Suspense was one of network television's earliest series and, like many of the medium's first efforts, was adapted from a long-running radio program. With a few exceptions, this anthology was not an outright "horror" program but was designed to put characters in dangerous or threatening situations that built to a suspenseful climax. The somewhat low-budget series was performed live each week so it had its share of flubbed lines and technical snafus and episodes were generally confined to a couple of minimal sets. The program was rather highly regarded for it's overall quality (for the time) and the calibre of it's scripts. Like practically all of TV's earliest live series, Suspense was never rerun. Most episodes were considered lost but, as luck would have it, a huge cache of Suspense programs were "discovered" and released on DVD in 2007.
| Season | From | To | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Seasons | |||
| Specials | January 1958 | January 1963 | 2 |
| Season 1 | March 1949 | June 1949 | 16 |
| Season 2 | September 1949 | June 1950 | 42 |
| Season 3 | August 1950 | August 1951 | 53 |
| Season 4 | September 1951 | August 1952 | 50 |
| Season 5 | September 1952 | August 1953 | 51 |
| Season 6 | September 1953 | August 1954 | 50 |
| Unassigned Episodes | 2 |
| Season | From | To | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unassigned Episodes | 266 |
| Season | From | To | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 0 | ||
| Unassigned Episodes | 266 |
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| Name | Number of Episodes | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Stevens | 146 | 03/01/1949 - 08/18/1953 | |
| Robert Mulligan | 5 | 09/19/1950 - 08/26/1952 | |
| John Peyser | 2 | 10/25/1949 - 02/28/1950 |
| Name | Number of Episodes | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Halsted Welles | 25 | 04/26/1949 - 06/10/1952 | |
| Alvin Sapinsley | 9 | 03/14/1950 - 03/11/1952 | |
| Victor Wolfson | 7 | 01/23/1951 - 08/26/1952 | |
| Frank Gabrielson | 7 | 04/19/1949 - 09/27/1949 | |
| Mary Orr | 6 | 05/03/1949 - 01/22/1952 | |
| Reginald Denham | 6 | 05/03/1949 - 01/22/1952 | |
| Cornell Woolrich | 5 | 03/01/1949 - 11/07/1950 | |
| Charles Robinson | 4 | 04/04/1950 - 06/27/1950 | |
| Max Ehrlich | 4 | 12/26/1950 - 05/27/1952 | |
| Raphael Hayes | 4 | 04/15/1952 - 08/19/1952 | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | 4 | 09/20/1949 - 03/06/1951 | |
| Thomas Burke | 3 | 06/07/1949 - 11/28/1950 | |
| Turner Bullock | 3 | 09/06/1949 - 09/27/1949 | |
| Marie Baumer | 3 | 12/20/1949 - 02/28/1950 | |
| Geoffrey Household | 2 | 01/29/1952 - 08/26/1952 | |
| Antony Ellis | 2 | 06/19/1951 - 08/07/1951 | |
| Henry Kane | 2 | 06/20/1950 - 09/12/1950 | |
| Charles Dickens | 2 | 03/18/1952 - 03/25/1952 | |
| W.W. Jacobs | 2 | 05/17/1949 - 10/03/1950 | |
| Joseph Liss | 2 | 11/08/1949 - 11/29/1949 | |
| Louis Pollock | 2 | 10/18/1949 - 10/24/1950 | |
| Robert M. Coates | 2 | 06/27/1950 - 07/17/1951 | |
| Edgar Allan Poe | 2 | 10/11/1949 - 04/29/1952 | |
| Roald Dahl | 1 | 08/29/1950 | |
| Robert Minton | 1 | 02/13/1951 | |
| Ray Bradbury | 1 | 02/19/1952 | |
| Sig Herzig | 1 | 11/14/1950 | |
| Mort R. Lewis | 1 | 11/14/1950 | |
| David Friedkin | 1 | 03/11/1952 | |
| William O'Farrell | 1 | 11/15/1949 | |
| Algernon Blackwood | 1 | 09/05/1950 | |
| John Michael Hayes | 1 | 05/29/1951 | |
| Ferguson Findley | 1 | 03/21/1950 | |
| Walter C. Brown | 1 | 12/18/1951 | |
| James Lee | 1 | 03/20/1951 | |
| Kem Bennett | 1 | 04/03/1951 | |
| David Kogan | 1 | 04/18/1950 | |
| Marie Belloc Lowndes | 1 | 08/19/1952 | |
| W.F. Jenkins | 1 | 02/26/1952 | |
| Robert Esson | 1 | 09/11/1951 | |
| Seeleg Lester | 1 | 05/03/1949 | |
| William P. McGivern | 1 | 07/29/1952 | |
| John Gearon | 1 | 10/18/1949 | |
| Robert Wallsten | 1 | 12/27/1949 | |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | 1 | 12/27/1949 | |
| James Hilton | 1 | 12/12/1950 | |
| Fred Methot | 1 | 09/27/1949 | |
| Robert Arthur | 1 | 04/18/1950 | |
| Agatha Christie | 1 | 01/22/1952 | |
| Howard Aldridge | 1 | 01/09/1951 | |
| Joseph Ruscoll | 1 | 04/19/1949 | |
| Francis M. Cockrell | 1 | 10/24/1950 | |
| Lord Dunsany | 1 | 04/26/1949 | |
| Edward Mabley | 1 | 05/31/1949 | |
| Merwin Gerard | 1 | 05/03/1949 | |
| Leslie Edgley | 1 | 11/29/1949 | |
| Edward D. Radin | 1 | 07/15/1952 | |
| Robert Patterson | 1 | 04/17/1951 | |
| Thomas Phipps | 1 | 03/20/1951 | |
| Louis Este | 1 | 01/17/1950 | |
| Whitfield Cook | 1 | 07/15/1952 | |
| George Miles | 1 | 07/15/1952 | |
| Dana Lee Thomas | 1 | 02/05/1952 | |
| Rod Serling | 1 | 08/18/1953 | |
| Stanley Ellin | 1 | 06/14/1949 | |
| Mac Shoub | 1 | 11/20/1951 | |
| John Collier | 1 | 06/12/1951 | |
| Morton S. Fine | 1 | 03/11/1952 | |
| Therd Jefre | 1 | 04/22/1952 | |
| Rudyard Kipling | 1 | 10/17/1950 | |
| James Sheehan | 1 | 06/21/1949 | |
| Murray Leinster | 1 | 12/04/1951 | |
| Carl Abrams | 1 | 12/26/1950 | |
| Dorothy L. Sayers | 1 | 03/15/1949 | |
| Larry Malone | 1 | 09/06/1949 | |
| Robert Tallman | 1 | 03/21/1950 | |
| John Dickson Carr | 1 | 03/29/1949 | |
| Billy Rose | 1 | 11/08/1949 | |
| Doris Frankel | 1 | 09/13/1949 | |
| Sam Rolfe | 1 | 05/15/1951 | |
| Donald Hamilton | 1 | 01/23/1951 | |
| Robert Carse | 1 | 12/13/1949 | |
| Dorothy Salisbury Davis | 1 | 06/10/1952 | |
| Walter Bazarr | 1 | 03/13/1951 | |
| Shirl Hendryx | 1 | 12/06/1949 | |
| Gil Doud | 1 | 06/19/1951 | |
| Mel Goldberg | 1 | 07/29/1952 | |
| Craig Rice | 1 | 05/24/1949 | |
| Frank Gruber | 1 | 04/04/1950 | |
| Michael Arlen | 1 | 04/25/1950 | |
| Marie Rodell | 1 | 05/31/1949 | |
| Lawrence G. Blochman | 1 | 11/20/1951 | |
| Lawrence Treat | 1 | 05/27/1952 | |
| Gus Bayz | 1 | 08/12/1952 | |
| Sylvia Berger | 1 | 03/15/1949 | |
| Arthur Heinemann | 1 | 11/22/1949 | |
| Joseph Hayes | 1 | 10/25/1949 | |
| H.R. Hays | 1 | 12/06/1949 | |
| Damon Runyon | 1 | 12/19/1950 | |
| Joel Townsley Rogers | 1 | 10/25/1949 |
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