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The Best Episodes of Suspense

Every episode of Suspense ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Suspense!

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...
Genre:Drama
Network:CBS

Best Episodes Summary

"Death of an Editor" is the best rated episode of "Suspense". It scored 7.5/10 based on 33 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/12/1953. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Scrap Iron Curtain".

  • Death of an Editor
    7.5/1033 votes
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    #1 - Death of an Editor

    Season 5 Episode 35 - Aired 5/12/1953

    A militant editor's death is plotted and carried out by foreign agents.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Scrap Iron Curtain
    7.2/1031 votes
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    #2 - The Scrap Iron Curtain

    Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 1/12/1954

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Cask of Amontillado
    7.0/1093 votes
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    #3 - The Cask of Amontillado

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/11/1949

    In World War II Italy, Count Montressor has watched with horror as his former stable boy became a powerful Nazi general. In the process, General Fortanato has murdered the Count's sister and stolen his wife. Knowing the General plans to murder him, Count Montressor lures him into the palace's catacombs to taste the rare cask of Amontillado he has procured.

    Director: Robert Stevens

    Writer: N/A

  • They Haven't Killed Me Yet
    7.0/1044 votes
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    #4 - They Haven't Killed Me Yet

    Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 2/24/1953

    An Asian-American agent's life is in jeopardy while attempting to break a powerful protection racket in Chinatown. Based on the work of Gon Sam Mue.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Sister
    6.9/1031 votes
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    #5 - The Sister

    Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 9/29/1953

    The tragic tale of a pair of recluses whose lives are brought into focus for the first time after years of frustration and jealousy.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Doors on the 13th Floor
    6.8/1067 votes
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    #6 - The Doors on the 13th Floor

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 5/31/1949

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Case of Lady Sannox
    6.8/1059 votes
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    #7 - The Case of Lady Sannox

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 12/27/1949

    Lady Sannox, the toast of London society, carries on an obvious affair with Douglas Stone, an arrogant, young surgeon. Lord Sannox, a retired star of the stage, is thought to be a clueless old man unaware of the liaison. After discussing with the Lady his plan to murder her husband so they can marry, Stone is hired by a desperate man to perform a questionable operation on his wife. Lord Sannox, we learn, is not as oblivious to his wife's infidelity as he appears.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Foggy Night Visitor
    6.8/1029 votes
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    #8 - The Foggy Night Visitor

    Season 3 Episode 33 - Aired 4/10/1951

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    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Night Drive
    6.8/1044 votes
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    #9 - Night Drive

    Season 4 Episode 26 - Aired 2/26/1952

    Mrs. Haley takes her horse to blacksmith Bob to have its shoes checked since she'll be traveling alone by buggy to meet her husband at the train station. She's delighted when Dr. Tabor, whose wife was one of two women murdered in the woods along the way, asks if his sister can ride along. As they approach the spot of the two unsolved crimes, the behavior of Mrs. Haley's passenger becomes unsettling.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Tortured Hand
    6.8/1034 votes
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    #10 - The Tortured Hand

    Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 12/16/1952

    A 19th century nobleman is tortured with pain in his hand, the one he used to commit murder defending his family's honor.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Mutiny Below
    6.8/1047 votes
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    #11 - Mutiny Below

    Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 2/3/1953

    After saving the chief engineer's life, Danny and Snow are hired as watch officers on a rusty steamer traveling the Indian Ocean. Reading a newspaper story about a stolen diamond being smuggled into Australia, the boiler room crew becomes convinced that Danny and Snow have the jewel. They stage a mutiny, even though the old ship is about to sink.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dead Ernest
    6.7/1053 votes
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    #12 - Dead Ernest

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/3/1949

    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.

    Director: Robert Stevens

    Writer: N/A

  • Post Mortem
    6.7/1027 votes
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    #13 - Post Mortem

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 5/10/1949

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Day of Infamy
    6.7/1028 votes
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    #14 - Day of Infamy

    Season 4 Episode 27 - Aired 3/4/1952

    The story opens in Germany, where a young girl loses face with Herr Goebels and enlists into the espionage service of the Japanese and sets herself up in Hawaii.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Four Days to Kill
    6.7/1028 votes
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    #15 - Four Days to Kill

    Season 4 Episode 28 - Aired 3/11/1952

    Johnny, a professional assassin with a hair-trigger temper, is sent by his boss to Havana to do a job. His target is his former mentor, Barney Moyer, the man who taught him everything he knows about killing. That's why the intended victim knows Johnny will spend three days watching him and move in for the kill on the fourth; Barney anticipates Johnny's every move.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Mascot
    6.7/1090 votes
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    #16 - The Mascot

    Season 5 Episode 43 - Aired 7/7/1953

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Suspicion
    6.6/1049 votes
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    #17 - Suspicion

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/8/1949

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    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Parcel
    6.6/1054 votes
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    #18 - The Parcel

    Season 2 Episode 28 - Aired 3/14/1950

    Tommy, an errand boy, hangs around a hot dog stand when he's not in transit. The stand, a front for criminal enterprises, proves dangerous when he's hired by a shady character to deliver a package at exactly 5PM that evening. With time to kill, he goes to a baseball game. Tommy doesn't realize that the package contains 20 grand from a payroll heist and that a pair of criminals know it's in his possession.

    Director: Robert Stevens

    Writer: N/A

  • I'm No Hero
    6.6/1040 votes
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    #19 - I'm No Hero

    Season 2 Episode 41 - Aired 6/20/1950

    Dr. Joe Parker and his family are awakened by a gun-wielding criminal demanding treatment for his brother. The man's in serious condition after a bullet pierced his lung. With a pistol pointing at their daughter, the doctor and his wife are forced to perform surgery despite his protests that the patient requires hospital treatment to survive.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Monkey's Paw
    6.6/1025 votes
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    #20 - The Monkey's Paw

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/3/1950

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    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • On a Country Road
    6.6/1050 votes
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    #21 - On a Country Road

    Season 3 Episode 29 - Aired 3/13/1951

    Running out of gas on a foggy back road in Maine, a couple become frightened by news reports of a murderous woman who's escaped from an asylum. Searching for help, the two take refuge in an abandoned shack. When an hysterical woman appears at the window wanting refuge, they're convinced she's the lunatic that's on the loose.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Frisco Payoff
    6.6/1042 votes
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    #22 - Frisco Payoff

    Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 11/20/1951

    Postal inspector Winters has infiltrated a criminal gang and their big plan is about to go down. A postal employee drops a $120,000 in bonds out a back window to Winters waiting in an alley. Needing time to switch the real bonds with phonies, he makes up a story about being robbed and knocked unconscious. The boss, Cruze is not amused and gives Winters two hours to find the bonds and bring them back, or be rubbed out.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Fingers of Fear
    6.6/1041 votes
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    #23 - Fingers of Fear

    Season 4 Episode 36 - Aired 5/13/1952

    A policeman searches for the killer of a young woman.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Debt
    6.6/1042 votes
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    #24 - The Debt

    Season 4 Episode 38 - Aired 5/27/1952

    A young drifter is robbed by two other hobos after hopping off a train. Making his way to a country store, he's offered refuge from the rain by the young woman and her father who run the business. During the night the store is robbed and the old man is murdered. The drifter's first instinct is to run, but he quickly figures out who the real murderers are.

    Director: Robert Stevens

    Writer: N/A

  • Kiss Me Again, Stranger
    6.6/1029 votes
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    #25 - Kiss Me Again, Stranger

    Season 5 Episode 31 - Aired 4/14/1953

    A serial killer is on the loose in 1946 London with five victims so far. Elderly Mrs. Thompson rents a room to a secretive young Tim Matthews and is convinced he's the murderer. She calls police after discovering a knife in his room. Meanwhile, Tim has taken a young woman he's obsessed with on a picnic in the country. Having been discharged from the Royal Air Force for physical reasons, he's insanely jealous of her former boyfriend, a strapping man who had served during the war.

    Director: Robert Mulligan

    Writer: N/A