Stars on Suspense (Old Time Radio)

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Presenting the biggest legends of Hollywood starring in "Suspense," radio's outstanding theater of thrills! Each week, we'll hear two chillers from this old time radio classic featuring one of the all-time great stars of stage and screen.

Recent Episodes
  • Episode 408 - Lee Patrick
    Apr 10, 2025 – 01:56:38
  • Episode 407 - Berry Kroeger
    Apr 3, 2025 – 02:02:54
  • Episode 406 - Herbert Marshall (Part 9)
    Mar 27, 2025 – 02:03:23
  • BONUS - Best of William Bendix
    Mar 19, 2025 – 01:35:14
  • Episode 405 - Vanessa Brown
    Mar 13, 2025 – 01:36:41
  • Episode 404 - Torin Thatcher
    Feb 27, 2025 – 01:31:33
  • Episode 403 - Lee Bowman (Part 2)
    Feb 20, 2025 – 01:37:37
  • Encore - Best of Comedians on "Suspense"
    Jan 30, 2025 – 02:34:53
  • Episode 402 - Tony Barrett
    Jan 23, 2025 – 02:19:19
  • Episode 401 - Donald Crisp
    Jan 16, 2025 – 01:13:07
  • Episode 400 - Five Forties Favorites
    Jan 9, 2025 – 03:07:48
  • Episode 399 - Frank Lovejoy (Part 7)
    Jan 2, 2025 – 01:42:01
  • BONUS - Silver Bells, Silver Screen 2024
    Dec 24, 2024 – 01:01:06
  • BONUS - Stocking Stuffed with Suspense
    Dec 23, 2024 – 02:14:27
  • Episode 398 - Herbert Marshall (Part 8)
    Dec 22, 2024 – 01:32:48
  • Episode 397 - John Payne
    Dec 20, 2024 – 01:39:14
  • BONUS - Columbo Killers
    Dec 14, 2024 – 02:37:02
  • Episode 396 - Ruth Hussey
    Nov 25, 2024 – 01:32:06
  • Episode 395 - Eve McVeagh
    Nov 16, 2024 – 01:31:25
  • BONUS - Best of James Mason
    Nov 12, 2024 – 02:05:27
  • Episode 394 - Herbert Marshall (Part 7)
    Nov 10, 2024 – 01:36:58
  • BONUS - The Scariest Tales of "Suspense"
    Oct 30, 2024 – 02:34:48
  • BONUS - Horror Headliners
    Oct 28, 2024 – 02:29:32
  • Episode 393 - Vic Perrin
    Oct 26, 2024 – 02:00:19
  • Episode 392 - John McIntire (Part 3)
    Oct 18, 2024 – 01:35:37
  • Episode 391 - Eva Le Gallienne
    Oct 13, 2024 – 01:34:13
  • Episode 390 - June Havoc (Part 2)
    Oct 3, 2024 – 02:12:37
  • Episode 389 - Small Screen Stars
    Sep 12, 2024 – 01:25:10
  • BONUS - Holy Guest Villains, Batman!
    Sep 6, 2024 – 02:37:04
  • Episode 388 - John Dickson Carr (Part 2)
    Sep 5, 2024 – 02:07:39
  • BONUS - Singers in the Spotlight
    Aug 23, 2024 – 03:25:10
  • Episode 387 - Shirley Mitchell
    Aug 22, 2024 – 01:03:00
  • Episode 386 - John Dehner (Part 3)
    Aug 16, 2024 – 01:49:58
  • BONUS - Alfred Hitchcock (Part 7)
    Aug 14, 2024 – 39:53
  • Episode 385 - Sam Edwards
    Aug 8, 2024 – 01:36:05
  • Episode 384 - Frank Lovejoy (Part 6)
    Aug 3, 2024 – 01:53:33
  • Episode 383 - Vivi Janiss
    Jul 25, 2024 – 01:32:40
  • Episode 382 - Robert Montgomery (Part 4)
    Jul 19, 2024 – 02:09:04
  • Episode 381 - Walter Abel
    Jul 11, 2024 – 01:32:51
  • Episode 380 - Agnes Moorehead (Part 11)
    Jul 4, 2024 – 01:31:18
  • BONUS - Best of Joseph Cotten
    Jul 1, 2024 – 03:06:54
  • Episode 379 - Mark Stevens
    Jun 27, 2024 – 01:40:09
  • BONUS - Suspense Goes Sci-Fi
    Jun 24, 2024 – 03:23:31
  • Episode 378 - Helen Walker
    May 30, 2024 – 01:44:06
  • BONUS - Best of Gene Kelly
    May 28, 2024 – 01:33:05
  • Episode 377 - Richard Crenna
    May 26, 2024 – 01:35:16
  • Episode 376 - Norman Lloyd
    May 16, 2024 – 01:34:27
  • Episode 375 - Herbert Marshall (Part 6)
    May 9, 2024 – 01:32:02
  • Episode 374 - Hans Conried
    May 2, 2024 – 02:05:38
  • Episode 373 - John Lund (Part 5)
    Apr 22, 2024 – 01:58:49
Recent Reviews
  • L Goche
    Stars on Suspense Podcast
    This podcast is wonderful with fabulous stories. The host adds so much to it with his excellent curation, descriptions and background details on the actors and episodes. Please keep up the great work you bring much joy to folks with these fascinating stories!
  • MadAboutTown
    The TCM of Old Time Radio
    Interesting, informative introductions, and top notch curation! If you like Golden Age Hollywood stars, Old Time Radio, classic suspense stories, this is for you! Along with companion podcast “Down These Mean Streets,” absolutely the best place to listen to Old Time Radio. Vintage commercials are a bonus!
  • naughtynova
    A Great Service
    I listen to a lot of Radio programs from the 40’s and 50’s. Frankly it is the best era of mass entertainment that our country and even the world has known. “Stars own Suspense” does the best job of any I have heard in bringing this era to life. The information provided by the host and the radio plays themselves are great entertainment and they beat out most of the trash that is being broadcast today.
  • Mikey Likes Podcasts
    5 Stars or more
    This is a 5 Star Podcast. Listen to it
  • betterthantheboss
    Best host
    What a great job you do. Never the same without the intros!
  • Sshochet
    Favorite podcast
    I have been listening since the first year of the podcast, and along with your Mean Streets show are my favorite commuting companions. Your intros are informative and add to my appreciation for the shows. Thank you for continuing what is clearly a passion project!
  • SM Vito
    Host adds so much!
    Really missing the intros—hope your voice recovers soon!
  • Michael Paul Smith
    Perfect
    The episodes are lovingly curated, set up well (listen to the intros for context!), and then left alone, commercials and all. I wouldn’t change a thing.
  • SueJ1961
    Love how this podcast is organized
    My favorite aspect of OTR is imagining my favorite movie stars on the radio, in roles they played on screen or roles I *wish* they’d played. I was listening to Suspense eps on free apps one after the other. So the way this podcast is set up with 2 shows featuring one star is perfect for me! Dates are included and the host’s intros are fun and informative. And the sound quality is excellent! Thanks so much!
  • paintnwood
    Suspense is great, but…
    The host is insufferable, I can’t remember hearing someone love their own voice so much without any merit. Dude just drones on and on.
  • LucyGross
    Stars on Suspense
    Excellent stories and an outstanding host!
  • alinmyhead
    Need more stars
    Top tier
  • AndiMize
    Love these!
    What great fun to hear these old suspense shows!! Thankyou!
  • miamimimaude
    Too many spoilers and too much jazz.
    I generally really enjoy the actual shows and I'm grateful to the podcast maker for creating this podcast, but due to the above, I find that I fast forward until the show begins. Perhaps this could be resolved by speaking after the show, and also dropping the music, please. Thanks for good content.
  • Gbhyrfc
    Great OTR
    I am hooked on OTR and Suspense is one of my favorite shows. I appreciate the narrator’s intros to each show. Suspense featured many big stars in its day and it is great to be able to hear them all.
  • Seaquest8
    Top Tier Quality!
    Amazing host and highly curated shows with excellent audio fidelity. Not your run of the mill OTR podcast.
  • Plant-Lady
    Great “Suspense” selections
    Best sound quality of any old time radio program Podcasts I’ve listened to and I love the introduction of the radio actors and their mini biographies. Outstanding.
  • MelanieMalka
    BEST Old Time Radio Podcast!!
    This is my Favorite Podcast!! Stars on Suspense is Excellent! The host is knowledgeable and enthusiastic and presents it so well, he introduces the old Hollywood stars, he features the best episodes they starred in. He really cares to have the best episodes! The music and introduction is Very very classy, like a real theater production. I just love it and really look forward to it so so much!!
  • Mildre's Marie
    A veritable..✨
    ...Gold mine of bedtime stories. These are Hollywood’s brightest stars of their time; with superb acting, direction and production. OTR, and this podcast in particular, has helped me for years get through intractable insomnia. 🌛
  • tea_and_oranges
    Autolite spark plugs
    Polished presentation and excellent sound quality. I started listening to Suspense through an app a while back, couldn’t get enough, but so many episodes were damaged and staticky. Everything on this podcast is so clear, and it’s fun to get a little background on the stars.
  • USATAC
    Sick and tired.
    So sick and tired of all the self promoting , lame intros , Barling hosts . These are public domain shows /. Stop
  • michaels magic threadworks
    Love!
    Love Love Love these
  • layla novella
    Love these!
    Yes !
  • Beattyful
    So glad I found this podcast!!!!
    Love the selection of actors to highlight each - such legends!
  • _IzzyJ
    Yes!!!!!
    My fave of all the old time radio podcasts
  • BEEGEE00
    Fantastic show with insightful host.
    Marvelous podcast!
  • Gary zenker
    Especially well done
    While the star of the show is always the original broadcast, too many of these podcasts ruin that with the “additional narrative.” This is the exception. The narrative is well written and well spoken and thus adds to the program instead of detracting from it. Congrats! Well deserving of five stars!
  • Starstrucktimetravelingandlost
    Just the best!!!!
    I’ve always loved old time radio, and my favorite program has always been suspense; but I only ever had limited access to certain episodes and only ever was able to hear two stars, Vincent Price and Bette Davis. I hoarded their episodes for years, destroyed the cds that I saved them on listening over and over and I dreamed of finding more suspense shows to enjoy. And low and behold, the universe heard me and here is this wonderful podcast! This is an absolute joy ! I work from home and am able to work whenever I like, so I’ve had many lovely afternoons spent binge listening to this show during my coffee and rest breaks. I’ve only been listening for about a month now but I hope this show continues on for years to come! This is marvelous! Bless you for this podcast. And thank you for making my dreams come true! Vive Le Suspense!
  • Florida Steve
    The BEST
    I LOVE this podcast! The audio is very good as are the introductions. Thank you so much for keeping these alive in their entireties!
  • Ailimac
    What happened
    Where’d you go? No episodes posted in a while.
  • zombie creep 61
    Great podcast
    I’m blind I love this podcast
  • Ghoulem
    Amazing podcast with superior sound quality!
    Great theme to shows and a lot of information about the stars & episodes. The sound quality of these episodes is superior to 99% of all other OTR podcasts! His other podcast named “Down These Mean Streets” is an OTR detective series and delivers the same high quality! There is no comparison, these podcasts are the best!
  • NoMan1098
    A fabulous podcast for fans of Old Time Radio
    "Stars on Suspense" is one of the best podcasts available on iTunes. Each week the host offers two episodes (sometimes more) of the Old Time Radio program "Suspense." "Suspense" often had major Hollywood stars as cast members. The radio plays are of a consistent high quality with respect to the storyline and the acting. The host provides insight into the careers of the actors and often the authors. You will be informed as well as entertained.
  • celsaandchips
    Suspenseful!
    As a huge fan of the Golden Era of Radio, I was excited to come across this podcast! It’s always such a unique treat to hear my favorite stars in a new light!
  • LadyAmara3
    Old Time Radio
    Great Old Time Radio programs. Always interesting to hear what was happening in the world in the Golden Days of Radio.
  • David Gallaher
    Outstanding
    One of the most robust and curated Old Time Radio programs currently operating. Each episode delivers two classic episodes, usually pivoted around a specific radio star -- Jack Benny, Danny Kaye, or Anne Baxter, for instance. Beyond the outstanding performances, the host has an encylopedic knowledge of Old Time Radio, making each episode a joy to listen to.
  • awesomeness0232
    Never fails to keep me in...
    SUSPENSE! Seriously though, this show was recommended on the Attaboy Clarence podcast, another which focuses on classic radio and movies. Suspense is the most famous and exciting of the classic radio serials, and I love the focus on the old movie stars here.
  • Maythen21
    Love this Podcast
    The best of the best. Fans of horror and suspense podcasts this one is for you. Clean clear audio. Truly the cream of the crop. The acting is top notch, not just from the Star but from equally stellar supporting casts. Every episode delivers two great stories, you're unlikely to have heard before. Highly reccomended.
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