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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 radio suspense, mystery, crime drama, psychological thrillers, horror, and vintage radio.

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Yesterday · 30 min
Suspense - "The Clock and the Rope" (Old Time Radio, 1947)
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 sustaining-era broadcast stars Jackie Cooper as Henry Gilford, with Cathy Lewis and...
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Saturday · 30 min
Suspense - "Over the Bounding Main" (Old Time Radio, 1950)
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 production starring Dan Dailey, Georgia Ellis, William Conrad, and Tony...
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Friday · 30 min
Suspense - "The Wages of Sin" (Old Time Radio, 1950)
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 of a man she claims never to have known. As Captain Doric Salvador probes...
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Thursday · 30 min
Suspense - "Riabouchinska" (Old Time Radio, 1947)
Suspense presents “Riabouchinska,” episode 3, originally broadcast November 1, 1947. In a theater cellar, Detective-Lieutenant Krovitch investigates a murder linked to celebrated ventriloquist John Fabian, his troubled personal life, and the...
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Wednesday · 29 min
Suspense - "Back for Christmas" (Old Time Radio, 1943)
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 date. Peter Lorre stars in this darkly comic thriller adapted from John...
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Tuesday · 30 min
Suspense - "Too Hot to Live" (Old Time Radio, 1950)
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 Casey steps off a freight train for a simple boot repair and finds himself...
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October 26 · 30 min
Suspense - "Break-Up" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
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, adapted from a Thomas Walsh story. Disgraced former policeman Marty...
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October 24 · 29 min
Suspense - "I Won't Take a Minute" (Old Time Radio, 1945)
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, directed and produced by William Spier. On a dark city street, Kenny...
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October 23 · 24 min
Suspense - "Blackbeard's Ace" (Old Time Radio, 1962)
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 unease. At a secluded cottage near Teach’s Cove on the North Carolina coast,...
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October 22 · 30 min
Suspense - "Wet Saturday" (Old Time Radio, 1942)
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 story. A rainbound English country house becomes the setting for a...
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October 21 · 30 min
Suspense - "The Blue Hour" (Old Time Radio, 1947)
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 at a shadowy nightclub while questions swirl around a recent murder and...
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October 20 · 30 min
Suspense - "The Night Reveals" (Old Time Radio, 1943)
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 Robert Young and Margo production as episode 69. Insurance investigator...
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October 19 · 30 min
Suspense - "Three Skeleton Key" (Old Time Radio, 1956)
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 as Suspense episode 673, originally broadcast on CBS on November 11, 1956....
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October 18 · 30 min
Suspense - "Murder by the Book" (Old Time Radio, 1947)
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, identify it as episode 253, originally aired July 10, 1947. Gloria Swanson...
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October 17 · 30 min
Suspense - "An Evening's Diversion" (Old Time Radio, 1946)
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 broadcast as episode 200. Leon Ames stars, with Gerald Mohr also featured, in...
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October 16 · 31 min
Suspense - "Dame Fortune" (Old Time Radio, 1946)
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 it as episode 216, broadcast October 24, 1946. Susan Hayward stars as...
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October 14 · 30 min
Suspense - "Yellow Wall-paper" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
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 her physician husband calls a temporary nervous depression. Adapted from...
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October 13 · 30 min
Suspense - "Dead Ernest" (Old Time Radio, 1947)
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 William Spier, the CBS Radio Network drama features Junius Matthews, Wally...
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October 12 · 1 hr
Suspense - "Beyond Reason" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
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 written by Devery Freeman. After businessman Payton Carr is killed in a...
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October 11 · 26 min
Suspense - "The Long Shot" (Old Time Radio, 1958)
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 story, with Herbert Marshall starring as financially pressed gambler Kelly...
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