Suspense — 1957
52 episodes broadcast in 1957.
Spinning a convincing enough story, a fur trapper talks his way past a ship's captain and books passage for cargo no sane passenger list should include: one of the deadliest venomous snakes on earth. Once the animal is loose belowdecks, the voyage stops being routine for anyone aboard.
No plot synopsis survives for this broadcast in the sources consulted for this dossier -- Plot Spot could not even confirm which underlying story it adapts.
This Suspense broadcast, "Second Class Passenger" (1957-01-20), starred Sterling Hollaway; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Freedom This Way" (1957-01-27), starred Hans Conried; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Frankie and Johnny" (1957-02-03), starred Margaret Whiting, Shepard Menken; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
A couple pushes deep into an Incan tomb long considered sacred ground, ignoring warnings from the locals who know better. When their guide betrays them and seals the entrance shut, escape means threading a gauntlet of hidden traps and treacherous drops just to find any way back to open air.
This Suspense broadcast, "Murder and Aunt Delia" (1957-02-17), starred Glenn Ford; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "227 Minutes of Hate" (1957-02-24), starred Charles McGraw; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
Convicted of murdering his wife, a man is being transported toward execution when the train carrying him derails, handing him an unlooked-for shot at freedom. He seizes it — not to run for good, but to track down the real killer who let him take the blame.
Rumors of a hidden diamond mine draw two men into the desert, even though everyone who has gone looking before them has simply vanished without a trace. Locals blame a long-dead cavalry officer, still said to patrol the site and drive off anyone who trespasses.
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, "Shooting Star" (1957-03-24), starred June Lockhart; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "A Good Neighbor" (1957-03-31), starred Jeff Chandler, Virginia Gregg; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "The Vanishing Lady" (1957-04-07), starred Vanessa Brown; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Thou Shalt Not Commit" (1957-04-14), starred Victor Jory; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Chicken Feed" (1957-04-21), starred Lloyd Bridges; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
Soviet agents pressure a celebrated Hungarian physician into fleeing westward — not toward freedom, but toward a job they need done. Waiting for him across the Austrian border is a former patient he's been ordered to kill.
This Suspense broadcast, "Celebration" (1957-05-05), starred Joy Lefleur; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Tarawa Was Tough" (1957-05-12), starred John Lund; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Death and Miss Turner" (1957-05-19), starred Agnes Moorehead; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "The Big Day" (1957-05-26), starred John McIntyre; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Crossing Paris" (1957-06-02), starred Hans Conried, John Dehner; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "The Green and Gold String" (1957-06-09), starred Vincent Price; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Trial by Jury" (1957-06-16), starred Nancy Kelly; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "A Load of Dynamite" (1957-06-23), starred Bartlett Robinson; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1957-06-30), starred Agnes Moorehead; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Alibi" (1957-07-07), starred Everett Sloane; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
Running a wartime salvage operation off the English coast, a crew hauls survivors out of the Channel's wrecked shipping. Only after they've brought one man aboard do they realize he's a German agent with sabotage on his mind.
This Suspense broadcast, "America's Boyfriend" (1957-07-21), starred Mercedes McCambridge; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Murder on Mike" (1957-07-28), starred Raymond Burr; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Fleshpeddler" (1957-08-04), starred De Forest Kelly; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Pigeon in the Cage" (1957-08-11), starred Lloyd Bridges, Ellen Morgan; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Peanut Brittle" (1957-08-18), starred Skip Homeier, John Dehner; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
A stubborn South American plantation owner refuses to abandon his land even as a vast, devouring column of army ants closes in on it. What follows is a brutal test of engineering and will against sheer, unstoppable numbers. (after Carl Stephenson)
A former pilot signs on for an experimental program that cuts off the senses entirely, hoping to test whether isolation can sharpen psychic ability. What he finds in the silence proves far stranger, and far more dangerous, than he expected.
This Suspense broadcast, "Old Army Buddy" (1957-09-08), starred Victor Jory; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Night on Red Mountain" (1957-09-15), starred Richard Crenna, Anne Diamond, Norma; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Shadow on the Wall" (1957-09-22), starred Jackie Kelk; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Vamp Till Dead" (1957-09-29), starred Venessa Brown; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
A mishap at a remote nuclear testing ground sets an armed device ticking toward early detonation. With the countdown running and no way to simply walk away, the crew on site has to find a fix before time runs out.
This Suspense broadcast, "The Well-Dressed Corpse" (1957-10-13), starred Margaret Whiting, William Conrad; 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.
An explorer stumbles into a hidden valley deep in South America, home to a people who have lived for generations without sight. When he falls for one of the village women, her neighbors decide the one flaw left to correct is the stranger's working eyes. (after H.G. Wells)
This Suspense broadcast, "Firing Run" (1957-11-03), starred Ruth Hussey; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
A prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition wakes in absolute darkness to find the walls, the dark, and a swinging blade above him are all part of a slow-built machine of torment. Escape means outthinking a system built to make it impossible. (after Edgar Allan Poe)
This Suspense broadcast, "The City That Was" (1957-11-17), starred Francis X. Bushman; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "The Star of Thessaly" (1957-11-24), starred Ray Noble; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Jet Stream" (1957-12-01), starred Frank Lovejoy; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Speed Trap" (1957-12-08), starred Everett Sloane, William Conrad; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
A Confederate saboteur is strung up from a bridge by Union soldiers, and the execution seems to fail when the rope gives way beneath him. Free-falling into the river below, he has to decide, in the confusion of the moment, whether the reprieve is real -- and whether he can outrun pursuit long enough to reach home. (after Ambrose Bierce)
No episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this Suspense broadcast, "Dog Star" (1957-12-22); the broadcast log notes: First Radio appearance of Evelyn Rudy. Christmas Program.
This Suspense broadcast, "Never Steal a Butcher's Wife" (1957-12-29), starred Cathy Lewis, William Conrad; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
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