Suspense … Radio’s Outstanding Theater of Thrills!

Conceived as a potential radio vehicle for Alfred Hitchcock to guide, Suspense was a radio group of epic proportion. It aired on CBS from 1942 to 1962 and is considered by many to be the best mystery/drama group of the fantastic age. Known as Radio’s Exceptional Theater of Thrills it focused on suspenseful tales starring the largest brands in Hollywood. Early in the operate, the episodes were hosted by the “Man in Dark” who, from an omniscient about Suspense, Vol. 6 perch, narrated stories of people tossed into harmful or bizarre circumstances with plots that, at the very end, usually got an unseen twist or two.

Hollywood’s finest actors jumped at the opportunity to appear on Suspense, including Cary Grant, Wayne Stewart, Alan Ladd, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, and Orson Welles. Scripts were by John Dickson Carr, Lucille Fletcher, Wayne Poe, Ray Bradbury, and many more. Running more than two decades, Suspense aired almost a thousand radio broadcasts. It produced the transition to television in 1949, nonetheless it was far better fitted to radio, where the theater of your brain could run free.

Enjoy sixteen shows out of this incredible secret series:

1/3/46 – “Angel of Loss of life”1/30/47 – “Three Blind Mice”2/6/47 – “End of the street”2/20/47 – “Always Room at the very top”2/27/47 – “Three Faces at nighttime”4/10/47 – “Community Property”4/17/47 – “The Green-Eyed Monster”5/22/47 – “Knight Comes Riding”1/13/49 – “The Too Perfect Alibi”1/27/49 – “The Thing in the Windows”2/10/49 – “De Mortuis”6/9/49 – “The Lunch time Kit”6/16/49 – “The Snare”6/30/49 – “The Day I Passed away”9/15/49 – “Last Confession”10/20/49 – “Goodnight Mrs. Russell”