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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     The Man Who Liked Dickens  Self Defense  Riabouchinska  
     The Clock and the Rope  Summer Night  Crisis  
     The Yellow Wallpaper (A. Moorehead)  Hitch-hike Poker (Gregory Peck)  Song of the Heart  
     Celebration (Robert Young)  The Morrison Affair  Beware the Quiet Man  
     The Big Shot (Burt Lancaster)  Night Cry (Ray Milland)  The Man Who Wanted to be Edward G. Robinson  
     A Little Piece of Rope (Lucille Ball)  The Screaming Woman  Muddy Track  
     The Sisters (Rosalind Russell)  Holiday Story (Herbert Marshall)  Break-Up  
     The Too Perfect Alibi (Danny Kaye)  If the Dead Could Talk  The Thing in the Window  
     De Mortuis (Charles Laughton)  Catch Me If You Can (Jane Wyman)  Where There's a Will  
     Lovebirds (Joan Fontaine)  Three O'Clock  Murder Through the Looking Glass (G. Peck)  
     Dead Ernest  You Can't Die Twice (E.G. Robinson)  Noose of Coincidence  
     Murder in Black and White  The Copper Tea Strainer  The Lie (Mickey Rooney)  
     Death Has a Shadow (Bob Hope)  The Light Switch (Claire Trevor)  The Ten Years (Joan Crawford)  
     Lunch Kit  The Trap (Agnes Moorehead)  The Day I Died (Joseph Cotten)  
     Nightmare (Gregory Peck) Chicken Feed (Ray Milland)  Last Confession  
     Experiment  Blind Date (Charles Laughton)  Account Payable