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The Best Episodes of Suspense Season 4

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The Best Episodes of Suspense Season 4

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. 6.8/10(44 votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. 6.7/10(43 votes)

    #2 - 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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  3. 6.7/10(28 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. 6.7/10(28 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. 6.6/10(42 votes)

    #5 - 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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  6. 6.6/10(41 votes)

    #6 - Fingers of Fear

    S4:E36

    A policeman searches for the killer of a young woman.

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  8. 6.6/10(42 votes)

    #7 - 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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  9. 6.5/10(39 votes)

    #8 - 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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  10. 6.5/10(37 votes)

    #9 - 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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  11. 6.4/10(51 votes)

    #10 - Flare Week

    S4:E19

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

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  12. 6.4/10(44 votes)

    #11 - 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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  13. 6.2/10(38 votes)

    #12 - Fifty Beautiful Girls

    S4:E43

    A serial killer is murdering the dance hall girls.

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  14. 6.1/10(37 votes)

    #13 - The Red Signal

    S4:E21

    A supposedly fake medium is hired to a conduct a séance so Sir Alington, a psychiatrist, can observe a patient under stress. She warns the doctor, Clair and her husband Jack to avoid their homes because they are in danger. Her premonition turns out to be true because of insanity, murder, and secret loves.

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  15. 5.9/10(39 votes)

    #14 - The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1)

    S4:E29

    A two-part dramatization of Dickens' "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," about a man and his uncle vying for the same girl.

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  16. 5.9/10(39 votes)

    #15 - Remember Me

    S4:E47

    A former high-school basketball star, now broke and reduced to committing small-time hold-ups, kills an old man. With the police after him, he hides out in the apartment of a lonely woman who once had a crush on him in his high-school days.

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  17. 5.7/10(37 votes)

    #16 - Moonfleet (1)

    S4:E10

    A tale of pirates and buried treasure.

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  18. 5.7/10(36 votes)

    #17 - The Man Without a Face

    S4:E14

    Mrs. Collins arrives at the train station in town after a long stay with her mother. Despite the storm that's raging, her husband being away, and, she learns, a killer on the loose, she's determined to get back to her isolated house. Once home, the phone goes dead, the lights go out, and she realizes she's not alone.

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  19. 5.7/10(37 votes)

    #18 - Death Drum

    S4:E22

    The mayor of a French town reveals the identities of underground members, he says, to save the country from destruction by the invading Nazis. Having been moved to a neutral country, he's quickly kidnapped by allies and carried to the home of an English gentlemen to be executed as a traitor.

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  20. 5.5/10(39 votes)

    #19 - Routine Patrol

    S4:E18

    The story of a murder in a cabin in the Yukon territory.

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  21. 5.5/10(37 votes)

    #20 - Night of Reckoning

    S4:E42

    Story of counterespionage behind Chinese Communist lines in Korea.

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  22. 5.4/10(39 votes)

    #21 - Black Panther

    S4:E31

    A criminal uses a rare doll store as the front for his diamond smuggling racket. A detective stars snooping around after a man carrying a doll is shot in the subway and the murderer steals the doll's arm. The mobster gets wise to the cop, and to an inside job being pulled by people he trusts.

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  23. 5.4/10(37 votes)

    #22 - Night of Evil

    S4:E32

    Frenzy, fire and death are the results of an attempt to separate an old man from his fortune.

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  24. 5.4/10(33 votes)

    #23 - Her Last Adventure

    S4:E48

    Eva, a wealthy middle-aged woman, marries a man she barely knows and moves into his family estate, a dark, run-down mansion on the Massachusetts coast. She learns James was recently engaged to a young woman, but he dismisses it as an unimportant mistake. Investigating noises in the cellar, she finds the corpse of a young woman, half-buried in the coal pile.

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  25. 5.2/10(37 votes)

    #24 - North of Shanghai

    S4:E24

    American medical missionaries Dr. Paul Morgan and his wife are told to leave China as the Communists advance on the city. When he refuses, a Communist general kills his own wife who's under the doctor's care, then charges Morgan with murder and sentences him to death. The surgeon's execution is unexpectedly postponed when he's ordered to perform an emergency operation.

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    #25 - This Way Out

    S4:E1

    girl and fiance argue about carnival - goes in, watches show about murderers - displays about their deeds. is told to wait, as she has questions - he does not return, leaving her alone with likenesses of murderers. forced to find way out.

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"Night Drive" is the best rated episode of "Suspense" season 4. It scored 6.8/10 based on 44 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/26/1952. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Frisco Payoff".