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The Best Episodes of Suspense Season 3

Every episode of Suspense Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Suspense Season 3!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Suspense Season 3 Episode 33 - The Foggy Night Visitor
    6.8/10(29 votes)

    S3:E33

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. 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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  3. Suspense Season 3 Episode 6 - The Monkey's Paw
    6.6/10(26 votes)

    S3:E6

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Suspense Season 3 Episode 47 - Wisteria Cottage
    6.6/10(43 votes)

    S3:E47

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Suspense Season 3 Episode 32 - Go Home Dead Man
    6.5/10(39 votes)

    S3:E32

    Williams is a pilot who works for Scandinavian Export, flying by night to deliver unknown shipments to somewhere in the Arctic. Feeling something's fishy, he tries to quit but is strong-armed into making another flight. His bosses are smugglers and they plot his "accidental" death. When their attempt to murder him on a train fails, they plan an explosion with the help of the woman he believes is in love with him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Suspense Season 3 Episode 2 - A Pocketful of Murder
    6.4/10(41 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Suspense Season 3 Episode 25 - Double Entry
    6.4/10(39 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Suspense Season 3 Episode 30 - Telephone Call
    6.4/10(39 votes)

    S3:E30

    The Haskells are throwing a drunken New Year's Eve party in their New York apartment. Next door, Everett Kelsey has had enough of tending to the bitter supposedly invalid wife who treats him like dirt. He's just poisoned the shrew when he gets an unnerving phone call; the female on the line says that she saw what he did to his wife through the window. Kelsey doesn't realizes it's a prank call from one of the Haskell's tipsy party guests.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Suspense Season 3 Episode 12 - The Brush Off
    6.2/10(57 votes)

    S3:E12

    Ralph Farley, a struggling actor, overhears a plot to kill Roger Sherman, a powerful Hollywood agent. Ralph attempts to prevent the murder, but is thwarted by everyone from the police to Sherman himself.

    Director:Robert Stevens
    Writer:Sig Herzig

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  10. Suspense Season 3 Episode 22 - Dead Fall
    6.1/10(36 votes)

    S3:E22

    The innocent involvement of a young scientist in a touch-and-go duel between government agents and an espionage ring brings a surprising and thrilling climax.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Suspense Season 3 Episode 4 - Dark Shadows
    6.0/10(40 votes)

    S3:E4

    I. B. Trane lost his sight at the hands of brutal criminal Takama while he was in Japan on military duty. Trane's sixth sense tells him the barbarian is now in New York and that has him panicked for his life. The police and the FBI tell Trane that Takama died in a prison break over a year ago, but his gut tells him otherwise.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Suspense Season 3 Episode 16 - The Mallet
    5.8/10(42 votes)

    S3:E16

    A bellicose huckster travels the fairs of England shilling his magic elixir. The "doctor," as he's called, is befriended by a couple in a local tavern who proceed to get him intoxicated. The husband tells Dr. Potteton that he'd love to kill his greedy brother and asks him how he could go about it without being caught. The sideshow charlatan launches into a elaborate step by step instructions on how to get away with murder.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Suspense Season 3 Episode 3 - Edge of Panic
    5.7/10(43 votes)

    S3:E3

    Harry Martin is an insurance agent with an alcohol problem. In a drunk stupor he apparently murders a flirty blonde who was trying to buy a large annuity. He returns to his wife Alice a few minutes before the police arrive. Harry hides while his wife is taken to the police station. The police allow Alice to see the scene of the crime since she is desperate to find her husband innocent. Alice talks to the woman's doctor and later finds a note that convinces her it was a frame up. The police arrest Harry as he is trying to board a ship out of the country. Alice becomes ...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Suspense Season 3 Episode 18 - The Tip
    5.7/10(42 votes)

    S3:E18

    Elaine Court recently had a heart attack and needs relaxation, but she's stressed over a strange man she claims has been lurking about. With her husband at work, she walks into the apartment one afternoon to find that stranger waiting for her. Elaine is held hostage by the armed man who says he's just waiting for her husband to get home so that he can kill him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Suspense Season 3 Episode 35 - The Meeting
    5.7/10(38 votes)

    S3:E35

    The thief who just robbed and murdered a jeweler is trying to escape the office building when the police arrive. Sneaking down the hallways, he stumbles across a meeting of the International Association of Assassins, a group of mystery writers. They mistake him for famous author Bothwell Anderson, a writer who has come to speak to the group about his newest novel.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Suspense Season 3 Episode 31 - The Three of Silence
    5.6/10(42 votes)

    S3:E31

    Racketeer Frank Cadwallder isn't allowed to play cards at the speakeasy because of the huge debt he currently owes. He recruits a nobody off the street to play poker on his behalf, win their "sucker money," and split the take with him. The three gambles at the table have other plans for Frank; he's shot by one of them under the table.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Suspense Season 3 Episode 34 - The Juice Man
    5.3/10(38 votes)

    S3:E34

    A committee investigating racketeering and political corruption in Chinatown fails to get Chan Sou, a local leader to cooperate. The district attorney convinces a detective and a newspaper reporter to probe further and the two men convince the old man to testify. Before Chan Zu can meet with the investigators he's murdered and his daughter becomes the target of the criminals because they believe her father confided in her before he died.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Suspense Season 3 Episode 20 - Tough Cop
    4.8/10(47 votes)

    S3:E20

    Rookie cop Eddie Stone takes out his anger on suspects after Ruth, his fiancé, tells him she's fallen for another man. For two years he seethes, just hoping for the day the "other man" is brought into the police station. He finally comes face to face with the scoundrel who stole his girl--right after he's been dismissed from the force for brutal conduct.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Suspense Season 3 Episode 1 - Poison
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S3:E1

    A Britain in India awakens from a nap to discover a poisonous snake on his belly. The slightest movement on his part would mean death. It was placed on him by his hysterical wife.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Suspense Season 3 Episode 5 - Six to One
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S3:E5

    A released prisoner seeks to avenge himself on five "friends" who testified falsely against him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Suspense Season 3 Episode 7 - Criminals Mark
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S3:E7

    The story of a wife of an ex-criminal who tries to go straight but gets involved in another hold-up through his "pals."

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Suspense Season 3 Episode 8 - The Man Who Would Be King
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S3:E8

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Suspense Season 3 Episode 9 - Breakdown
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S3:E9

    A cruel and tyrannical office boss breaks his neck in a plane crash and is taken for dead until just before his body is cremated.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Suspense Season 3 Episode 10 - Halloween Hold Up
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S3:E10

    A gang wearing masks finds the perfect opportunity for a hold-up during Halloween.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Suspense Season 3 Episode 11 - Nightmare
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S3:E11

    A young father gets tragedy in double doses.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"The Foggy Night Visitor" is the best rated episode of Suspense season 3. It scored 6.8/10 from 29 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on April 10, 1951. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "On a Country Road".