Suspense: Old-Time Radio Suspense and Mystery
By Stupid Potato
Categories: Fiction, Drama, History
Old-time radio suspense and mystery from 1940–1962: Suspense. Free, complete episodes, restored audio, no modern ads. Suspense: 910 episodes, in the order they first aired. A new episode every day, and live around the clock. From Stupid Potato: 61 free 24/7 channels of classic radio and vintage TV, and 190 podcasts, at stupidpotato.com.
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Recent episodes
- Suspense: Till Death Do Us Part (1942)
Professor Owen Kraft and his young wife Cynthia sit by the fire in their isolated English cottage on a windy December night in 1941. Their quiet evening turns tense as Owen presses Cynthia to drink a hot rum and lemon, and his questions reveal suspicion about her feelings toward a young American…
- Suspense: The Bride Vanishes (1942)
Newlyweds Tom and Lucy Courtney travel to the island of Capri for their honeymoon. During a stop at the Blue Grotto, a local boatman tells them a frightening story about a young bride who vanished from a balcony there years earlier. Once they reach their rented villa, Lucy's resemblance to that…
- Suspense: The Body Snatchers (1942)
In 1832 London, Matt Paterson and his cousin Robert, body snatchers working for the old woman Mother Slade, rob a fresh grave to supply a surgeon. Their attempt is interrupted in the churchyard and they flee, then bring a corpse to the house, hoping to sell it to Dr. George Arnold. Dr. Arnold is a…
- Suspense: Menace in Wax (1942)
In London in March 1941, a reporter named Rogers from the Daily Record visits Madame Tussaud's wax works after a night watchman named Pearson phones his paper with suspicions. Rogers meets Pearson in the Chamber of Horrors, where a woman calling herself Susie Du Bois joins him, and the pair begin…
- Suspense: Will You Make a Bet with Death (1942)
Bob Pendrel, an analytical chemist, is drawn into a wager with his wealthy stepfather, John Destry, who offers $25,000 if Pendrel can survive six months under strict conditions while Destry attempts to kill him. The story is part of the Suspense series, which was broadcast in 1942; the original…
- Suspense: The Devil in the Summer House (1942)
Lawyer Parker and Captain Burke of Homicide return at dusk to a house near Tarrytown where Major Kenyon died in a summer house more than twenty-five years earlier. Parker has received an anonymous letter claiming the death was not suicide and pointing to a drawer in the library desk. Inside the…
- Suspense: One Hundred in the Dark (1942)
Five members of a New York artists and writers club, including Quenny, Rankin, Stangal and Peters, argue over whether detective puzzles are inexhaustible. Peters offers a story from his own experience: a hostess, Mrs. Kildare, discovers her sapphire ring missing after a dinner party at her…
- Suspense: A Passage to Benares (1942)
American psychologist Henry Pajoli visits Port of Spain, Trinidad, and is drawn into the murder of a bride, found dead in a Hindu temple on the morning after her wedding. Her new husband, Budman Lal, has been arrested, along with five beggars who slept in the temple and were found carrying pieces…
- Suspense: Ghost Hunt (1949)
Radio personality Smiley Smith takes a wire recorder into a supposedly haunted clifftop house on the California coast, hoping to prove the property is safe to sell after several suicides there. He arrives with the psychical investigator Dr. Clarence Reed and the real estate agent Charles McDonald…
- Suspense: The Lord of the Witch Doctors (1942)
Diplomat Richardson and his household on Zanzibar are visited at night by a self-proclaimed witch doctor who claims to carry a British Foreign Office letter. Nyoka, the servant, warns of a feared sorcerer moving through the mainland, while drums sound and fires burn across the water. The visitor…
- Suspense: The Kettler Method (1942)
During a days-long rainstorm, Dr. Morrissey runs a remote sanitarium on a lonely hill near Colston. His patient Dr. Kettler, who believes Morrissey has hidden a man Kettler killed during a failed brain operation, grows increasingly agitated and threatening. Morrissey plans a weekend retreat, and…
- Suspense: The Hitch-Hiker (1942)
Ronald Adams, a young driver, sets out from Brooklyn for California in his Buick. Along the route he keeps seeing the same thin, drab hitchhiker carrying a cheap overnight bag, always appearing at the roadside where he least expects him. Orson Welles introduces the Suspense episode The…
- Suspense: The Cave of Ali Baba (1942)
Lord Peter Whimsy, posing as a footman named Joseph Rogers, infiltrates a secret society that meets in masks at a villa on Hampstead Heath. The society's members gather to deal with a traitor in their midst, and Rogers must keep his true identity hidden while the members debate who among them has…
- Suspense: Wet Saturday (1942)
On a rainy Saturday, the Princey family is at home when a visitor's body is found hidden on the sun porch. Frederick Princey, his wife Millicent, their son George and their daughter Melissa are questioned about the death of the curate Withers, and the family's guest, Captain Smollett, is drawn…
- Suspense: The Burning Court (1942)
Ted Stevens, a young publisher's employee, finds a photograph in a manuscript that shows a famous 17th-century poisoner, Marie Dobre, who looks exactly like his wife, Marie. Shaken, he confronts her, and their evening is interrupted by his friend Mark DePaul, who asks for help after his uncle…
- Suspense: The Lodger (audition) (1940)
In London in 1888, the Avenger, a murderer who has killed several young women, is the subject of rumour across the city. Ellen Bunting and her husband Robert, who run a boarding house, take in a quiet, religious lodger named Mr. Sleuth. Ellen grows uneasy as she notices odd details about him: the…
- Suspense: Lazarus Walks (1943)
Dr. Robert Graham, a psychiatrist, takes in Roger Holcomb, a man who was dead for four minutes before medical science revived him. Holcomb now compulsively tells the truth about anyone who speaks a lie in his presence. Graham's wife Isabel, a pianist whose career has stalled, is living in the…
- Suspense: Last Night (1943)
Jacqueline Blaine and her husband Gil run a struggling dude ranch in the Hudson Valley, deep in debt. Their guest Mr. Burroughs leaves before dawn without his secretary Marsh, and strange events follow. Margot, using the name Jacqueline Blaine, and Kent Smith as Gil Blaine lead the cast of this…
- Suspense: Finishing School (1943)
Caroline Watts starts her first teaching job at the Nash School for girls, a finishing school with high stone walls. Housekeeper Miss Melody warns her that Dean Sterling has gained control over the elderly headmistress, Miss Nash, by claiming to channel messages from Miss Nash's dead sister. When…
- Suspense: Back for Christmas (1943)
Professor Hubert Schumacher, a Swiss botanist, prepares to sail with his wife Hermione to America, where he is to lecture. Hermione manages every detail of their lives, and Hubert secretly digs a hole in the cellar to plant a devil's garden of wild orchids. Hubert meets Marion Markham, a bookshop…
- Suspense: A Friend to Alexander (1943)
Henry Andrews, a mild-mannered man who enjoys easy living, begins having nightmares in which he sees Aaron Burr at various places around New York. His wife, who narrates the story, grows worried as his dreams center on Burr and on Alexander Hamilton, the two men locked in a famous past quarrel…
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