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 | |
| Marie Baumer | 3 | 12/20/1949 - 02/28/1950 | |
| Turner Bullock | 3 | 09/06/1949 - 09/27/1949 | |
| 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 | |
| Robert Minton | 1 | 02/13/1951 | |
| Ray Bradbury | 1 | 02/19/1952 | |
| Roald Dahl | 1 | 08/29/1950 | |
| David Friedkin | 1 | 03/11/1952 | |
| Sig Herzig | 1 | 11/14/1950 | |
| Mort R. Lewis | 1 | 11/14/1950 | |
| William O'Farrell | 1 | 11/15/1949 | |
| Algernon Blackwood | 1 | 09/05/1950 | |
| Walter C. Brown | 1 | 12/18/1951 | |
| John Michael Hayes | 1 | 05/29/1951 | |
| Ferguson Findley | 1 | 03/21/1950 | |
| David Kogan | 1 | 04/18/1950 | |
| James Lee | 1 | 03/20/1951 | |
| Kem Bennett | 1 | 04/03/1951 | |
| W.F. Jenkins | 1 | 02/26/1952 | |
| Marie Belloc Lowndes | 1 | 08/19/1952 | |
| Seeleg Lester | 1 | 05/03/1949 | |
| Robert Esson | 1 | 09/11/1951 | |
| William P. McGivern | 1 | 07/29/1952 | |
| John Gearon | 1 | 10/18/1949 | |
| Robert Wallsten | 1 | 12/27/1949 | |
| Fred Methot | 1 | 09/27/1949 | |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | 1 | 12/27/1949 | |
| James Hilton | 1 | 12/12/1950 | |
| Howard Aldridge | 1 | 01/09/1951 | |
| Robert Arthur | 1 | 04/18/1950 | |
| Agatha Christie | 1 | 01/22/1952 | |
| 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 | |
| Edward D. Radin | 1 | 07/15/1952 | |
| Merwin Gerard | 1 | 05/03/1949 | |
| Leslie Edgley | 1 | 11/29/1949 | |
| Louis Este | 1 | 01/17/1950 | |
| Robert Patterson | 1 | 04/17/1951 | |
| Thomas Phipps | 1 | 03/20/1951 | |
| Dana Lee Thomas | 1 | 02/05/1952 | |
| Rod Serling | 1 | 08/18/1953 | |
| Whitfield Cook | 1 | 07/15/1952 | |
| George Miles | 1 | 07/15/1952 | |
| John Collier | 1 | 06/12/1951 | |
| Stanley Ellin | 1 | 06/14/1949 | |
| Mac Shoub | 1 | 11/20/1951 | |
| Morton S. Fine | 1 | 03/11/1952 | |
| Therd Jefre | 1 | 04/22/1952 | |
| James Sheehan | 1 | 06/21/1949 | |
| Rudyard Kipling | 1 | 10/17/1950 | |
| Carl Abrams | 1 | 12/26/1950 | |
| Murray Leinster | 1 | 12/04/1951 | |
| Larry Malone | 1 | 09/06/1949 | |
| Dorothy L. Sayers | 1 | 03/15/1949 | |
| Robert Tallman | 1 | 03/21/1950 | |
| John Dickson Carr | 1 | 03/29/1949 | |
| Doris Frankel | 1 | 09/13/1949 | |
| Billy Rose | 1 | 11/08/1949 | |
| Robert Carse | 1 | 12/13/1949 | |
| Sam Rolfe | 1 | 05/15/1951 | |
| Donald Hamilton | 1 | 01/23/1951 | |
| Walter Bazarr | 1 | 03/13/1951 | |
| Shirl Hendryx | 1 | 12/06/1949 | |
| Dorothy Salisbury Davis | 1 | 06/10/1952 | |
| Gil Doud | 1 | 06/19/1951 | |
| Mel Goldberg | 1 | 07/29/1952 | |
| Craig Rice | 1 | 05/24/1949 | |
| Marie Rodell | 1 | 05/31/1949 | |
| Frank Gruber | 1 | 04/04/1950 | |
| Michael Arlen | 1 | 04/25/1950 | |
| Lawrence G. Blochman | 1 | 11/20/1951 | |
| Gus Bayz | 1 | 08/12/1952 | |
| Lawrence Treat | 1 | 05/27/1952 | |
| 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 | |
| Joel Townsley Rogers | 1 | 10/25/1949 | |
| Damon Runyon | 1 | 12/19/1950 |
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