Suspense | Old Time Radio brings you classic mystery, crime, psychological thrillers, and suspense from the golden age of radio. Enter gripping stories of murder, danger, deception, desperate choices, and unexpected twists performed by some of the era’s greatest stars. Each episode is an Old Time Retro Radio production, presenting the original broadcast with gently cleaned and mastered audio, a newly produced introduction and closing, and custom episode artwork. Suspense became one of radio’s most celebrated dramatic anthologies, known for exceptional performances, acclaimed writers, and unforgettable stories designed to keep listeners guessing until the end. Rediscover classic old time radi...
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Nov 13, 2026 · 32:54
Suspense presents “Sorry, Wrong Number,” originally broadcast September 6, 1945. This archival recording is identified as episode 6. Written by Lucille Fletcher and produced by…
Nov 12, 2026 · 30:23
Suspense presents “Cat and Mouse,” listed in this archival source as episode 0 with an original broadcast date of March 3, 1944. Established episode listings, however, place the…
Nov 11, 2026 · 29:01
Suspense presents “Phobia,” listed in this archival recording as episode 6, with an original broadcast date of June 2, 1947. Surviving-program documentation, however, identifies…
Nov 10, 2026 · 30:01
Suspense presents “The Burning Court,” listed as episode 4, originally broadcast June 1, 1945. This atmospheric mystery adapts John Dickson Carr’s novel and stars Clifton Webb. A…
Nov 9, 2026 · 30:27
Suspense presents “Blue Eyes,” identified in this archival source as episode 9, originally broadcast August 2, 1946. Other episode logs list the production as a later 1946…
Nov 7, 2026 · 30:45
Suspense presents “Beyond Good and Evil,” listed in this archival source as episode 1, with an original broadcast date of October 1, 1945. Program listings for the Joseph Cotten…
Nov 7, 2026 · 30:36
Suspense presents “A Little Piece of Rope,” listed in this archival recording as episode 4, originally broadcast October 1, 1948. Other episode references identify the Lucille…
Nov 5, 2026 · 30:37
Suspense presents “Statement of Employee Henry Wilson,” episode 6, originally broadcast September 2, 1946. Gene Lockhart stars as longtime office employee Henry Wilson, whose…
Nov 4, 2026 · 30:49
Suspense presents “The Greatest Thief in the World,” episode 1, originally broadcast June 2, 1951. James Mason stars as Peter Marriott, a polished Englishman suspected of being a…
Nov 3, 2026 · 30:53
Suspense presents “A Thing of Beauty,” listed in this archival recording as episode 8, originally broadcast December 2, 1944. June Duprez stars as Madeleine Tremaine, a reclusive…
Nov 2, 2026 · 30:37
Suspense presents “The Ten Grand,” originally broadcast June 22, 1944, and commonly cataloged as episode 97. Local archival metadata identifies this recording as episode 2, dated…
Nov 1, 2026 · 30:04
Suspense presents “The Clock and the Rope,” episode 5, originally broadcast on CBS on December 5, 1947. Written by Louis Pollock and directed by William Spier, this…
Oct 31, 2026 · 30:51
Suspense presents “Over the Bounding Main,” identified in this archival recording as episode 4, originally broadcast September 1, 1950. Episode records also list a 1950 CBS…
Oct 30, 2026 · 30:41
Suspense presents “The Wages of Sin,” episode 9, originally broadcast October 1, 1950. Barbara Stanwyck stars as Ruby Miller, who comes home to find police surrounding the body…
Oct 29, 2026 · 30:19
Suspense presents “Riabouchinska,” episode 3, originally broadcast November 1, 1947. In a theater cellar, Detective-Lieutenant Krovitch investigates a murder linked to celebrated…
Oct 28, 2026 · 29:49
Suspense presents “Back for Christmas,” originally broadcast December 23, 1943, as episode 71. The archival source labels this recording as episode 3 with a December 2, 1943…
Oct 27, 2026 · 30:10
Suspense presents “Too Hot to Live,” episode 6, with a supplied original broadcast date of October 2, 1950. In a sweltering small town, unemployed former serviceman Jefferson…
Oct 26, 2026 · 30:31
Suspense presents “Break-Up,” listed in this archival source as episode 0, with an original broadcast date of December 3, 1948. William Bendix stars in this tense crime drama,…
Oct 24, 2026 · 29:55
Suspense presents “I Won’t Take a Minute,” originally broadcast on December 6, 1945. This local archival recording is episode 6. Lee Bowman stars as Kenny in this CBS production,…
Oct 23, 2026 · 24:28
Suspense presents “Blackbeard’s Ace,” episode 9, originally broadcast April 2, 1962. This local archival recording preserves a late-era tale of coastal mystery and mounting…
Oct 22, 2026 · 30:09
Suspense presents “Wet Saturday,” episode 4, originally broadcast June 2, 1942. This local archival recording features an early radio adaptation of John Collier’s darkly comic…
Oct 21, 2026 · 30:40
Suspense presents “The Blue Hour,” identified in this archival source as episode 5, originally broadcast September 2, 1947. Claire Trevor stars as dancer Lois LePaul, who arrives…
Oct 20, 2026 · 30:25
Suspense presents “The Night Reveals,” originally broadcast December 9, 1943. This local archival recording is identified as episode 9, though established program logs list this…
Oct 19, 2026 · 30:46
Suspense presents “Three Skeleton Key,” an archival recording labeled Episode 1 with an original broadcast date of November 1, 1956. Episode references identify this production…
Oct 18, 2026 · 30:52
Suspense presents “Murder by the Book,” listed in the supplied archival metadata as episode 0, with an original broadcast date of July 1, 1947. Multiple episode logs, however,…
Oct 17, 2026 · 30:30
Suspense presents “An Evening’s Diversion,” originally broadcast July 4, 1946. This archival recording is identified as episode 4, though established series logs list the…
Oct 16, 2026 · 31:17
Suspense presents “Dame Fortune,” listed in the supplied archival metadata as episode 4, with an original broadcast date of October 2, 1946. Independent program listings identify…
Oct 14, 2026 · 30:37
Suspense presents “Yellow Wall-paper,” episode 9, originally broadcast July 2, 1948. Agnes Moorehead stars as a woman sent to an isolated summer house while recovering from what…
Oct 13, 2026 · 30:46
Suspense presents “Dead Ernest,” originally broadcast May 8, 1947. This archival recording is listed as episode 8. Written by Seeleg Lester and Merwin Gerard and directed by…
Oct 12, 2026 · 1:00:56
Suspense presents “Beyond Reason,” originally broadcast on CBS on February 21, 1948. Episode 285 of the series, this hour-long drama stars Robert Ryan and Ruth Warrick and was…
Oct 11, 2026 · 26:05
Suspense presents “The Long Shot,” originally broadcast February 9, 1958, and supplied here as episode 9. This CBS thriller is a remake of Harold Swanton’s earlier Suspense…
Oct 10, 2026 · 30:29
Suspense presents “Deep into Darkness,” listed in this archival collection as episode 2, with an original broadcast date of July 2, 1948. Episode-level radio logs also identify…
Oct 9, 2026 · 30:48
Suspense presents “Allen in Wonderland,” identified in this archival recording as episode 7, originally broadcast October 2, 1952. Episode listings also associate the production…
Oct 8, 2026 · 30:49
Suspense presents “The Long Wait,” episode 4, originally broadcast November 2, 1949. This archival recording features a hard-boiled drama of revenge, loyalty, and second chances.…
Oct 7, 2026 · 30:36
Suspense presents “The Thing in the Window,” episode 9, originally broadcast December 1, 1946. Joseph Cotten stars in this original radio play by Lucille Fletcher. Actor Martin…
Oct 6, 2026 · 29:32
Suspense presents “Lazarus Walks,” episode 9, originally broadcast October 1, 1943. After Roger Holcombe survives a period of clinical death during surgery, he seems to possess…
Oct 5, 2026 · 30:44
Suspense presents “Life Ends at Midnight,” listed as episode 7, originally broadcast February 1, 1944. When Mrs. Bates’s troubled son Walter arrives needing $1,500 before…
Oct 4, 2026 · 30:25
Suspense presents “Portrait Without a Face,” originally broadcast March 2, 1944. This local archival recording is identified as episode 2. The CBS drama was written by Corporal…
Oct 3, 2026 · 30:38
Suspense presents “The Man Who Thought He Was Edward G. Robinson,” listed in the supplied episode metadata as originally broadcast September 3, 1948. Episode number: 0. Edward G.…
Oct 2, 2026 · 30:35
Suspense presents “Beware the Quiet Man,” originally broadcast August 12, 1948, as episode 302. Some archival listings identify this recording as episode 2 with an August 1, 1948…
Oct 1, 2026 · 1:00:43
Suspense presents “Deadline at Dawn,” episode 5, originally broadcast May 1, 1948. Over one tense night in New York City, taxi dancer Bricky Coleman and troubled hometown…
Sep 30, 2026 · 30:37
Suspense presents “The Moonstone—Part One,” cataloged in this archive as episode 6 with an original date of November 1, 1953. Established episode logs identify the CBS broadcast…
Sep 29, 2026 · 29:34
Suspense presents “A Vision of Death,” originally broadcast March 8, 1951. This archival presentation is identified as episode 8. Ronald Colman stars with Cathy Lewis in a CBS…
Sep 28, 2026 · 30:24
Suspense presents “Song of the Heart,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 26, 1948, as episode 304. This Autolite-sponsored original drama was written by Elliott Lewis and…
Sep 27, 2026 · 24:12
Suspense presents “Formula for Death,” originally broadcast on CBS on June 10, 1962, as episode 929. The local archival recording is labeled episode 0 with a June 1, 1962 date. A…
Sep 26, 2026 · 25:10
Suspense presents “Death of an Old Flame,” episode 9, originally broadcast October 2, 1961. Cocktail-lounge pianist Ronnie Warren is pulled back toward Anna, the wife who left…
Sep 25, 2026 · 30:32
Suspense presents “Three Times Murder,” originally broadcast October 3, 1946. This archival recording is identified as episode 3. Rita Hayworth stars as Laura Williams, a woman…
Sep 24, 2026 · 30:32
Suspense presents “The Moonstone - Part Two,” episode 3, originally broadcast November 2, 1953. In the conclusion of this adaptation of Wilkie Collins’s classic detective novel,…
Sep 23, 2026 · 30:50
Suspense presents “Will You Make a Bet with Death,” identified in the supplied archival source as episode 0, originally broadcast November 1, 1942. At Coney Island’s Haunted…
Sep 22, 2026 · 29:47
Suspense presents “The Death Parade,” episode 5, originally broadcast February 1, 1951. Amid the noise and crowds of a downtown parade, Ellen Johnson finds an alarming letter…
Sep 21, 2026 · 30:15
Suspense presents “Dead of Night,” episode 9, originally broadcast on June 1, 1947. This archival edition is drawn from a local surviving recording of the classic radio suspense…
Sep 20, 2026 · 30:42
Suspense presents “Death on My Hands,” an archival episode listed with an original broadcast date of May 1, 1951, and episode number 0. Phil Harris and Alice Faye, better known…
Sep 19, 2026 · 30:46
Suspense presents “Dead of the Night,” documented as episode 118, originally broadcast on November 16, 1944. Local archival metadata lists the recording as episode 6, dated…
Sep 18, 2026 · 30:47
Suspense presents “The Story of Markham’s Death,” originally broadcast on CBS on October 2, 1947. This local archival recording is identified as episode 2. Kirk Douglas stars in…
Sep 17, 2026 · 30:40
Suspense presents “Dead Ernest,” originally broadcast May 8, 1947. This local archival recording is identified as episode 8. Written by Seeleg Lester and Merwin Gerard, the CBS…
Sep 16, 2026 · 30:38
Suspense presents “Report on the Jolly Death Riders,” identified in this archival source as episode 7, with an original broadcast date of August 2, 1951. Other episode listings…
Sep 15, 2026 · 31:44
Suspense presents “The Strange Death of Gordon Fitzroy,” originally broadcast November 2, 1946, as episode 8. Chester Morris stars as Johnny Malone, a recently released prisoner…
Sep 14, 2026 · 30:37
Suspense presents “The Dead Sleep Lightly,” identified in this archival recording as episode 0, originally broadcast March 3, 1943. In John Dickson Carr’s supernatural-tinged…
Sep 13, 2026 · 30:30
Suspense presents “Death Went Along for the Ride,” listed in this archival collection as episode 7, with an original broadcast date of April 2, 1944. On a cross-country drive…
Sep 12, 2026 · 30:39
Suspense presents “The Doctor Prescribed Death,” an archival episode originally broadcast on February 2, 1943. This local recording is identified as episode 2; established…
Sep 11, 2026 · 30:04
Suspense presents “Death Flies Blind,” originally broadcast May 4, 1943. This archival presentation is episode 4 of the series. Written by John Dickson Carr, the CBS wartime…
Sep 10, 2026 · 30:17
Suspense presents “The White Rose Murders,” originally broadcast July 6, 1943. This local archival recording is identified as episode 6. Starring Maureen O’Hara, the CBS drama…
Sep 9, 2026 · 26:32
Suspense presents “Death on Highway 99,” originally broadcast on CBS on October 4, 1945. Often listed as episode 161, this archival recording is identified in the source…
Sep 8, 2026 · 29:38
Suspense presents “Crime Without Passion,” originally broadcast on May 2, 1946. This archival recording is supplied as episode number 2. Joseph Cotten stars as Lew Hendricks, a…
Sep 7, 2026 · 30:46
Suspense presents “Death at Live Oak,” listed in this archival recording as episode 5, originally broadcast May 1, 1947. Financially ruined David Sutherland meets the frightened…
Sep 6, 2026 · 30:31
Suspense presents “Till Death Do Us Part,” identified in this archival recording as episode 5, originally broadcast December 1, 1942. In an isolated English cottage during the…
Sep 5, 2026 · 30:50
Suspense presents “The Angel of Death,” originally broadcast January 3, 1946. This archival recording is identified as episode number 3. Paul Henreid stars as John Forsyth in a…
Sep 4, 2026 · 30:38
Suspense presents “Death Has a Shadow,” originally broadcast on May 5, 1949. This local archival recording is episode 5. Bob Hope stars in an unusually dramatic role as Harvey…
Sep 3, 2026 · 30:54
Suspense presents “To None a Deadly Drug,” listed as episode 5 and originally broadcast October 2, 1955. This tense CBS drama was written by Hank Searls and directed by Antony…
Sep 2, 2026 · 30:38
This archival presentation of Suspense, “If the Dead Could Talk,” is listed in the supplied recording metadata as episode 0, dated January 2, 1949. Established episode logs…
Sep 1, 2026 · 30:53
Suspense presents “Murder Goes for a Swim,” listed as episode 0 and originally broadcast July 2, 1943. Michael Lanyard—the reformed jewel thief known as the Lone Wolf—arrives at…
Aug 31, 2026 · 30:25
Suspense presents “Marry for Murder,” originally broadcast on September 9, 1943. Commonly cataloged as episode 57, this archival recording is listed as episode 9 in the supplied…
Aug 30, 2026 · 30:52
Suspense presents “Vamp Till Dead.” The archival source identifies it as episode 1, dated January 1, 1951; surviving episode logs and broadcast documentation list it as Suspense…
Aug 29, 2026 · 29:35
Suspense presents “The Customers Like Murder,” identified in this archival recording as episode 3, originally broadcast March 2, 1943. English mystery novelist Mr. Hopstone and…
Aug 28, 2026 · 30:43
This archival presentation of Suspense features “Murder Through the Looking Glass,” listed in the source recording as episode 7, dated March 1, 1949. Established episode…
Aug 27, 2026 · 30:44
Suspense presents “A Murderous Revision,” originally broadcast December 3, 1951. This local archival recording is identified as episode 3; established broadcast listings also…
Aug 26, 2026 · 30:12
Suspense presents “My Own Murderer,” identified in this archival recording as episode 4, originally broadcast May 2, 1945. In this tense British crime drama, solicitor Richard…
Aug 25, 2026 · 30:32
This archival episode of Suspense, “The Strange Death of Charles Umberstein,” is listed as episode 3, with an original broadcast date of November 2, 1943. In wartime Berlin, an…
Aug 24, 2026 · 30:53
Suspense presents “Murder in Black and White,” episode 4, originally broadcast April 1, 1949. This archival recording features Edmund Gwenn in a darkly ironic story adapted for…
Aug 23, 2026 · 30:48
Suspense presents “A Plane Case of Murder,” listed in this archival source as originally broadcast October 1, 1946, episode 0. Other episode references commonly identify the…
Aug 22, 2026 · 31:22
Suspense presents “Murder Aboard the Alphabet,” originally broadcast on August 21, 1947, as episode 259. Written by Charles Turrell McNair, this CBS production was sponsored by…
Aug 21, 2026 · 30:50
Suspense presents “Death Sentence,” originally broadcast November 4, 1948. Listed here as episode 4, this CBS thriller stars John Garfield as private investigator Tommy Cochran,…
Aug 20, 2026 · 30:11
Suspense presents “Fragile-Contents Death,” originally broadcast on February 1, 1951. This local archival recording is identified as episode number 1. Paul Douglas stars as…
Aug 19, 2026 · 30:27
Suspense presents “Dead Ernest,” listed in this archive as episode 4 with an original broadcast date of March 2, 1949. Contemporary listings and surviving documentation identify…
Aug 18, 2026 · 30:39
Suspense presents “Green-Eyed Monster.” The archival source lists this as episode 7, originally broadcast April 1, 1947; surviving episode catalogs also identify the title as…
Aug 17, 2026 · 1:00:56
Suspense presents “Nightmare,” episode 3, originally broadcast March 1, 1948. This full-hour thriller stars Eddie Bracken in a dramatic role and is adapted by Alfred Palker from…
Aug 16, 2026 · 29:35
Suspense presents “The Waxwork (William Conrad Voices All CHARACTERS),” originally broadcast May 1, 1956. This local archival recording is identified as episode 1. Adapted by Mel…
Aug 16, 2026 · 30:41
Suspense presents “Ghost Hunt,” episode 3, with a listed original broadcast date of June 2, 1949. Radio disc jockey Smiley Smith turns stunt night into a ghost hunt at an…
Aug 15, 2026 · 29:26
Suspense presents “The Abc Murders,” episode 8, originally broadcast May 1, 1943. This archival drama is a compressed radio adaptation of Agatha Christie’s The A.B.C. Murders,…
Aug 14, 2026 · 30:41
Suspense presents “Neal Cream, Doctor of Poison,” episode 7, originally broadcast September 1, 1951. Charles Laughton stars in this fact-based historical crime drama, written by…
Aug 14, 2026 · 30:29
Suspense presents “The Death of Barbara Allen,” originally broadcast October 2, 1952. This archival recording is listed as episode 0. In this music-centered adaptation of the…
Aug 14, 2026 · 26:07
Suspense presents “The Dunwich Horror (Ronald Colman) Lq,” originally broadcast November 1, 1945. This archival recording is listed as episode 1 in the supplied source metadata.…
Aug 13, 2026 · 29:52
The Man Who Knew How [episode 104], Broadcast 8/10/1944 The Man Who Knew How [episode 104], Broadcast 8/10/1944 Become a supporter of this podcast:…
Aug 12, 2026 · 18:18
Spoils for Victor [episode 803], Broadcast 5/24/1959 Spoils for Victor [episode 803], Broadcast 5/24/1959 Become a supporter of this podcast:…
Aug 11, 2026 · 30:09
The Chain [episode 382], Broadcast 4/27/1950 The Chain [episode 382], Broadcast 4/27/1950 Become a supporter of this podcast:…
Aug 10, 2026 · 29:12
Goodnight Mrs Russell [episode 563], Broadcast 8/3/1954 Goodnight Mrs Russell [episode 563], Broadcast 8/3/1954 Become a supporter of this podcast:…
Aug 9, 2026 · 30:07
Easy Money [episode 218], Broadcast 11/7/1946 Easy Money [episode 218], Broadcast 11/7/1946 Become a supporter of this podcast:…
Aug 8, 2026 · 29:35
Pearls Are a Nuisance [episode 381], Broadcast 4/20/1950 Pearls Are a Nuisance [episode 381], Broadcast 4/20/1950 Become a supporter of this podcast:…
Aug 7, 2026 · 24:36
Infanticide [episode 822], Broadcast 10/11/1959 Infanticide [episode 822], Broadcast 10/11/1959 Become a supporter of this podcast:…
Aug 6, 2026 · 24:53
Beirut by Sunrise [episode 600], Broadcast 5/31/1955 Beirut by Sunrise [episode 600], Broadcast 5/31/1955 Become a supporter of this podcast:…
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