Suspense, "radio's outstanding theater of thrills", was one of the premier programs of the Golden Age of Radio, featuring a who's who of Hollywood stars spread out over its 900+ episodes.  Scripts focused on suspense/thriller/mystery plots, typically involving a normal person being thrown into a bizarre or dangerous situation, with the solution withheld until the last moment--often with a surprising twist.

Guest stars included Cary Grant, Orson Welles, Frank Sinatra, Agnes Moorehead (pictured), Humphrey Bogart, Lucille Ball and Marlene Dietrich.  The show ran from 1942 to 1962.

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     Murder by the Book (Gloria Swanson)  Dream Song (Henry Morgan)  Mortmain  
     Deep into Darkness (Douglas Fairbanks)  They Call Me Patrice  No More Alice  
     I Never Met the Dead Man (Danny Kaye)  Mission Completed (James Stewart)  Ghost Hunt  
     Donovan's Brain, Pt 1 (Orson Welles)  Donovan's Brain Pt. 2 (Orson Welles)  The Locked Room  
     A Friend to Alexander (Robert Young)  Murder Goes for a Swim  Two Sharp Knives  
     The White Rose Murders (M. O'Hara)  The Cross-Eyed Bear  Banquo's Chair  
     One-Way Ride to Nowhere (Alan Ladd)  Wet Saturday (Charles Laughton)  Last Night  
     Cat and Mouse  Narrative About Clarence  A World of Darkness  
     Search for Henri Le Fevre (Paul Muni)  The Walls Came Tumbling Down  The Visitor  
     Case History on Edgar Lowndes  The Palmer Method  The Woman in Red  
     No Escape (Jimmy Cagney)  The High Wall (Robert Young)  Give Me Liberty  
     The Strange Death of Charles Umberstein  Will You Make a Bet with Death  The Body Snatchers  
     Voyage Through Darkness (de Havilland)  Of Maestro and Men (Peter Lorre)  The Beast Must Die  
     You'll Never See Me Again (J. Cotten)  The Merry Widower  Black Path of Fear  
     You Were Wonderful (Lena Horne)  The Night Man (Virginia Bruce)  Bluebeard of Bellac  
     The Burning Court  Philomel Cottage  The Kettler Method