Suspense Season 4, Episode 25: Summer Night

This Way Out

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 alone with likenesses of murderers. forced to find way out.

Strange for a Killer

The story of a hunted criminal who loses his nerve.

Merryman's Murder

A taut mystery based on an incident in the life of entertainer Joe E. Lewis.

Doctor Anonymous

Santa Fe Flight

An espionage agent on the run.

High Street

Tale of a house painter whose homicidal designs on a rich client are complicated by an old romance.

The Fifth Dummy

Mystery set against a chamber of horrors in a traveling circus.

The Train from Czechoslovakia

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 train that recently passed thru from Czechoslovakia to the American zone. General Lucius D. Clay, national chairman of the Crusade for Freedom, is a special guest on the program.

Court Day

Moonfleet (1)

A tale of pirates and buried treasure.

Moonfleet (2)

A tale of pirates and buried treasure.

Frisco Payoff

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 an alley. Needing time to switch the real bonds with phonies, he makes up a story about being robbed and knocked unconscious. The boss, Cruze is not amused and gives Winters two hours to find the bonds and bring them back, or be rubbed out.

Mikki

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

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, she's determined to get back to her isolated house. Once home, the phone goes dead, the lights go out, and she realizes she's not alone.

Mediation in Mexico

Pier 17

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. Dave Delaney and his foreman, with their eyes peeled for trouble, have decided the new guy is really a G-man working on the case. The true saboteur initially goes unnoticed.

The Lonely Place

Routine Patrol

The story of a murder in a cabin in the Yukon territory.

Flare Week

The story of death and terror which springs from a sports scandal on a college campus.

The Spider

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 goes exploring alone. With night approaching, she stumbles upon a shack inhabited by a blind former explorer. Muriel's fear escalates when the doctor shows off the two shrunken heads he made himself; he learned the skill directly from jungle natives.

The Red Signal

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 avoid their homes because they are in danger. Her premonition turns out to be true because of insanity, murder, and secret loves.

Death Drum

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 country, he's quickly kidnapped by allies and carried to the home of an English gentlemen to be executed as a traitor.

Betrayal in Vienna

An Austrian intelligence chief, his debasement and eventual self-destruction, are set in motion by an act of betrayal and blackmail.

North of Shanghai

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 who's under the doctor's care, then charges Morgan with murder and sentences him to death. The surgeon's execution is unexpectedly postponed when he's ordered to perform an emergency operation.

Night Drive

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. Tabor, whose wife was one of two women murdered in the woods along the way, asks if his sister can ride along. As they approach the spot of the two unsolved crimes, the behavior of Mrs. Haley's passenger becomes unsettling.

Day of Infamy

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

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 everything he knows about killing. That's why the intended victim knows Johnny will spend three days watching him and move in for the kill on the fourth; Barney anticipates Johnny's every move.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1)

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)

A two-part dramatization of Dickens' "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," about a man and his uncle vying for the same girl.

Black Panther

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 murderer steals the doll's arm. The mobster gets wise to the cop, and to an inside job being pulled by people he trusts.

Night of Evil

Frenzy, fire and death are the results of an attempt to separate an old man from his fortune.

Alibi Me

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. Knowing he'll be the prime suspect when Leo doesn't check in with his parole officer, Georgie goes in search of an airtight alibi. Desperate, he turns to the wife he'd walked out on earlier. Despite her cooperation, Georgie is undone by a delivery boy bringing a giant sucker from Leo.

The Letter

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 guaranteeing the job. Only the notes's disappears, and she must find the letter and save the government.

The Mandarin Murders

A drama based on the revolutionary activities that preceded the founding of the Chinese Republic.

Fingers of Fear

A policeman searches for the killer of a young woman.

Hunted Down

Tale about a greedy killer trapped by social ambition and the lure of an inheritance.

The Debt

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 run the business. During the night the store is robbed and the old man is murdered. The drifter's first instinct is to run, but he quickly figures out who the real murderers are.

Murder of Necessity

A murder of necessity is caused by blackmail when an eavesdropper gets involved.

House of Masks

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 hires a mysterious young poet to be the gardener and plies him with cash. Billy has a history of being involved with young women who suddenly die.

Phantom of the Riviera

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

Story of counterespionage behind Chinese Communist lines in Korea.

Fifty Beautiful Girls

A serial killer is murdering the dance hall girls.

For the Love of Randi

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 morning, supposedly from Randi, David and a neighbor kid try a piece and both become extremely sick from arsenic poisoning. Accusations of attempted murder fly between the members of the love triangle as each accuses the other of poisoning the candy.

The Crooked Frame

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 offers Webb the chance to write the stories for her "new idea"--an idea she's stealing from him. Kelly is found dead the next morning, and Webb is the obvious suspect.

Death Cargo

A freighter bound for New Orleans for a cargo delivery encounters a great risk of spoiled fruit.

Remember Me

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 lonely woman who once had a crush on him in his high-school days.

Her Last Adventure

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 recently engaged to a young woman, but he dismisses it as an unimportant mistake. Investigating noises in the cellar, she finds the corpse of a young woman, half-buried in the coal pile.

Woman in Love

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 jeopardy.