7.4/10242 votes#1 - Four O'Clock
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1957
Paul Steppe, a successful watchmaker, begins to suspect that his wife Fran is seeing another man. Consumed with jealousy, Steppe decides to murder her. His plan, he feels is ingenious. Painstakingly Steppe applies all of his watchmaking skills to the construction of a time bomb. He plans to slip into his house in the afternoon without his wife's knowledge, leave the bomb and then return to his jewelry store unnoticed and unsuspected.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
- 8.0/1012 votes
#2 - Murder Me Gently
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1957
No description available
Director: Don Medford
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1019 votes
#3 - The Other Side of the Curtain
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1957
A young woman, troubled by a recurring dream about a long, dark hallway with a ominous curtain at the end, consults a psychiatrist. The sessions cause the woman to have suspicions about the death of her husband's first wife.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#4 - Hand in Glove
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/1957
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1022 votes
#5 - The Story of Marjorie Reardon
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1957
A young woman who's attacked by a psychopath, leaving her in shame and with a fear of men -- until sweet, strong, understanding man comes along.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1012 votes
#6 - Diary for Death
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1957
No description available
Director: Perry Lafferty
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1032 votes
#7 - Heartbeat
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1957
When a heart patient is misdiagnosed, he believes that he is cured of his heart problems. He decides to have a day full of excitement, not knowing that even the slightest shock could kill him.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: Ernest Kinoy
- NaN/100 votes
#8 - The Sparkle of Diamonds
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1957
A blind woman is accused of murder. The sightless Miss Perry protests her guilt to Detective Thorpe, telling him of a stranger she encountered on the narrow stairway on the night of the murder. She briefly touched the man's face with her fingertips, and Thorpe attempts to find the real murderer by applying Miss Perry's description.
Director: Jack Smight
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1050 votes
#9 - The Flight
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/1957
A former navy pilot is hired to fly a mysterious cargo to Bermuda and discovers en-route that the cargo is human and the destination altered.
Director: N/A
Writer: Gene L. Coon
- 7.3/1017 votes
#10 - Rainy Day
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1957
Two men in an isolated African outpost begin to squabble after one of the men reads a letter addressed to the other and refuses to reveal its content.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Pertwee
- 7.9/1015 votes
#11 - The Deadly Game
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/9/1957
A salesman seeks refuge from a blizzard in an old mansion. He meets three elderly men who convince him to participate in a mock-trial so they can practice their former callings of judge, prosecuting attorney and defense council.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1034 votes
#12 - Doomsday
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/16/1957
A master of disguise plans a payroll theft with the only two men that know his true identity.
Director: Bernard Girard
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#13 - The Dark Stairway
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/23/1957
No description available
Director: Don Medford
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1013 votes
#14 - Someone Is After Me
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/6/1958
A paranoid woman, frightened since she witnessed a violent crime, fears for her life.
Director: David Greene
Writer: Robert Soderberg
- 7.8/1026 votes
#15 - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/13/1958
A fortune teller informs Lord Arthur Savile that he is about to commit a murder. Lord Arthur decides to postpone his marriage so that he can confront his fate without troubling his wife-to-be.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
- NaN/100 votes
#16 - End in Violence
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/20/1958
No description available
Director: Paul Bogart
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1018 votes
#17 - Comfort for the Grave
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/27/1958
A man teams with his gangster brother's widow to find his sibling's killer. Soon, the surviving brother begins to wonder whether the lovely former spouse might not have committed the murder herself.
Director: Jules Munshin
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1022 votes
#18 - Meeting in Paris
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/10/1958
Peter Lockwood gets tied up in a case of European espionage when his ex-wife and her new husband ask him for help in dealing with a gang of black marketeers.
Director: N/A
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
- 6.8/1019 votes
#19 - A Touch of Evil
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/17/1958
Larry is married to a sickly weak woman and enlists the aid of a former flame and her brother in a scheme to do away with his wife.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#20 - If I Die Before I Live
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/24/1958
A banker embezzles a large sum of money and flees. While hiding out in New York City he suffers a heart attack and can't take his medicine. He's rescued by a girl who is unemployed and starving.
Director: Arthur Hiller
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
- 8.4/1012 votes
#21 - The Hollow Man
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/3/1958
No description available
Director: Elliot Silverstein
Writer: George Lefferts
- NaN/100 votes
#22 - A World Full of Strangers
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/10/1958
No description available
Director: Don Medford
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1015 votes
#23 - The Eye of Truth
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/17/1958
Gregg Carey is a successful lawyer whose son is involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident. In order to get his son off, however, Carey must risk his career and reputation in a dangerous blackmail scheme.
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/1061 votes
#24 - Voice in the Night
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/24/1958
The survivors of a shipwreck escape to an island where a strange fungus grows on everything and begins to grow on everyone.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/1012 votes
#25 - Diagnosis: Death
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/31/1958
A young woman believes that she caused her wealthy mother's death by giving her an overdose of pills. The doctor agrees to sign a death certificate stating that death was from natural causes, if the young woman will marry him.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Suspicion Season 1
Every episode of Suspicion Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Suspicion Season 1!
Suspicion is the title of an American television mystery drama series which aired on the NBC from 1957 through 1959. The executive producer of Suspicion...
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Network:NBC
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Four O'Clock" is the best rated episode of "Suspicion" season 1. It scored 7.4/10 based on 242 votes. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by Francis M. Cockrell, it aired on 9/30/1957. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "Murder Me Gently".