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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 - "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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Saturday · 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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Friday · 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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Thursday · 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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Wednesday · 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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October 10 · 30 min
Suspense - "Deep into Darkness (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr )" (Old Time Radio, 1948)
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 the Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. production as Suspense #299, originally...
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October 9 · 30 min
Suspense - "Allen in Wonderland" (Old Time Radio, 1952)
Suspense presents “Allen in Wonderland,” identified in this archival recording as episode 7, originally broadcast October 2, 1952. Episode listings also associate the production with CBS’s Suspense broadcast of October 27, 1952, starring Cornell...
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October 8 · 30 min
Suspense - "The Long Wait" (Old Time Radio, 1949)
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. Recently released from prison, Dan Varrell returns to Manhattan still...
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October 7 · 30 min
Suspense - "The Thing in the Window" (Old Time Radio, 1946)
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 Aimes becomes obsessed with a shadowy figure he sees in a window across...
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October 6 · 29 min
Suspense - "Lazarus Walks" (Old Time Radio, 1943)
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 an unsettling new relationship with truth and lies. Orson Welles stars as...
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October 5 · 30 min
Suspense - "Life Ends at Midnight" (Old Time Radio, 1944)
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 midnight, a discovery involving her elderly lodger’s insurance policy turns an...
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