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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!

Best episode
S5E35 Death of an Editor
7.533 votes
Worst episode
S5E21 Career
4.120 votes
Top season
Season 6
6.6avg
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    Suspense Season 5 Episode 35 - Death of an Editor
    7.5/10(33 votes)

    S5:E35

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Suspense Season 2 Episode 6 - The Cask of Amontillado
    7.0/10(106 votes)

    S2:E6

    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:Unknown

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  3. Suspense Season 6 Episode 20 - The Scrap Iron Curtain
    7.2/10(31 votes)

    S6:E20

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Suspense Season 1 Episode 9 - Dead Ernest
    7.0/10(63 votes)

    S1:E9

    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:Unknown

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  5. Suspense Season 5 Episode 25 - They Haven't Killed Me Yet
    7.0/10(48 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Suspense Season 1 Episode 13 - The Doors on the 13th Floor
    6.8/10(79 votes)

    S1:E13

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Suspense Season 5 Episode 15 - The Tortured Hand
    6.9/10(37 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Suspense Season 2 Episode 17 - The Case of Lady Sannox
    6.8/10(62 votes)

    S2:E17

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Suspense Season 6 Episode 5 - The Sister
    6.9/10(31 votes)

    S6:E5

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Suspense Season 5 Episode 43 - The Mascot
    6.7/10(101 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Suspense Season 4 Episode 26 - Night Drive
    6.8/10(45 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Suspense Season 4 Episode 34 - The Letter
    6.8/10(44 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Suspense Season 4 Episode 20 - The Spider
    6.8/10(41 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Suspense Season 1 Episode 8 - A Night at the Inn
    6.7/10(70 votes)

    S1:E8

    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.

    Director:Robert Stevens
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Suspense Season 5 Episode 22 - Mutiny Below
    6.7/10(55 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Suspense Season 3 Episode 29 - On a Country Road
    6.7/10(52 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Suspense Season 3 Episode 33 - The Foggy Night Visitor
    6.8/10(29 votes)

    S3:E33

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Suspense Season 4 Episode 12 - Frisco Payoff
    6.7/10(44 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Suspense Season 4 Episode 36 - Fingers of Fear
    6.7/10(42 votes)

    S4:E36

    A policeman searches for the killer of a young woman.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Suspense Season 1 Episode 10 - Post Mortem
    6.7/10(29 votes)

    S1:E10

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Suspense Season 2 Episode 28 - The Parcel
    6.6/10(57 votes)

    S2:E28

    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:Unknown

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  22. Suspense Season 4 Episode 27 - Day of Infamy
    6.7/10(28 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Suspense Season 4 Episode 28 - Four Days to Kill
    6.7/10(28 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Suspense Season 2 Episode 10 - Suspicion
    6.6/10(51 votes)

    S2:E10

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Suspense Season 4 Episode 38 - The Debt
    6.6/10(46 votes)

    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.

    Director:Robert Stevens
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Death of an Editor" is the best rated episode of Suspense. It scored 7.5/10 from 33 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on May 12, 1953. This episode scored 0.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Cask of Amontillado".

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