Suspense — 1959
50 episodes broadcast in 1959.
This Suspense broadcast, "Don't Call Me Mother" (1959-01-04), starred Agnes Moorehead; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Night on Red Mountain" (1959-01-11), starred Richard Crenna; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Ride Down Cajon" (1959-01-18), starred William Bishop; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Four of a Kind" (1959-01-25), starred Elliott Reid; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
A researcher perfecting a technique to shrink cancerous cells makes the reckless choice to try the process on himself. The results are not what he hoped for.
This Suspense broadcast, "Death Notice" (1959-02-08), starred Victor Jory; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
A lonely railway signalman keeps watch over a tunnel where something otherworldly has taken to appearing -- a spectral figure that seems bent on warning him of disaster, though its meaning stays maddeningly out of reach. The visitations wear at his sanity long before their purpose becomes clear. (after Charles Dickens)
This Suspense broadcast, "Star over Hong Kong" (1959-02-22), starred Marie Wilson, Ben Wright; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
A Victorian London reporter, chasing a good story, volunteers to spend the night alone in Madame Tussaud's Hall of Murderers, surrounded by wax effigies of history's most notorious killers. It seems like harmless newspaper stunt journalism -- until the small hours suggest otherwise. (after A.M. Burrage)
This Suspense broadcast, "The Madman of Manhattan" (1959-03-08), starred Myron McCormick; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Death in Box 234" (1959-03-15), starred Frank Lovejoy; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Script by Mark Brady" (1959-03-22), starred Marie Windsor; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "John Barbey and Son" (1959-03-29), starred John McIntyre; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Too Hot to Live" (1959-04-12), starred Van Heflin; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier, though the broadcast log notes: Show of 4-5 pre-empted.
This Suspense broadcast, "See How He Runs" (1959-04-19), starred Jim Backus; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Deep, Deep Is My Love" (1959-04-26), starred Lloyd Bridges; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Amateur" (1959-05-03), starred Jackie Cooper; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
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, "A Friend of Daddy's" (1959-05-17), starred Frank Lovejoy; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Spoils for Victor" (1959-05-24), starred Robert Horton; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
Restless for something bigger than army life, two soldiers strike out past British India's frontier, determined to carve a kingdom of their own out of the tribal lands beyond it. Ambition and sheer nerve carry them further than either could have planned. (after Rudyard Kipling)
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, "Drive-In" (1959-06-14), starred Margaret Whiting; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Ivy Is a Lovely Name" (1959-06-21), starred Frank Lovejoy; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Analytical Hour" (1959-06-28), starred Jack Carson; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Blood Is Thicker" (1959-07-05), starred Everett Sloane; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Eyewitness" (1959-07-12), starred John Lund; 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)
A decade after her testimony helped convict a vengeful criminal, a woman still flinches at his long-ago vow to make her pay. When a new elevator operator moves into her building, she becomes certain he's the same man, somehow free — though whether he's real or a fear grown too large to see past is another question entirely.
This Suspense broadcast, "Red Cloud Mesa" (1959-08-02), starred Joseph Cotten; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Everything Will Be Different" (1959-08-09), starred Cathy Lewis, Peter Leeds; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
A beatnik known on the street only as 'The Tennis Shoe' finds himself the prime suspect in a killing he had nothing to do with, with little more than his own nerve to clear his name.
This Suspense broadcast, "Headshrinker" (1959-08-23), starred Agnes Moorehead; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier, though the broadcast log notes: LAST ROBSON, SHOW MOVES TO N.Y. next week.
This Suspense broadcast, "A Matter of Execution" (1959-08-30), starred Peter Lazer, Santos Ortega, Ginger; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier, though the broadcast log notes: Jones Series returns to New York.
This Suspense broadcast, "After the Movies" (1959-09-06), starred Kevin McCarthy; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Death and the Escort" (1959-09-13), starred Don Mclaughlin, Elspeth Eric; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "The Beetle and Mr. Bottle" (1959-09-20), starred John Gibson; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Room 203" (1959-10-04), starred Ellen McCrea, Bernard Grant, Ralph; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier, though the broadcast log notes: Bell. Show of 9-27 pre-empted.
This Suspense broadcast, "Infanticide" (1959-10-11), starred Santos Ortega, Ralph Bell; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
Pressured to breathe new life into his flagging comic strip, a cartoonist dreams up a fresh villain — modeled, more than he first realizes, on the imaginary bogeyman that terrified him as a small child. The past he thought he'd outgrown starts bleeding onto the page.
This Suspense broadcast, "Easy Victim" (1959-10-25), starred Paul Mcgrath, Elpeth Eric, Robert; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
The first man to leave Earth's atmosphere finds the experience so overwhelming — the weightlessness, the wonder, the sheer freedom of it — that when it comes time to bring him home, he wants no part of returning to the ground.
This Suspense broadcast, "The Last Trip" (1959-11-08), starred Ralph Bell, Connie Lembke; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Companion" (1959-11-15), starred Virginia Payne, Elizabeth Lawrence; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "The Thimble" (1959-11-22), starred Joe DeSantis, Teri Keane, Whitfield; 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)
This Suspense broadcast, "Dynamite Run" (1959-12-06), starred Mason Adams, Larry Haines; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
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)
A GI thumbs a lift on a lonely wartime road one Christmas Eve, only for the truck's driver -- a fellow serviceman on a strange errand of his own -- to turn the ride into something far stranger than a simple favor.
This Suspense broadcast, "Moonlight Sail" (1959-12-27), starred Frank Thomas, Luis Van Rooten; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
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