Suspense | Old Time Radio
Suspense | Old Time Radio brings you classic mystery, crime, psychological thrillers, and suspense from the golden age of radio. Enter gripping stories of murder, danger, deception, desperate choices, and unexpected twists performed by some of the era’s greatest stars. Each episode is an Old Time Retro Radio production, presenting the original broadcast with gently cleaned and mastered audio, a newly produced introduction and closing, and custom episode artwork. Suspense became one of radio’s most celebrated dramatic anthologies, known for exceptional performances, acclaimed writers, and unforgettable stories designed to keep listeners guessing until the end. Rediscover classic old time radio suspense, mystery, crime drama, psychological thrillers, horror, and vintage radio. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/suspense-old-time-radio--7218827/support.
Episodes
A crucial defense project rests on the work of the brilliant, reclusive Dr. Hoffman, whose complex optical formula must be delivered under tight security. As Colonel Humboldt and Dr. Fernald try to safeguard the handoff, Hoffman's fears of...
Cocktail-lounge pianist Ronnie Warren is pulled back toward Anna, the wife who left him years ago, when a lucrative fur robbery offers money—and a dangerous chance to revive the past. Larry Haines stars as Ronnie, with Teri Keane as Anna, in a script by George Bamber.
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Rita Hayworth stars as Laura Williams, a woman who has rebuilt her life under a new name after being acquitted in the death of her first husband. Her security is shaken when her new family connection brings her face-to-face with Elmer Garner, the prosecutor who once tried to convict he...
In the conclusion of this adaptation of Wilkie Collins’s classic detective novel, Franklin Blake and Sergeant Cuff continue their investigation into the disappearance of the fabled yellow diamond known as the Moonstone. As suspicion falls across the Verinder household, loyalties and secrets complicate the search....
At Coney Island’s Haunted Mill, Betty Andrews encounters Bob Penderel, a terrified young man racing to survive a deadly wager with his uncle. Written by John Dickson Carr and directed by Marx B. Loeb, this tense thriller features Michael Fitzmaurice, Lesley Wood...
Amid the noise and crowds of a downtown parade, Ellen Johnson finds an alarming letter warning that a woman she has never met may be in danger. With only a name and a cryptic reference to “Jack,” she races to find help before time runs out. Agnes Moorehead stars in this tense urban mystery.
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The supplied archival listing does not include a plot synopsis or verified production credits, leaving the story’s setup to unfold in the original broadcast. Suspense presents the program with a newly produced contextual int...
Touring dance-band leader Dixie arrives for a one-night high-school engagement and reunites with Julia, his former singer and fiancée. When a tragic accident stirs suspicio...
In this tense crime thriller by Mel Dinelli, Jimmy Barton returns to Los Angeles to find his sister Helen terrified of her violent husband. As fear, family loyalty, and police scrutiny mount, the siblings are drawn into a des...
Mystery novelist Phil Markham, trapped in writer’s block, travels to postwar London in search of inspiration. Amid the city’s bomb-damaged streets, ...
After a street accident, a man prone to cataleptic attacks is mistaken for dead when the safeguards identifying his condition are separated fr...
In this fact-based traffic-safety drama, a San Francisco police lieutenant investigates a hit-and-run connected to reckless hot-rod driving around the Oakland Bay Bridg...
Chester Morris stars as Johnny Malone, a recently released prisoner determined to confront the former partner he blames for a disastrous safe robbery. On a cold city night, old associates and painful memories draw him toward a reckoning. The radio adaptation is by Robert L. Richards, from an original stor...
In John Dickson Carr’s supernatural-tinged thriller, a wealthy elderly man fears that his long-dead wife has returned to haunt him after an impossible telephone call to her grave. Susan Hayward, Walter Hampden, and Lee Bowman star in this compact tale of cemetery shadows and mo...
On a cross-country drive from California to New York, a motorist picks up a young hitchhiker and finds their journey through lonely highways shadowed by a growing sense of danger. Gene Kelly stars in this compact road thriller, written by Henry Denker and Ralph Berk...
Ridiculed for his unsettling theory about the boundary between self-destruction and violence,...
A U.S. Navy lieutenant commander and his fiancée board a commercial flight from New York, joining a handful of uneasy passengers—including a prominent industrialist. As the aircraft’s cour...
A serial killer is targeting young women and leaving a single white rose behind. When police detective Terry Riley faces mounting pressure to solve the case, society girl G...
Writing from jail about a long-unspoken high-school love, Morton recalls the unhappy marria...
Joseph Cotten stars as Lew Hendricks, a prominent New York criminal lawyer whose volatile relationship with nightclub performer Carmen draws on every bit of his legal knowledge and courtroom instinct. Adapted by Robert Tallman from the 1934 Ben Hecht–Charles MacArthur film...
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