Suspense — 1962
39 episodes broadcast in 1962.
This Suspense broadcast, "Breakthrough" (1962-01-07), starred Adelaide Klein, Phillip Sterling; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Feathers" (1962-01-14), starred Lawson Zerbie; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
In an overcrowded, tightly managed future, a poet is condemned to die for a single crime: being unnecessary, one more life a machine-run society has decided it no longer has room for.
This Suspense broadcast, "Please Believe Me" (1962-01-28), starred Joan Lorring, Robert Readick; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Friday" (1962-02-04), starred Ivor Francis; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "The Man Who Went Back to Save Lincoln" (1962-02-11), starred Ian Martin, Jim Boles, Ralph Bell; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Old Boy Friend" (1962-02-18), starred Elspeth Eric, Joe Julian; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Date Night" (1962-02-25), starred Rosemary Rice; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
A scientist deep in his research on solar power, tired of human emotion getting in the way of his work, builds a robot to assist him instead. The fix solves one problem neatly and creates several worse ones.
A private investigator is hired to track down a gravely ill man who disappeared years earlier and has long been presumed dead. The trouble is, someone claiming to be him has just reached out to his attorney.
This Suspense broadcast, "Perchance to Dream" (1962-03-18), starred Paul McGrath; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
Idle daydreaming on a park bench spins into a vivid imagined murder for one man -- until he's unexpectedly hired onto the traveling vaudeville act run by the very performer he'd cast as the killer in his head. Working alongside him only deepens a growing conviction that the act's next target for real violence is his own assistant.
An ordinary man crosses paths with a flying saucer, and its occupant hasn't come to sightsee. The visitor has arrived to pass judgment on humanity — and may be prepared to wipe the planet clean if it fails the test.
This Suspense broadcast, "Let There Be Light" (1962-04-08), starred Ivor Francis; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Brother John" (1962-04-15), starred William Redfield; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
A tight-fisted tycoon disowns his nephew rather than bankroll the young man's archaeological dig in Egypt, dismissing the whole venture as a waste of family money. His scorn comes back to haunt him when a mummy's bone arrives in the mail, an ancient curse attached.
Newly cured of a delusion that once had her hearing ghosts speak in her sleep, a woman is relieved to leave the whole episode behind. Her husband's idea of a relaxing getaway, though, is a trip to the North Carolina cove where Blackbeard is said to have buried his treasure.
Renting a remote house in the country, a man notices a woman in a red dress rocking quietly on his property. He walks over to greet her, and she's simply gone — but the chair keeps rocking all on its own.
This Suspense broadcast, "Hide and Seek" (1962-05-13), starred Jackson Beck, William Redfield; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Dagger of My Mind" (1962-05-20), starred Leon Janney, Claire Neison; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "That Real Crazy Infinity" (1962-05-27), starred Jack Grimes, Richard Holland; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Stand-in for Murder" (1962-06-03), starred Teri Keane, Larry Haines; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier, though the broadcast log notes: Fred Hendrickson becomes Director.
A scientist's fixation on the paranormal is a constant source of frustration for the government officials overseeing his work. It turns out to be exactly the right skill set, though, once an enemy agent decides to kidnap him.
This Suspense broadcast, "Lunatic Hour" (1962-06-17), starred George Matthews; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "With Murder in Mind" (1962-06-24), starred Jack Kruschen; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
A couple stranded by a storm takes refuge in a remote, forbidding castle -- exactly the wrong place to seek shelter, as it turns out. Its owner is a scientist obsessed with a death ray of his own invention, and he's been waiting for precisely this kind of opportunity: a living subject to test it on.
Passing through a remote stretch of Appalachia, a couple stumbles onto a family observing an old mountain custom: consuming the sins of a relative who has just died, so his soul can pass on unburdened. Before the night is over, the visitors are drawn into the ritual themselves.
This Suspense broadcast, "Snow on 66" (1962-07-15), starred Jim Blaine, Grayson Hall; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Next Murder" (1962-07-22), starred Joseph Julian, Lawson Zerbe; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Weekend at Gleebes" (1962-07-29), starred Raymond Edward Johnson; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "Run Faster" (1962-08-05), starred Bill Lipton, Jimmie Blaine; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
A sailor on leave meets a dance hall girl who is the spitting image of the woman he lost years before. Stranger still, she can't quite shake the feeling that she already knows him too.
This Suspense broadcast, "Pages from a Diary" (1962-08-19), starred Jim Backus, Hennie Backus; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
An embezzler and his wife, fleeing the law across the desert, take shelter with an old hermit who spins them a tale of a treasure-laden Spanish galleon buried somewhere nearby. It's a tempting enough story to make them forget, if only for a moment, exactly what they're running from.
Before he dies, a father insists on having a bell installed inside his own tomb, in case he should ever need help from beyond it. His son-in-law dismisses the request as an old man's fading grip on reality — until the bell starts ringing.
An astronaut comes home from a stint in space to find that the world he left behind isn't quite the one waiting for him — changed in ways he never expected and can't easily explain.
This Suspense broadcast, "The Golden Years" (1962-09-16), starred Peter Fernandez, Rosemary Rice; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
This Suspense broadcast, "At the Point of a Needle" (1962-09-23), starred Betty Garde, Walter Kensella; no episode synopsis survives in the free sources consulted for this dossier.
An Irishman inherits a grand old manor and can't understand why no one wants to rent it — until he's forced to reckon with the ancestor's ghost still very much in residence.
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