Suspense: "Short Order" 8/16/45
A hideously deformed man becomes a regular customer at a diner, which begins driving away the other customers.
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COMICS, OLD-TIME RADIO and OTHER COOL STUFF: Random Thoughts about pre-digital Pop Culture, covering subjects such as pulp fiction, B-movies, comic strips, comic books and old-time radio. WRITTEN BY TIM DEFOREST. EDITED BY MELVIN THE VELOCIRAPTOR. New content published every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday.
Suspense: "Short Order" 8/16/45
A hideously deformed man becomes a regular customer at a diner, which begins driving away the other customers.
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Suspense: "Blue Eyes" 8/29/46
A man plans to murder his wife, changes his mind, then gets accused of murdering her.
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Suspense: "Love, Honor and Murder" 6/29/50
A passenger in a cab leaves behind a wallet with a lot of money in it. The cab driver wants to return it, but his wife has a plan for keeping it... a plan that involves committing just one murder.
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Suspense: "Tell You Why I Shouldn't Die" 6/7/51
Suspense: "Bank Holiday" 7/19/45
Bonita Granville plays a bank teller who is kidnapped by two crooks during a robbery. It's a scary situation--until she decides that one of the crooks is more attractive than the man to whom she's engaged.
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Suspense: "The Man Who Cried Wolf" 2/9/53
William Powell plays a Russian desperately trying to defect, only to discover no one believes he's sincere because he had been a part of a deceptive Russian operation in the past.
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Suspense: "Cricket" 3/15/45
A dog can be heard moving around a house and occasionally howling. The odd thing about this is that the dog is dead.
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Suspense: "Dateline: Lisbon" 10/5/44
A photograph that accidentally captures the image of a Nazi war criminal might be enough to get two people killed.
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Suspense: "This Will Kill You." 8/23/45
Dane Clark gives an excellent performance of a paranoid and narcissitic man who is convinced he's planning the perfect murder.
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Suspense: "Murder for Myra" 8/9/45
Lloyd Nolan plays a man who is vamped by a married woman and convinced to murder her husband. That sort of thing never ends well.
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Suspense: "Death on My Hands" 5/10/51
Phil Harris stars as a band leader who ends up the target of a lynch mob when a young fan is accidentally killed while visiting him. Alice Faye plays the one person who sticks by him.
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Suspense: "Lady Pamela" 3/31/52
Deborah Kerr stars as a high-class British woman who makes her living as a jewel thief.
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Suspense: "Windy City Six" 2/8/51
In this story set in the Roaring 20s, Fred MacMurray plays a drummer in a jazz band whose life takes a violent turn when his band draws the attention of both a gorgeous dame and a violent gangster.
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Suspense: "Cat and Mouse" 3/30/44
Sunny Tufts stars as an engineer who hears his partner murdered when the two are speaking over a ham radio. With only a single audio clue to go on, he must track down the killer.
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Suspense: "Walls Came Tumbling Down" 6/29/44
Someone is willing to kill to obtain a specific copy of the Bible.
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Suspense: "Sell Me Your Life" 2/15/45
A man gets framed for embezzlement, then decides to commit suicide, then gets framed for murder. In the final analysis, he's having a really bad day.
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Suspense: "The Swift Rise of Eddie Albright" 4/3/47
Phil Silvers plays an elevator operator with a tendency to exaggerate both his importance and his ability to observe what's going on around him. But when two men get into his elevator while carrying a carpet that appears to have feet sticking out of one end, he finds himself in a rather dire situation.
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Suspense: "Joker Wild" 12/8/52
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Suspense: "Drive-in" 1/11/45
A waitress at a drive-in restaurant makes the mistake of accepting the offer of a ride to the bus stop from a customer. In fact, that's probably even more of a mistake on a Suspense episode than it is in real life.
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Suspense: "The Ten Grand" 6/22/44
Lucille Ball plays a chorus girl who has literally a nickle to her name--until ten thousand dollars mysteriously appears in her purse.
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