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Suspense presents “The Death Parade,” episode 5, originally broadcast February 1, 1951.

Amid the noise and crowds of a downtown parade, Ellen Johnson finds an alarming letter warning that a woman she has never met may be in danger. With only a name and a cryptic reference to “Jack,” she races to find help before time runs out. Agnes Moorehead stars in this tense urban mystery.

Suspense presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:43 Original Broadcast
29:41 Closing

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Suspense presents “Dead of Night,” episode 9, originally broadcast on June 1, 1947. This archival edition is drawn from a local surviving recording of the classic radio suspense series.

The supplied archival listing does not include a plot synopsis or verified production credits, leaving the story’s setup to unfold in the original broadcast. Suspense presents the program with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:23 Original Broadcast
30:09 Closing

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Suspense presents “Death on My Hands,” an archival episode listed with an original broadcast date of May 1, 1951, and episode number 0. Phil Harris and Alice Faye, better known for comedy, take on dramatic roles in this tense small-town story.

Touring dance-band leader Dixie arrives for a one-night high-school engagement and reunites with Julia, his former singer and fiancée. When a tragic accident stirs suspicion and anger in the mill town, Dixie finds himself facing a community determined to deliver its own justice. Written by John Michael Hayes and E. Jack Neuman, and produced and directed by Elliott Lewis.

Suspense presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:48 Original Broadcast
30:34 Closing

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Suspense presents “Dead of the Night,” documented as episode 118, originally broadcast on November 16, 1944. Local archival metadata lists the recording as episode 6, dated November 1, 1944.

In this tense crime thriller by Mel Dinelli, Jimmy Barton returns to Los Angeles to find his sister Helen terrified of her violent husband. As fear, family loyalty, and police scrutiny mount, the siblings are drawn into a desperate night of uncertainty. Robert Cummings and Lurene Tuttle star.

Suspense presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:40 Original Broadcast
30:38 Closing

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Suspense presents “The Story of Markham’s Death,” originally broadcast on CBS on October 2, 1947. This local archival recording is identified as episode 2. Kirk Douglas stars in a drama written by Robert Platt and directed by producer William Spier.

Mystery novelist Phil Markham, trapped in writer’s block, travels to postwar London in search of inspiration. Amid the city’s bomb-damaged streets, he finds a cache of papers linked to Edgar Allan Poe—an discovery that draws him into a tense story of ambition, secrecy, and literary temptation.

Suspense presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:44 Original Broadcast
30:38 Closing

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Suspense presents “Dead Ernest,” originally broadcast May 8, 1947. This local archival recording is identified as episode 8. Written by Seeleg Lester and Merwin Gerard, the CBS thriller features Wally Maher as Lieutenant Steve Healey, with Junius Matthews as Ernest Bowers.

After a street accident, a man prone to cataleptic attacks is mistaken for dead when the safeguards identifying his condition are separated from him. As police and medical officials follow routine procedures, Lieutenant Healey races to piece together the clues in this darkly comic, time-sensitive suspense story.

Suspense presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:42 Original Broadcast
30:31 Closing

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Suspense presents “Report on the Jolly Death Riders,” identified in this archival source as episode 7, with an original broadcast date of August 2, 1951. Other episode listings date the broadcast to August 27, 1951 and catalog it as Suspense #436.

In this fact-based traffic-safety drama, a San Francisco police lieutenant investigates a hit-and-run connected to reckless hot-rod driving around the Oakland Bay Bridge. William Holden stars, with Jack Kruschen and Cathy Lewis among the supporting cast, in a CBS presentation sponsored by Auto-Lite.

Suspense presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:50 Original Broadcast
30:30 Closing

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Suspense presents “The Strange Death of Gordon Fitzroy,” originally broadcast November 2, 1946, as episode 8.

Chester Morris stars as Johnny Malone, a recently released prisoner determined to confront the former partner he blames for a disastrous safe robbery. On a cold city night, old associates and painful memories draw him toward a reckoning. The radio adaptation is by Robert L. Richards, from an original story by Bruce Cassiday.

Suspense presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:51 Original Broadcast
31:34 Closing

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Suspense presents “The Dead Sleep Lightly,” identified in this archival recording as episode 0, originally broadcast March 3, 1943.

In John Dickson Carr’s supernatural-tinged thriller, a wealthy elderly man fears that his long-dead wife has returned to haunt him after an impossible telephone call to her grave. Susan Hayward, Walter Hampden, and Lee Bowman star in this compact tale of cemetery shadows and mounting dread.

Suspense presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:45 Original Broadcast
30:25 Closing

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Suspense presents “Death Went Along for the Ride,” listed in this archival collection as episode 7, with an original broadcast date of April 2, 1944.

On a cross-country drive from California to New York, a motorist picks up a young hitchhiker and finds their journey through lonely highways shadowed by a growing sense of danger. Gene Kelly stars in this compact road thriller, written by Henry Denker and Ralph Berkey.

Suspense presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:43 Original Broadcast
30:21 Closing

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Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio