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The Worst Episodes of Suspense

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S5E21 Career
4.120 votes
Best episode
S5E35 Death of an Editor
7.533 votes
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Season 6
6.6avg
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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    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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  2. 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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  3. Suspense Season 2 Episode 29 - The Old Man's Badge
    5.4/10(56 votes)

    S2:E29

    Officer Malone is murdered outside a "gay 90s"-themed nightclub simply by buying a seemingly harmless gift from one of the showgirls. His son, a rookie cop, takes a vacation from the force to find the murderer himself. At the club, he uncovers the deadly secret that got his father shot -- they're selling illegal drugs.

    Director:Robert Stevens
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. 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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  5. Suspense Season 4 Episode 31 - Black Panther
    5.5/10(41 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Suspense Season 4 Episode 42 - Night of Reckoning
    5.5/10(41 votes)

    S4:E42

    Story of counterespionage behind Chinese Communist lines in Korea.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Suspense Season 4 Episode 24 - North of Shanghai
    5.5/10(40 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Suspense Season 4 Episode 32 - Night of Evil
    5.5/10(39 votes)

    S4:E32

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Suspense Season 1 Episode 7 - The Creeper
    5.7/10(143 votes)

    S1:E7

    A woman who works the night shift begs her husband to quit her job, because she fits the description of a maniacal killer's type of victim.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Suspense Season 2 Episode 2 - Collector's Item
    5.6/10(50 votes)

    S2:E2

    Evans, an older man, walks into a record store, slips the young clerk, Fred, a huge bill and pleads for him to come to his hotel to discuss something important. He goes and finds Evans beaten and mumbling something about a record. Fred gets knocked out and awakens to find Evans now dead and himself set-up to take the rap for his murder. Fred races back to the store, hoping to find the record the dead man was talking about.

    Director:Robert Stevens
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Suspense Season 2 Episode 33 - Murder at the Mardi Gras
    5.6/10(42 votes)

    S2:E33

    Dan Bedell, an up-and-coming actor, has come to New Orleans for Mardi Gras and he has fallen in love with Connie Williams. Gambling boss Morgan Nelson warns Dan that Connie is in league with her friend Bill Reed to blackmail Dan. When Nelson's bodyguard turns up dead in Dan's apartment, Connie enlists Reed to help her and Dan dispose of the body. But can Dan trust Connie and Bill, or are the pair up to no good as Nelson warned?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Charles Robinson

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  12. 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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  13. Suspense Season 4 Episode 18 - Routine Patrol
    5.6/10(40 votes)

    S4:E18

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. 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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  15. Suspense Season 2 Episode 26 - The Man Who Talked in His Sleep
    5.6/10(38 votes)

    S2:E26

    Teenage practical joker Jerry pretends his new stepfather revealed something incriminating while talking in his sleep. Rather than laughing it off, Henry Lord gets very defensive and becomes threatening. After suffering a suspicious accident, Jerry is convinced his stepfather has something in his past he's willing to kill to keep secret.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. 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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  17. Suspense Season 4 Episode 48 - Her Last Adventure
    5.6/10(35 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  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 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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. Suspense Season 2 Episode 9 - Black Passage
    5.9/10(68 votes)

    S2:E9

    An American lover of architecture is escorted to a crumbling Mexican castle by the local padre. He warns the visitor to keep his room door locked and avoid the family that lives there--especially the maniacal mother when the black wind blows. Eventually, the curious American learns the horrible truth about the family's history of blood lust.

    Director:Robert Stevens
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Career" is the worst rated episode of Suspense. It scored 4.1/10 from 20 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on January 27, 1953. This episode scored 0.7 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Tough Cop".

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