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''Suspense'' is a
radio drama Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine t ...
series broadcast on
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from 1940 through 1962. One of the premier drama programs of the
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, was subtitled "radio's outstanding theater of thrills" and focused on
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-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
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and
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. Notable exceptions include adaptations of
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's ''
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'' and H. P. Lovecraft's "
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", but by the late 1950s, such material was regularly featured.


Alfred Hitchcock

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directed its audition show (for the CBS summer series ''Forecast''). This was an adaptation of '' The Lodger'' a story Hitchcock had filmed in
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with
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.
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, author of ''Suspense: Twenty Years of Thrills and Chills'', described the ''Forecast'' origin of ''Suspense'':
On the second presentation of July 22, 1940, ''Forecast'' offered a mystery/horror show titled ''Suspense.'' With the co-operation of his producer,
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, Alfred Hitchcock received the honor of directing his first radio show for the American public. The condition agreed upon for Hitchcock's appearance was that CBS make a pitch to the listening audience about his and Wanger's latest film, ''
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''. To add flavor to the deal, Wanger threw in
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and
Herbert Marshall Herbert Brough Falcon Marshall (23 May 1890 – 22 January 1966) was an English stage, screen and radio actor who starred in many popular and well-regarded Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s. After a successful theatrical career in the Uni ...
as part of the package. All three men (including Hitch) would be seen in the upcoming film, which was due for a theatrical release the next month. Both Marshall and Hitchcock decided on the same story to bring to the airwaves, which happened to be a favorite of both of them:
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' "The Lodger." Alfred Hitchcock had filmed this story for Gainsborough in 1926, and since then it had remained as one of his favorites. Herbert Marshall portrayed the mysterious lodger, and co-starring with him were Edmund Gwenn and character actress Lurene Tuttle as the rooming-house keepers who start to suspect that their new boarder might be the notorious Jack-the-Ripper. Psycho.''] Character actor
Joseph Kearns Joseph Sherrard Kearns
TV Guide. July 15–21, 1961, Savetheorgan.org; retrieved September 28, 2011.
also had a small part in the drama, and Wilbur Hatch, head musician for CBS Radio at the time, composed and conducted the music specially for the program. Adapting the script to radio was not a great technical challenge for Hitchcock, and he cleverly decided to hold back the ending of the story from the listening audience in order to keep them in suspense themselves. This way, if the audience's curiosity got the better of them, they would write in to the network to find out whether the mysterious lodger was in fact Jack the Ripper. For the next few weeks, hundreds of letters came in from faithful listeners asking how the story ended. Actually a few wrote threats claiming that it was "indecent" and "immoral" to present such a production without giving the solution


1942–1962

In the earliest years, the program was hosted by "The Man in Black" (played by
Joseph Kearns Joseph Sherrard Kearns
TV Guide. July 15–21, 1961, Savetheorgan.org; retrieved September 28, 2011.
or Ted Osborne) with many episodes written or adapted by the prominent mystery author John Dickson Carr. One of the series' earliest successes and its single most popular episode is
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's "Sorry, Wrong Number", about a bedridden woman (
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) who panics after overhearing a murder plot on a crossed telephone connection but is unable to persuade anyone to investigate. First broadcast on May 25, 1943, it was restaged seven times (last on February 14, 1960)each time with Moorehead. The popularity of the episode led to a
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in 1948. Another notable early episode was Fletcher's "The Hitch Hiker", in which a motorist (
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) is stalked on a cross-country trip by a nondescript man who keeps appearing on the side of the road. This episode originally aired on September 2, 1942, and was later adapted for television by
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as a 1960 episode of ''
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''. After the network sustained the program during its first two years, the sponsor became Roma Wines (1944–1947), and then (after another brief period of sustained hour-long episodes, initially featuring Robert Montgomery as host and "producer" in early 1948),
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s (1948–1954); eventually Harlow Wilcox (of ''
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'') became the pitchman.
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, Norman Macdonnell and Anton M. Leader were among the producers and directors. ''Suspense'' received a Special Citation of Honor
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for 1946. The program's heyday was in the early 1950s, when radio actor, producer and director Elliott Lewis took over (still during the Wilcox/Autolite run). Here the material reached new levels of sophistication. The writing was taut, and the casting, which had always been a strong point of the series (featuring such film stars as Orson Welles,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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, and
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), took an unexpected turn when Lewis expanded the repertory to include many of radio's famous drama and comedy starsoften playing against typesuch as
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. Jim and Marian Jordan of ''Fibber McGee and Molly'' were heard in the episode "Backseat Driver", which originally aired February 3, 1949. The highest production values enhanced ''Suspense'', and many of the shows retain their power to grip and entertain. At the time he took over ''Suspense'', Lewis was familiar to radio fans for playing Frankie Remley, the wastrel guitar-playing sidekick to
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in '' The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show''. On the May 10, 1951 ''Suspense'', Lewis reversed the roles with "Death on My Hands": A bandleader (Harris) is horrified when an autograph-seeking fan accidentally shoots herself and dies in his hotel room, and a vocalist (Faye) tries to help him as the townfolk call for vigilante justice against him. With the rise of television and the departures of Lewis and Autolite, subsequent producers (Antony Ellis,
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and others) struggled to maintain the series despite shrinking budgets, the availability of fewer name actors, and listenership decline. To save money, the program frequently used scripts first broadcast by another noteworthy CBS anthology, ''
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''. In addition to these tales of exotic adventure, ''Suspense'' expanded its repertoire to include more science fiction and supernatural content. By the end of its run, the series was remaking scripts from the long-canceled program ''
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''. A
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tale like Robert Arthur's "The Man Who Went Back to Save Lincoln" or a thriller about a death ray-wielding
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would alternate with more run-of-the-mill crime dramas. The series expanded to television with the ''
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'' 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
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'' and ''Suspense'', ending at 7:00 pm Eastern Time on September 30, 1962, are often cited as the end of the
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. The final episode of ''Suspense'' was ''Devilstone'', starring Christopher Carey and Neal Fitzgerald. It was sponsored by
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.


Opening introductions

There were several variations of program introductions. A typical early opening is this from April 27, 1943: :(MUSIC ...
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'S SUSPENSE THEME ... CONTINUES IN BG) :THE MAN IN BLACK: Suspense! :This is The Man in Black, here again to introduce Columbia's program, ''Suspense''. :Our stars tonight are Miss Agnes Moorehead and Mr. Ray Collins. You've seen these two expert and resourceful players in "Citizen Kane" – "The Magnificent Ambersons" in which Miss Moorehead's performance won her the 1942 Film Critics' Award. Mr. Collins will soon be seen in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Technicolor film, "Salute to the Marines." :Miss Moorehead and Mr. Collins return this evening to their first love, the CBS microphone, to appear in a study in terror by Lucille Fletcher called "The Diary of Sophronia Winters." :The story told by this diary is tonight's tale of... suspense. If you've been with us on these Tuesday nights, you will know that Suspense is compounded of mystery and suspicion and dangerous adventure. In this series are tales calculated to intrigue you, to stir your nerves, to offer you a precarious situation and then withhold the solution... until the last possible moment. And so it is with "The Diary of Sophronia Winters" and the performances of Agnes Moorehead and Ray Collins, we again hope to keep you in... :(MUSIC: ... UP, DRAMATICALLY) :THE MAN IN BLACK: ... ''Suspense!''


Recognition

''Suspense'' was inducted into the
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in 2011. Since 2007, Radio Classics, on Sirius XM channel 82, has been airing episodes of ''Suspense''. The show is also streamed nightly at 7 pm Pacific time on kusaradio.com from the original masters.


Satire

The familiar opening phrase "tales well-calculated to..." was satirized by '' Mad'' as the cover blurb "Tales Calculated to Drive You... ''Mad''" on its first issue (October–November 1952) and continuing until issue #23 (May 1955). Radio comedians
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had a recurring routine lampooning the show called "Anxiety." Their character Commander Neville Putney told stories that were presented as dramatic but were intentionally mundane, with the opening line "A tale well designed to keep you in... Anxiety." In the “Chicken Heart” sketch on his
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relates radio programs during his youth “that were scary.” One is Suspense.


Theater

For PowPAC, San Diego actor-director Robert Hitchcox mounted a 2006 stage production recreating two episodes of ''Suspense'', complete with commercials, in a stage set designed like a CBS radio studio.PowPAC: "Wrong Number & the Hitch-hiker"
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Partial list of episodes of ''Suspense''


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Revival

In 2012, John C. Alsedek and Dana Perry-Hayes of Blue Hours Productions revived Suspense for
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, recording all-new scripts including originals and adaptations of works by the likes of H.P. Lovecraft,
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, and
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. The Suspense revival is currently airing on nearly 250 radio stations worldwide, and nominated for a Peabody Award.


Season One episodes

# "Cool Air," starring Adrienne Wilkinson & Daamen Krall # "The Pipes of Tcho Ktlan," starring Daamen Krall & Rocky Cerda # "The Return of the Sorcerer," starring Tucker Smallwood & Ron Bottitta # "Proof in the Pudding," starring Adrienne Wilkinson & Christina Joy Howard # "The Devil‘s Saint," starring Daamen Krall & Christopher Duva # "Gag Reflex," starring Daamen Krall & Elizabeth Gracen # "The Graveyard Rats," starring Daamen Krall & Christopher Duva # "An Ungentle Wager," starring Elizabeth Gracen & Adrienne Wilkinson # "The Fire of Asshurbanipal," starring Christopher Duva & Steve Moulton # "The Walls Between Us," starring Adrienne Wilkinson & Rocky Cerda # "The Horla," starring Christopher Duva & Elizabeth Gracen # "Essence," starring Dana Perry-Hayes & Skyler Caleb # "The Hounds of Tindalos," starring Christopher Duva & Daamen Krall # "Madeline’s Veil," starring Dana Perry-Hayes & Rocky Cerda # "Wet Saturday," starring Daamen Krall & Adrienne Wilkinson # "Forest of the Dark Unbound," starring Catherine Kamei & Elizabeth Gracen # "Who Goes There?" starring Steve Moulton & Sean Hackman # "De Vermis Manorum," starring Elizabeth Gracen & John Lauver # "The Night Reveals," starring David Collins & Susan Eisenberg # "Ebb Tide," starring Christopher Duva & Adrienne Wilkinson # "Far Below," starring Daamen Krall & Catherine Kamei # "Behind Every Great Man..." starring Brett Thompson & Adrienne Wilkinson # "
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," starring Scott Henry & Daniel Hackman # "Red Rook, White King...Black Cat," starring Adrienne Wilkinson & David Collins


See also

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References


Sources


Frank M. Passage log: ''Suspense''


External links


''Escape'' and ''Suspense''
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Old Time Radio Review: ''Suspense''
– episode reviews

– plot summaries and reviews.
''Suspense'' on Way Back When'Podcast Feed'
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