Our series of adventure shows turns from the series Escape today to look at its big brother series, Suspense. Suspense rarely did straight up adventure stories, but this 1948 radio broadcast of "Hitch-Hike Poker" featuring Gregory Peck as an ex-GI hitchhiker, in a wild tale that begins innocently enough playing license plate poker with a seemingly charming travelling companion. But soon, things go off-the-rails, as sinister plots emerge.

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