Suspense
Season 5
195250 episodes
Episode 1
The Old Lady of Bayeux
Sep 2, 1952
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 investigating police inspector is not convinced...
Episode 2
Call From a Killer
Sep 9, 1952
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
Sep 16, 1952
A detective searches for a killer and traces him to a wax museum.
Episode 4
Set-Up For Death
Sep 23, 1952
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 greeters job at a hotel restaurant where he falls for a woman who works there. Her intention to help Kip by warning the police about the impending robbery put Kip's life on the line.
Episode 5
The Beach of Falesa
Sep 30, 1952
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 after Wiltshire marries a native woman, the natives refuse to trade with him because Case has convinced the superstitious people that the woman is "taboo" and cursed. Wiltshire refuses to leave the island as Case wants and takes him on in the jungle.
Episode 6
The Man in the Mirror
Oct 7, 1952
Two men look exactly alike. One is the actual criminal and the other the innocent sap who gets nailed.
Episode 7
Blue Panther
Oct 14, 1952
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, Drexel Courtney, is willing to pay $15,000 for the painting's safe return. Shaley's attempts to negotiate with the thieves becomes an ordeal beach each is trying to double-cross the other.
Episode 8
The Man Who Had Seven Hours
Oct 21, 1952
A Hollywood assistant director in a stop-over in Paris is attacked by criminals on the Montmarte.
Episode 9
All Hallow's Eve
Oct 28, 1952
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 intimately informs him that he will never change his evil ways and therefore should kill again.
Episode 10
The Moving Target
Nov 11, 1952
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 public service announcement for Radio Free Europe is heard.
Episode 11
Monsieur Vidocq
Nov 18, 1952
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 meeting with a highly-placed criminal who can lead them to the guilty, while also arranging for Williams to be killed when they all meet at a dangerous, seedy bar.
Episode 12
The Whispering Killer
Nov 25, 1952
A mobster is tripped up by a simple law he overlooks.
Episode 13
A Time of Innocence
Dec 2, 1952
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 unexpectedly died on an American trip. A friend of Carol's finds this suspicious and goes to Scotland Yard, forcing Henry and his secretary to hop a boat incognito and head across the Atlantic.
Episode 14
The Girl Who Saw Tomorrow
Dec 9, 1952
A neurotic woman becomes distressed when she sees her best friend becoming successful.
Episode 15
The Tortured Hand
Dec 16, 1952
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
Dec 23, 1952
A woman becomes the object of affection between two brothers in this romantic triangle story.
Episode 17
The Invisible Killer
Dec 30, 1952
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 couple and the doctor go for a hunting trip in the woods, Dan follows and, at night, begins firing on their cabin using a rifle with an infrared scope.
Episode 18
Little Camorra
Jan 6, 1953
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
Jan 13, 1953
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 catch "Mr. Matches" in the act, the department has an ex-con hire him to take down a building they're monitoring. His capture becomes personal after Frank's son is killed in one of the arsonist's fires.
Episode 20
Vacancy for Death
Jan 20, 1953
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 on the gas. It finally becomes clear to Clara what type of man her husband really is.
Episode 21
Career
Jan 27, 1953
A British agent wants to give up her spying in Nazi Germany in this story of espionage.
Episode 22
Mutiny Below
Feb 3, 1953
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 convinced that Danny and Snow have the jewel. They stage a mutiny, even though the old ship is about to sink.
Episode 23
A Study in Stone
Feb 10, 1953
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
Feb 17, 1953
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 misfortune of witnessing a mob hit and they want to silence the only man who saw what they did. With the deadly duo staking out the lobby, Don hides his face and races past the pair. Again mistaking Don for their actual prey, the two give chase. This should give Gorden the chance to contact the police and tell his story.
Episode 25
They Haven't Killed Me Yet
Feb 24, 1953
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
Mar 3, 1953
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 he'll join her soon. Soon enough, he gets the expected visit from the DA and cop who wrongly convicted him. Tom intends to make fools of his former persecutors.
Episode 27
The Legend of Lizzie
Mar 10, 1953
The story of accused axe-murderer Lizzie Borden is dramatized.
Episode 28
The Black Prophet
Mar 17, 1953
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 enough poisoned wine and cakes to kill twenty men. This succeeds only in making him tipsy. In desperation, Serge pulls out his gun and fires repeatedly. That should put an end to the madman.
Episode 29
Portrait of Constance
Mar 24, 1953
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 cabin. As Burt races to see the sculptor, Sally realizes her husband's still mesmerized by the young lady. The artist confesses that the model was indeed Constance, his wife, and that he jealously murdered her.
Episode 30
Death in the Cave
Mar 31, 1953
The tale of two adventurers trapped by an earthquake in a vast underground cavern.
Episode 31
Kiss Me Again, Stranger
Apr 14, 1953
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. Meanwhile, Tim has taken a young woman he's obsessed with on a picnic in the country. Having been discharged from the Royal Air Force for physical reasons, he's insanely jealous of her former boyfriend, a strapping man who had served during the war.
Episode 32
The Duel
Apr 21, 1953
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 unusual duel--only one of the pistols will be loaded and each aimed just three inches from the heart. When the time comes to prove he's more than just words, Raoul proves to be a crafty coward.
Episode 33
F.O.B. Vienna
Apr 28, 1953
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 happy to sell products to the Communists and that his lathes are heading behind the iron Curtain to Poland.
Episode 34
The Suitor
May 5, 1953
A lonely widow lives on a farm where weird and baffling mysteries are occurring.
Episode 35
Death of an Editor
May 12, 1953
A militant editor's death is plotted and carried out by foreign agents.
Episode 36
Come into My Parlor
May 19, 1953
A man becomes involved with a teenage gang.
Episode 37
The Adventure of the Black Baronet
May 26, 1953
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
Jun 2, 1953
The story is based on an experience in the life of Elizabeth I.
Episode 39
The Man Who Cried Wolf
Jun 9, 1953
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 papers showing a communist conspiracy involving some in the Mexican government. No one believes him because of the propaganda he tried to peddle them the year before.
Episode 40
See No Evil
Jun 16, 1953
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
Jun 23, 1953
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
Jun 30, 1953
A highborn lady in the 19th century of Peru plots with her stableman to murder her uncle.
Episode 43
The Mascot
Jul 7, 1953
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
Jul 14, 1953
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
Jul 21, 1953
A drama of frustrated lovers caught in a web of crime and deceit.
Episode 46
The Dance
Jul 28, 1953
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 upstairs--murdered. Though Charlie is the prime suspect, several others has ample motivation to pull the trigger.
Episode 47
Vial of Death
Aug 4, 1953
A deadly vial of cholera is stolen from a doctor's medical bag.
Episode 48
Point Blank
Aug 11, 1953
When a gang leader tries to burn his bridges behind him the backfires get awfully, warm.
Episode 49
Nightmare at Ground Zero
Aug 18, 1953
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 complain about his work, finally pushes him over the edge. As contracted, he delivers five "people" to the house that's about to be destroyed.
Episode 50
Death in Passing
Aug 25, 1953
A tale of murder on Manila's waterfront and an island detective with one of the most puzzling cases of his career.