Suspicion

1957
Suspicion

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EP1 Four O'Clock Sep 30, 1957

Paul Steppe, a successful watchmaker, begins to suspect that his wife Fran is seeing another man. Consumed with jealousy, Steppe decides to murder her. His plan, he feels is ingenious. Painstakingly Steppe applies all of his watchmaking skills to the construction of a time bomb. He plans to slip into his house in the afternoon without his wife's knowledge, leave the bomb and then return to his jewelry store unnoticed and unsuspected.

EP2 Murder Me Gently Oct 07, 1957

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EP3 The Other Side of the Curtain Oct 14, 1957

A young woman, troubled by a recurring dream about a long, dark hallway with a ominous curtain at the end, consults a psychiatrist. The sessions cause the woman to have suspicions about the death of her husband's first wife.

EP4 Hand in Glove Oct 21, 1957

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EP5 The Story of Marjorie Reardon Oct 28, 1957

A young woman who's attacked by a psychopath, leaving her in shame and with a fear of men -- until sweet, strong, understanding man comes along.

EP6 Diary for Death Nov 04, 1957

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EP7 Heartbeat Nov 11, 1957

When a heart patient is misdiagnosed, he believes that he is cured of his heart problems. He decides to have a day full of excitement, not knowing that even the slightest shock could kill him.

EP8 The Sparkle of Diamonds Nov 18, 1957

A blind woman is accused of murder. The sightless Miss Perry protests her guilt to Detective Thorpe, telling him of a stranger she encountered on the narrow stairway on the night of the murder. She briefly touched the man's face with her fingertips, and Thorpe attempts to find the real murderer by applying Miss Perry's description.

EP9 The Flight Nov 25, 1957

A former navy pilot is hired to fly a mysterious cargo to Bermuda and discovers en-route that the cargo is human and the destination altered.

EP10 Rainy Day Dec 02, 1957

Two men in an isolated African outpost begin to squabble after one of the men reads a letter addressed to the other and refuses to reveal its content.

EP11 The Deadly Game Dec 09, 1957

A salesman seeks refuge from a blizzard in an old mansion. He meets three elderly men who convince him to participate in a mock-trial so they can practice their former callings of judge, prosecuting attorney and defense council.

EP12 Doomsday Dec 16, 1957

A master of disguise plans a payroll theft with the only two men that know his true identity.

EP13 The Dark Stairway Dec 23, 1957

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EP14 Someone Is After Me Jan 06, 1958

A paranoid woman, frightened since she witnessed a violent crime, fears for her life.

EP15 Lord Arthur Savile's Crime Jan 13, 1958

A fortune teller informs Lord Arthur Savile that he is about to commit a murder. Lord Arthur decides to postpone his marriage so that he can confront his fate without troubling his wife-to-be.

EP16 End in Violence Jan 20, 1958

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EP17 Comfort for the Grave Jan 27, 1958

A man teams with his gangster brother's widow to find his sibling's killer. Soon, the surviving brother begins to wonder whether the lovely former spouse might not have committed the murder herself.

EP18 Meeting in Paris Feb 10, 1958

Peter Lockwood gets tied up in a case of European espionage when his ex-wife and her new husband ask him for help in dealing with a gang of black marketeers.

EP19 A Touch of Evil Feb 17, 1958

Larry is married to a sickly weak woman and enlists the aid of a former flame and her brother in a scheme to do away with his wife.

EP20 If I Die Before I Live Feb 24, 1958

A banker embezzles a large sum of money and flees. While hiding out in New York City he suffers a heart attack and can't take his medicine. He's rescued by a girl who is unemployed and starving.

EP21 The Hollow Man Mar 03, 1958

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EP22 A World Full of Strangers Mar 10, 1958

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EP23 The Eye of Truth Mar 17, 1958

Gregg Carey is a successful lawyer whose son is involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident. In order to get his son off, however, Carey must risk his career and reputation in a dangerous blackmail scheme.

EP24 Voice in the Night Mar 24, 1958

The survivors of a shipwreck escape to an island where a strange fungus grows on everything and begins to grow on everyone.

EP25 Diagnosis: Death Mar 31, 1958

A young woman believes that she caused her wealthy mother's death by giving her an overdose of pills. The doctor agrees to sign a death certificate stating that death was from natural causes, if the young woman will marry him.

EP26 The Bull Skinner Apr 07, 1958

Frank Marre is an ambitious tractor driver who becomes angrey when he passed over for a promotion. A deeply bitter Frank decides to take out his anger on the man that beat him out for the job.

EP27 The Girl Upstairs Apr 14, 1958

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EP28 Fraction of a Second Apr 21, 1958

After spending the weekend with her daughter, Mrs. Ellis takes her child to the bus depot. When she returns home, she finds her furniture rearranged and three strangers insisting that they own the house.

EP29 The Way Up to Heaven Apr 28, 1958

Mr. Foster is a mean and domineering husband who has the misfortune of getting stuck in the elevator of his apartment. Instead of helping him, his wife takes the opportunity to be rid of him by heading out to visit her relatives for six weeks.

EP30 The Woman With the Red Hair May 05, 1958

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EP31 The Protege May 12, 1958

Katherine Searles, one-time Broadway great, feels she has successfully conquered her problem with alcohol and plans a comeback.

EP32 The Velvet Vault May 19, 1958

A nurse marries a member of a wealthy and respected family. She finds that her life is threatened by the family's uncompromising traditions.

EP33 The Slayer and the Slain May 26, 1958

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EP34 Death Watch Jun 02, 1958

Detective Sgt. Miles Odeen has been assigned to protect a witness in a murder case. The witness is lovely Kelly Pomeroy, who knows too much about the case for her own safety. Odeen's assignment is suddenly made even more difficult when he realizes that his own life is in danger.

EP35 The Man With the Gun Jun 09, 1958

A man escapes from a communist prison camp and returns home to his family, but his wife suspects the man be an impostor.

EP36 The Woman Who Turned To Salt Jun 16, 1958

Solange Rogers is a lawyer who helps a man named Angus Martin get a divorce from his wife. Unfortunately, she doesn't known that Angus killed his wife and hid her body in a pillar inside of their home.

EP37 Eye for an Eye Jun 23, 1958

A young girl runs away from her cruel husband. In a ruthless attempt to get his wife back, the man kidnaps the wife of a lawyerfriend. He then goes to a private detective and threatens the life of the kidnapped girl, unless the detective can persuade the runaway wife to return to her husband.

EP38 Return From Darkness Jun 30, 1958

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EP39 The Devil Makes Three Jul 07, 1958

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EP40 The Imposter Jul 14, 1958

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EP41 The Death of Paul Dane Jul 21, 1958

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EP42 The Last Town Car Jul 28, 1958

Edith Miller (Claudette Colbert) believes she may be losing her mind. Wherever Edith goes, she is confronted by the appearance of an old town car.
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Released: 30 September 1957 Ended
Producted By: NBC
Country: United States of America
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Suspicion is the title of an American television mystery drama series which aired on the NBC from 1957 through 1959. The executive producer of Suspicion was film director Alfred Hitchcock.

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Karl Ericsson I'm amazed at the convoluted scripts for these 45 minutes plus shows. This series, as far as I have seen it (10 films, the Hitchcock-directed by no means being the best of them), is better than Twilight-Zone, Hitchcock Presents, Hitchcock Hour and all other TV-series. I own a DVD with 15 films (haven't seen all of them yet) in real bad quality but that doesn't stop me from enjoying them. That this series isn't on the market smells Conspiracy real bad. Many films are out there but the best ones are Always missing, kind of. What makes this shows so unique is that it looks true much more than any other series I'v seen and truth is something very unattractive in America North.
tom sawyer I have only seen a few episodes of this series and I like it. I own the story A Voice in th Night and it is truly a suspenseful and scary story with a lot of subtle horror. The stories and the writing I have seen from just a few episodes is crisp and tight in the telling of very good and entertaining stories. Seriously, this needs to be on DVD like another series Bus Stop almost from the same era. As it is, this series stand alone on the strength of just the few stories I have seen. I seriously hope I can find more of this long forgotten and little known gem. If you can get copies or even few them, you will not be disappointed. At least not from the few I have seen.
etjetj-1 The episode "The Voice In The Night" must be one of the scariest episodes ever made for TV. Everyone about my age, who saw the rerun in the early 70's seem to remember it, but hardly anyone know what it was. Perhaps due to the fact that it has always been considered to be part of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" in Sweden - perhaps Swedish TV had got the episode "by mistake". Anyhow, the episode in question is about a honeymoon couple (James Donald and Barbara Rush) who suffers a shipwreck and end up in a everlasting fog, from which there seem to be no escape. Trouble starts when everything gets infected by a mysterious fungus.... It is all told in flashback to a couple of seamen (during a foggy night) who are told not to turn their lanterns in the direction of the man who is telling the story. If it ever was rerun again - or made available on DVD.
F Gwynplaine MacIntyre 'Suspicion' was an anthology series featuring dramas of suspense. (So why wasn't it titled 'Suspense'?) The opening credits were eye-catching but unpleasant, and the droning theme music gave me a headache. The most famous (and probably the best) episode of this series is "Four O'Clock", which originally aired 30 September 1957. This is the only episode of 'Suspense' which was directed by Alfred Hitchcock.Shortly before this episode aired, Hitchcock gave a long interview to Pete Martin of the Saturday Evening Post. This interview has been reprinted several times; it discusses several of Hitchcock's motifs in detail (including his notorious dislike of eggs, his penchant for blonde heroines, and his famous dismissal of actors as 'cattle'). During the interview, Hitchcock describes the premise of "Four O'Clock", but then he wickedly refrains from revealing the ending ... thus keeping readers in suspense. Far more Hitchcock fans have read this interview than have actually seen "Four O'Clock", so they are probably curious to know how it ends.In the teaser scene which opens "Four O'Clock", we see bland husband Paul Steppe (very well played by E.G. Marshall) constructing a time bomb in his cellar. The bomb's timing device is a modified wall clock, and it uses conventional house current. We see Steppe setting the timer, plugging in the clock, then watching as it detonates a tiny amount of gunpowder. Satisfied by this, Steppe unplugs the clock.Middle-aged Steppe has observed his wife acting very friendly with a handsome young man, and he concludes that she's philandering. Hence his decision to blow up his house with his wife in it. He plans to be far away when it happens, of course. Steppe knows that his wife will come home shortly before 4.00pm, so he sets the timer on his bomb (now containing a full charge of gunpowder), plugs it into the wall socket, and gets ready to scarper.But just before Steppe can leave, two burglars break into his cellar. They tie him up and (improbably) gag him, then they depart ... leaving Steppe tied to a chair in his cellar, unable to leave or to call for help, and unable to turn away from the time bomb as he watches the clock's hands ticking steadily towards 4pm.Great set-up, yes? So far, this is what Hitchcock described in his interview with Pete Martin. The rest of this hour-long drama ratchets up the suspense as the clock ticks towards doom. E.G. Marshall, bound and gagged, turns in an amazing performance as a desperate man whose thoughts we hear in voice-over. SPOILERS COMING. He tries various schemes to attract attention. A small boy glimpses him through the cellar window, but doesn't summon help. Through the ceiling, Steppe can hear his wife upstairs entertaining her handsome admirer (well played by Richard Long) ... who turns out to be her brother from out of town. Steppe's suspicions were groundless, and now he's going to die...We are with Steppe in the last few seconds (in a brilliantly edited sequence) as the clock ticks to 4pm. Then, suddenly, we cut away to an exterior of the house in long shot. A crowd have gathered outside the cellar... and an ambulance is ready to take Steppe away. He's gone insane, but he isn't physically harmed. What happened?BIG SPOILER NOW. The ending is a cheat. We saw in the teaser that the time bomb runs on house current. Now it turns out that, in fact, the clock is running on batteries: Steppe only needed the house current to detonate the gunpowder charge. (This is utterly ridiculous.) Unbeknownst to Steppe (and us), his wife had shut off the house's electrical current that morning. (Conveniently, *after* he made the test run which we saw in the teaser.) So, the battery-operated clock ticked along merrily until doomtime, but then there wasn't any electricity to set off the charge. Oh, pull the other one!Right up until this gimmicky and dishonest ending, 'Four O'Clock' is a taut suspenseful drama with a fine performance by E.G. Marshall ... but that ending made me want to chuck my television out the window. No wonder Hitchcock refused to reveal how this story ended. Also, we get the usual fallacy that a gagged person cannot cry out to attract attention. (Wrong; a gag prevents the victim from speaking coherently, but does nothing to constrain the voice's loudness.) Nowadays, a drama about home-made bombs would likely never get shown on American television.