SUSPENSE Mystery Theatre - Old Time Radio Dramas - Volume 5: Part 1 of 2
41. (0:00:14) “The Fountain Plays” - Written by Dorothy L Sayers (adapted by Robert L Richards) - Starring: Edmund Gwenn, Bernard Herrmann (conductor), Dennis Hoey, Ted Osborne, Ian Wolfe - August 10, 1943.
In this episode, Mr. Archibald Stiller has estate in the country complete with a beautiful garden and ornamental fountain. Mr. Stiller is quite fond of his fountain and after on of his associates drowns in it…the fountain becomes the object of a detective’s attention.
42. (0:29:42) “The King’s Birthday” - Written by Louis Pelletier - Starring: Dolores Costello, Martin Koslick, Berry Kroeger (announcer), Ian Wolfe - August 28, 1943.
In this episode, a story set in Denmark during World War II about a Count who is secretly helping the Nazis and then starts to receive strange messages saying that he will kill himself on King's birthday.
43. (0:58:05) “The Singing Walls” - Written by Cornell Woolrich (adapted by Robert L Richards) - Starring: Ken Christy, Dane Clark, Preston Foster, Bernard Herrmann (conductor), Berry Kroeger (announcer) - September 2, 1943.
In this episode, Tom Cochran wakes up one morning after night of hard partying to discover that he may have murdered someone. His friend Danny Sullivan is a cop and offers to help Tom get to the bottom of what really happened.
44. (1:27:58) “Marry for Murder” - Written by Walker T Field - Starring: Ray Collins, Bramwell Fletcher, Lillian Gish, Bernard Herrmann (conductor), Berry Kroeger (announcer), Otto Kruger - September 9, 1943.
In this episode, Lettie Hawthorne is engaged to Mark Taylor. Everything is great except Lettie’s attorney believes Mark is a killer who is planning to murder her for her money.
45. (1:57:32) “The Cross-Eyed Bear” - Adapted by Robert L Richards - Starring: Virginia Bruce, Dorothy Hughes, John Loder, Ted Osborne - September 16, 1943.
In this episode, a tale involving a woman who answers an ad and is hired to find the heir of a wealthy estate. The only problem is that there are two other heirs…and they all want to kill each other.
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SUSPENSE was broadcast on CBS Radio from 1940 through 1962 and was one of the premier programs during the Golden Age of Radio. The show 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 and more than 900 are known to still exist.
The program’s heyday was in the early 1950s, when radio actor, producer and director Elliott Lewis took over. Here the material reached new levels of sophistication. The writing was taut, and the casts featured stars such as Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Judy Garland, Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, Lena Horne, and Cary Grant.
The series expanded to television with the Suspense series on CBS from 1949 to 1954, and again in 1962. The radio series had a tie-in with Suspense magazine which published four 1946-47 issues edited by Leslie Charteris.
The final broadcasts of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and Suspense, ending at 7:00 pm Eastern Time on September 30, 1962, are often cited as the end of the Golden Age of Radio. The final episode of Suspense was “Devilstone,” starring Christopher Carey and Neal Fitzgerald.
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