Suspense

Season 1

Revival of the classic 1940s-1950s television and radio anthology series, with different stories of mystery and the macabre every week.

Where to Watch Suspense • Season 1

26 Episodes

  • Cool Air
    E1
    Cool AirA struggling young writer develops a friendship with a Spanish physician with a most curious ailment- an aversion to heat... Adapted from the short story by H.P. Lovecraft.
  • The Pipes of Tcho Ktlan
    E2
    The Pipes of Tcho KtlanA two-timing, larcenous 1940's swing band leader steals a forbidden Far East melody and uses it as the basis for a hit song- only to find out too late just why it is forbidden.
  • The Return of the Sorcerer
    E3
    The Return of the SorcererA scholar is hired by a practitioner of the dark arts to decipher a very special passage from the dread Necronomicon - Adapted from the short story by Clark Ashton Smith.
  • Proof in the Pudding
    E4
    Proof in the PuddingWhen an all-too-perfect newcomer to a small town enters the local cooking contest, her rivals become suspicious about her entry- specifically, what might be in it.
  • The Devil's Saint
    E5
    The Devil's SaintEager to marry the niece of a Hungarian count, a young man agrees to sleep in a room that was once the scene of a murder - Adapted from the short story by John Dickson Carr.
  • Gag Reflex
    E6
    Gag ReflexA pair of Borscht Belt comics find themselves kidnapped by extraterrestrials and forced into competition in an arena. At stake: their lives- and those of the entire human race.
  • The Graveyard Rats
    E7
    The Graveyard RatsA pair of New England bodysnatchers are determined to obtain a corpse- no matter where they have to go in their pursuit - Adapted from the short story by Henry Kuttner.
  • An Ungentle Wager
    E8
    An Ungentle WagerWhen rival soap opera actresses come into conflict over a role, they decide to settle their long-standing feud with a bet involving a substantial check- and a very sharp axe.
  • The Fire of Asshurbanipal
    E9
    The Fire of AsshurbanipalTwo soldiers-of-fortune, marooned deep in the desert, stumble across a city of legend- and the unspeakable, ancient evil it houses... Adapted from the short story by Robert E. Howard.
  • The Walls Between Us
    E10
    The Walls Between UsA lovely but haunted woman picks up an unsuspecting man in a bar, then drugs and kidnaps him. What she has planned is revenge, served up cold as the grave...
  • The Horla
    E11
    The HorlaA Frenchman believes that his very life is being destroyed by an invisible being that stalks him. But is it all in his mind?... Adapted from the short story by Guy de Maupassant.
  • Essence
    E12
    EssenceThe dysfunctional family of an elderly perfume mogul gathers at her deathbed. But little do they know just how far she is willing to go in order to protect her legacy- even from her own children...
  • The Hounds of Tindalos
    E13
    The Hounds of TindalosA researcher uses a mystical drug to travel backwards in time. But what he finds there is a horror beyond imagining... Adapted from the short story by Frank Belknap Long.
  • Madeline's Veil
    E14
    Madeline's VeilA grieving torch singer returns to the nightclub where she once worked, wearing a mourning veil as she waits night after night for the return of her low-life mobster lover...
  • Wet Saturday
    E15
    Wet SaturdayOn a rainy Saturday afternoon, a proper English family finds itself debating what to do with an uninvited guest on the sunporch... Adapted from the short story by John Collier.
  • Forest of the Dark Unbound
    E16
    Forest of the Dark UnboundTwo bank tellers, on the lam for theft and an accidental homicide, flee to the wilds of upper New York state, en route to Canada and freedom. But they aren't the only creatures stalking those woods...
  • Who Goes There?
    E17
    Who Goes There?An Antarctic research expedition finds something frozen deep in the ice cap- something that is still alive... Adapted from the short story by John W. Campbell.
  • De Vermis Manorum
    E18
    De Vermis ManorumYoung honeymooners take refuge from a storm in a decaying Southern mansion. But the inhabitants, behind their congeniality, appear to be harboring a dark secret...
  • The Night Reveals
    E19
    The Night RevealsAn insurance investigator dealing with a rash of fires in Manhattan begins to suspect that the pyromaniac is his own wife... Adapted from the short story by Cornell Woolrich.
  • Ebb Tide
    E20
    Ebb TideAn aging guitar legend, dying and wracked with guilt over the suicide of his devoted wife, challenges Satan to cut heads- with his own soul as the stakes...
  • Far Below
    E21
    Far BelowThe subway tunnels beneath New York City are home to a special police squad- and the cosmic horror it protects humanity from... Adapted from the short story by Robert Barbour Johnson.
  • Behind Every Great Man...
    E22
    Behind Every Great Man...When a nebbish volunteers to test a fully computerized home, he soon finds that it is willing to assist with every facet of his life- though sometimes just a bit too literally...
  • Pigeons from Hell
    E23
    Pigeons from HellTwo brothers dare to spend the night in an abandoned Southern mansion that lays under a hideous curse... Adapted from the short story by Robert E. Howard.
  • Red Rook, White King... Black Cat
    E24
    Red Rook, White King... Black CatA priceless pair of emeralds are the key to warming U.S./Hungarian relations during the Cold War, but cat burglar/burlesque star Kitty Divine has them in her sights...
  • The House in Cypress Canyon
    E25
    The House in Cypress CanyonNewlyweds rent a house in the hills above Hollywood, only to find that it has a closet that cannot be opened- at least, not from the outside... Adapted from the radio play by Robert L. Richards.
  • Girl in the Snow
    E26
    Girl in the SnowA down-and-out prostitute is given the choice of either kill or be killed- a choice that becomes all the more difficult when she learns that her intended victim is her father...

 

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