CBS
CBS · 1942–1962
Broadcasts
1051
Cadence
Seasonal
Rated
PG
Since
1942
The run
Suspense ran on CBS from 1942 to 1962, the network's flagship thriller anthology, produced first by William Spier and later by Elliott Lewis and Antony Ellis. Hollywood stars were routinely cast against type — Cary Grant, Agnes Moorehead, Jimmy Stewart, Lucille Ball — and the scores were written by Bernard Herrmann and his successors. These transfers come from the Old Time Radio Researchers single-episode collections and are public domain.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
12 dated broadcasts across 23 years on the air, with 14 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Restored broadcasts from 1940, in original transmission order.
22 Jul 1940 · 29 min
1 Jun 1943 · 28 min
3 Feb 1944 · 29 min
21 Sep 1944 · 30 min
31 May 1945 · 29 min
31 Jan 1946 · 25 min
26 Sep 1946 · 30 min
29 May 1947 · 30 min
Same night on the air
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 2 Dec 1948.
2 December
1948
NBC
Thursday
28 min
Broadcast 2 December 1948. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Internet ArchiveOTRR_Abbott_Costello_SinglesListenable · 64 kbps
2 December
1948
NBC / CBS
Thursday
29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated.
Internet ArchiveAl_Jolson_OTRCondition unmeasured
2 December
1948
Syndicated
Thursday
14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated.
Internet ArchiveOTRR_Jump_Jump_Ice_Queen_SinglesCondition unmeasured
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