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The Best Episodes of Suspense

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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...

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  1. Background image for Death of an Editor
    7.5/10(33 votes)

    #1 - Death of an Editor

    S5:E35

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for They Haven't Killed Me Yet
    7.0/10(46 votes)

    #2 - They Haven't Killed Me Yet

    S5:E25

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for The Foggy Night Visitor
    6.8/10(29 votes)

    #3 - The Foggy Night Visitor

    S3:E33

    No description available

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    Director:Unknown
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  4. Background image for The Tortured Hand
    6.8/10(36 votes)

    #4 - The Tortured Hand

    S5:E15

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

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  5. Background image for Mutiny Below
    6.8/10(49 votes)

    #5 - Mutiny Below

    S5:E22

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  6. Background image for Frisco Payoff
    6.7/10(43 votes)

    #6 - Frisco Payoff

    S4:E12

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Night Drive
    6.7/10(45 votes)

    #7 - Night Drive

    S4:E26

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  9. Background image for Day of Infamy
    6.7/10(28 votes)

    #8 - Day of Infamy

    S4:E27

    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.

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  10. Background image for Four Days to Kill
    6.7/10(28 votes)

    #9 - Four Days to Kill

    S4:E28

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  11. Background image for The Mascot
    6.7/10(96 votes)

    #10 - The Mascot

    S5:E43

    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.

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  12. Background image for The Monkey's Paw
    6.6/10(25 votes)

    #11 - The Monkey's Paw

    S3:E6

    No description available

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  13. Background image for On a Country Road
    6.6/10(50 votes)

    #12 - On a Country Road

    S3:E29

    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.

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  14. Background image for The Letter
    6.6/10(42 votes)

    #13 - The Letter

    S4:E34

    In 1880 France, a wealthy woman's determined her husband, becomes a success. After paying to the have him named the minister of justice, in exchange, he writes her a note guaranteeing the job. Only the notes's disappears, and she must find the letter and save the government.

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  15. Background image for Fingers of Fear
    6.6/10(41 votes)

    #14 - Fingers of Fear

    S4:E36

    A policeman searches for the killer of a young woman.

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  16. Background image for The Debt
    6.6/10(43 votes)

    #15 - The Debt

    S4:E38

    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.

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  17. Background image for Kiss Me Again, Stranger
    6.6/10(30 votes)

    #16 - Kiss Me Again, Stranger

    S5:E31

    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.

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  18. Background image for Wisteria Cottage
    6.5/10(42 votes)

    #17 - Wisteria Cottage

    S3:E47

    A young man with murderous intentions latches onto a woman and her daughters.

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  19. Background image for The Spider
    6.5/10(39 votes)

    #18 - The Spider

    S4:E20

    Scientists Bob and Muriel Torres honeymoon in rural Florida. Despite being warned that a professor and his son had gotten lost in the nearby swamp and were never seen again, Muriel goes exploring alone. With night approaching, she stumbles upon a shack inhabited by a blind former explorer. Muriel's fear escalates when the doctor shows off the two shrunken heads he made himself; he learned the skill directly from jungle natives.

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  20. Background image for Death Cargo
    6.5/10(37 votes)

    #19 - Death Cargo

    S4:E46

    A freighter bound for New Orleans for a cargo delivery encounters a great risk of spoiled fruit.

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  21. Background image for Double Entry
    6.4/10(38 votes)

    #20 - Double Entry

    S3:E25

    Bookkeeper Horace Maybee has been skimming money for years from the small finance company where he works. With auditors coming in to examine the books, he's desperate to come up with $25,000 in a hurry. He goes to a bookie, puts $500 on a dog race, and wins. As he's about to get his cash, the police stage a raid and Horace runs off with a huge sack of the criminals' cash.

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  22. Background image for Flare Week
    6.4/10(51 votes)

    #21 - Flare Week

    S4:E19

    The story of death and terror which springs from a sports scandal on a college campus.

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  23. Background image for The Crooked Frame
    6.4/10(44 votes)

    #22 - The Crooked Frame

    S4:E45

    Kelly Davis, the unscrupulous creator of "Sally Forth" comic books, announces she's retiring the character. This move puts her resentful staff of cartoonists out of work. She offers Webb the chance to write the stories for her "new idea"--an idea she's stealing from him. Kelly is found dead the next morning, and Webb is the obvious suspect.

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  24. Background image for A Pocketful of Murder
    6.3/10(40 votes)

    #23 - A Pocketful of Murder

    S3:E2

    Cocky newspaper reporter Turk Wilson has made it clear in articles and in person that he believes druggist Max Hensig murdered his wife. When Hensig is acquitted, he puts Wilson on notice that there are many undetectable ways to kill a man. Wilson's swagger turns to panic when a fellow reporter who borrowed his coat dies from a drug-resistant strain of flu.

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  25. Background image for The Old Lady of Bayeux
    6.3/10(41 votes)

    #24 - The Old Lady of Bayeux

    S5:E1

    Cécile Ledru, the companion of a rich widow, Joséphine Crozier, calls the police when she finds her dead body at the estate of her nephew, where they were staying. Mrs. Crozier has apparently died of a heart attack but Maigret, the investigating police inspector is not convinced...

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  26. Background image for Blue Panther
    6.3/10(44 votes)

    #25 - Blue Panther

    S5:E7

    Detective Ben Shaley has been hired to guard The Blue Panther, a valuable painting on loan to a gallery. During the invitation-only preview, both the painting and the necklace of a society art patron are stolen. The gallery's owner, Drexel Courtney, is willing to pay $15,000 for the painting's safe return. Shaley's attempts to negotiate with the thieves becomes an ordeal beach each is trying to double-cross the other.

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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 Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 5/12/1953. This episode scored 0.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "They Haven't Killed Me Yet".