Suspense — 1945
50 episodes broadcast in 1945.
This Suspense broadcast, "I Had an Alibi" (1945-01-04), starred Keenan Wynn; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Drive-In" (1945-01-11), starred Nancy Kelly; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
An elderly woman, living alone, hires a soft-spoken young man to come clean her house, glad of both the help and the company. He seems harmless enough at first glance — but harmless is rarely the whole story in a house like this one.
This Suspense broadcast, "Drury's Bones" (1945-01-25), starred Boris Karloff; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
A celebrated big-game hunter washes ashore on a remote island owned by a fellow enthusiast of the chase--except this host has grown bored with ordinary prey and hunts only the most cunning quarry of all: other people.
This Suspense broadcast, "A Tale of Two Sisters" (1945-02-08), starred Nancy Kelly, Claire Trevor; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Sell Me Your Life" (1945-02-15), starred Lee Bowman; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "John Barbey and Son" (1945-02-22), starred Thomas Mitchell; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "My Wife Geraldine" (1945-03-01), starred Edward G. Robinson; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
A rising man inside a crime organization joins forces with a reform-minded political idealist, and together they set out to topple the very gangster he's spent his career serving. Loyalty and ambition pull in opposite directions as the scheme to unseat the boss takes shape. (after James M. Cain)
This Suspense broadcast, "Cricket" (1945-03-15), starred Margaret O'Brien, Dame Mae Whitty; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Heart's Desire" (1945-03-22), starred Lloyd Nolan; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Taming of the Beast" (1945-03-29), starred Nancy Kelly, Helmut Dantine; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "A Guy Gets Lonely" (1945-04-05), starred Dane Clark; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Pearls Are a Nuisance" (1945-04-19), starred William Bendix, Alan Joslyn; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier, though the broadcast log notes: SHOW OF 4-12 PRE-EMPTED due to President Franklyn D. Roosevelt's Death proceedings.
A young woman stands to inherit a fortune on one condition: her sanity must hold until her twenty-first birthday. As the date approaches, a portrait in the house begins changing in small, impossible ways that only she seems to notice.
This Suspense broadcast, "Reprieve" (1945-05-10), starred John Garfield; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Two Birds with One Stone" (1945-05-17), starred Dana Andrews; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "My Own Murderer" (1945-05-24), starred Herbert Marshall; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
Suspense staged this William Fryer Harvey tale of a stifling summer day and an unsettling coincidence twice -- with Ronald Colman in 1945 and Hans Conreid in 1948 -- though no plot synopsis survives in the sources consulted for this dossier.
A small-town police chief nabs a fugitive wanted for murder back in Philadelphia — an easy collar, on paper. But the wanted poster, the confession, and the case itself all start to smell wrong the closer he looks. (after Dashiell Hammett)
Paging through a book on history's most notorious poisoners, a magazine editor freezes at a portrait of a woman executed centuries ago — her face is his wife's, exactly. The resemblance is too precise to be coincidence, and he can't decide if that's the frightening part. (after John Dickson Carr)
This Suspense broadcast, "The Story of Ivy" (1945-06-21), starred Ann Richards; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "The Dealings of Mr. Markham" (1945-06-28), starred Henry Daniell, Joan Loring; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "The Last Detail" (1945-07-05), starred George Coulouris; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Footfalls" (1945-07-12), starred J. Carrol Naish; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Bank Holiday" (1945-07-19), starred Bonita Granville, Elliott Lewis; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Fury and Sound" (1945-07-26), starred Norman Lloyd, Mark Humbolt; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Man in the House" (1945-08-02), starred Joan Lorring; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Murder for Myra" (1945-08-09), starred Lloyd Nolan; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Short Order" (1945-08-16), starred Joseph Kearns, Gerald Mohr; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "This Will Kill You" (1945-08-23), starred Dane Clark; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Nobody Loves Me" (1945-08-30), starred Peter Lorre; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
Confined to her bed with only a telephone connecting her to the world, Mrs. Stevenson picks up a crossed line and overhears two strangers calmly plotting a killing. The police brush her off as hysterical, leaving her to piece together, alone, whether the murder they're planning is her own.
A landlady welcomes back a former tenant to his old top-floor rooms — a quiet widower with one unsettling request: that everything be arranged exactly as it was when his wife was still alive. Just how far his need for that illusion extends becomes the real question.
This Suspense broadcast, "Library Book" (1945-09-20), starred Myrna Loy; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "The Earth Is Made of Glass" (1945-09-27), starred Joseph Cotten; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Death on Highway 99" (1945-10-04), starred George Murphy, Cathy Lewis; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Beyond Good and Evil" (1945-10-11), starred Joseph Cotten; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Summer Storm" (1945-10-18), starred Henry Fonda; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "A Shroud for Sarah" (1945-10-25), starred Lucille Ball; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
An outcast, shunned and deformed, turns to forces best left alone and summons something into the world that shouldn't exist. What he's called up craves nothing but blood — and craves it without limit. (after H.P. Lovecraft)
This Suspense broadcast, "The Bet" (1945-11-08), starred Lee J. Cobb; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Murder off Key" (1945-11-15), starred Zachery Scott; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
An actor renting a room in an old boarding house starts dreaming, night after night, about the woman who lived there before him. In these visions she pleads for his help — she vanished once, and something about that disappearance was never properly solved.
After a bitter quarrel with her husband, a woman finds herself living through something impossible — an entire week seems to vanish around her. When she comes back to herself, her husband is gone and strangers have already moved into what used to be their apartment.
A young man's fiancée steps out to drop off a parcel for her employer and simply never comes back. Worse, when he starts asking questions, no one will even admit she exists — leaving him alone in a search nobody believes needs to happen. (after Cornell Woolrich)
This Suspense broadcast, "The Argyle Album" (1945-12-13), starred Robert Taylor; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Double Entry" (1945-12-20), starred Keenan Wynn, Hume Cronan; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Pink Camellias" (1945-12-27), starred Marsha Hunt; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
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