SUSPENSE - Till-Death-Do-Us-Part

 

\SUSPENSE - Till-Death-Do-Us-Part - December-15-1942 Starring Peter Lorre, Alice Frost and Mercedes McCambridge.

SUSPENSE "Korean Christmas Carol"

 

Episode 832 aired December 20, 1959 on NBC Radio. This is a lost classic, and has become a Christmas tradition for many of us. The voices, the use of the music and the story are beautifully effective. A brilliant ghost story and you will find the ending both chilling and transcendent.

SUSPENSE "Out For Christmas"

 

Raymond Burr stars in this episode 782 of Suspense from December 21, 1958 on CBS Radio. Santa Claus has a gun and is out for revenge. He's really an ex-con out to get the rat who testified against him, and his girl who ran off with him!

SUSPENSE Ozzie and Harriet Nelson in "Too Little To Live On"

 

SUSPENSE with Ozzie and Harriet Nelson in "Too Little To Live On". Episode 277, Too Little To Live On, aired on CBS Radio December 26, 1947. Band leader Ozzie Nelson married band singer Harriet Hilliard in 1935. They had two sons, David (born in 1936) and Eric (known as Ricky, born in 1940). The couple remained married until Ozzie's death in 1975. Known for a sitcom called The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet on radio and TV this episode of Suspense is a dramatic turn for the couple.

SUSPENSE "House in Cypress Canyon"

 

Despite being such a well-regarded episode, "The House in Cypress Canyon" was only performed once on Suspense. "The House in Cypress Canyon" is an episode of the American CBS radio series Suspense. Written by Robert L. Richards, produced and directed by William Spier, this episode is consistently cited as one of the most terrifying programs broadcast during radio's Golden Age. It was originally broadcast December 5, 1946. The story begins a few days before Christmas. James (Robert Taylor) and Ellen (Cathy Lewis), married seven years and having recently relocated to California for the husband's engineering job, move into a hastily finished rental house in a development that was started before the war. Dusty furniture and creaky hinges seem to be the only problems with the place at first glance. But the very night they move in, the two hear inhuman cries in the night, and find blood oozing out from under a closet door they can't open. Fleeing the house in a panic, they return with a pair of policemen, only to discover the closet door is unlocked and the blood has vanished. The following night, Ellen, sleep-walking, attacks James like a crazed animal and bites him savagely, waking with no memory of the attack; then the milkman is discovered with his throat torn out. The narrative concludes with James' indication that he has accepted his fate and is no longer afraid; he knows now what he must do. Just then there's a knock on the door and the inhuman scream is heard again. A newspaper article clipped to the manuscript notes that James killed Ellen with a shotgun before turning the weapon on himself. The episode then returns to the framing story, with Sam Spade discussing the case with his friend. The friend explains the paradox that the manuscript was found in the same house in which the story appears to have taken place, but that at the time the manuscript was found, the house was derelict and unfinished. Impossibly, the story set down in the manuscript appears to have taken place in the house *after* the manuscript was discovered. Spade suggests that this is just a coincidence and leaves.

After Spade leaves, his friend returns to his regular occupation—a rental agent for the housing development. As the story concludes, a young couple comes into his office and asks about renting the house in Cypress Canyon. The couple is James and Ellen.

Robert Taylor (born Spangler Arlington Brugh; August 5, 1911 – June 8, 1969) was an American film and television actor and singer who was one of the most popular leading men of cinema. Taylor began his career in films in 1934 when he signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He won his first leading role the following year in Magnificent Obsession. His popularity increased during the late 1930s and 1940s with appearances in Camille (1936), A Yank at Oxford (1938), Waterloo Bridge (1940), and Bataan (1943). During World War II, he served in the United States Naval Air Forces, where he worked as a flight instructor and appeared in instructional films. From 1959 to 1962, he starred in the television series The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor. In 1966, he assumed hosting duties from his friend Ronald Reagan on the series Death Valley Days. Taylor was married to actress Barbara Stanwyck from 1939 to 1952. He married actress Ursula Thiess in 1954, and they had two children. A chain smoker, Taylor died of lung cancer at the age of 57.

SUSPENSE "DEAD ERNEST"

 

Episode 205 aired August 8, 1946 on CBS Radio. Ernest Bowers is badly injured in a car accident, but there is a problem. Earnest is a cataleptic. Catalepsy is a disease of the nerves and mind. The physical conditions when a cataleptic has a spell closely resemble death and include the primary stages of rigor mortis. Ernest carries a note at all times inside his coat pocket stating that he is a cataleptic and that in the event of seeming death his wife or Doctor should be notified. The letter also requested that no autopsy or embalming should be performed on his body for 72 hours although in his particular case the duration of the attacks were usually four hours or less. Ernest Bowers also wore a sterling silver bracelet with an inscription reading do not embalm me I am not dead. Unfortunately, somebody steals the jacket containing the letter as Ernest lays injured and the silver bracelet he wore had snapped and fallen to the pavement and is picked up by two children. OMG...what next? Listen!

SUSPENSE "Return Trip"

 

Edgeworth Blair "Elliott" Reid (January 16, 1920 – June 21, 2013) was an American actor. In 1935, Reid debuted on the radio program The March of Time, which led to regular work on radio dramas during the golden age of radio. He portrayed Melvin Castleberry on the children's program Billy and Betty, and Philip Cameron on the serial Against the Storm and was a host on radio's version of The United States Steel Hour. Early on he took "Elliott" as his stage name. His credits include many Orson Welles-directed stage and radio productions, such as The Mercury Theatre on the Air. He also acted on Theatre Guild on the Air, The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, Suspense, and the CBS Radio Mystery Theater. In some early performances he was credited as "Ted Reid". Here is episode 199 of Suspense with Reid as star, It aired on CBS Radio June 27, 1946.

SUSPENSE "Dark Journey"

 

Aired April 25, 1946 on CBS Radio. With Nancy Kelly who was an American actress, a major movie leading lady in the 1930s, making 36 movies between 1926 and 1977. A thwarted woman plans a horrible revenge...and succeeds by the force of her powerful will. A well-done, excellent story that is "well calculated." The drama is told with only two voices. + She had been afraid of Anne Brodie now for 15 years but there was no need to be afraid anymore. On that dark journey now she tells the tale of that long and terrible weekend they spent together all those years ago and of the secret horror she could never quite forget.

SUSPENSE Too Little To Live On

 

Episode 179 aired on CBS Radio February 7, 1946. From an AFRTS transcription. Stars Nancy Colman and George Lloyd Murphy (July 4, 1902 – May 3, 1992). He was an American dancer, actor, and politician. Murphy was a song-and-dance leading man in many big-budget Hollywood musicals from 1930 to 1952. He was the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1944 to 1946, and was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1951. Murphy served from 1965 to 1971 as U.S. Senator from California, the first notable American actor to be elected to statewide office in California, predating Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who each served two terms as governor. He is the only United States Senator represented by a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

SUSPENSE "Kandy Tooth Caper"

 

Episode 279 aired November 10, 1948 on CBS Radio. Robert Montgomery hosts the one hour series. Howard Duff (Photo) recreates his role as Sam Spade in this episode.

SUSPENSE "Dunwich Horror"

 

This episode is from an AFRTS Transcription. The original program aired on CBS Radio November 1, 1945 as episode 165. Starring Ronald Colman.

SUSPENSE "Library Book"

 

SUSPENSE "Library Book" Episode 159 aired September 20, 1945 on CBS Radio. Starring Myrna Loy. A stuckup librarian suspects a kidnap plot from a torn page in, "Gone with The Wind."

SUSPENSE "August Heat"

 

Episode 143 aired May 31, 1945 on CBS Radio. Ronald Colman star. The mood of “August Heat” enhances its suspense and ominous foreshadowing. In W.F. Harvey’s short story, “August Heat,” the author creates suspense by constant references to the stifling heat of a summer day and a series of foreshadowing hints that propel the reader to an uncertain conclusion. Ronald Charles Colman was an English-born actor, starting his career in theatre and silent film in his native country, then emigrating to the United States and having a successful Hollywood film career. en.wikipedia.org

SUSPENSE "Most Dangerous Game"

 

Episode 128 aired February 1, 1945 on CBS Radio. The suspense in " The Most Dangerous Game " comes mostly from anticipation. Rainsford, from the moment he realizes that General Zaroff is hunting humans for sport, must anticipate his eventual capture, and so his actions are tinged with desperation and fear. The general was saving him for another day's sport. Starring Joseph Cotton (photo)  and J. Carroll Nash.

SUSPENSE "Affair at Loveland Pass"

 

Aired March 23, 1958 on CBS Radio. Starring Vanessa Brown and Jim Ameche. An escaped killer, along with a man and a woman, are stranded in the Colorado mountains. A man driving from New York sees the woman and we all know it is wrong to pick up hitchhikers but should he help the woman and can she be sure that he is not the murderer?     Vanessa Brown (born Smylla Brind, March 24, 1928 – May 21, 1999) was an Austrian-born American actress who worked in radio, film, theater, and television.  WIKIPEDIA

SUSPENSE "Out For Christmas"

 

Episode 782 aired December 21, 1958 and stars Raymond Burr, Joan Banks and Howard McNear. Santa Claus has a gun and is getting revenge. He's really an ex-con out to get the person who testified against him, and his girl who ran off with him.

SUSPENSE "No Hiding Place"

 

JIM AMECHE IMDb Biography

September 21, 1958 episode aired on CBS Radio and starred Jim Ameche. Carl is a hostile man who blames Eddie for breaking up his marriage. Carl also makes it clear that he is going to kill him.

SUSPENSE "Drive In"

 

Episode 125 January 11, 1945 on CBS Radio. "Drive-In" was written for Suspense by Mel Dinelli and Muriel Ray Bolton. A car-hop is threatened by a homicidal maniac. The script was also used on "Suspense" on November 21, 1946 and again on June 14, 1959. Nancy Kelly stars as a Hollywood working girl who sees death sitting beside her on her way home. Nancy Kelly (March 25, 1921 – January 2, 1995) was an American actress in film, theater and television. A child actress and model, she was a repertory cast member of CBS Radio's The March of Time and appeared in several films in the late 1920s. She became a leading lady upon returning to the screen in the late 1930s, while still in her teens, and made two dozen movies between 1938 and 1946. She had her greatest success in a character role, the distraught mother in The Bad Seed, receiving a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the 1955 stage production and an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress for the 1956 film adaptation. She returned to television for a handful of appearances in the mid-1970s.

SUSPENSE "Lodger"

 

Episode 121 aired December 14, 1944 on CBS Radio Network. Starring Robert Montgomery. A couple suspects that their lodger is really "The Avenger," a homicidal maniac. In 1888, London is terrorized by the fifth in a succession of recent murders.

SUSPENSE "Dead Of Night"

 

Episode 118 aired on CBS Radio November 16, 1944 and starred Robert Cummings. Jimmy and his sister Helen were never apart after their parents died. Jimmy took a job a few miles from Los Angeles up in the mountains at Lake Arrowhead. Helen was to go with him to take a job as a waitress. However she decided to stay in LA because her boyfriend Steve would be returning from a furlough. Jimmy allowed his sister, who was just a kid, to stay there alone. Then something happened we want to hear about. ROBERT CUMMINGS BIO Wikipedia