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Suspense Radio Shows was a CBS radio series that aired from 1942 to 1962.

Suspense was dubbed "radio's outstanding theater of thrills" and was one of the great radio programs of the Golden Age of Radio. Leading Hollywood actors of the time starred in suspense films.

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The Lodger served as an audition show for the wildly popular radio series Suspense. Mr Alfred Hitchcock, the renowned English filmmaker of films like The Thirty-Nine Steps, Rebbeca, and Foreign Correspondent, was eager to create a unique sort of radio drama called suspense stories. He immediately thought of Herbert Marshall, the great actor with whom he had been associated in several British film hits, as narrator and star of his project. Mr Marshall recommended that they reenact one of his favorite stories, which proved to be the one Mr Hitchcok had in mind, Marie Belloc-Lowndes' chilling classic The Lodger. The Lodger is a work of fiction based on true events that opens in 1888 in London, where the fifth in a series of recent killings has terrorized the city. These crimes are thought to have been committed by one individual, a tall gaunt figure wearing a black Inverness cape and carrying a little thin satchel. The Avenger, a mysterious serial murderer, preyed on young attractive blond haired ladies like Daisy, the Buntings' daughter, who had taken in a gentleman lodger...

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Mystery Theater Old Time Radio Show Podcast

We make available thousands of old-time radio shows for your listening enjoyment.

Some of the most popular radio programs from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s can be found here. Before television, radio supplied entertainment by airing mystery, suspense, and comic radio plays and shows. News and soap operas were also available.

Some OTR Radio Shows are complete series collections of famous shows. Many dates from the "Golden Age" of Radio.

The Best radio plays and programs of mystery, intrigue, Westerns, and comedy from the Golden Age of Radio.

We will be drawing from some of the greatest old-time radio libraries.

And along the way, we will share some of the history and information about the programs, cast, writers, and more.

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