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The Best Episodes of Suspicion Season 1

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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 was film director Alfred Hitchcock.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Suspicion Season 1 Episode 1 - Four O'Clock
    7.3/10(259 votes)

    #1 - Four O'Clock

    S1:E1

    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

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  2. Suspicion Season 1 Episode 2 - Murder Me Gently
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #2 - Murder Me Gently

    S1:E2

    No description available

    Director:Don Medford
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Suspicion Season 1 Episode 3 - The Other Side of the Curtain
    6.8/10(19 votes)

    #3 - The Other Side of the Curtain

    S1:E3

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Suspicion Season 1 Episode 4 - Hand in Glove
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #4 - Hand in Glove

    S1:E4

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Suspicion Season 1 Episode 5 - The Story of Marjorie Reardon
    7.7/10(22 votes)

    #5 - The Story of Marjorie Reardon

    S1:E5

    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:Unknown

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  6. Suspicion Season 1 Episode 6 - Diary for Death
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #6 - Diary for Death

    S1:E6

    No description available

    Director:Perry Lafferty
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Suspicion Season 1 Episode 7 - Heartbeat
    8.1/10(32 votes)

    #7 - Heartbeat

    S1:E7

    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

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  8. Suspicion Season 1 Episode 8 - The Sparkle of Diamonds
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #8 - The Sparkle of Diamonds

    S1:E8

    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:Unknown

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  9. Suspicion Season 1 Episode 9 - The Flight
    6.6/10(52 votes)

    #9 - The Flight

    S1:E9

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Gene L. Coon

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  10. Suspicion Season 1 Episode 10 - Rainy Day
    7.2/10(18 votes)

    #10 - Rainy Day

    S1:E10

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Michael Pertwee

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  11. Suspicion Season 1 Episode 11 - The Deadly Game
    8.0/10(14 votes)

    #11 - The Deadly Game

    S1:E11

    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:Unknown

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  12. Suspicion Season 1 Episode 12 - Doomsday
    8.0/10(36 votes)

    #12 - Doomsday

    S1:E12

    A master of disguise plans a payroll theft with the only two men that know his true identity. McDillard has eluded police for years with his clever disguises and carefully planned robberies. Now he is setting up a $300,000 payroll theft, taking on two partners, who are the only men who know his true identity.

    Directors:Alfred Hitchcock, Bernard Girard
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Suspicion Season 1 Episode 13 - The Dark Stairway
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #13 - The Dark Stairway

    S1:E13

    No description available

    Director:Don Medford
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Suspicion Season 1 Episode 14 - Someone Is After Me
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #14 - Someone Is After Me

    S1:E14

    A paranoid woman, frightened since she witnessed a violent crime, fears for her life.

    Director:David Greene
    Writer:Robert Soderberg

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  15. Suspicion Season 1 Episode 15 - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
    7.8/10(28 votes)

    #15 - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

    S1:E15

    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

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  16. Suspicion Season 1 Episode 16 - End in Violence
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #16 - End in Violence

    S1:E16

    No description available

    Director:Paul Bogart
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Suspicion Season 1 Episode 17 - Comfort for the Grave
    6.5/10(19 votes)

    #17 - Comfort for the Grave

    S1:E17

    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:Unknown

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  18. Suspicion Season 1 Episode 18 - Meeting in Paris
    7.9/10(22 votes)

    #18 - Meeting in Paris

    S1:E18

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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  19. Suspicion Season 1 Episode 19 - A Touch of Evil
    6.7/10(19 votes)

    #19 - A Touch of Evil

    S1:E19

    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:Unknown

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  20. Suspicion Season 1 Episode 20 - If I Die Before I Live
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #20 - If I Die Before I Live

    S1:E20

    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

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  21. Suspicion Season 1 Episode 21 - The Hollow Man
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #21 - The Hollow Man

    S1:E21

    No description available

    Director:Elliot Silverstein
    Writer:George Lefferts

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  22. Suspicion Season 1 Episode 22 - A World Full of Strangers
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #22 - A World Full of Strangers

    S1:E22

    No description available

    Director:Don Medford
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Suspicion Season 1 Episode 23 - The Eye of Truth
    8.2/10(15 votes)

    #23 - The Eye of Truth

    S1:E23

    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:Unknown

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  24. Suspicion Season 1 Episode 24 - Voice in the Night
    8.5/10(64 votes)

    #24 - Voice in the Night

    S1:E24

    The survivors of a shipwreck escape to an island where a strange fungus grows on everything and begins to grow on everyone.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Suspicion Season 1 Episode 25 - Diagnosis: Death
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #25 - Diagnosis: Death

    S1:E25

    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:Unknown

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Four O'Clock" is the best rated episode of "Suspicion" season 1. It scored 7.3/10 based on 259 votes. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by Francis M. Cockrell, it aired on 9/30/1957. This episode is rated 7.3 points higher than the second-best, "Murder Me Gently".