17 episodes

Suspense - Season 1

First aired Jan 6, 1949Season 1

Browse all 17 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

Goodbye New York

NR
Jan 6, 1949

Ray Gardner is deep in debt and can't find work due to his ruthless ex-boss. Desperate and angry, he kills his boss and steals some money. His loyal wife Mary stands by him and the two make plans to flee New York. They spend a day filled with paranoia before leaving on the train without being noticed.

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Episode 2

Revenge

NR
Mar 1, 1949

A woman tries to escape her gangster husband by running away to Cuba with her new love.

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Episode 3

Suspicion

NR
Mar 15, 1949

Everyone's in a tizzy over the arsenic poisoner who's still at large; police think the murder might be a woman. In the Thomas household, doting old George acts surprised to find his weed poison (with arsenic) under the kitchen sink. His wife, a delicate woman with bad nerves, defends their cook, a woman they hired who came with no references. George becomes suspicious of their employee and has the hot cocoa she left for him analyzed. When the results come back positive, he races home to save his wife before it's too late.

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Episode 4

Cabin 3-B

NR
Mar 29, 1949

Shortly after a newlywed couple board a luxury liner for their honeymoon cruise, the man vanishes along with the fortune his wife game him as a wedding present. She reports his disappearance to the captain and is told that there is no record of either herself or her husband as passengers and that what she claims to have been their cabin doesn't exist.

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Episode 5

The Man Upstairs

NR
Apr 5, 1949

A woman complains about the man upstairs, but no one has ever seen him.

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Episode 6

After Dinner Story

NR
Apr 12, 1949

TMDB has not published a written overview for this episode yet.

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Episode 7

The Creeper

NR
Apr 19, 1949

A woman who works the night shift begs her husband to quit her job, because she fits the description of a maniacal killer's type of victim.

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Episode 8

A Night at the Inn

NR
Apr 26, 1949

Three merchant sailors and their enigmatic leader hide out at a British inn. They've been followed from India after stealing the priceless ruby eye from a holy statue. The grimy sailors ambush and kill the men who've come to retrieve the gem, unaware of how badly the statue wants its eye back. It arrives at the inn and, one by one, makes the thieves pay for their offense.

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Episode 9

Dead Ernest

NR
May 3, 1949

Ernest Bowers suffers an attack of catalepsy while crossing the street, lapsing into a coma that resembles death. Believing he was killed by a passing car, his body is sent to the city morgue. His coat, with a note in the pocket describing his medical condition, is taken by the owner of a secondhand clothing store and quickly sold. The couple who purchase the jacket finds the note and begins a race to save Ernest from a premature embalming.

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Episode 10

Post Mortem

NR
May 10, 1949

Following the sudden death of her husband, Josie marries Doc Archer, the man named beneficiary of her husband's life insurance policy. Investigator Westcott is suspicious after learning the doctor has a history of collecting such payouts. Westcott informs Josie that she is in danger of becoming her husband's next heavily insured "accident." She doesn't believe him--until she's almost killed when Doc "accidentally" knocks a sunlamp into the tub while she's bathing.

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Episode 11

The Monkey's Paw

NR
May 17, 1949

A talisman of great power can grant three wishes to its owner.

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Episode 12

Murder Through the Looking Glass

NR
May 24, 1949

A man awakens on a train with no memory of recent events. To make matters worse, a newspaper reveals he is wanted for murder.

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Episode 13

The Doors on the 13th Floor

NR
May 31, 1949

Elderly Agatha Leighton returns from a trip to find her apartment on the thirteenth floor has been robbed. As she attempts to call the police, someone grabs her. Sally, who lives down the hall, attempts to visit the old lady as she'd promised, but finds she's been locked in her apartment and the phone is dead. Through the door's peephole, she sees the building's desk clerk leaving Agatha's apartment. Sally realizes something bad has happened to the old lady.

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Episode 14

The Yellow Scarf

NR
Jun 7, 1949

In 1897 London, mysterious Mr. Bronson gives boarding to an attractive young woman from the streets. Hettie's purpose is to do housework and distract attention from his odd medical work. Bronson has two demands: she must not go out alone and must stay out of his laboratory. Restlessshe strikes up a romance with Tom, a handsome young mission worker. Suddenly, the cold Bronson turns jealous.

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Episode 15

Help Wanted

NR
Jun 14, 1949

An elderly man who's barely getting by looks for employment to continue giving his daughter the institutional help she requires. He receives an offer from a "Mr. X" that turns things around for him. That is, until he finds out that he must kill "Mr. X"'s wife's first husband who is blackmailing them

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Episode 16

Stolen Empire

NR
Jun 21, 1949

TMDB has not published a written overview for this episode yet.

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Episode 17

The Hands of Mr. Ottermole

NR
Jun 28, 1949

London is being plagued by a strangler who baffles police. Sgt. Ottermole investigates, but has a difficult time when an obnoxious reporter constantly gets in his way.