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The Best Episodes of Suspense Season 5

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    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 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. Suspense Season 5 Episode 31 - Kiss Me Again, Stranger
    6.6/10(31 votes)

    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.

    Director:Robert Mulligan
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Suspense Season 5 Episode 1 - The Old Lady of Bayeux
    6.3/10(43 votes)

    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...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Suspense Season 5 Episode 7 - Blue Panther
    6.3/10(47 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Suspense Season 5 Episode 14 - The Girl Who Saw Tomorrow
    6.2/10(42 votes)

    S5:E14

    A neurotic woman becomes distressed when she sees her best friend becoming successful.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Suspense Season 5 Episode 23 - A Study in Stone
    6.2/10(41 votes)

    S5:E23

    After carefully faking insanity, a sculptor is acquitted of his wife's murder, but he finds nature's justice cannot be circumvented.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Suspense Season 5 Episode 26 - The Kiss Off
    6.2/10(42 votes)

    S5:E26

    Tom Walker, an ex-convict who was wrongly convicted and just released, holds up a tax office and leaves behind an obvious clue as to his identity. He gives the bag of money to his patient girlfriend and sends her ahead to Florida saying he'll join her soon. Soon enough, he gets the expected visit from the DA and cop who wrongly convicted him. Tom intends to make fools of his former persecutors.

    Director:Robert Mulligan
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Suspense Season 5 Episode 27 - The Legend of Lizzie
    6.2/10(42 votes)

    S5:E27

    The story of accused axe-murderer Lizzie Borden is dramatized.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Suspense Season 5 Episode 40 - See No Evil
    6.2/10(45 votes)

    S5:E40

    A night club singer helps a gang plan a robbery, believing their promise not to harm the night watchman, her father.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Suspense Season 5 Episode 3 - The Return of Dr. Bourdette
    6.0/10(43 votes)

    S5:E3

    A detective searches for a killer and traces him to a wax museum.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Suspense Season 5 Episode 20 - Vacancy for Death
    6.0/10(40 votes)

    S5:E20

    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:Unknown

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  16. Suspense Season 5 Episode 13 - A Time of Innocence
    5.9/10(46 votes)

    S5:E13

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Suspense Season 5 Episode 18 - Little Camorra
    5.9/10(41 votes)

    S5:E18

    Convinced that she is cursed by an old family vendetta, a woman tries to convince her American fiance of the threat.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Suspense Season 5 Episode 11 - Monsieur Vidocq
    5.8/10(42 votes)

    S5:E11

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Suspense Season 5 Episode 33 - F.O.B. Vienna
    5.8/10(38 votes)

    S5:E33

    Lawrence Stevens, an American engineer, accompanies a shipment of lathes to an electrical factory in Vienna. A female reporter tells him about the huge black market for industrial machinery from the West. Corrupt businessmen are only too happy to sell products to the Communists and that his lathes are heading behind the iron Curtain to Poland.

    Director:Robert Mulligan
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Suspense Season 5 Episode 41 - The Signal Man
    5.8/10(26 votes)

    S5:E41

    A demented railroad signalman is tortured by fears that he is responsible for a series of train wrecks.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Suspense Season 5 Episode 16 - The Deadly Lamb
    5.7/10(35 votes)

    S5:E16

    A woman becomes the object of affection between two brothers in this romantic triangle story.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Suspense Season 5 Episode 4 - Set-Up For Death
    5.6/10(37 votes)

    S5:E4

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Suspense Season 5 Episode 5 - The Beach of Falesa
    5.6/10(40 votes)

    S5:E5

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Suspense Season 5 Episode 21 - Career
    4.1/10(20 votes)

    S5:E21

    A British agent wants to give up her spying in Nazi Germany in this story of espionage.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Suspense Season 5 Episode 2 - Call From a Killer
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S5:E2

    The tale is about a killer who tries to hide out with his wartime buddy, unaware that the buddy is now a policeman.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Death of an Editor" is the best rated episode of Suspense season 5. It scored 7.5/10 from 33 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on May 12, 1953. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "They Haven't Killed Me Yet".