Many horror stars of the movies, appeared in this classic series. Bela Lugosi made a rare appearance on tv doing an Edgar Allen Poe story called "The Cask of Amontillado", on Oct 11 49.
Boris Karloff starred in "The Monkees Paw" on May 17, 1949. Basil Rathbone starred in a Sherlock holmes story called "The adventure of the Black Barnonet on May 26 1953.
Peter Lorre did an episode called "The Tortured Hand" on December 16, 1952 and John Carridine starred in "Come into My Parlor" May 19, 1953.
The 50's version of Suspense was live, but in 1964, the series returned on video tape. Sebastian Cabot became the first host of the series,
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Suspense was one of network television's earliest series and, like many of the medium's first efforts, was adapted from a long-running radio program. Episodes began with a ominous off-camera voice announcing, "And now, a tale well calculated to keep you in...Suspense!" With a few exceptions, this anthology was not an outright "horror" program (as was Lights Out or Inner Sanctum) but was designed to put characters in dangerous or threatening situations that built to a suspenseful climax. The somewhat low-budget series was performed live each week so it had its share of flubbed lines and technical snafus and episodes were generally confined to a couple of minimal sets. Suspense, however, made up for these shortcomings with inventive writing and a cavalcade of top-notch actors, some already established and many up-and-coming future stars. The program was rather highly regarded for it's overall quality (for the time) and the calibre of it's scripts. Like practically all of TV's earliest live series, Suspense was never rerun, preserved only on kinescope films to be shown in markets not able to air network programs live from New York. Most episodes were considered lost but, as luck would have it, a huge cache of Suspense programs were "discovered" and released on DVD in 2007.moreless
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TOO AFRAID TO VENTURE OUT OF DOORS THIS HALLOWEEN? THIS TUESDAY, THERE ARE PLENTY OF DVD RELEASES TO KEEP YOU SAFE AND SNUG INSIDE. GET YOUR DOSE OF CLASSIC WEIRDNESS WITH THE TWIN PEAKS DEFINITIVE GOLD BOX EDITION, OR LAUGH ALONG WITH THE GANG ON SCRUBS. FOR YOU ANGEL FANS, YOU'LL FIND JOY IN THE NEW COLLECTOR'S SET, AND FOR THOSE IN A BROODING MOOD, INDULGE YOUR GLOOMY SIDE WITH THE COMPLETE SERIES OF MY SO-CALLED LIFE.
October 30, 2007 DVD Releases
By Melissa Toutjian, Oct 25, 2007
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The Duel
S 5 : Ep 32
Aired 4/21/53
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Kiss Me Again, Stranger
S 5 : Ep 31
Aired 4/14/53
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The Kiss Off
S 5 : Ep 26
Aired 3/3/53
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Vacancy for Death
S 5 : Ep 20
Aired 1/20/53
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