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- Case History of Edward Lowndes (1944)
Case History On Edgar Lowndes is a story in which psychiatry is called upon to deal with a sick mind, which has unknowingly been tempted thrice by murder. Thomas Mitchell stars as the millionaire tycoon Edgar Lowndes and Donald Crisp as the psychiatrist Dr Erinson. A railroad magnate visits a psychiatrist with complaints of headaches and bad dreams...
Stars Thomas Mitchell, Donald Crisp
About Us
Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).
Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at NightShiftRadio.com
This rebroadcast falls under the protections of Copyright Law and Public Domain. Night Shift Radio does not own, nor claim to, the rights of the original broadcast productions.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Storyteller Series
The Storyteller Series. Old time radio, rebooted. Listen to original short stories performed by a full cast.
StS Summer 2022
32 min - Fugue in C-Minor (1944)
Lucille Fletcher has written the Suspense play “Fugue in C Minor” which deals with brooding anxiety and sharpening suspicion played against the severe and forbidding background of the late Victorian era.
Stars Ida Lupino, Vincent Price
About Us
Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).
Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at NightShiftRadio.com
This rebroadcast falls under the protections of Copyright Law and Public Domain. Night Shift Radio does not own, nor claim to, the rights of the original broadcast productions.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Storyteller Series
The Storyteller Series. Old time radio, rebooted. Listen to original short stories performed by a full cast.
StS Summer 2022
31 min - Donovan, Part Two (1944)
Donovan’s Brain, the famous novel by Curt Siodmak was deemed so unusual by the producers of Suspense that it was made in two 30-minute parts. Orson Welles stars as Dr Patrick Cory who has been experimenting on keeping alive the brain of a dead monkey. When a plane crashed nearby and knowing they’d be unable to save its passenger, ruthless millionaire William Donovan, Dr Cory saw this as an opportunity to keep alive a human brain. Through telepathy he succeeded in communicating with Donovan’s brain but before long it took over his whole mind and began to make him do things that he didn’t know about. When his wife tried to help him Donovan’s Brain in Dr Cory’s mind had her committed to a sanitarium. When Dr Cory and his son David tried to kill the brain the brain paralyzed them against doing this and now had control over David. Dr Cory’s thoughts were less and less his own and his mind was filled with evil fantasy. Finally Dr Cory realizes a way to set him free from Donovan’s aspirations to dominate the world but David fears that the brain also knows and his plan would fail. Dr Cory tells David “it is a chance they will have to take”. Orson Welles’ performance of Dr Cory and the transition between Dr Cory and Dr Cory possessed by Donovan’s brain is magnificent.
Stars Orson Welles
About Us
Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).
Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at NightShiftRadio.com
This rebroadcast falls under the protections of Copyright Law and Public Domain. Night Shift Radio does not own, nor claim to, the rights of the original broadcast productions.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Storyteller Series
The Storyteller Series. Old time radio, rebooted. Listen to original short stories performed by a full cast.
StS Summer 2022
31 min - Donovan, Part One (1944)
Donovan’s Brain, the famous novel by Curt Siodmak was deemed so unusual by the producers of Suspense that it was made in two 30-minute parts. Orson Welles stars as Dr Patrick Cory who has been experimenting on keeping alive the brain of a dead monkey. When a plane crashed nearby and knowing they’d be unable to save its passenger, ruthless millionaire William Donovan, Dr Cory saw this as an opportunity to keep alive a human brain. Through telepathy he succeeded in communicating with Donovan’s brain but before long it took over his whole mind and began to make him do things that he didn’t know about. When his wife tried to help him Donovan’s Brain in Dr Cory’s mind had her committed to a sanitarium. When Dr Cory and his son David tried to kill the brain the brain paralyzed them against doing this and now had control over David. Dr Cory’s thoughts were less and less his own and his mind was filled with evil fantasy. Finally Dr Cory realizes a way to set him free from Donovan’s aspirations to dominate the world but David fears that the brain also knows and his plan would fail. Dr Cory tells David “it is a chance they will have to take”. Orson Welles’ performance of Dr Cory and the transition between Dr Cory and Dr Cory possessed by Donovan’s brain is magnificent.
Stars Orson Welles
About Us
Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).
Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at NightShiftRadio.com
This rebroadcast falls under the protections of Copyright Law and Public Domain. Night Shift Radio does not own, nor claim to, the rights of the original broadcast productions.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Storyteller Series
The Storyteller Series. Old time radio, rebooted. Listen to original short stories performed by a full cast.
StS Summer 2022
31 min - The Visitor (1944)
Eddie Bracken stars as Bud Owen a boy over whose head hung dark clouds of suspicion and who is involved in a particularly heartless crime.
Stars Eddie Bracken
About Us
Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).
Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at NightShiftRadio.com
This rebroadcast falls under the protections of Copyright Law and Public Domain. Night Shift Radio does not own, nor claim to, the rights of the original broadcast productions.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Storyteller Series
The Storyteller Series. Old time radio, rebooted. Listen to original short stories performed by a full cast.
StS Summer 2022
32 min - The Marvelous Barastro (1944)
Twenty years ago when the Marvelous Barastro was young man he traveled as a magician with a small carnival across Eastern Europe. One night the settled in a small village in Russia and the villagers gathered around them. It was here that he met the woman who was blind with her grandfather and he could not bear to tell her her future and the agony that laid ahead for her. Orson Welles stars as "The Marvelous Barastro"—a Russian magician traveling across Europe. He meets a blind woman named Anna who asks for her palm to be read. Barastro foresees only pain and torment within her future, but overtaken so much by her beauty he disregards the omen and marries her. It is a beautiful marriage and a wonderful affair, until one fateful day when another magician visits Barastro...
Stars Orson Welles
About Us
Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).
Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at NightShiftRadio.com
This rebroadcast falls under the protections of Copyright Law and Public Domain. Night Shift Radio does not own, nor claim to, the rights of the original broadcast productions.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Storyteller Series
The Storyteller Series. Old time radio, rebooted. Listen to original short stories performed by a full cast.
StS Summer 2022
32 min - The Woman in Red (1944)
A story about a femme fatale German spy and her nephew/henchman who are up to no good. There's kidnapping, murder, espionage, etc.
Stars Katina Paxinou
About Us
Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).
Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at NightShiftRadio.com
This rebroadcast falls under the protections of Copyright Law and Public Domain. Night Shift Radio does not own, nor claim to, the rights of the original broadcast productions.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Storyteller Series
The Storyteller Series. Old time radio, rebooted. Listen to original short stories performed by a full cast.
StS Summer 2022
31 min - Cat and Mouse (1944)
Lockwood and Guthrie were working on a invention for the government but when Lockwood is killed for his half of the blueprints Guthrie knows that he will probably be next.
Stars Sonny Tufts
About Us
Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).
Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at NightShiftRadio.com
This rebroadcast falls under the protections of Copyright Law and Public Domain. Night Shift Radio does not own, nor claim to, the rights of the original broadcast productions.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Storyteller Series
The Storyteller Series. Old time radio, rebooted. Listen to original short stories performed by a full cast.
StS Summer 2022
31 min - Sneak Preview (1944)
A Hollywood movie director joins the New York police in a hunt for a Nazi spy, murderer, and all-around bad guy. A good twisting plot! Sneak Preview Tells of a rather remarkable adventure experienced by a noted director of screen fellows, Frank Henderson played by Joseph Cotton.
Stars Joseph Cotten
About Us
Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).
Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at NightShiftRadio.com
This rebroadcast falls under the protections of Copyright Law and Public Domain. Night Shift Radio does not own, nor claim to, the rights of the original broadcast productions.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Storyteller Series
The Storyteller Series. Old time radio, rebooted. Listen to original short stories performed by a full cast.
StS Summer 2022
32 min - The Defense Rests (1944)
Robert Tasker is on trial charged on the indictment of murder in the first degree. Robert Tasker cannot help thinking that if it wasn’t for his lawyer Mr Craiger he wouldn’t be here yet the irony is that his lawyer was the only friend he’d ever had in the whole world. Tasker was an ex-con sentenced to ten years. While in prison he began writing stories and submitted one to a magazine. Mr Craiger happened to read it and contacted Tasker and later won him parole. Once free Craiger offered Robert a job, as he needed a clerk in his office. Craiger advised him not to hold any grudges but Tasker told him there was just one man he hated, Arthur Hines. Craiger told him that Hines was just the DA doing his job and had nothing against Tasker. And then he told him that Arthur Hines was his new partner and Tasker would be working along side him…
Stars Alan Ladd
About Us
Suspense! is a rebroadcast of the original 1940 CBS Radio Show. The show aired from 1940-1962 and featured many stars such as Lucille Ball (Dime a Dance) and Alfred Hitchcock (The Lodger).
Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE! is part of the Night Shift Radio network and distributed by Night Shift Media Group. Visit them on the web at NightShiftRadio.com
This rebroadcast falls under the protections of Copyright Law and Public Domain. Night Shift Radio does not own, nor claim to, the rights of the original broadcast productions.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Storyteller Series
The Storyteller Series. Old time radio, rebooted. Listen to original short stories performed by a full cast.
StS Summer 2022
32 min
About Night Shift Radio Presents: SUSPENSE!
From the publisher's feed
This is a rebroadcast of the original Suspense! Radio Show. Suspense is a radio drama series broadcast on CBS Radio from 1940 through 1962. One of the premier drama programs of the Golden Age of Radio, was subtitled "radio's outstanding theater of thrills" and focused on suspense thriller-type scripts, usually featuring leading Hollywood actors of the era. Approximately 945 episodes were broadcast during its long run, and more than 900 still exist.
Suspense went through several major phases, characterized by different hosts, sponsors, and director/producers. Formula plot devices were followed for all but a handful of episodes: the protagonist was usually a normal person suddenly dropped into a threatening or bizarre situation; solutions were "withheld until the last possible second"; and evildoers were usually punished in the end.
In its early years, the program made only occasional forays into science fiction and fantasy. Notable exceptions include adaptations of Curt Siodmak's Donovan's Brain and H. P. Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror", but by the late 1950s, such material was regularly featured. - via Wikipedia