Originally broadcast on CBS, 20 November 1960. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1940–1962
- Surviving broadcasts
- 911
- Genre
- suspense
The individual episodes have been broken down into several different pages: Suspense - Single Episodes or Suspense - Single Episodes - 1942 Suspense - Single Episodes - 1943 Suspense - Single Episodes - 1944 Suspense - Single Episodes - 1945 Suspense - Single Episodes - 1946 Suspense - Single Episodes - 1947 Suspense - Single Episodes - 1
1962 · 391961 · 251960 · 26
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 46 of 90Listenable · 44 of 90
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: OTRR_Suspense_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
22 dated broadcasts across 23 years on the air, with 20 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1960, in original transmission order.
- 1. Suspense 856 Two Came Back · 5 Jun 1960
- 2. Suspense 857 Elemental · 12 Jun 1960
- 3. Suspense 858 Sixty Grand Missing · 19 Jun 1960
Suspense 945 Devilstone
30 Sep 1962 · 23 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 30 September 1962. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Suspense 944 At the Point of a Needle
23 Sep 1962 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 23 September 1962. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Suspense 943 Golden Years
16 Sep 1962 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 16 September 1962. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Suspense 942 A Strange Day in May
9 Sep 1962 · 22 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 9 September 1962. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Suspense 941 The Death of Alexander Jordan
2 Sep 1962 · 23 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 2 September 1962. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Suspense 940 The Lost Ship
26 Aug 1962 · 23 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 26 August 1962. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Suspense 939 Pages from a Diary
19 Aug 1962 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 19 August 1962. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Suspense 938 The Silver Shoe
12 Aug 1962 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 12 August 1962. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
20 Nov 1960
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 20 Nov 1960.
Originally broadcast on CBS, 20 November 1960. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on CBS
CBS in 1940–1962
Other series the network carried while Suspense was on the air.
Same seasons
suspense on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The anthology of dread
A voice, a creaking door, and a self-contained story designed to frighten you in half an hour. Suspense and Lights Out built the grammar every horror anthology still uses.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Suspense
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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