous officer who went behind enemy lines to get information which
enabled minesweepers to clear the way for the safe landing of 22,000 Marines. [RF]

*NOTE: The sponsors will devote its middle commercial time to the first public showing of official films of the
Navy's latest guided missiles and research.

6.12 [--] Suspense: THE NEWCOMER
17Nov1953 CBS Tue
written by Robert Skutch
starring
Zachary Scott
Jane Sutherland
Synopsis:
A story of a brash stranger in a small Western town who changes his ways when arrested for the murder of a local belle.[RF]

6.13 [--] Suspense: MY SHORT WALK TO FREEDOM
24Nov1953 CBS Tue
written by James P. Cavanagh
starring
Joseph Anthony
John Baragrey
Nehemiah Persoff
Synopsis:
A Hungarian patriot escapes from a Communist concentration camp by simply walking out. Geza Garamy plans his
escape. He slugs a guard, puts on his uniform, then joins a group of off-duty soldiers strolling through the
front gate on their way to a night of revelry in nearby Budapest. Safely arriving in his home in that city,
Garamy must then achieve the most difficult part of his flight to freedom, evading the inevitable search for
him and getting safely out of the city. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
A fugitive from a Russian concentration camp is cornered in his Budapest home and disguises himself and his
brother to try a get beyond the Iron Curtain. [RF]

6.14 [--] Suspense: LAUGH IT OFF
01Dec1953 CBS Tue
Teleplay by Philip Barry Jr. and Lorenzo Semple Jr.
Story by Charlotte Armstrong
starring
Dick Haymes
Synopsis:
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. [RF]

6.15 [--] Suspense: DAY NEVER CAME
08Dec1953 CBS Tue
written by Ben Radin
starring
Charles Korvin
Synopsis:
An imprisoned spy faces trial and plots to kill the only witness against him. [RF]

6.16 [--] Suspense: CAGLIOSTRO AND THE CHESS PLAYER
15Dec1953 CBS Tue
Written by Michael Dyne
starring
Jack Palance
Synopsis:
The weird tragedy of a monstrous mechanical chess player, based on the adventures of Count Alessandro di
Cagliostro, 18th Century Italian magician is dramatized.
The story is set in Poland where the cunning magician inveigles King Stanislaus into a chess game with his
mechanical genius. Meanwhile Cagliostro's intriguing carries him into a love affair with a beautiful countess
who agrees to run away with him bringing her jewels of course. The secret of the chess player is revealed
as Cagliostro sets the stage for his greatest coup: a triumph over the chess loving King and a midnight flight
with the Countess. But the charlatan underestimates his opponent, for the King's encyclopedic knowledge of
chess proves to be the magician's downfall. [RF]

6.17 [--] Suspense: THE GIFT OF FEAR
22Dec1953 CBS Tue
written by James P. Cavanagh
starring
Paul Hartman
Dennis O'Keefe
Pud Flanagan
Synopsis:
A little boy in a department store and a night watchman who likes toys better than people are featured in this
odd Christmas tale. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
A youngster while visiting toyland, is warned by his mother that bad little boys get locked in dark closets
by watchmen.
Later that day the boy slips out of his home and goes back to the story to buy his mother a Christmas gift.
He is locked in and suddenly confronted in the toy department by the man he had been warned against. Terrified,
the boy tries to get away, leading to a suspenseful sequence against a background of toys. [RF]

6.18 [--] Suspense: MR. NOBODY
29Dec1953 CBS Tue
written by Richard Lortz
starring
Constance Bennett
Art Carney
Synopsis:
A wealthy vicious woman turns a good-hearted but naive tramp into a pawn in her evil plans. [RF]

6.19 [--] Suspense: DIAMONDS IN THE SKY
05Jan1954 CBS Tue
written by John Clare
starring
Annabella ......... Nina Marrais
Eddie Garr
Jackson Young
Synopsis:
A gang of smugglers, diamonds and a beautiful woman add up to trouble for the pilot on a trans-Atlantic flight.[RF]
Synopsis 2:
Beautiful Nina Marrais formerly of the French underground gets involved with an American airline pilot and
involves him with a gang of gems smugglers on his route from Paris to Montreal.
*NOTE: French star Annabella first television appearance.

6.20 [--] Suspense: THE SCRAP IRON CURTAIN
12Jan1954 CBS Tue
written by Reginald Lawrence
starring
Bart Burns ........ Baclav Uhlik
Synopsis:
Dramatization of 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 to the town of Waldmuenchen in the Western zone of Germany.[RF]

*NOTE: Presented in conjunction with Radio Free Europe.

6.21 [--] Suspense: THE HUNTED
19Jan1954 CBS Tue
Written by Ben Radin
starring
John Archer
Augusta Dabney
Helmut Dantine
Synopsis:
The second wife of a ski-lodge owner suspects her husband of the murder of his first wife.[RF]

6.22 [--] Suspense: AN AFFAIR WITH A GHOST
26Jan1954 CBS Tue
written by Ben Radin
starring
Darren McGavin
Felicia Montealegre
Synopsis:
A dead French underground leader returns to save a band of hostages when a Nazi collaborator goes back on his promise.[RF]

6.23 [--] Suspense: THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T TALK
02Feb1954 CBS Tue
Written by Paul Monash
Narrated by Quentin Reynolds
starring
Harry Townes ...... George DuPre
Peter Capell
Stefan Schnabel
Karen Price
Synopsis:
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. [RF]

*NOTE: DuPre told an exciting and completely credible story to Reynolds. He said that he was a British
Intelligence agent who underwent fiendish tortures at the hands of the Nazis in Trance during World War 2.
Despite this he refused to reveal his identity and his work to the Gestapo.
Reynolds published a book relating the brave man's great work. Alter it'hit the stands. It was discovered
that the whole yarn was a figment of DuPre's imagination, DuPre was unmasked by a Calgary newspaperman
Douglas Collins.
George DuPre perpetrated the greatest hoax of modern times; and managed to "take in" world-famed Quentin
Reynolds as well as Bennett Cerf, astute publisher of Random House books.
The "Suspense" tale will show how the hoax was discovered and Reynolds will explain, at the end of the show,
what made a man like DuPre make up such a fantastic and believable story.
Quentin Reynolds had published the story he wrote about Dupre's story to November's Reader's Digest and then
published an apology for having presented pure-fiction.

6.24 [--] Suspense: THE MOONSTONE
09Feb1954 CBS Tue
Teleplay by Michael Dyne
Story by Wilkie Collins
starring
Phyllis Kirk
Noel Leslie
Synopsis:
A young girl inherits a collection of Far Eastern gems from her eccentric uncle. Among them is "The Moonstone,"
on which, she is told, there is a powerful curse. [RF]
*NOTE: This was the first detective story ever written.

6.25 [--] Suspense: THE EXECUTION
16Feb1954 CBS Tue
written by James P. Cavanagh
story by Faith Baldwin
starring
Joseph Anthony
Katharine Bard
Synopsis:
After a War department telegram reveals her son's heroic death in battle unseals the lips of a mother involved
in a 10-year-old tragedy involving her brutal husband. [RF]

6.26 [--] Suspense: DEATH OF THE SCREEN
23Feb1954 CBS Tue
written by James P. Cavanagh
starring
Don Hanmer
Paul Langton
Synopsis:
A frantic wife sits by her TV set, watching a public dinner where
a deranged man is getting ready to kill her husband. [RF]

6.27 [--] Suspense: I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR
02Mar1954 CBS Tue
written by James P. Cavanagh
starring
Nancy Kelly
Royal Dano
Synopsis:
The story of the first woman juror in the United States in 1870 Laramie, Wyoming. A woman finds the man she
is to marry has been killed and the killer acquitted. Two more killings take place and she starts a crusade
that ends up with women on the jury. [RF]

*NOTE: The Mystery Writers of America, through it's executive vice president Will Oursler presents a special
award to "Suspens" in recognition of the program's contribution to the field of mystery and suspense writing.

6.28 [--] Suspense: BEFORE THE ACT
09Mar1954 CBS Tue
written by Ben Radin
starring
Jeffrey Lynn
Jo Van Fleet
Synopsis:
A young bank official is the intended scapegoat of a carefully designed plan to rob the vault of $100,000.
The plan is the brain child of the secretary of the embezzling bank president. [RF]

6.29 [--] Suspense: THE FOURTH DEGREE
16Mar1954 CBS Tue
written by Frank P. DeFelitta
starring
Joseph Wiseman
Irene Cowan
Synopsis:
Police try to get a confession without using the third degree. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
A psychiatrist makes a weird experiment in a last ditch attempt to get a key witness in a homicide case to talk.[RF]

6.30 [--] Suspense: THE TENTH REUNION
23Mar1954 CBS Tue
Teleplay by Ellen Violett
Based on the novel "Whatever Happened to Daisy Ward?" by Augusta Rodgers.
starring
Patricia Barry ... Daisy
John Dall ........ Ernest
Margaret Hayes
Synopsis:
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.

6.31 [--] Suspense: TORMENT
30Mar1954 CBS Tue
written by Michael Dyne
starring
Martin Kosleck .... Hagen
Luise Rainer
Synopsis:
The wife of a condemned prisoner races against time to save him by appealing to his old friend, the
police chief of an Iron Curtain country. [RF]

[--] Suspense: THE OPEN TRANSOM
06Apr1954 CBS Tue [postponed]
written by James P. Cavanagh

Auto-Lite kills -"Suspense" for one time only tonight in order to present the "Easter. Parade of Stars"
from the automobile show in New York.
Featured on the KNXT (2) program at 9:30 will be Denise Lor, Peggy Ann Garner, Ann Rutherford, Buff Cobb,
Roxanne, Mary Sinclair, Eva Gabor, Miss America Evelyn Margaret Ay, Nancy Olson and hostess Irene Dunne.

6.32 [--] Suspense: OPERATION: BARRACUDA
13Apr1954 CBS Tue
written by Von Stuart
starring
Frank Marth ...... Lt. Captain Richter
Otto Preminger ... Captain von Weissenborn
Dana Wynter ...... Patricia Richter
Synopsis:
A German U-Boat Captain crashes his vessel along the Atlantic coast at the end of World War II. He and
his lieutenant escape the sinking vessel which contains the personal fortune of Nazi leader Herman Goering.
An attempted salvage years later turns into a bloodfest. [RF]

6.33 [--] Suspense: THE RETURN JOURNEY
20Apr1954 CBS Tue
starring
Art Carney
Kay Medford
Roxanne
Synopsis:
A window washer is tempted by an unguarded amount of money and realizes the error in his judgement
all too soon. [RF]

6.34 [--] Suspense: THE TERROR BEGINS
27Apr1954 CBS Tue
Teleplay by Paul Monash
Based on the book "The Secret History of Stalin's Crimes" by Alexander Orlov
starring
Stefan Schnabel .. Stalin
Everett Sloane ... Nikolayev
Ben Astar
Synopsis:
The story of how Stalin held a grip on the Russian people after assassinating S.M. Kirov. [RF]

6.35 [--] Suspense: SMOKE
04May1954 CBS Tue
Teleplay by Gore Vidal
Based on the story by William Faulkner
starring
E.G. Marshall
George Mitchell
Synopsis:
The residents of a sleepy southern town are convinced that a crotchety landowner was murdered by one of
his twin sons. The local prosecutor, however, has no evidence to charge his chief suspect with the crime.
That's when he sets a trap involving a safe deposit box and cigar smoke. [RF]

6.36 [--] Suspense: OPERATION: NIGHTMARE
11May1954 CBS Tue
written by James P. Cavanagh
starring
Anne Burr ....... Ann Bernatitus
Douglas Rodgers
Synopsis:
Dramatization of the heroics of nurse Ann Bernatitus during the Battle of Bataan is told. [RF]

6.37 [--] Suspense: BREAKOUT
18May1954 CBS Tue
written by George Bellak
starring
Anthony Ross
Synopsis:
A prison riot breaks out and a guard is taken hostage. The inmates want the keys to the main gate in
exchange for the guard. [RF]

6.38 [--] Suspense: FINGERPRINT
25May1954 CBS Tue
starring
John Emery
Synopsis:
A true story taken from the cases of Alfonse Bertillon, chief of the Identification Bureau of the Paris Police in
the early 1900's. Bertillon invented the first system of crime detection through the use of physical features.[RF]

6.39 [--] Suspense: RACE AGAINST MURDER
01Jun1954 CBS Tue
written by Ben Radin
Synopsis:
A young doctor leaves his practice to find a cure for polio after watching his patients suffer. [RF]

6.40 [--] Suspense: NORTH SIDE
08Jun1954 CBS Tue
Adapted by Stanley Niss
Based on a magazine article by George Barrett called, "Dial LE 4-6466 for Murder"
starring
Edward Binns
Synopsis:
The true story of the workings of a New York homicide squad as it goes about the solution of a brutal murder. [RF]

6.41 [--] Suspense: THE PISTOL SHOT
15Jun1954 CBS Tue
starring
Hurd Hatfield
Dana Wynter
Synopsis:
An Army Captain wants revenge on a fellow officer in 19th century Russia. The young Captain has bested
him in cards and love. [RF]

6.42 [--] Suspense: STRING
22Jun1954 CBS Tue
starring
Harry Townes .... Douglas Stringfellow
Jack Lord
Richard Merrill
Synopsis:
A thirty man secret unit started by President Roosevelt during World War II is captured and tortured at
the Belsen concentration camp before escaping, this is their story. [RF]

6.43 [--] Suspense: THE HUNTED
29Jun1954 CBS Tue
Producer David Heilwell
written by Ben Radin
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Settings John Ward
Music Billy Halle
starring
Ward Bond ....... Bill Meeker
John Kerr ....... Derek
Jane DuFrayne ... Sylvia Mason
Steve Parker .... John Mason
Synopsis:
After a wild game is caught with killing animals at a wildlife refuge, the game warden sentences him to a
ten minute head start and three bullets as he becomes the target in "The Hunt". [RF]

6.44 [--] Suspense: THE GIRL IN CAR THIRTY-TWO
06Jul1954 CBS Tue
written by Thomas Walsh
starring
Edie Adams
Gene Barry
Synopsis:
An investigator puts his life in danger after he falls for the woman he is tailing. [RF]

6.45 [--] Suspense: CONVERSATIONS AT AN INN
13Jul1954 CBS Tue
written by Michael Dyne
starring
Jacques Aubuchon
Mildred Natwick
Maria Riva
Synopsis:
A bicyclist makes up fantastic tales of murder on "clues" she finds along her rides. She tells an elaborate
tale when she finds a shoe and a lighter which is very close to the truth. [RF]

6.46 [--] Suspense: ONCE A KILLER
20Jul1954 CBS Tue
Adapted for television by James P. Cavanagh
Based on a story by Gertrude Schweitzer
starring
Martin E. Brooks
Lenka Peterson
Michael Strong
Synopsis:
A woman's faith in a hoodlum is destroyed when the police prevail upon her to get him to surrender. [RF]

6.47 [--] Suspense: MAIN FEATURE: DEATH
(aka Weekend Special: Death)
27Jul1954 CBS Tue
written by Frank DeFelitta
starring
Nina Foch
Synopsis:
A woman gets locked in an empty theater by mistake and encounters a pair of killers who break in to rob the safe. [RF]

6.48 [--] Suspense: THE LAST STAND
03Aug1954 CBS Tue
written by George Bellak
starring
Pat Hingle
Joan Lorring
Synopsis:
A would-be recluse's best friend discovers gold on his land. He realizes his only security is his friend's
death but he is thwarted in the effort of murder by some fast-traveling news. [RF]

6.49 [--] Suspense: THE IRON COP
10Aug1954 CBS Tue
written by Frank DeFelitta
starring
Ray Walston
J. Pat O'Malley
Sara Seegar
Synopsis:
A policeman is about to reture when his niece is murdered. He resolves to find the killer but has to pit his
wits against an "electronic brain" to do so. [RF]

6.50 [--] Suspense: BARN BURNING
17Aug1954 CBS Tue
Producer David Heilweil
Teleplay by Gore Vidal
Based on William Faulkner's short story
Directed by Robert Mulligan
starring
E.G. Marshall ..... Abner Snopes
Beatrice Straight.. Mrs. de Spain
Peter Cookson ..... Major de Spain
Charles Taylor .... Boy
James Reese ....... Justice of the Peace
Synopsis:
A mentally incapacitated war hero seeks revenge against society. [RF]
 

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