Ray Gardner is unable to find work because of a contract with his ruthless ex-boss. In a move of desperation, he kills the man and steals some money. His wife, Mary, stands by him, but knows they can not stay in New York. The two spend a paranoid day trying to make it onto an out of town train without being noticed.
Everyone's in a tizzy over the arsenic poisoner who's still at large; police think the murder might be a woman. In the Thomas household, doting old George acts surprised to find his weed poison (with arsenic) under the kitchen sink. His wife, a delicate woman with bad nerves, defends their cook, a woman they hired who came with no references. George becomes suspicious of their employee and has the hot cocoa she left for him analyzed. When the results come back positive, he races home to save his wife before it's too late.
After boarding a transcontinental steamer with her new husband, a woman suspects foul play when he vanishes and no one on board ever remembers seeing him on the ship.
Three merchant sailors and their enigmatic leader hide out at a British inn. They've been followed from India after stealing the priceless ruby eye from a holy statue. The grimy sailors ambush and kill the men who've come to retrieve the gem, unaware of how badly the statue wants its eye back. It arrives at the inn and, one by one, makes the thieves pay for their offense.
Ernest Bowers suffers an attack of catalepsy while crossing the street, lapsing into a coma that resembles death. Believing he was killed by a passing car, his body is sent to the city morgue. His coat, with a note in the pocket describing his medical condition, is swiped by a owner of a second-hand clothing store and quickly sold. The couple who purchase the jacket finds the note and begins a race to save Ernest from a premature embalming.
Following the sudden death of her husband, Josie marries Doc Archer, the man named beneficiary of her husband's life insurance policy. Investigator Westin is suspicious after learning the doctor has a history of collecting such payouts. Westin informs Josie that she is in danger of becoming her husband's next heavily insured "accident"
Elderly Agatha Leighton returns from a trip to find her apartment on the thirteenth floor has been robbed. As she attempts to call the police, someone grabs her. Sally, who lives down the hall, attempts to visit the old lady as she'd promised, but finds she's been locked in her apartment and the phone is dead. Through the door's peephole, she sees the building's desk clerk leaving Agatha's apartment. Sally realizes something bad has happened to the old lady
In 1897 London, mysterious Mr. Bronson marries an attractive young woman, Hettie, to distract attention from his odd medical work. His demand: she must stay out of his laboratory! Restless in the loveless marriage, she strikes up a romance with Tom, a young Mission worker. Suddenly, the cold Bronson turns jealous.
An elderly man who's barely getting by looks for employment to continue giving his daughter the institutional help she requires. He receives an offer from a "Mr. X" that turns things around for him. That is, until he finds out that he must kill "Mr. X"'s wife's first husband who is blackmailing them.
A man wants to get even with an aircraft plant by blowing it up. He conceals a bomb in his lunch box and warns him to get out of the place in time. The son does escape, but a friend sees the lunch box and, thinking his buddy forgot it, puts it in his car.
An older man,Evans, walks into a record store, slips the young clerk, Fred, a huge bill and pleads for him to come to his hotel to discuss something important. He goes and finds Evans beaten and mumbling something about a record. Fred is knocked out and awakens to find Evans now dead and himself set-up to take the rap for his murder. Fred races back to the store, hoping to find the record the dead man was talking about.
Julia, the model for a character in her husband's comic strip, informs a police detective that her spouse is going to murder her. He bumped off her "twin" in that morning's strip and she's sure he's going do get rid of her in the same grizzly way that evening.
A college student studying abnormal psychology thinks the owner of a wax museum dedicated to murderers can teach her a few things. Police lock down Dr. Violet's exhibit when an actual corpse is found in the museum, trapping the co-ed alone with the murder expert.
In World War II Italy, Count Montressor has watched with horror as his former stable boy became a powerful Nazi general. In the process, General Fortanato has murdered the Count's sister and stolen his wife. Knowing the General plans to murder him, Count Montressor lures him into the palace's catacombs to taste the rare cask of Amontillado he has procured.
A former soldier who works at an all-night diner is scheduled for the electric chair. There's one witness who can clear him of the charges, but that person has disappeared.
Detained by the side of the road where his wife Mollie was found murdered, John explains to a deputy the events leading up to that moment. Their busybody neighbor Lillybelle had made accusations about Mollie's infidelity, as had a mysterious stranger who traveled the road near their home. Realizing John was wise to her, Mollie tried to flee but Lillybelle blocked the door.
An American lover of architecture is escorted to a crumbling Mexican castle by the local padre. He warns the visitor to keep his room door locked and avoid the family that lives there--especially the maniacal mother when the black wind blows. Eventually, the curious American learns the horrible truth about the family's history of blood lust.
A self-absorbed couple takes their daughter on a vacation, unaware that the child is urgently wanted by health officials. The little girl was afraid to tell them she'd been bitten by a dog, and the animal turns out to have been rabid.
Emily's moved back home to care for her battle-ax old mother and it has placed her marriage in jeopardy. Arriving home from work, she finds an escapee from a mental hospital with the old bitty he's tied up and gagged (because she's obnoxious). While he hides at their house for a few days, Emily is supposed go to work as usual but not utter a word of his presence to anyone--or it will be curtains for the old lady.
Lady Sannox, the toast of London society, carries on an obvious affair with Douglas Stone, an arrogant, young surgeon. Lord Sannox, a retired star of the stage, is thought to be a clueless old man unaware of the liaison. After discussing with the Lady his plan to murder her husband so they can marry, Stone is hired by a desperate man to perform a questionable operation on his wife. Lord Sannox, we learn, is not as oblivious to his wife's infidelity as he appears.
The impulsive wife of a jealous man is paid a visit by the very person her husband most despises.
D.P. Bradford's wife invites a couple of his old bomber crew buddies to New York to ring in 1950. New Year's morning as the guys sleep off their hangovers, the Bradford's daughter takes her puppy for a walk in Grand Central Station. There she's kidnapped by a German named Hans and held for $30,000 ransom. D.P. and his buddies, who had grown apart over the years, reunite on the mission to rescue his daughter from the kidnapper's clutches.
A father and son moving out of a boarding house get into a tussle with the sleazy landlord who promptly drops dead on the floor. Since the father has a past record, the two hide in the attic while the police investigate, wating to make their escape.
A man who's been suffering from amnesia suddenly gets his memory back.
The members of the suicide club are all men who wish to end their lives. One member draws the card the ace of spades meaning he must kill another member and make it look like an accident.
Prior to the United States going to war with Italy, one of the country's leading Fascists challenges an American to a duel.
Teenage practical joker Jerry pretends his new stepfather revealed something incriminating while talking in his sleep. Rather than laughing it off, Henry Lord gets very defensive and becomes threatening. After suffering a suspicious accident, Jerry is convinced his stepfather has something in his past he's willing to kill to keep secret.
Tommy, an errand boy, hangs around a hot dog stand when he's not in transit. The stand, a front for criminal enterprises, provesdangerous when he's hired by a shady character to deliver a package at exactly 5 PM that evening. With time to kill, he goes to a baseball game. Tommy doesn't realize that the package contains 20 grand from a payroll heist and that a pair of criminals have figured out that he's holding the money.
Officer Malone is murdered outside a "gay 90s"-themed nightclub simply by buying a seemingly harmelss gift from one of the showgirls. His son, a rookie cop, takes a vacation from the force to find the murderer himself. At the club, he uncovers the deadly secret that got his father shot: they're selling illegal drugs.
Arthur Dawson is a young American who lands in a Mozambique port and goes in search of a stolen idol.
Detective Sam Cragg goes to meet a client in the "Little Serbia" section of the city and finds the man murdered. Everyone in the neighborhood lives in fear of the unseen C. W. Roberts. a mysterious loan shark who keeps the poor permanently in debt. Cragg send a book to Roberts and watches to see who picks it up.
The notorious criminal Ma Barker and her gang of four sons blaze a murderous path from beginnings in Missouri to their final showdown with FBI agents and their machine guns in Florida.
Young actor Dan Bedell stops off in New Orleans for his first Mardi Gras. He gets a visit from gambling boss Morgan Nelson and his bodyguard who's shot from outside of the window. Morgan scrams, leaving Dan to be framed for the murder. With his girlfriend and one of her pals, Dan decides to dispose of the corpse by ditching him in the crowd, passing him off a passed out Mardi Gras drunk. Nelson returns, finds the others involved covering-up the death, and is not pleased.
An American bets two British friends that he can spend the night alone in a "haunted house."
On a midnight scavenger hunt for a department store sales receipt, a man encounters a murderer in a store.
A dangerous blonde wants to lose her husband so she seduces an old boyfriend into doing the deed. The old flame is in for a surprise when she promptly gets rid of him.
After killing a former medical examiner, lawyer Robert Quartermain has his picture taken by a street photographer while leaving the scene of the crime. When he learns the photographer possesses the only evidence against him, Quartermain goes to see the shutterbug and bumps him off, too.
A woman has a very good reason for ordering her husband to keep his mouth shut when it comes to tipping the police off about a murder.
A reporter unexpectedly becomes involved in a series of violent, brutal murders.
Dr. Joe Parker and his family are awakened by a gun-wielding criminal demanding treatment for his brother. The man's in serious condition after a bullet pierced his lung. With a pistol pointing at their daughter, the doctor and his wife are forced to perform surgery even though the patient requires hospital treatment to survive
A disturbed young man with a murderous background latches onto an older woman and her daughters. He worms his way into their family by charming the mother, even accompanying them to their summer cottage. One daughter's attempt to break off her flirtatious affair with the volatile man, whose true colors begin to show.
A Briton in India awakens from a nap to discover a poisonous snake on his belly. The slightest movement on his part would mean death. It was placed on him by his hysterical wife.
Cocky newspaper reporter Turk Wilson has made it clear in articles and in person that he believes druggist Max Hensig murdered his wife. When Hensig is acquitted, he puts Wilson on notice that there are many undetectable ways to kill a man.
Harry Martin is an insurance agent with an alcohol problem. In a drunk stupor he apparently murders a flirty blonde who was trying to buy a large annuity.
I. B. Trane lost his sight at the hands of brutal criminal Takama while he was in Japan on military duty. Trane's sixth sense tells him the barbarian is now in New York and that has him panicked for his life.
Ralph Farley, a struggling actor, overhears a plot to kill Roger Sherman, a powerful Hollywood agent. Ralph attempts to prevent the murder, but is thwarted by everyone from the police to Sherman himself.
In the days of prohibition, jewel thief "Dancing Dan" is taken with the gorgeous speakeasy hostess. In the holiday spirit, he makes like Santa for the woman's elderly grandmother.
Elaine Court recently had a heart attack and needs relaxation, but she's stressed over a strange man she claims has been lurking about. With her husband at work, she walks into the apartment one afternoon to find that stranger waiting for her.
Rookie cop Eddie Stone takes out his anger on suspects after Ruth, his fiancé, tells him she's fallen for another man.
What is the connection between the eminently respectable Dr. Jekyll and the ruthlessly murderous and cruel Mr. Hyde?
Running out of gas on a foggy back road in Maine, a couple become frightened by news reports of a murderous woman who has escaped from an asylum.
The Haskells are throwing a drunken New Year's Eve party in their New York apartment. Next door, Everett Kelsey has had enough of tending to the bitter supposedly invalid wife who treats him like dirt. He's just poisoned the shrew when he gets an unnerving phone call; the female on the line says that she saw what he did to his wife through the window.
Racketeer Frank Cadwallder isn't allowed to play cards at the speakeasy because of the huge debt he currently owes. He recruits a nobody off the street to play poker on his behalf, win their "sucker money," and split the take with him.
Williams is a pilot who works for Scandinavian Export, flying by night to deliver unknown shipments to somewhere in the Arctic. Feeling something's fishy, he tries to quit but is strong-armed into making another flight.
A committee investigating racketeering and political corruption in Chinatown fails to get Chan Sou, a local leader to cooperate. The district attorney convinces a detective and a newspaper reporter to probe further and the two men convince the old man to testify.
The thief who just robbed and murdered a jeweler is trying to escape the office building when the police arrive. Sneaking down the hallways, he stumbles across a meeting of the International Association of Assassins, a group of mystery writers. They mistake him for famous author Bothwell Anderson, a writer who has come to speak to the group about his newest novel.
Jefferson meets Rachel, an enigmatic young waitress. One moment he has a drink with her and the next moment she's dead. Jefferson doesn't think that he did it, but if he didn't do it - who did?
An espionage agent on the run.
Postal inspector Winters has infiltrated a criminal gang and their big plan is about to go down.
Mrs. Collins returns to town during a raging storm after a three week stay with her mother. Despite the warnings of everyone at the train station that she should stay at a hotel, because of the storm and a killer on the loose, she returns to her empty house. She regretfully discovers that she is not alone.
The dock workers who load nitroglycerin onto freighters at Pier 17 are on edge. A recent explosion at the harbor killed four men and the FBI believes it was sabotage by an insider. Dave Delaney and his foreman, with their eyes peeled for trouble, have decided the new guy is really a G-man working on the case.
Scientists Bob and Muriel Torres honeymoon in rural Florida. Despite being warned that a professor and his son had gotten lost in the nearby swamp and were never seen again, Muriel goes exploring alone.
A supposedly fake medium is hired to a conduct a séance so Sir Alington, a psychiatrist, can observe a patient under stress. She warns the doctor, Clair and her husband Jack to avoid their homes because they are in danger. Her premonition turns out to be true because of insanity, murder, and secret loves.
The mayor of a French town reveals the identities of underground members, he says, to save the country from destruction by the invading Nazis. Having been moved to a neutral country, he's quickly kidnapped by allies and carried to the home of an English gentlemen to be executed as a traitor.
In 1913, an Italian intelligence Colonel is on the run from his own agency because the government things he is a spy. But when a spy is later uncovered in his office, and as the Colonel flees, the spy confesses that he is not working alone.
American medical missionaries Dr. Paul Morgan and his wife are told to leave China as the Communists advance on the city. When he refuses, a Communist general kills his own wife who's under the doctor's care, then charges Morgan with murder and sentences him to death. The surgeon's execution is unexpectedly postponed when he's ordered to perform an emergency operation.
Mrs. Haley takes her horse to blacksmith Bob to have its shoes checked since she'll be traveling alone by buggy to meet her husband at the train station. She's delighted when Dr. Tabor, whose wife was one of two women murdered in the woods along the way, asks if his sister can ride along. As they approach the spot of the two unsolved crimes, the behavior of Mrs. Haley's passenger becomes unsettling.
Johnny, a professional assassin with a hair-trigger temper, is sent by his boss to Havana to do a job. His target is his former mentor, Barney Moyer, the man who taught him everything he knows about killing.
A criminal uses a rare doll store as the front for his diamond smuggling racket. A detective starts snooping around after a man carrying a doll is shot in the subway and the murderer steals the doll's arm. The mobster gets wise to the cop, and to an inside job being pulled by people he trusts.
Ex-con Georgie Lennox has been tormented his entire life by Leo Whaley who's now out and moving in on his punch-board racket. Finally pushed too far, he shoots Leo to death.
In 1880 France, wealthy Danielle is determined that her husband, Victor, becomes a success in politics. She pays 2 million francs to the elderly Premiere Marcord to name Victor the minister of justice and, in exchange, he writes her a note guaranteeing the job. The unscrupulous Marin, who presently holds that title, steals the letter and threatens to make it public and destroy Marcord. It is up to Danielle to find the letter and save the government.
A young woman's body is found by her classmate in a small farming town. We learn that she had received a corsage and a love note from a secret admirer and was on her way to discover who he was when she met her demise.
A young drifter is robbed by two other hobos after hopping off a train. Making his way to a country store, he's offered refuge from the rain by the young woman and her father who run the business. During the night the store is robbed and the old man is murdered. The drifter's first instinct is to run, but he quickly figures out who the real murderers are.
Anna, a delicate and unstable young woman, despises having her life controlled by her older, practical sister. The sister is ready sign the papers to have Anna committed after she hires a mysterious young poet to be the gardener and plies him with cash. Billy has a history of being involved with young women who suddenly die.
Dr. Ted Larson's engagement to head nurse Randi Sloan is getting under the skin of Dr. David Bonnell, her ex-lover and current roommate of Ted. When a box of candy arrives one morning, supposedly from Randi, David and a neighbor kid try a piece and both become extremely sick from arsenic poisoning. Accusations of attempted murder fly between the members of the love triangle as each accuses the other of poisoning the candy.
Kelly Davis, the unscrupulous creator of 'Sally Forth' comic books, announces she's retiring the character. This move puts her resentful staff of cartoonists out of work. She offers Webb the chance to write the stories for her "new idea" - an idea she's stealing from him. Kelly is found dead the next morning, and Webb is the obvious suspect.
A former high-school basketball star, now broke and reduced to committing small-time hold-ups, kills an old man. With the police after him, he hides out in the apartment of a lonely woman who once had a crush on him in his high-school days.
Eva, a wealthy middle-aged woman, marries a man she barely knows and moves into his family estate, a dark, run-down mansion on the Massachusetts coast. She learns James was recently engaged to a young woman, but he dismisses it as an unimportant mistake. Investigating noises in the cellar, she finds the corpse of a young woman, half-buried in the coal pile.
A female secret agent operating in 1952 Budapest is preoccupied with her upcoming marriage. In her thoughtlessness, she loses a valuable document resulting in her life being in jeopardy.
A killer hides out with his wartime buddy, unaware that his buddy is now a cop.
A trader in dry goods makes his home in the Polynesian Islands, where the natives are believers in both voodoo and taboo. Other competing traders set him up to marry Anna, a cursed princess. Once married, she and her new husband are to be killed in order to break the taboo.
In 19th century England, a celebrated thief who sold his "findings" to an antique dealer, decides he now wants to make a purchase (or steal) an item as a present. As he is somewhat of a madman, he kills the proprietor, and gets lost in the dementia of is own mind, that is, until the devil pays him a visit.
An athlete leaving the Soviet Union during the cold war for Olympic competition is informed that his elderly father is to be collateral for his return. But when he later discovers his father has died, he attempts to keep his death a secret so that he may defect.
In the mid 19th century, a retired police commissioner lives quietly in a mansion in the country. He gets a late night visit from the chief of police and an officer from Scotland Yard to consult on a burglary case. After dispensing his advice, the detective thanks him and starts to leave, taking special interest in wondering how civil servant can live so lavishly.
A professional arsonist, who has been helping landlords with non-profitable buildings collect from their insurance carriers, gets a special investigative task force assigned to him. When the son of the unit commander is killed after he unwittingly triggers a blaze that the arsonist has set, a father seeks the ultimate revenge.
A man arriving at an airport is abducted by two thugs and taken to a boarding house. There, he is forced to put his fingerprints on several items and is knocked unconscious. The kidnappers then leave him there with the gas stove turned on.
A middle-aged woman in pre-WWII Berlin leads a double life as a spy. When she falls in love with a German gentleman who shares her love of life, she decides to leave the service to marry him, but it's too late, as the Nazis are closing in on her.
Unbeknownst to him, a distraught and lonely widower is followed home from work by a tough looking pair of thugs. As he unwinds and turns to alcohol for solace, the two shady characters continue to follow him wherever he goes. Is it a case of mistaken identity, or are they planning to murder him?
A man who was wrongly convicted the first time is committing a real crime. He holds up a tax office and takes the money and gives it to his girlfriend and sends her off to Florida.
Marking his fifth of six appearances on Suspense, Boris Karloff plays the starring role of Grigori Rasputin, the famed historical figure who reportedly gained a reputation as a holy man with healing and prophetical powers. What results from his reputation proves to be his downfall. In true Suspense tradition, Karloff plays the role much like his screen persona as an actor in creepy mystery movies.
A private detective, who was engaged to a woman named Constance, reopens her missing persons case when he gets a hot lead as to her whereabouts. The clue leads him and his new wife to a cottage in the country where Constance was last seen. Once there they discover a sculptor's portrait of her and as the investigation continues, he comes across a madman.
In early 19th century France, a young woman, engaged to an army officer that she does not love, falls for a young lieutenant. Her father, a colonel, who had previously arranged the marriage, ends the arrangement and plans to send her to Paris to quell the disparity. The officer, feeling humiliated and betrayed, picks a fight with the young lieutenant and challenges him to a bizarre duel.
In the only episode of this live television anthology to be written by Rod Serling, a scientist plans his wife's untimely demise at a nuclear test site.
After shopping for her own casket and picking one for her future use, a woman returns home to her naive younger sister. The young woman refuses to believe her older sister's proclamations that she's mentally unbalanced. The truth is, the elder sister is jealous of her engagement.
In 1948 Shanghai, an accused spy is jailed at an American Marine station. Sure that his fiance is the reason for his arrest, the prisoner plans to escape, murder her, and then return to his cell.
Dramatization of the true story of Alfonse Bertillon, who was chief of the Identification Bureau during the early 20th century in Paris. His inventions and techniques changed the way police gathered evidence in criminal investigations.
