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Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE!

Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE!

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This is a rebroadcast of the original Suspense! Radio Show. Suspense is a radio drama series broadcast on CBS Radio from 1940 through 1962. One of the premier drama programs of the Golden Age of Radio, was subtitled "radio's outstanding theater of thrills" and focused on suspense thriller-type scripts, usually featuring leading Hollywood actors of the era. Approximately 945 episodes were broadcast during its long run, and more than 900 still exist. Suspense went through several major phases, characterized by different hosts, sponsors, and director/producers. Formula plot devices were followed for all but a handful of episodes: the protagonist was usually a normal person suddenly dropped into a threatening or bizarre situation; solutions were "withheld until the last possible second"; and evildoers were usually punished in the end. In its early years, the program made only occasional forays into science fiction and fantasy. Notable exceptions include adaptations of Curt Siodmak's Donovan's Brain and H. P. Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror", but by the late 1950s, such material was regularly featured. - via Wikipedia

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Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! - The Lodger (1940)

The Lodger (1940)

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08/01/22 • 31 min

The story is set in London in the year 1888, a London terrorized by the fifth in a succession of recent murders, murders of young attractive women. The unknown killer at large and little else absorbed their horrified imagination of the great city. Of all those in fine quarters and of all those in small grimy houses as for example Ellen Bunting. Ellen was no different from all the other middle-aged housewives dwelling in squalid Whitechapel. She knew all the known facts of the case of the wielder of the night that had come to be known as the Avenger.

Stars Herbert Marshall and Edmund Gwenn (audition episode based on 1927 film The Lodger by Alfred Hitchcock)

About Us

Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).

Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at NightShiftRadio.com

This rebroadcast falls under the protections of Copyright Law and Public Domain. Night Shift Radio does not own, nor claim to, the rights of the original broadcast productions.

Mentioned in this episode:

The Storyteller Series

The Storyteller Series. Old time radio, rebooted. Listen to original short stories performed by a full cast.

StS Summer 2022

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Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! - The Man Who Knew How (1944)

The Man Who Knew How (1944)

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09/21/22 • 31 min

Charles Laughton as Mr Pender law abiding citizen of suburban London who meets a man on the night train and gets in to a conversation on fictional murderers in books and real life murderers. Pender tells the man that he knows how to commit a murder in an undetectable way by using a potent formula which alone would not kill but would be fatal if the person was to take a hot bath a few hours or even days after taking the potion. It is remarkable how many people have been found dead in their bath of late.

Stars Charles Laughton

About Us

Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).

Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at NightShiftRadio.com

This rebroadcast falls under the protections of Copyright Law and Public Domain. Night Shift Radio does not own, nor claim to, the rights of the original broadcast productions.

Mentioned in this episode:

The Storyteller Series

The Storyteller Series. Old time radio, rebooted. Listen to original short stories performed by a full cast.

StS Summer 2022

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Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! - Suspicion (1944)

Suspicion (1944)

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09/06/22 • 60 min

The story is based in Hammersmith in London. Edward Mummery leads a very ordinary life and considers himself an ordinary person until suddenly in to his life explodes the extraordinary. He has been married to his wife Ethel for six years and he considers her the most brilliant thing that has ever happened to him but now she is very unwell. In a railway carriage on his way to his office he feels unexplainably nauseous and breathless. Then he hears from a fellow passenger that the police are still looking for a woman who poisoned a family in Lincoln. He begins to suspect that his housekeeper is trying to kill them.

Stars Charlie Ruggles

About Us

Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).

Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at NightShiftRadio.com

This rebroadcast falls under the protections of Copyright Law and Public Domain. Night Shift Radio does not own, nor claim to, the rights of the original broadcast productions.

Mentioned in this episode:

The Storyteller Series

The Storyteller Series. Old time radio, rebooted. Listen to original short stories performed by a full cast.

StS Summer 2022

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Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! - My Own Murderer (1945)

My Own Murderer (1945)

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09/27/22 • 30 min

A British solicitor is forced to shelter a murderer. His complex scheme to rid himself of the killer appears successful. + Richard Samson was a lawyer who was never really much attracted by Alan Renwick even before he murdered his butler Baines. When Renwick turned up for his help and threatened to kill him also if he went to the police suddenly their lives depended on each other.

Stars Herbert Marshall

About Us

Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).

Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at NightShiftRadio.com

This rebroadcast falls under the protections of Copyright Law and Public Domain. Night Shift Radio does not own, nor claim to, the rights of the original broadcast productions.

Mentioned in this episode:

The Storyteller Series

The Storyteller Series. Old time radio, rebooted. Listen to original short stories performed by a full cast.

StS Summer 2022

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Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! - Library Book (1945)

Library Book (1945)

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09/29/22 • 32 min

When Mrs Rednick brings her library book Gone With The Wind back two days late it costs her 4 cents. She asks the librarian if she knows what happens on page 931. It seems that a page has been deliberately ripped out. Prudence, the librarian decides to investigate further and discovers that words on the following page had been underlined. Prudence suspects it is some kind of code as she has an odd feeling, a definite premonition that something is wrong...

Stars Myrna Loy

About Us

Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).

Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at NightShiftRadio.com

This rebroadcast falls under the protections of Copyright Law and Public Domain. Night Shift Radio does not own, nor claim to, the rights of the original broadcast productions.

Mentioned in this episode:

The Storyteller Series

The Storyteller Series. Old time radio, rebooted. Listen to original short stories performed by a full cast.

StS Summer 2022

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Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! - Menace in Wax (1942)

Menace in Wax (1942)

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08/12/22 • 30 min

During the French revolution of 1793 a Swiss girl copied in wax the severed heads of those had just been guillotined. She married a French Man named Tussard and came to London and she founded Madam Tussard’s Wax Works. There it is still in Marleborne near Baker Street station, not the original building, that was destroyed by fire but it remained untouched. On a darker shadow the revolution came to England, they blasted high explosives on that street all along the road and hit the cinema next door. We are going to London under the bomber. Late one night in March of 1941 a young man hurried up to the great vast doors of Madam Tussard’s...

Stars Joe Julian

About Us

Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).

Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at NightShiftRadio.com

This rebroadcast falls under the protections of Copyright Law and Public Domain. Night Shift Radio does not own, nor claim to, the rights of the original broadcast productions.

Mentioned in this episode:

The Storyteller Series

The Storyteller Series. Old time radio, rebooted. Listen to original short stories performed by a full cast.

StS Summer 2022

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Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! - One Way Ride to Nowhere (1944)

One Way Ride to Nowhere (1944)

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09/01/22 • 30 min

A story about a dead body on a roller coaster, and a wrecked hold-up getaway car...which is all grist for a private eye's mill. + "Roll up, roll up ladies and gentlemen and prepare yourselves for the thrill of a lifetime. Only a dime for the fastest and the fanciest ride in the city! It's not a rollercoaster ladies and gentlemen, it's an experience! We give you the breathtaking Tunnel Of Love!

Stars Alan Ladd

About Us

Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).

Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at NightShiftRadio.com

This rebroadcast falls under the protections of Copyright Law and Public Domain. Night Shift Radio does not own, nor claim to, the rights of the original broadcast productions.

Mentioned in this episode:

The Storyteller Series

The Storyteller Series. Old time radio, rebooted. Listen to original short stories performed by a full cast.

StS Summer 2022

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Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! - The Pit and the Pendulum (1943)

The Pit and the Pendulum (1943)

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08/18/22 • 30 min

The Pit and The Pendulum by Edgar Allen Poe has been adapted for Suspense by John Dickson Carr. This version stars Raymond Burr. " I was sick, sick unto death with that long agony; and when they at length unbound me, and I was permitted to sit, I felt that my senses were leaving me. The sound of the inquisitorial voices seemed merged in one dreamy indeterminate hum...” The French Officer was a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition condemned to death and in his cell a pit to which was to be his hell and alone with only the torment of his own mind awaiting the torture of the inquisition.

Stars Henry Hull

About Us

Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).

Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at NightShiftRadio.com

This rebroadcast falls under the protections of Copyright Law and Public Domain. Night Shift Radio does not own, nor claim to, the rights of the original broadcast productions.

Mentioned in this episode:

The Storyteller Series

The Storyteller Series. Old time radio, rebooted. Listen to original short stories performed by a full cast.

StS Summer 2022

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Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! - Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE!

Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE!

Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE!

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07/29/22 • 2 min

About Us

Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).

Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at NightShiftRadio.com

This rebroadcast falls under the protections of Copyright Law and Public Domain. Night Shift Radio does not own, nor claim to, the rights of the original broadcast productions.

Mentioned in this episode:

The Storyteller Series

The Storyteller Series. Old time radio, rebooted. Listen to original short stories performed by a full cast.

StS Summer 2022

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Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! - The Kettler Method (1942)

The Kettler Method (1942)

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08/06/22 • 31 min

Four days of rain had been, ceaseless, teeming, pouring with a steady relentless rhythm, four solid days. The fields around Culsten had been turned in to huge puddles that reflected the heavy swollen sky and Dr Morrissey was disturbed by a deep anxiety. He stood beside a window in his sanatorium which rose high on the lonely hill a few miles from the little town of Culston. It was three o’clock on an afternoon he would long remember...

Stars Roger Dekoven, John Gibson, Gloria Stuart

About Us

Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).

Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at NightShiftRadio.com

This rebroadcast falls under the protections of Copyright Law and Public Domain. Night Shift Radio does not own, nor claim to, the rights of the original broadcast productions.

Mentioned in this episode:

The Storyteller Series

The Storyteller Series. Old time radio, rebooted. Listen to original short stories performed by a full cast.

StS Summer 2022

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How many episodes does Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! have?

Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! currently has 89 episodes available.

What topics does Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! cover?

The podcast is about Fiction, Drama and Podcasts.

What is the most popular episode on Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE!?

The episode title 'The Lodger (1940)' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE!?

The average episode length on Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is 32 minutes.

How often are episodes of Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! released?

Episodes of Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! are typically released every day.

When was the first episode of Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE!?

The first episode of Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! was released on Jul 29, 2022.

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