Suspense — 1954
46 episodes broadcast in 1954.
A storm strands a couple in their car on a lonely stretch of road, with nowhere to go and no help in sight. Somewhere in the woods nearby, an escaped murderer is on the loose — and the night is far from over.
This Suspense broadcast, "One Man Crime Wave" (1954-01-11), starred Dana Andrews; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "The Face Is Familiar" (1954-01-18), starred Jack Benny; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Want Ad" (1954-01-25), starred Robert Cummings; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Never Follow a Banjo Act" (1954-02-01), starred Ethel Merman; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Death at Skikerod Pond" (1954-02-08), starred Jeff Chandler; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
A test pilot flying an experimental high-altitude aircraft vanishes from radar with barely ten minutes of fuel aboard -- and reappears ten hours later, alive and unharmed, which shouldn't be possible. Harder still to accept is his account of what filled those missing hours: contact with beings from elsewhere, and a warning he's now been tasked to deliver to the rest of us.
This Suspense broadcast, "Murder by Jury" (1954-02-22), starred Herbert Marshall; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "The Barking Death" (1954-03-01), starred William Powell; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Circumstantial Terror" (1954-03-08), starred Ronald Reagan; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "The Girl in Car 32" (1954-03-15), starred Victor Mature, William Conrad; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "The Guilty Always Run" (1954-03-22), starred Tyrone Power, William Conrad; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
A divorced traveling salesman with a temper he can't quite control picks up a woman for a night out, and the evening ends in her death at his hands. What follows traces the aftermath of a violent impulse he can't take back.
This Suspense broadcast, "Grand Theft" (1954-04-05), starred David Niven; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Parole to Panic" (1954-04-12), starred Broderick Crawford; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "The Card Game" (1954-04-19), starred Richard Widmark; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "The Bertillion Method" (1954-04-26), starred Charles Boyer; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "The Giant of Thermopylae" (1954-05-03), starred Frank Lovejoy; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "The Last Days of John Dillinger" (1954-05-10), starred Van Heflin; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
Cast adrift from the Bounty with a handful of loyal crewmen, Captain Bligh navigates an open rowboat across four thousand miles of open Pacific -- an extraordinary feat of survival on its own, but only the first half of the story. What drives him through it is the promise of reckoning with the mutineers who put him there.
This Suspense broadcast, "Weekend Special-Death" (1954-05-24), starred Agnes Moorehead; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
A young married couple living under Communist rule in Czechoslovakia hears freedom described night after night on Western radio broadcasts, until the idea becomes a decision: to risk a dangerous crossing beyond the Iron Curtain, whatever the cost of being caught.
This Suspense broadcast, "A Terribly Strange Bed" (1954-06-07), starred Peter Lawford; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier, though the broadcast log notes: Last AUTOLITE sponsored show.
This Suspense broadcast, "The Earth Is Made of Glass" (1954-06-15), starred Joseph Kearns; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier, though the broadcast log notes: Show moves to Tuesday at 9:30pm and becomes sustained by CBS. Norman MacDonnell becomes new director.
This Suspense broadcast, "Sequel to Murder" (1954-06-22), starred Whitfield Connor; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Too Hot to Live" (1954-06-29), starred Sam Edwards, Paul Frees; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "The Tip" (1954-07-06), starred Lurene Tuttle; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Run Sheep Run" (1954-07-13), starred Cathy Lewis, Elliott Lewis; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Telling" (1954-07-20), starred Antony Ellis; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Destruction" (1954-07-27), starred Larry Dobkin, Paula Winslowe; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Goodnight Mrs. Russell" (1954-08-03), starred Virginia Gregg, Vic Perrin; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Never Steal a Butcher's Wife" (1954-08-10), starred Hy Averback; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "A Little Matter of Memory" (1954-09-30), starred Larry Dobkin; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier, though the broadcast log notes: Show moves to Thursday at 8:00-8:25pm. Antony Ellis becomes Director.
This Suspense broadcast, "Chicken Feed" (1954-10-07), starred Harry Bartell; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Lost" (1954-10-14), starred William Conrad, Paula Winslowe; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Rave Notice" (1954-10-21), starred Hans Conried; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Shelter" (1954-10-28), starred Vic Perrin, Joyce McCluskey; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
A doctor convinced that only five safeguards keep ordinary people from killing sets out to prove his theory by handpicking five strangers and pushing each toward murder, certain at least one safeguard will hold firm. His experiment doesn't end the way his research predicted.
This Suspense broadcast, "The Sure Thing" (1954-11-11), starred Hy Averbach; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Blind Date" (1954-11-18), starred Shirley Mitchell, Vic Perrin; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Shooting Star" (1954-11-25), starred Virginia Christine, Joseph Kerns; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
Two Confederate officers meet for a duel, and when the first man's shot goes wide, his opponent -- owed the second shot by the code of honor -- declines to take it. Instead, he lets the debt hang unpaid, choosing his own moment to collect it. (after Alexander Pushkin)
A storm strands a couple in their car on a lonely stretch of road, with nowhere to go and no help in sight. Somewhere in the woods nearby, an escaped murderer is on the loose — and the night is far from over.
This Suspense broadcast, "Pretty Girl" (1954-12-16), starred Lynn Allen, Vic Perrin; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
An American writer and his wife are unwinding on what should be a perfect holiday in the Austrian Alps when he's seized by a growing sense that disaster is on its way. Nothing around them gives him a reason for the feeling, but he can't shake it, and it starts to poison the trip.
This Suspense broadcast, "Odd Man Out" (1954-12-30), starred Ben Wright; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
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