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COLLECTION · Series · 1949

Suspense

An anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program, many scripts were adaptations of literary classics by well-known authors. Classic authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, and Charles Dickens all had stories adapted for the series, while contemporary authors such as Roald Dahl and Gore Vidal also contributed.

Source: TMDB
* 5.1 (12)Drama
Studios
CBS
Runtime
25–30 min/ep
Release
06/01/1949
Score
5.1 / 10 (12)
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Seasons and episodes
Season 1
17 episodes · 1949
Episode 1. Goodbye New York
1949-01-06

Ray Gardner is deep in debt and can't find work due to his ruthless ex-boss. Desperate and angry, he kills his boss and steals some money. His loyal wife Mary stands by him and the two make plans to flee New York. They spend a day filled…

Episode 2. Revenge
1949-03-01

A woman tries to escape her gangster husband by running away to Cuba with her new love.

Episode 3. Suspicion
1949-03-15

Everyone's in a tizzy over the arsenic poisoner who's still at large; police think the murder might be a woman. In the Thomas household, doting old George acts surprised to find his weed poison (with arsenic) under the kitchen sink. His…

Episode 4. Cabin 3-B
1949-03-29

Shortly after a newlywed couple board a luxury liner for their honeymoon cruise, the man vanishes along with the fortune his wife game him as a wedding present. She reports his disappearance to the captain and is told that there is no…

Episode 5. The Man Upstairs
1949-04-05

A woman complains about the man upstairs, but no one has ever seen him.

Episode 6. After Dinner Story
1949-04-12

No synopsis

Episode 7. The Creeper
1949-04-19

A woman who works the night shift begs her husband to quit her job, because she fits the description of a maniacal killer's type of victim.

Episode 8. A Night at the Inn
1949-04-26

Three merchant sailors and their enigmatic leader hide out at a British inn. They've been followed from India after stealing the priceless ruby eye from a holy statue. The grimy sailors ambush and kill the men who've come to retrieve the…

Episode 9. Dead Ernest
1949-05-03

Ernest Bowers suffers an attack of catalepsy while crossing the street, lapsing into a coma that resembles death. Believing he was killed by a passing car, his body is sent to the city morgue. His coat, with a note in the pocket…

Episode 10. Post Mortem
1949-05-10

Following the sudden death of her husband, Josie marries Doc Archer, the man named beneficiary of her husband's life insurance policy. Investigator Westcott is suspicious after learning the doctor has a history of collecting such payouts.…

Episode 11. The Monkey's Paw
1949-05-17

A talisman of great power can grant three wishes to its owner.

Episode 12. Murder Through the Looking Glass
1949-05-24

A man awakens on a train with no memory of recent events. To make matters worse, a newspaper reveals he is wanted for murder.

Episode 13. The Doors on the 13th Floor
1949-05-31

Elderly Agatha Leighton returns from a trip to find her apartment on the thirteenth floor has been robbed. As she attempts to call the police, someone grabs her. Sally, who lives down the hall, attempts to visit the old lady as she'd…

Episode 14. The Yellow Scarf
1949-06-07

In 1897 London, mysterious Mr. Bronson gives boarding to an attractive young woman from the streets. Hettie's purpose is to do housework and distract attention from his odd medical work. Bronson has two demands: she must not go out alone…

Episode 15. Help Wanted
1949-06-14

An elderly man who's barely getting by looks for employment to continue giving his daughter the institutional help she requires. He receives an offer from a "Mr. X" that turns things around for him. That is, until he finds out that he…

Episode 16. Stolen Empire
1949-06-21

No synopsis

Episode 17. The Hands of Mr. Ottermole
1949-06-28

London is being plagued by a strangler who baffles police. Sgt. Ottermole investigates, but has a difficult time when an obnoxious reporter constantly gets in his way.

Season 2
42 episodes · 1949
Episode 1. Lunch Box
1949-09-06

A man plants a bomb in his son's lunch box at work and tells him to get out in time, but a friend, thinking he has forgotten his lunch box, places it in his car.

Episode 2. Collector's Item
1949-09-13

Evans, an older man, walks into a record store, slips the young clerk, Fred, a huge bill and pleads for him to come to his hotel to discuss something important. He goes and finds Evans beaten and mumbling something about a record. Fred…

Episode 3. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1949-09-20

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

Episode 4. The Comic Strip Murder
1949-09-27

Julia, the model for a character in her husband's comic strip, informs a police detective that her spouse is going to murder her. He bumped off her "twin" in that morning's strip and she's sure he's going do get rid of her in the same…

Episode 5. Doctor Violet
1949-10-04

A college student studying abnormal psychology thinks the owner of a wax museum dedicated to murderers can teach her a few things. Police lock down Dr. Violet's exhibit after an actual corpse is found in the museum. unfortunately, this…

Episode 6. The Cask of Amontillado
1949-10-11

In World War II Italy, Count Montressor has watched with horror as his former stable boy became a powerful Nazi general. In the process, General Fortanato has murdered the Count's sister and stolen his wife. Knowing the General plans to…

Episode 7. The Serpent Ring
1949-10-18

No synopsis

Episode 8. The Murderer
1949-10-25

Detained by the side of the road where his wife Mollie was found murdered, John explains to a deputy the events leading up to that moment. Their busybody neighbor Lillybelle had made accusations about Mollie's infidelity, as had a…

Episode 9. Black Passage
1949-11-01

An American lover of architecture is escorted to a crumbling Mexican castle by the local padre. He warns the visitor to keep his room door locked and avoid the family that lives there--especially the maniacal mother when the black wind…

Episode 10. Suspicion
1949-11-08

No synopsis

Episode 11. The Thin Edge of Violence
1949-11-15

No synopsis

Episode 12. The Third One
1949-11-22

A self-absorbed couple takes their daughter on a vacation, unaware that the child is urgently wanted by health officials. The little girl was afraid to tell them she'd been bitten by a dog, and the animal turns out to have been rabid. The…

Episode 13. The Man in the House
1949-11-29

Emily has moved back home to care for her battle-ax old mother and it has placed her marriage in jeopardy. Arriving home from work, she finds an escapee from a mental hospital with the old bitty tied up and gagged; she was so irritating…

Episode 14. The Scar
1949-12-06

No synopsis

Episode 15. The Gray Helmet
1949-12-13

A dramatic story of the Black Hand's operations in New York's Little Italy during the 1890's.

Episode 16. The Seeker and the Sought
1949-12-20

An elderly man is in a desperate search for a youngster who is in peril of passing evil's point of no return.

Episode 17. The Case of Lady Sannox
1949-12-27

Lady Sannox, the toast of London society, carries on an obvious affair with Douglas Stone, an arrogant, young surgeon. Lord Sannox, a retired star of the stage, is thought to be a clueless old man unaware of the liaison. After discussing…

Episode 18. Morning Boat to Africa
1950-01-03

A wayward wife of a jealous husband brings trouble home.

Episode 19. The Bomber Command
1950-01-10

Former bomber pilot D.P. Bradford and his wife Zita host a reunion for D.P.'s World War II crew. In the midst of the celebration, the Bradfords's daughter Susan is kidnapped and held for ransom by a mysterious German. The bomber crew…

Episode 20. Summer Storm
1950-01-17

A father and son moving out of a boarding house get into a tussle with the sleazy landlord who promptly drops dead on the floor. Since the father has a past record, the two hide in the attic while the police investigate, waiting to make…

Episode 21. The Horizontal Man
1950-01-24

The murder of a Professor has undergraduate Kate investigating the case with help from a newspaper reporter.

Episode 22. The Distant Island
1950-01-31

The story of an amnesia victim and what happens when he regains his memory.

Episode 23. Escape This Night
1950-02-07

No synopsis

Episode 24. The Suicide Club
1950-02-14

Prince Florizel and his cohort, Gerard, masquerade under false identities and hit the city in search of adventure. One night in a bar, they encounter a young man who says he does not wish to go on. Claiming to feel the same way, the…

Episode 25. Roman Holiday
1950-02-21

No synopsis

Episode 26. The Man Who Talked in His Sleep
1950-02-28

Teenage practical joker Jerry pretends his new stepfather revealed something incriminating while talking in his sleep. Rather than laughing it off, Henry Lord gets very defensive and becomes threatening. After suffering a suspicious…

Episode 27. The Ledge
1950-03-07

No synopsis

Episode 28. The Parcel
1950-03-14

Tommy, an errand boy, hangs around a hot dog stand when he's not in transit. The stand, a front for criminal enterprises, proves dangerous when he's hired by a shady character to deliver a package at exactly 5PM that evening. With time to…

Episode 29. The Old Man's Badge
1950-03-21

Officer Malone is murdered outside a "gay 90s"-themed nightclub simply by buying a seemingly harmless gift from one of the showgirls. His son, a rookie cop, takes a vacation from the force to find the murderer himself. At the club, he…

Episode 30. The Second Class Passenger
1950-03-28

A man taking a cruise around the world finds second-class passengers are much more interesting, and by the time things become more complicated he wished that he'd missed the boat.

Episode 31. One Thousand Dollars to One for Your Money
1950-04-04

Detective Sam Cragg goes to meet a client in the "Little Serbia" section of the city and finds the man murdered. Everyone in the neighborhood lives in fear of the unseen C. W. Roberts, a mysterious loan shark who keeps the poor…

Episode 32. Steely, Steely Eyes
1950-04-11

The notorious criminal Ma Barker and her gang of four sons blaze a murderous path from beginnings in Missouri to their final showdown with FBI agents and their machine guns in Florida.

Episode 33. Murder at the Mardi Gras
1950-04-18

Dan Bedell, an up-and-coming actor, has come to New Orleans for Mardi Gras and he has fallen in love with Connie Williams. Gambling boss Morgan Nelson warns Dan that Connie is in league with her friend Bill Reed to blackmail Dan. When…

Episode 34. The Gentleman from America
1950-04-25

An American bets two London friends that he can spend the night alone in a "haunted house."

Episode 35. Death of a Dummy
1950-05-02

A young man on a scavenger hunt for a department store sales check stumbles into a murderer at midnight in the store.

Episode 36. Red Wine
1950-05-09

The FBI pursues a man to the wilds of Borneo.

Episode 37. One and One's a Lonesome
1950-05-16

A predatory blond conspires with an old flame to murder her husband, but tosses a neat double cross at the old flame.

Episode 38. Photo Finish
1950-05-23

The former medical examiner who had falsified information in a murder case years earlier returns to town. Lawyer Robert Quartermain, who was involved in the trial, kills the ex-examiner, careful to leave no clues behind. But, he hadn't…

Episode 39. Listen, Listen
1950-05-30

Be silent, husband; that is the admonition of a wife to her husband when it comes to murder. She tells her hubby to keep his big mouth shut and not tip the police off about a murder.

Episode 40. Black Bronze
1950-06-06

A reporter unexpectedly becomes involved in a series of violent, brutal murders.

Episode 41. I'm No Hero
1950-06-20

Dr. Joe Parker and his family are awakened by a gun-wielding criminal demanding treatment for his brother. The man's in serious condition after a bullet pierced his lung. With a pistol pointing at their daughter, the doctor and his wife…

Episode 42. Wisteria Cottage
1950-06-27

A disturbed young man with a murderous background latches onto an older woman and her daughters. He worms his way into their family by charming the mother, even accompanying them to their summer cottage. One daughter's attempt to break…

Season 3
53 episodes · 1950
Episode 1. Poison
1950-08-29

A Britain in India awakens from a nap to discover a poisonous snake on his belly. The slightest movement on his part would mean death. It was placed on him by his hysterical wife.

Episode 2. A Pocketful of Murder
1950-09-05

Cocky newspaper reporter Turk Wilson has made it clear in articles and in person that he believes druggist Max Hensig murdered his wife. When Hensig is acquitted, he puts Wilson on notice that there are many undetectable ways to kill a…

Episode 3. Edge of Panic
1950-09-12

Harry Martin is an insurance agent with an alcohol problem. In a drunk stupor he apparently murders a flirty blonde who was trying to buy a large annuity. He returns to his wife Alice a few minutes before the police arrive. Harry hides…

Episode 4. Dark Shadows
1950-09-19

I. B. Trane lost his sight at the hands of brutal criminal Takama while he was in Japan on military duty. Trane's sixth sense tells him the barbarian is now in New York and that has him panicked for his life. The police and the FBI tell…

Episode 5. Six to One
1950-09-26

A released prisoner seeks to avenge himself on five "friends" who testified falsely against him.

Episode 6. The Monkey's Paw
1950-10-03

No synopsis

Episode 7. Criminals Mark
1950-10-10

The story of a wife of an ex-criminal who tries to go straight but gets involved in another hold-up through his "pals."

Episode 8. The Man Who Would Be King
1950-10-17

No synopsis

Episode 9. Breakdown
1950-10-24

A cruel and tyrannical office boss breaks his neck in a plane crash and is taken for dead until just before his body is cremated.

Episode 10. Halloween Hold Up
1950-10-31

A gang wearing masks finds the perfect opportunity for a hold-up during Halloween.

Episode 11. Nightmare
1950-11-07

A young father gets tragedy in double doses.

Episode 12. The Brush Off
1950-11-14

Ralph Farley, a struggling actor, overhears a plot to kill Roger Sherman, a powerful Hollywood agent. Ralph attempts to prevent the murder, but is thwarted by everyone from the police to Sherman himself.

Episode 13. The Death Cards
1950-11-21

No synopsis

Episode 14. Hands of Mr. Ottermole
1950-11-28

London is being plagued by a strangler who baffles police. Sgt. Ottermole investigates, but has a difficult time when an obnoxious reporter constantly gets in his way.

Episode 15. The Guy From Nowhere
1950-12-05

A young football coach in a small town gets involved with big time gamblers.

Episode 16. The Mallet
1950-12-12

A bellicose huckster travels the fairs of England shilling his magic elixir. The "doctor," as he's called, is befriended by a couple in a local tavern who proceed to get him intoxicated. The husband tells Dr. Potteton that he'd love to…

Episode 17. Dancing Dan's Christmas
1950-12-19

In the days of prohibition, jewel thief "Dancing Dan" is taken with the gorgeous speakeasy hostess. In the holiday spirit, he makes like Santa for the woman's elderly grandmother.

Episode 18. The Tip
1950-12-26

Elaine Court recently had a heart attack and needs relaxation, but she's stressed over a strange man she claims has been lurking about. With her husband at work, she walks into the apartment one afternoon to find that stranger waiting for…

Episode 19. Death in a River
1951-01-02

Two drownings, strikingly similar in their details, provide a mystery to investigators.

Episode 20. Tough Cop
1951-01-09

Rookie cop Eddie Stone takes out his anger on suspects after Ruth, his fiancé, tells him she's fallen for another man. For two years he seethes, just hoping for the day the "other man" is brought into the police station. He finally comes…

Episode 21. The Fool's Heart
1951-01-16

A story depicting a cowboy's idea of the perfect crime.

Episode 22. Dead Fall
1951-01-23

The innocent involvement of a young scientist in a touch-and-go duel between government agents and an espionage ring brings a surprising and thrilling climax.

Episode 23. The Rose Garden
1951-01-30

Two elderly spinsters bury bodies in their rose garden.

Episode 24. Night Break
1951-02-06

A killer escapes authorities while being taken to Sing Sing and searches for the person who betrayed him.

Episode 25. Double Entry
1951-02-13

Bookkeeper Horace Maybee has been skimming money for years from the small finance company where he works. With auditors coming in to examine the books, he's desperate to come up with $25,000 in a hurry. He goes to a bookie, puts $500 on a…

Episode 26. The Victims
1951-02-20

No synopsis

Episode 27. Margin for Safety
1951-02-27

No synopsis

Episode 28. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1951-03-06

What is the connection between the eminently respectable Dr. Jekyll and the ruthlessly murderous and cruel Mr. Hyde?

Episode 29. On a Country Road
1951-03-13

Running out of gas on a foggy back road in Maine, a couple become frightened by news reports of a murderous woman who's escaped from an asylum. Searching for help, the two take refuge in an abandoned shack. When an hysterical woman…

Episode 30. Telephone Call
1951-03-20

The Haskells are throwing a drunken New Year's Eve party in their New York apartment. Next door, Everett Kelsey has had enough of tending to the bitter supposedly invalid wife who treats him like dirt. He's just poisoned the shrew when he…

Episode 31. The Three of Silence
1951-03-27

Racketeer Frank Cadwallder isn't allowed to play cards at the speakeasy because of the huge debt he currently owes. He recruits a nobody off the street to play poker on his behalf, win their "sucker money," and split the take with him.…

Episode 32. Go Home Dead Man
1951-04-03

Williams is a pilot who works for Scandinavian Export, flying by night to deliver unknown shipments to somewhere in the Arctic. Feeling something's fishy, he tries to quit but is strong-armed into making another flight. His bosses are…

Episode 33. The Foggy Night Visitor
1951-04-10

No synopsis

Episode 34. The Juice Man
1951-04-17

A committee investigating racketeering and political corruption in Chinatown fails to get Chan Sou, a local leader to cooperate. The district attorney convinces a detective and a newspaper reporter to probe further and the two men…

Episode 35. The Meeting
1951-04-24

The thief who just robbed and murdered a jeweler is trying to escape the office building when the police arrive. Sneaking down the hallways, he stumbles across a meeting of the International Association of Assassins, a group of mystery…

Episode 36. No Friend Like an Old Friend
1951-05-01

Story of an ailing concert pianist.

Episode 37. Murder in the Ring
1951-05-08

Drama about a crooked fight manager who wants to go straight.

Episode 38. Too Hot to Live
1951-05-15

Jefferson meets Rachel, an enigmatic young waitress. One moment he has a drink with her and the next moment she's dead. Jefferson doesn't think that he did it, but if he didn't do it; who did?

Episode 39. Escape This Night
1951-05-22

No synopsis

Episode 40. Vamp Till Dead
1951-05-29

No synopsis

Episode 41. The Call
1951-06-05

No synopsis

Episode 42. De Mortuis
1951-06-12

A devoted husband is suspected by friends of having murdered his faithless, much younger wife. He hasn't; but he might do.

Episode 43. A Killing in Abilene
1951-06-19

A man is determined to avenge his brother's death.

Episode 44. The Greatest Crime
1951-06-26

Espionage in a Russian setting.

Episode 45. Blood on the Trumpet
1951-07-03

Story of a man's flight from a murder he did not commit.

Episode 46. Tent on the Beach
1951-07-10

A wealthy socialite, kidnapped for ransom by a man whose closeness to the police helps him keep one step ahead of their attempts to track him down, wins her freedom through the astute observation of a newspaper reporter.

Episode 47. Wisteria Cottage
1951-07-17

A young man with murderous intentions latches onto a woman and her daughters.

Episode 48. The Incident at Story Point
1951-07-24

The story of a prison break.

Episode 49. A Vision of Death
1951-07-31

A nightclub performer discovers that his mind-reading act is real.

Episode 50. Killers of the City
1951-08-07

The story of a teenage drug addict and the ravages of narcotics.

Episode 51. Death Sabre
1951-08-14

No synopsis

Episode 52. This is Your Confession (1)
1951-08-21

A drama of an American scientist's involvement with secret police behind the Iron Curtain.

Episode 53. This is Your Confession (2)
1951-08-28

A drama of an American scientist's involvement with secret police behind the Iron Curtain.

Season 4
49 episodes · 1951
Episode 1. This Way Out
1951-09-04

girl and fiance argue about carnival - goes in, watches show about murderers - displays about their deeds. is told to wait, as she has questions - he does not return, leaving her alone with likenesses of murderers. forced to find way out.

Episode 2. Strange for a Killer
1951-09-11

The story of a hunted criminal who loses his nerve.

Episode 3. Merryman's Murder
1951-09-18

A taut mystery based on an incident in the life of entertainer Joe E. Lewis.

Episode 4. Doctor Anonymous
1951-09-25

No synopsis

Episode 5. Santa Fe Flight
1951-10-02

An espionage agent on the run.

Episode 6. High Street
1951-10-09

Tale of a house painter whose homicidal designs on a rich client are complicated by an old romance.

Episode 7. The Fifth Dummy
1951-10-16

Mystery set against a chamber of horrors in a traveling circus.

Episode 8. The Train from Czechoslovakia
1951-10-23

A documentary based on the activities of the voice of Radio Free Europe and its impact on the people behind the Iron Curtain. The story is based on the passengers and crew of the train that recently passed thru from Czechoslovakia to the…

Episode 9. Court Day
1951-10-30

No synopsis

Episode 10. Moonfleet (1)
1951-11-06

A tale of pirates and buried treasure.

Episode 11. Moonfleet (2)
1951-11-13

A tale of pirates and buried treasure.

Episode 12. Frisco Payoff
1951-11-20

Postal inspector Winters has infiltrated a criminal gang and their big plan is about to go down. A postal employee drops a $120,000 in bonds out a back window to Winters waiting in an alley. Needing time to switch the real bonds with…

Episode 13. Mikki
1951-11-27

With the cryptic words "Mikki Knows" from the lips of her dying father, a young socialite hunts down the murderer of her parent.

Episode 14. The Man Without a Face
1951-12-04

Mrs. Collins arrives at the train station in town after a long stay with her mother. Despite the storm that's raging, her husband being away, and, she learns, a killer on the loose, she's determined to get back to her isolated house. Once…

Episode 15. Mediation in Mexico
1951-12-11

No synopsis

Episode 16. Pier 17
1951-12-18

The dock workers who load nitroglycerin onto freighters at Pier 17 are on edge. A recent explosion at the harbor killed four men and the FBI believes it was sabotage by an insider. Dave Delaney and his foreman, with their eyes peeled for…

Episode 17. The Lonely Place
1951-12-25

No synopsis

Episode 18. Routine Patrol
1952-01-01

The story of a murder in a cabin in the Yukon territory.

Episode 19. Flare Week
1952-01-08

The story of death and terror which springs from a sports scandal on a college campus.

Episode 20. The Spider
1952-01-15

Scientists Bob and Muriel Torres honeymoon in rural Florida. Despite being warned that a professor and his son had gotten lost in the nearby swamp and were never seen again, Muriel goes exploring alone. With night approaching, she…

Episode 21. The Red Signal
1952-01-22

A supposedly fake medium is hired to a conduct a séance so Sir Alington, a psychiatrist, can observe a patient under stress. She warns the doctor, Clair and her husband Jack to avoid their homes because they are in danger. Her premonition…

Episode 22. Death Drum
1952-01-29

The mayor of a French town reveals the identities of underground members, he says, to save the country from destruction by the invading Nazis. Having been moved to a neutral country, he's quickly kidnapped by allies and carried to the…

Episode 23. Betrayal in Vienna
1952-02-05

An Austrian intelligence chief, his debasement and eventual self-destruction, are set in motion by an act of betrayal and blackmail.

Episode 24. North of Shanghai
1952-02-12

American medical missionaries Dr. Paul Morgan and his wife are told to leave China as the Communists advance on the city. When he refuses, a Communist general kills his own wife who's under the doctor's care, then charges Morgan with…

Episode 25. Summer Night
1952-02-19

The story of a woman's brush with death when she undersold the emotion of fear.

Episode 26. Night Drive
1952-02-26

Mrs. Haley takes her horse to blacksmith Bob to have its shoes checked since she'll be traveling alone by buggy to meet her husband at the train station. She's delighted when Dr. Tabor, whose wife was one of two women murdered in the…

Episode 27. Day of Infamy
1952-03-04

The story opens in Germany, where a young girl loses face with Herr Goebels and enlists into the espionage service of the Japanese and sets herself up in Hawaii.

Episode 28. Four Days to Kill
1952-03-11

Johnny, a professional assassin with a hair-trigger temper, is sent by his boss to Havana to do a job. His target is his former mentor, Barney Moyer, the man who taught him everything he knows about killing. That's why the intended victim…

Episode 29. The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1)
1952-03-18

A two-part dramatization of Dickens' "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," about a man and his uncle vying for the same girl.

Episode 30. The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2)
1952-03-25

A two-part dramatization of Dickens' "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," about a man and his uncle vying for the same girl.

Episode 31. Black Panther
1952-04-08

A criminal uses a rare doll store as the front for his diamond smuggling racket. A detective stars snooping around after a man carrying a doll is shot in the subway and the murderer steals the doll's arm. The mobster gets wise to the cop,…

Episode 32. Night of Evil
1952-04-15

Frenzy, fire and death are the results of an attempt to separate an old man from his fortune.

Episode 33. Alibi Me
1952-04-22

Ex-con Georgie Lennox has been tormented his entire life by Leo Whaley who's now out and moving in on his punch-board racket. Finally pushed too far, he shoots Leo to death. Knowing he'll be the prime suspect when Leo doesn't check in…

Episode 34. The Letter
1952-04-29

In 1880 France, a wealthy woman's determined her husband, becomes a success. After paying to the have him named the minister of justice, in exchange, he writes her a note guaranteeing the job. Only the notes's disappears, and she must…

Episode 35. The Mandarin Murders
1952-05-06

A drama based on the revolutionary activities that preceded the founding of the Chinese Republic.

Episode 36. Fingers of Fear
1952-05-13

A policeman searches for the killer of a young woman.

Episode 37. Hunted Down
1952-05-20

Tale about a greedy killer trapped by social ambition and the lure of an inheritance.

Episode 38. The Debt
1952-05-27

A young drifter is robbed by two other hobos after hopping off a train. Making his way to a country store, he's offered refuge from the rain by the young woman and her father who run the business. During the night the store is robbed and…

Episode 39. Murder of Necessity
1952-06-03

A murder of necessity is caused by blackmail when an eavesdropper gets involved.

Episode 40. House of Masks
1952-06-10

Anna, a delicate and unstable young woman, despises having her life controlled by her older, practical sister. The sister is ready sign the papers to have Anna committed after she hires a mysterious young poet to be the gardener and plies…

Episode 41. Phantom of the Riviera
1952-06-17

Tale is of a will-o'-the-wisp jewel thief whose area of operations is a Mediterranean resort. Six suspects are involved before the thief is captured.

Episode 42. Night of Reckoning
1952-06-24

Story of counterespionage behind Chinese Communist lines in Korea.

Episode 43. Fifty Beautiful Girls
1952-07-01

A serial killer is murdering the dance hall girls.

Episode 44. For the Love of Randi
1952-07-15

Dr. Ted Larson's engagement to head nurse Randi Sloan is getting under the skin of Dr. David Bonnell, her ex-lover and current roommate of Ted. When a box of candy arrives one morning, supposedly from Randi, David and a neighbor kid try a…

Episode 45. The Crooked Frame
1952-07-29

Kelly Davis, the unscrupulous creator of "Sally Forth" comic books, announces she's retiring the character. This move puts her resentful staff of cartoonists out of work. She offers Webb the chance to write the stories for her "new…

Episode 46. Death Cargo
1952-08-05

A freighter bound for New Orleans for a cargo delivery encounters a great risk of spoiled fruit.

Episode 47. Remember Me
1952-08-12

A former high-school basketball star, now broke and reduced to committing small-time hold-ups, kills an old man. With the police after him, he hides out in the apartment of a lonely woman who once had a crush on him in his high-school days.

Episode 48. Her Last Adventure
1952-08-19

Eva, a wealthy middle-aged woman, marries a man she barely knows and moves into his family estate, a dark, run-down mansion on the Massachusetts coast. She learns James was recently engaged to a young woman, but he dismisses it as an…

Episode 49. Woman in Love
1952-08-26

A female secret agent operating in 1952 Budapest is preoccupied with her upcoming marriage. In her thoughtlessness, she loses a valuable document resulting in her life being in jeopardy.

Season 5
50 episodes · 1952
Episode 1. The Old Lady of Bayeux
1952-09-02

Cécile Ledru, the companion of a rich widow, Joséphine Crozier, calls the police when she finds her dead body at the estate of her nephew, where they were staying. Mrs. Crozier has apparently died of a heart attack but Maigret, the…

Episode 2. Call From a Killer
1952-09-09

The tale is about a killer who tries to hide out with his wartime buddy, unaware that the buddy is now a policeman.

Episode 3. The Return of Dr. Bourdette
1952-09-16

A detective searches for a killer and traces him to a wax museum.

Episode 4. Set-Up For Death
1952-09-23

Mobster Kip Caley is released from prison after serving ten years and proclaims he's "going straight." His old criminal cronies, however, intend to involve him in a hold-up after breaking his resolve to stay honest. Boss McLean gets him a…

Episode 5. The Beach of Falesa
1952-09-30

Wiltshire is the third man sent by a trading company to work on a small Polynesian island; the previous two had strangely died. Upon arriving he encounters his competitor, Case, a man determined to keep the island to himself. Months later…

Episode 6. The Man in the Mirror
1952-10-07

Two men look exactly alike. One is the actual criminal and the other the innocent sap who gets nailed.

Episode 7. Blue Panther
1952-10-14

Detective Ben Shaley has been hired to guard The Blue Panther, a valuable painting on loan to a gallery. During the invitation-only preview, both the painting and the necklace of a society art patron are stolen. The gallery's owner,…

Episode 8. The Man Who Had Seven Hours
1952-10-21

A Hollywood assistant director in a stop-over in Paris is attacked by criminals on the Montmarte.

Episode 9. All Hallow's Eve
1952-10-28

In 1880s London, Mr. Markheim stabs to death a pawnbroker whose wealth he has long envied. Markheim says he intends take some of the businessman's riches, marry, and become a saintly man. An otherworldly visitor who knows Markheim…

Episode 10. The Moving Target
1952-11-11

Based on the true story of a Hungarian sharpshooter at the 1952 Olympic Games, this episode focused on an athlete whose father is held as collateral so that the athlete will not try to defect to the west. At the end of the program, a…

Episode 11. Monsieur Vidocq
1952-11-18

A series of thefts at France's national museum threatens to become an international issue. Scotland Yard sends Williams to Paris to request help from the city's renowned, retired police commissioner, Monsieur Vidocq. Vidocq sets up a…

Episode 12. The Whispering Killer
1952-11-25

A mobster is tripped up by a simple law he overlooks.

Episode 13. A Time of Innocence
1952-12-02

Middle-aged Henry wants to divorce his London wife, Carol, and return home to America, but she intends to keep all of their savings. After striking up a romance with his young secretary, Henry sends out announcements saying Carol has…

Episode 14. The Girl Who Saw Tomorrow
1952-12-09

A neurotic woman becomes distressed when she sees her best friend becoming successful.

Episode 15. The Tortured Hand
1952-12-16

A 19th century nobleman is tortured with pain in his hand, the one he used to commit murder defending his family's honor.

Episode 16. The Deadly Lamb
1952-12-23

A woman becomes the object of affection between two brothers in this romantic triangle story.

Episode 17. The Invisible Killer
1952-12-30

Pilot Dan Crowley is grounded by his doctor for his intense behavior. A delusional man who's constantly trying to prove himself, he believes the doctor's daughter should be his, even though she is happily engaged to his boss. When the…

Episode 18. Little Camorra
1953-01-06

Convinced that she is cursed by an old family vendetta, a woman tries to convince her American fiance of the threat.

Episode 19. Mr. Matches
1953-01-13

An arsonist-for-hire dubbed "Mr. Matches" has been been torching buildings all around the city. Bernard Frank, head of the fire bureau, knows who he's looking for because he's spotted in the crowd at each of his jobs admiring his work. To…

Episode 20. Vacancy for Death
1953-01-20

Clara and Sam Warren own a run-down boarding house which acts as a front for their real business: arranging for their boarders to have "accidents." One particular evening, Sam and a partner bring home a renter, knock him out cold and turn…

Episode 21. Career
1953-01-27

A British agent wants to give up her spying in Nazi Germany in this story of espionage.

Episode 22. Mutiny Below
1953-02-03

After saving the chief engineer's life, Danny and Snow are hired as watch officers on a rusty steamer traveling the Indian Ocean. Reading a newspaper story about a stolen diamond being smuggled into Australia, the boiler room crew becomes…

Episode 23. A Study in Stone
1953-02-10

After carefully faking insanity, a sculptor is acquitted of his wife's murder, but he finds nature's justice cannot be circumvented.

Episode 24. The Quarry
1953-02-17

After preventing a stranger from being shot outside of his hotel, widower Don Ashley realizes why a pair of thugs have been trailing him for days--the goons had the two similar-looking men confused. The man he saved, Gorden, had the…

Episode 25. They Haven't Killed Me Yet
1953-02-24

An Asian-American agent's life is in jeopardy while attempting to break a powerful protection racket in Chinatown. Based on the work of Gon Sam Mue.

Episode 26. The Kiss Off
1953-03-03

Tom Walker, an ex-convict who was wrongly convicted and just released, holds up a tax office and leaves behind an obvious clue as to his identity. He gives the bag of money to his patient girlfriend and sends her ahead to Florida saying…

Episode 27. The Legend of Lizzie
1953-03-10

The story of accused axe-murderer Lizzie Borden is dramatized.

Episode 28. The Black Prophet
1953-03-17

Convinced that the sinister "Mad Monk" Rasputin will bring about the fall of Russia with his growing power over the royal family, a group of noblemen take action. Serge Soudekine invites Rasputin to his home and fills the prophet with a…

Episode 29. Portrait of Constance
1953-03-24

A newlywed accompanies her detective husband on the search for a long-missing woman, whom he once was madly in love with. A reported sighting takes Burt and Sally Hastings to a resort town where a bust of Constance awaits them in their…

Episode 30. Death in the Cave
1953-03-31

The tale of two adventurers trapped by an earthquake in a vast underground cavern.

Episode 31. Kiss Me Again, Stranger
1953-04-14

A serial killer is on the loose in 1946 London with five victims so far. Elderly Mrs. Thompson rents a room to a secretive young Tim Matthews and is convinced he's the murderer. She calls police after discovering a knife in his room.…

Episode 32. The Duel
1953-04-21

Madeleine does not care for Raoul, the officer her father intends for her to marry. Instead, she loves Lt. Andre Duport. Her father intends to send her back to Paris and put a stop to their affair. The jilted Raoul challenges Andre to an…

Episode 33. F.O.B. Vienna
1953-04-28

Lawrence Stevens, an American engineer, accompanies a shipment of lathes to an electrical factory in Vienna. A female reporter tells him about the huge black market for industrial machinery from the West. Corrupt businessmen are only too…

Episode 34. The Suitor
1953-05-05

A lonely widow lives on a farm where weird and baffling mysteries are occurring.

Episode 35. Death of an Editor
1953-05-12

A militant editor's death is plotted and carried out by foreign agents.

Episode 36. Come into My Parlor
1953-05-19

A man becomes involved with a teenage gang.

Episode 37. The Adventure of the Black Baronet
1953-05-26

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called upon to solve the case of Colonel Jocelyn Dalcy, who was found stabbed to death while visiting at the home of Sir Reginald Lavington.

Episode 38. The Queen's Ring
1953-06-02

The story is based on an experience in the life of Elizabeth I.

Episode 39. The Man Who Cried Wolf
1953-06-09

An attaché working at the Russian embassy in Mexico is about to be called home for becoming too friendly with the freedom-loving locals. In exchange for asylum, he frantically tries to interest a newspaper and the Justice Department in…

Episode 40. See No Evil
1953-06-16

A night club singer helps a gang plan a robbery, believing their promise not to harm the night watchman, her father.

Episode 41. The Signal Man
1953-06-23

A demented railroad signalman is tortured by fears that he is responsible for a series of train wrecks.

Episode 42. The Fury of Senorita Gomez
1953-06-30

A highborn lady in the 19th century of Peru plots with her stableman to murder her uncle.

Episode 43. The Mascot
1953-07-07

An American correspondent risks his life to secretly record a candid interview with an army deserter, exposing his evil plan to become dictator of a Mediterranean Island.

Episode 44. The Dutch Schultz Story
1953-07-14

True story of the notorious gangster Dutch Schultz who became kingpin of the underworld, only to be knocked from his throne by blazing guns in a New Jersey tavern.

Episode 45. Pigeon in the Cage
1953-07-21

A drama of frustrated lovers caught in a web of crime and deceit.

Episode 46. The Dance
1953-07-28

Joan Hale first sees the Charleston performed at a society party on a visit to the South. During her stay, she and Charlie fall in love despite his engagement to the scheming Marie. Gunshots interrupt the dance and Marie is found…

Episode 47. Vial of Death
1953-08-04

A deadly vial of cholera is stolen from a doctor's medical bag.

Episode 48. Point Blank
1953-08-11

When a gang leader tries to burn his bridges behind him the backfires get awfully, warm.

Episode 49. Nightmare at Ground Zero
1953-08-18

The Nevada Proving Ground is set for another nuclear bomb blast at 4 AM. A harried artist is rushing to finish the mannequins he's been hired to construct that will populate a house at ground zero. His nagging wife, who does nothing but…

Episode 50. Death in Passing
1953-08-25

A tale of murder on Manila's waterfront and an island detective with one of the most puzzling cases of his career.

Season 6
51 episodes · 1953
Episode 1. Paradise Junction
1953-09-01

The story of a traveling circus and its unhappy owner.

Episode 2. Reign of Terror
1953-09-08

An innocent woman is sentenced to death during the French Revolution.

Episode 3. The Darkest Night
1953-09-15

Murder and blackmail ruin a bride-to-be's bridal shower.

Episode 4. The Riddle of Mayerling
1953-09-22

A dramatic adaptation of the famous and true story of a commoner's ill-fated romance with the Archduke Rudolph of Hapsburg.

Episode 5. The Sister
1953-09-29

The tragic tale of a pair of recluses whose lives are brought into focus for the first time after years of frustration and jealousy.

Episode 6. Death at Skirerud Pond
1953-10-06

The story of a tense trial in Norway when a jury was asked to remember what it was like in their homeland during the war. The actual verdict is revealed at the end of the program.

Episode 7. The Accounting
1953-10-13

The story of a corrupt supply captain, son of an illustrious military hero, and a fiercely loyal major who challenges him to a duel to preserve the family's honor.

Episode 8. The Valley of the Kings
1953-10-20

The tense story of an archaeological expedition searching for the tomb of King Tutmose. They finally find it and its treasures untouched; but then the curse of the Pharaoh on anyone defiling his tomb's sacred precincts begin to strike.

Episode 9. The Others
1953-10-27

No synopsis

Episode 10. The Interruption
1953-11-03

An English gentleman gloats over the murder of his wife only to learn that his evil housekeeper knows his secret.

Episode 11. Needle in a Haystack
1953-11-10

The behind-the-scenes story of how the U. S. Navy ferreted out the secret of Communist minefields in Wonsan Harbor, enabling minesweepers to clear the way for the safe landing of 22,000 Marines.

Episode 12. The Newcomer
1953-11-17

A story of a brash stranger in a small Western town who changes his ways when arrested for the murder of a local belle.

Episode 13. My Short Walk to Freedom
1953-11-24

When a fugitive from a Russian concentration camp is cornered in his Budapest home, he disguises himself and his brother to try a get beyond the Iron Curtain.

Episode 14. Laugh It Off
1953-12-01

A kindly young man believes a girl's story that she is marked for murder and risks his life to save her, despite warnings from friends that she is a habitual liar and thrill-seeker.

Episode 15. The Dance
1953-12-08

This episode is a remake of an episode previously shown on the series. This episode and the previous one were both shown live and featured different casts.

Episode 16. Cagliostro and the Chess Player
1953-12-15

A dramatization based on the life of the 18th Century Italian magician, Count Alessandro di Cagliostro. The cunning magician inveigles King Stanislaus into a chess game with his mechanical genius. That, in the end, becomes his downfall.

Episode 17. The Gift of Fear
1953-12-22

A little boy in a department store and a night watchman who likes toys better than people are featured in this odd Christmas tale.

Episode 18. Mr. Nobody
1953-12-29

A wealthy, vicious woman turns a goodhearted but naive tramp into a pawn in her evil plans.

Episode 19. Diamonds in the Sky
1954-01-05

A gang of smugglers, diamonds and a beautiful woman add up to trouble for the pilot on a trans-Atlantic flight.

Episode 20. The Scrap Iron Curtain
1954-01-12

The true story of Baclav Uhlik, a Czech machinist who built an armored car and last July transported his wife, two children and four friends 40 miles through the Bohemian forests to the town of Waldmeunchen in the western zone of Germany.

Episode 21. The Haunted
1954-01-19

The second wife of a ski-lodge owner suspects her husband of the murder of his first wife.

Episode 22. An Affair With a Ghost
1954-01-26

A dead French underground leader returns to save a band of hostages when a Nazi collaborator goes back on his promise.

Episode 23. The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1954-02-02

A drama based on the hoax of Canadian George DuPre, who claimed service in the French underground as a British intelligence officer during World War II.

Episode 24. The Moonstone
1954-02-09

A precious stone taken from India is coveted by many parties.

Episode 25. The Execution
1954-02-16

Her son's heroic death in battle unseals the lips of a mother about a 10-year-old tragedy involving her brutal husband.

Episode 26. Death on the Screen
1954-02-23

A frantic wife sits by her TV set, watching a public dinner where a deranged man is getting ready to kill her husband.

Episode 27. I Do Solemnly Swear
1954-03-02

The story of the first woman juror in the United States, in 1870 in Laramie, Wyoming.

Episode 28. Before the Act
1954-03-09

A young bank official is the intended scapegoat of a carefully designed plan to rob the vault of $100,000.

Episode 29. The Fourth Degree
1954-03-16

A psychiatrist makes a weird experiment in a last ditch attempt to get a key witness in a homicide case to talk.

Episode 30. The Tenth Reunion
1954-03-23

A college reunion crowd discover that one of the gang has been missing since graduation. Those present have had reasons to do away with her.

Episode 31. Torment
1954-03-30

Behind the Iron Curtain, a condemned prisoner's wife tries to save him by appealing to an old friend, the police chief.

Episode 32. Open Transom
1954-04-06

No synopsis

Episode 33. Operation: Barracuda
1954-04-13

Operation:Barracuda is a 1954 TV episode or short film directed by Robert Mulligan. "The heartless captain of a German u-boat crashes his vessel along the Atlantic coast at the close of WWII. Only the captain and his lieutenant escape…

Episode 34. The Return Journey
1954-04-20

A window washer is tempted by an unguarded amount of money and realizes the error in his judgment all too soon.

Episode 35. The Terror Begins
1954-04-27

The story of how Stalin held a grip on the Russian people after assassinating S.M. Kirov.

Episode 36. Smoke
1954-05-04

The two sons of a disgusting and destructive old man stand to benefit as a result of his violent death.

Episode 37. Operation: Nightmare
1954-05-11

A dramatization of the heroics of nurse Ann Bernatitus during the Battle of Bataan.

Episode 38. Breakout
1954-05-18

A prison riot breaks out and a guard is taken hostage. The inmates want the keys to the main gate in exchange for the guard.

Episode 39. Fingerprints
1954-05-25

A true story taken from the cases of Alfonse Bertillon, chief of the Identification Bureau of the Paris Police in the early 1900's. Bertillon invented the first system of crime detection through the use of physical features.

Episode 40. Race Against Murder
1954-06-01

A young doctor leaves his practice to find a cure for polio after watching his patients suffer.

Episode 41. North Side
1954-06-08

The true story of the workings of a New York homicide squad as it goes about the solution of a brutal murder.

Episode 42. The Pistol Shot
1954-06-15

An Army Captain wants revenge on a fellow officer in 19th century Russia. The young Captain has bested him in cards and love.

Episode 43. String
1954-06-22

Thirty men in a secret unit, started by President Roosevelt during World War II, are captured and tortured at the Belsen concentration camp before escaping.

Episode 44. The Hunted
1954-06-29

An unethical hunter is caught shooting a tame animal on a wildlife preserve. The game warden delivers an unexpected punishment: three bullets and a ten minute head start.

Episode 45. The Girl in Car Thirty-Two
1954-07-06

An investigator puts his life in danger after he falls for the woman he is tailing.

Episode 46. Conversation at an Inn
1954-07-13

A bicyclist makes up fantastic tales of murder on "clues" she finds along her rides. When she finds a shoe and a lighter, she tells an elaborate tale that turns out to be very close to the truth.

Episode 47. Once a Killer
1954-07-20

A woman's faith in a hoodlum is destroyed when the police prevail upon her to get him to surrender.

Episode 48. Main Feature: Death
1954-07-27

A woman gets locked in movie theater by mistake and encounters a pair of killers who break in to rob the safe.

Episode 49. The Last Stand
1954-08-03

A would-be recluse's best friend discovers gold on his land. He realizes his only security is his friend's death, but he is thwarted in the effort of murder by some fast-traveling news.

Episode 50. The Iron Cop
1954-08-10

A policeman's niece is murdered. He resolves to find the killer but has to pit his wits against an "electronic brain" to do so.

Episode 51. Barn Burning
1954-08-17

A mentally incapacitated war hero seeks revenge against society.

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