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The Best Episodes of Suspense Season 5

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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 authors. Classic authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie,

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

    #1 - The Old Lady of Bayeux

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

    #2 - Call From a Killer

    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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  3. Suspense Season 5 Episode 3 - The Return of Dr. Bourdette
    6.0/10(41 votes)

    #3 - The Return of Dr. Bourdette

    S5:E3

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Suspense Season 5 Episode 4 - Set-Up For Death
    5.6/10(36 votes)

    #4 - Set-Up For Death

    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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  5. Suspense Season 5 Episode 5 - The Beach of Falesa
    5.6/10(39 votes)

    #5 - The Beach of Falesa

    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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  6. Suspense Season 5 Episode 6 - The Man in the Mirror
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #6 - The Man in the Mirror

    S5:E6

    Two men look exactly alike. One is the actual criminal and the other the innocent sap who gets nailed.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Suspense Season 5 Episode 7 - Blue Panther
    6.3/10(45 votes)

    #7 - Blue Panther

    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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  8. Suspense Season 5 Episode 8 - The Man Who Had Seven Hours
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #8 - The Man Who Had Seven Hours

    S5:E8

    A Hollywood assistant director in a stop-over in Paris is attacked by criminals on the Montmarte.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Suspense Season 5 Episode 9 - All Hallow's Eve
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #9 - All Hallow's Eve

    S5:E9

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Suspense Season 5 Episode 10 - The Moving Target
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #10 - The Moving Target

    S5:E10

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Suspense Season 5 Episode 11 - Monsieur Vidocq
    5.8/10(38 votes)

    #11 - Monsieur Vidocq

    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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  12. Suspense Season 5 Episode 12 - The Whispering Killer
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #12 - The Whispering Killer

    S5:E12

    A mobster is tripped up by a simple law he overlooks.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Suspense Season 5 Episode 13 - A Time of Innocence
    5.9/10(44 votes)

    #13 - A Time of Innocence

    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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  14. Suspense Season 5 Episode 14 - The Girl Who Saw Tomorrow
    6.0/10(38 votes)

    #14 - The Girl Who Saw Tomorrow

    S5:E14

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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

    #15 - The Tortured Hand

    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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  16. Suspense Season 5 Episode 16 - The Deadly Lamb
    5.7/10(33 votes)

    #16 - The Deadly Lamb

    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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  17. Suspense Season 5 Episode 17 - The Invisible Killer
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #17 - The Invisible Killer

    S5:E17

    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:Unknown

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  18. Suspense Season 5 Episode 18 - Little Camorra
    5.8/10(38 votes)

    #18 - Little Camorra

    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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  19. Suspense Season 5 Episode 19 - Mr. Matches
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #19 - Mr. Matches

    S5:E19

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Suspense Season 5 Episode 20 - Vacancy for Death
    6.1/10(38 votes)

    #20 - Vacancy for Death

    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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  21. Suspense Season 5 Episode 21 - Career
    4.1/10(19 votes)

    #21 - Career

    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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  22. Suspense Season 5 Episode 22 - Mutiny Below
    6.8/10(50 votes)

    #22 - Mutiny Below

    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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  23. Suspense Season 5 Episode 23 - A Study in Stone
    6.2/10(39 votes)

    #23 - A Study in Stone

    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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  24. Suspense Season 5 Episode 24 - The Quarry
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #24 - The Quarry

    S5:E24

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Suspense Season 5 Episode 25 - They Haven't Killed Me Yet
    7.0/10(47 votes)

    #25 - They Haven't Killed Me Yet

    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
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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 43 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/2/1952. This episode is rated 6.3 points higher than the second-best, "Call From a Killer".