6.3/1040 votes#1 - The Old Lady of Bayeux
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/2/1952
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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- NaN/100 votes
#2 - Call From a Killer
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/9/1952
The tale is about a killer who tries to hide out with his wartime buddy, unaware that the buddy is now a policeman.
Director: N/A
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- 6.0/1038 votes
#3 - The Return of Dr. Bourdette
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 9/16/1952
A detective searches for a killer and traces him to a wax museum.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.5/1034 votes
#4 - Set-Up For Death
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 9/23/1952
Mobster Kip Caley is released from prison after serving ten years and proclaims he's "going straight." His old criminal cronies, however, intend to involve him in a hold-up after breaking his resolve to stay honest. Boss McLean gets him a greeters job at a hotel restaurant where he falls for a woman who works there. Her intention to help Kip by warning the police about the impending robbery put Kip's life on the line.
Director: N/A
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- 5.6/1037 votes
#5 - The Beach of Falesa
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 9/30/1952
Wiltshire is the third man sent by a trading company to work on a small Polynesian island; the previous two had strangely died. Upon arriving he encounters his competitor, Case, a man determined to keep the island to himself. Months later after Wiltshire marries a native woman, the natives refuse to trade with him because Case has convinced the superstitious people that the woman is "taboo" and cursed. Wiltshire refuses to leave the island as Case wants and takes him on in the jungle.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#6 - The Man in the Mirror
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/7/1952
Two men look exactly alike. One is the actual criminal and the other the innocent sap who gets nailed.
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- 6.4/1043 votes
#7 - Blue Panther
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 10/14/1952
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.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#8 - The Man Who Had Seven Hours
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 10/21/1952
A Hollywood assistant director in a stop-over in Paris is attacked by criminals on the Montmarte.
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- NaN/100 votes
#9 - All Hallow's Eve
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 10/28/1952
In 1880s London, Mr. Markheim stabs to death a pawnbroker whose wealth he has long envied. Markheim says he intends take some of the businessman's riches, marry, and become a saintly man. An otherworldly visitor who knows Markheim intimately informs him that he will never change his evil ways and therefore should kill again.
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- NaN/100 votes
#10 - The Moving Target
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/11/1952
Based on the true story of a Hungarian sharpshooter at the 1952 Olympic Games, this episode focused on an athlete whose father is held as collateral so that the athlete will not try to defect to the west. At the end of the program, a public service announcement for Radio Free Europe is heard.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.7/1036 votes
#11 - Monsieur Vidocq
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 11/18/1952
A series of thefts at France's national museum threatens to become an international issue. Scotland Yard sends Williams to Paris to request help from the city's renowned, retired police commissioner, Monsieur Vidocq. Vidocq sets up a meeting with a highly-placed criminal who can lead them to the guilty, while also arranging for Williams to be killed when they all meet at a dangerous, seedy bar.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#12 - The Whispering Killer
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 11/25/1952
A mobster is tripped up by a simple law he overlooks.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.0/1041 votes
#13 - A Time of Innocence
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 12/2/1952
Middle-aged Henry wants to divorce his London wife, Carol, and return home to America, but she intends to keep all of their savings. After striking up a romance with his young secretary, Henry sends out announcements saying Carol has unexpectedly died on an American trip. A friend of Carol's finds this suspicious and goes to Scotland Yard, forcing Henry and his secretary to hop a boat incognito and head across the Atlantic.
Director: N/A
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- 5.8/1033 votes
#14 - The Girl Who Saw Tomorrow
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 12/9/1952
A neurotic woman becomes distressed when she sees her best friend becoming successful.
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- 6.8/1034 votes
#15 - 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
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- 5.7/1031 votes
#16 - The Deadly Lamb
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 12/23/1952
A woman becomes the object of affection between two brothers in this romantic triangle story.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#17 - The Invisible Killer
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 12/30/1952
Pilot Dan Crowley is grounded by his doctor for his intense behavior. A delusional man who's constantly trying to prove himself, he believes the doctor's daughter should be his, even though she is happily engaged to his boss. When the couple and the doctor go for a hunting trip in the woods, Dan follows and, at night, begins firing on their cabin using a rifle with an infrared scope.
Director: Robert Mulligan
Writer: N/A
- 5.9/1033 votes
#18 - Little Camorra
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 1/6/1953
Convinced that she is cursed by an old family vendetta, a woman tries to convince her American fiance of the threat.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#19 - Mr. Matches
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 1/13/1953
An arsonist-for-hire dubbed "Mr. Matches" has been been torching buildings all around the city. Bernard Frank, head of the fire bureau, knows who he's looking for because he's spotted in the crowd at each of his jobs admiring his work. To catch "Mr. Matches" in the act, the department has an ex-con hire him to take down a building they're monitoring. His capture becomes personal after Frank's son is killed in one of the arsonist's fires.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.0/1035 votes
#20 - Vacancy for Death
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 1/20/1953
Clara and Sam Warren own a run-down boarding house which acts as a front for their real business: arranging for their boarders to have "accidents." One particular evening, Sam and a partner bring home a renter, knock him out cold and turn on the gas. It finally becomes clear to Clara what type of man her husband really is.
Director: Robert Mulligan
Writer: N/A
- 4.1/1019 votes
#21 - Career
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 1/27/1953
A British agent wants to give up her spying in Nazi Germany in this story of espionage.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1047 votes
#22 - 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
- 6.2/1036 votes
#23 - A Study in Stone
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 2/10/1953
After carefully faking insanity, a sculptor is acquitted of his wife's murder, but he finds nature's justice cannot be circumvented.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#24 - The Quarry
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 2/17/1953
After preventing a stranger from being shot outside of his hotel, widower Don Ashley realizes why a pair of thugs have been trailing him for days--the goons had the two similar-looking men confused. The man he saved, Gorden, had the misfortune of witnessing a mob hit and they want to silence the only man who saw what they did. With the deadly duo staking out the lobby, Don hides his face and races past the pair. Again mistaking Don for their actual prey, the two give chase. This should give Gorden the chance to contact the police and tell his story.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1043 votes
#25 - 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
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The Best Episodes of Suspense Season 5
Every episode of Suspense Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Suspense Season 5!
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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Season 5 Ratings Summary
"The Old Lady of Bayeux" is the best rated episode of "Suspense" season 5. It scored 6.3/10 based on 40 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/2/1952. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Call From a Killer".