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Suspense· Season 6

Suspense — Season 6

All 51 episodes in airing order, with first-run dates and viewer ratings.

  1. 01

    September 1, 1953

    Paradise Junction

    The story of a traveling circus and its unhappy owner.

  2. 02

    September 8, 1953

    Reign of Terror

    An innocent woman is sentenced to death during the French Revolution.

  3. 03

    September 15, 1953

    The Darkest Night

    Murder and blackmail ruin a bride-to-be's bridal shower.

  4. 04

    September 22, 1953

    The Riddle of Mayerling

    A dramatic adaptation of the famous and true story of a commoner's ill-fated romance with the Archduke Rudolph of Hapsburg.

  5. 05

    September 29, 1953

    The Sister

    The tragic tale of a pair of recluses whose lives are brought into focus for the first time after years of frustration and jealousy.

  6. 06

    October 6, 1953

    Death at Skirerud Pond

    The story of a tense trial in Norway when a jury was asked to remember what it was like in their homeland during the war. The actual verdict is revealed at the end of the program.

  7. 07

    October 13, 1953

    The Accounting

    The story of a corrupt supply captain, son of an illustrious military hero, and a fiercely loyal major who challenges him to a duel to preserve the family's honor.

  8. 08

    October 20, 1953

    The Valley of the Kings

    The tense story of an archaeological expedition searching for the tomb of King Tutmose. They finally find it and its treasures untouched; but then the curse of the Pharaoh on anyone defiling his tomb's sacred precincts begin to strike.

  9. 09

    October 27, 1953

    The Others

  10. 10

    November 3, 1953

    The Interruption

    An English gentleman gloats over the murder of his wife only to learn that his evil housekeeper knows his secret.

  11. 11

    November 10, 1953

    Needle in a Haystack

    The behind-the-scenes story of how the U. S. Navy ferreted out the secret of Communist minefields in Wonsan Harbor, enabling minesweepers to clear the way for the safe landing of 22,000 Marines.

  12. 12

    November 17, 1953

    The Newcomer

    A story of a brash stranger in a small Western town who changes his ways when arrested for the murder of a local belle.

  13. 13

    November 24, 1953

    My Short Walk to Freedom

    When a fugitive from a Russian concentration camp is cornered in his Budapest home, he disguises himself and his brother to try a get beyond the Iron Curtain.

  14. 14

    December 1, 1953

    Laugh It Off

    A kindly young man believes a girl's story that she is marked for murder and risks his life to save her, despite warnings from friends that she is a habitual liar and thrill-seeker.

  15. 15

    December 8, 1953

    The Dance

    This episode is a remake of an episode previously shown on the series. This episode and the previous one were both shown live and featured different casts.

  16. 16

    December 15, 1953

    Cagliostro and the Chess Player

    A dramatization based on the life of the 18th Century Italian magician, Count Alessandro di Cagliostro. The cunning magician inveigles King Stanislaus into a chess game with his mechanical genius. That, in the end, becomes his downfall.

  17. 17

    December 22, 1953

    The Gift of Fear

    A little boy in a department store and a night watchman who likes toys better than people are featured in this odd Christmas tale.

  18. 18

    December 29, 1953

    Mr. Nobody

    A wealthy, vicious woman turns a goodhearted but naive tramp into a pawn in her evil plans.

  19. 19

    January 5, 1954

    Diamonds in the Sky

    A gang of smugglers, diamonds and a beautiful woman add up to trouble for the pilot on a trans-Atlantic flight.

  20. 20

    January 12, 1954

    The Scrap Iron Curtain

    The true story of Baclav Uhlik, a Czech machinist who built an armored car and last July transported his wife, two children and four friends 40 miles through the Bohemian forests to the town of Waldmeunchen in the western zone of Germany.

  21. 21

    January 19, 1954

    The Haunted

    The second wife of a ski-lodge owner suspects her husband of the murder of his first wife.

  22. 22

    January 26, 1954

    An Affair With a Ghost

    A dead French underground leader returns to save a band of hostages when a Nazi collaborator goes back on his promise.

  23. 23

    February 2, 1954

    The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

    A drama based on the hoax of Canadian George DuPre, who claimed service in the French underground as a British intelligence officer during World War II.

  24. 24

    February 9, 1954

    The Moonstone

    A precious stone taken from India is coveted by many parties.

  25. 25

    February 16, 1954

    The Execution

    Her son's heroic death in battle unseals the lips of a mother about a 10-year-old tragedy involving her brutal husband.

  26. 26

    February 23, 1954

    Death on the Screen

    A frantic wife sits by her TV set, watching a public dinner where a deranged man is getting ready to kill her husband.

  27. 27

    March 2, 1954

    I Do Solemnly Swear

    The story of the first woman juror in the United States, in 1870 in Laramie, Wyoming.

  28. 28

    March 9, 1954

    Before the Act

    A young bank official is the intended scapegoat of a carefully designed plan to rob the vault of $100,000.

  29. 29

    March 16, 1954

    The Fourth Degree

    A psychiatrist makes a weird experiment in a last ditch attempt to get a key witness in a homicide case to talk.

  30. 30

    March 23, 1954

    The Tenth Reunion

    A college reunion crowd discover that one of the gang has been missing since graduation. Those present have had reasons to do away with her.

  31. 31

    March 30, 1954

    Torment

    Behind the Iron Curtain, a condemned prisoner's wife tries to save him by appealing to an old friend, the police chief.

  32. 32

    April 6, 1954

    Open Transom

  33. 33

    April 13, 1954

    Operation: Barracuda

    Operation:Barracuda is a 1954 TV episode or short film directed by Robert Mulligan. "The heartless captain of a German u-boat crashes his vessel along the Atlantic coast at the close of WWII. Only the captain and his lieutenant escape the sinking vessel containing the personal fortune of Nazi leader Herman Goering. After eight years, the captain returns to salvage the loot and tries to recruit his former shipmate in the effort." - Episode Summary from TV.com

  34. 34

    April 20, 1954

    The Return Journey

    A window washer is tempted by an unguarded amount of money and realizes the error in his judgment all too soon.

  35. 35

    April 27, 1954

    The Terror Begins

    The story of how Stalin held a grip on the Russian people after assassinating S.M. Kirov.

  36. 36

    May 4, 1954

    Smoke

    The two sons of a disgusting and destructive old man stand to benefit as a result of his violent death.

  37. 37

    May 11, 1954

    Operation: Nightmare

    A dramatization of the heroics of nurse Ann Bernatitus during the Battle of Bataan.

  38. 38

    May 18, 1954

    Breakout

    A prison riot breaks out and a guard is taken hostage. The inmates want the keys to the main gate in exchange for the guard.

  39. 39

    May 25, 1954

    Fingerprints

    A true story taken from the cases of Alfonse Bertillon, chief of the Identification Bureau of the Paris Police in the early 1900's. Bertillon invented the first system of crime detection through the use of physical features.

  40. 40

    June 1, 1954

    Race Against Murder

    A young doctor leaves his practice to find a cure for polio after watching his patients suffer.

  41. 41

    June 8, 1954

    North Side

    The true story of the workings of a New York homicide squad as it goes about the solution of a brutal murder.

  42. 42

    June 15, 1954

    The Pistol Shot

    An Army Captain wants revenge on a fellow officer in 19th century Russia. The young Captain has bested him in cards and love.

  43. 43

    June 22, 1954

    String

    Thirty men in a secret unit, started by President Roosevelt during World War II, are captured and tortured at the Belsen concentration camp before escaping.

  44. 44

    June 29, 1954

    The Hunted

    An unethical hunter is caught shooting a tame animal on a wildlife preserve. The game warden delivers an unexpected punishment: three bullets and a ten minute head start.

  45. 45

    July 6, 1954

    The Girl in Car Thirty-Two

    An investigator puts his life in danger after he falls for the woman he is tailing.

  46. 46

    July 13, 1954

    Conversation at an Inn

    A bicyclist makes up fantastic tales of murder on "clues" she finds along her rides. When she finds a shoe and a lighter, she tells an elaborate tale that turns out to be very close to the truth.

  47. 47

    July 20, 1954

    Once a Killer

    A woman's faith in a hoodlum is destroyed when the police prevail upon her to get him to surrender.

  48. 48

    July 27, 1954

    Main Feature: Death

    A woman gets locked in movie theater by mistake and encounters a pair of killers who break in to rob the safe.

  49. 49

    August 3, 1954

    The Last Stand

    A would-be recluse's best friend discovers gold on his land. He realizes his only security is his friend's death, but he is thwarted in the effort of murder by some fast-traveling news.

  50. 50

    August 10, 1954

    The Iron Cop

    A policeman's niece is murdered. He resolves to find the killer but has to pit his wits against an "electronic brain" to do so.

  51. 51

    August 17, 1954

    Barn Burning

    A mentally incapacitated war hero seeks revenge against society.

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