Suspense: Season 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Suspense Season 3.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
This Way Out
Sep 4, 1951
girl and fiance argue about carnival - goes in, watches show about murderers - displays about their deeds. is told to wait, as she has questions - he does not return, leaving her a
Merryman's Murder
Sep 18, 1951
A taut mystery based on an incident in the life of entertainer Joe E. Lewis.
High Street
Oct 9, 1951
Tale of a house painter whose homicidal designs on a rich client are complicated by an old romance.
The Fifth Dummy
Oct 16, 1951
Mystery set against a chamber of horrors in a traveling circus.
The Train from Czechoslovakia
Oct 23, 1951
A documentary based on the activities of the voice of Radio Free Europe and its impact on the people behind the Iron Curtain. The story is based on the passengers and crew of the t
Frisco Payoff
Nov 20, 1951
Postal inspector Winters has infiltrated a criminal gang and their big plan is about to go down. A postal employee drops a $120,000 in bonds out a back window to Winters waiting in
Mikki
Nov 27, 1951
With the cryptic words "Mikki Knows" from the lips of her dying father, a young socialite hunts down the murderer of her parent.
The Man Without a Face
Dec 4, 1951
Mrs. Collins arrives at the train station in town after a long stay with her mother. Despite the storm that's raging, her husband being away, and, she learns, a killer on the loose
Pier 17
Dec 18, 1951
The dock workers who load nitroglycerin onto freighters at Pier 17 are on edge. A recent explosion at the harbor killed four men and the FBI believes it was sabotage by an insider.
Flare Week
Jan 8, 1952
The story of death and terror which springs from a sports scandal on a college campus.
The Spider
Jan 15, 1952
Scientists Bob and Muriel Torres honeymoon in rural Florida. Despite being warned that a professor and his son had gotten lost in the nearby swamp and were never seen again, Muriel
The Red Signal
Jan 22, 1952
A supposedly fake medium is hired to a conduct a séance so Sir Alington, a psychiatrist, can observe a patient under stress. She warns the doctor, Clair and her husband Jack to avo
Death Drum
Jan 29, 1952
The mayor of a French town reveals the identities of underground members, he says, to save the country from destruction by the invading Nazis. Having been moved to a neutral countr
Betrayal in Vienna
Feb 5, 1952
An Austrian intelligence chief, his debasement and eventual self-destruction, are set in motion by an act of betrayal and blackmail.
North of Shanghai
Feb 12, 1952
American medical missionaries Dr. Paul Morgan and his wife are told to leave China as the Communists advance on the city. When he refuses, a Communist general kills his own wife wh
Summer Night
Feb 19, 1952
The story of a woman's brush with death when she undersold the emotion of fear.
Night Drive
Feb 26, 1952
Mrs. Haley takes her horse to blacksmith Bob to have its shoes checked since she'll be traveling alone by buggy to meet her husband at the train station. She's delighted when Dr. T
Day of Infamy
Mar 4, 1952
The story opens in Germany, where a young girl loses face with Herr Goebels and enlists into the espionage service of the Japanese and sets herself up in Hawaii.
Four Days to Kill
Mar 11, 1952
Johnny, a professional assassin with a hair-trigger temper, is sent by his boss to Havana to do a job. His target is his former mentor, Barney Moyer, the man who taught him everyth
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1)
Mar 18, 1952
A two-part dramatization of Dickens' "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," about a man and his uncle vying for the same girl.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2)
Mar 25, 1952
A two-part dramatization of Dickens' "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," about a man and his uncle vying for the same girl.
Black Panther
Apr 8, 1952
A criminal uses a rare doll store as the front for his diamond smuggling racket. A detective stars snooping around after a man carrying a doll is shot in the subway and the murdere
Night of Evil
Apr 15, 1952
Frenzy, fire and death are the results of an attempt to separate an old man from his fortune.
Alibi Me
Apr 22, 1952
Ex-con Georgie Lennox has been tormented his entire life by Leo Whaley who's now out and moving in on his punch-board racket. Finally pushed too far, he shoots Leo to death. Knowin
The Letter
Apr 29, 1952
In 1880 France, a wealthy woman's determined her husband, becomes a success. After paying to the have him named the minister of justice, in exchange, he writes her a note guarantee
The Mandarin Murders
May 6, 1952
A drama based on the revolutionary activities that preceded the founding of the Chinese Republic.
Hunted Down
May 20, 1952
Tale about a greedy killer trapped by social ambition and the lure of an inheritance.
The Debt
May 27, 1952
A young drifter is robbed by two other hobos after hopping off a train. Making his way to a country store, he's offered refuge from the rain by the young woman and her father who r
Murder of Necessity
Jun 3, 1952
A murder of necessity is caused by blackmail when an eavesdropper gets involved.
House of Masks
Jun 10, 1952
Anna, a delicate and unstable young woman, despises having her life controlled by her older, practical sister. The sister is ready sign the papers to have Anna committed after she
Phantom of the Riviera
Jun 17, 1952
Tale is of a will-o'-the-wisp jewel thief whose area of operations is a Mediterranean resort. Six suspects are involved before the thief is captured.
Night of Reckoning
Jun 24, 1952
Story of counterespionage behind Chinese Communist lines in Korea.
For the Love of Randi
Jul 15, 1952
Dr. Ted Larson's engagement to head nurse Randi Sloan is getting under the skin of Dr. David Bonnell, her ex-lover and current roommate of Ted. When a box of candy arrives one morn
The Crooked Frame
Jul 29, 1952
Kelly Davis, the unscrupulous creator of "Sally Forth" comic books, announces she's retiring the character. This move puts her resentful staff of cartoonists out of work. She offer
Death Cargo
Aug 5, 1952
A freighter bound for New Orleans for a cargo delivery encounters a great risk of spoiled fruit.
Remember Me
Aug 12, 1952
A former high-school basketball star, now broke and reduced to committing small-time hold-ups, kills an old man. With the police after him, he hides out in the apartment of a lonel
Her Last Adventure
Aug 19, 1952
Eva, a wealthy middle-aged woman, marries a man she barely knows and moves into his family estate, a dark, run-down mansion on the Massachusetts coast. She learns James was recentl
Woman in Love
Aug 26, 1952
A female secret agent operating in 1952 Budapest is preoccupied with her upcoming marriage. In her thoughtlessness, she loses a valuable document resulting in her life being in jeo