An anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program, many scripts were adaptations of literary classics by well-known authors. Classic authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, and Charles Dickens all had stories adapted for the series, while contemporary authors such as Roald Dahl and Gore Vidal also contributed.
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 0 | Goodbye New York | 1949-03-01 | 25 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | Revenge | 1949-03-01 | 25 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | Suspicion | 1949-03-15 | 25 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | Cabin B-13 | 1949-03-29 | 25 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | The Man Upstairs | 1949-04-05 | 25 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | After Dinner Story | 1949-04-12 | 25 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | The Creeper | 1949-04-19 | 25 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | A Night at the Inn | 1949-04-26 | 25 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | Dead Ernest | 1949-05-03 | 25 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | Post Mortem | 1949-05-10 | 25 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 10 | The Monkey's Paw | 1949-05-17 | 25 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 11 | Murder Through the Looking Glass | 1949-05-24 | 25 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 12 | The Door's on the 13th Floor | 1949-05-31 | 25 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 13 | The Yellow Scarf | 1949-06-07 | 25 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 14 | Help Wanted | 1949-06-14 | 25 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 15 | Stolen Empire | 1949-06-21 | 25 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 16 | The Hands of Mr. Ottermole | 1949-06-28 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 1 | Lunch Box | 1949-09-06 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 2 | Collector's Item | 1949-09-13 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 3 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | 1949-09-20 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 4 | The Comic Strip Murder | 1949-09-27 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 5 | Doctor Violet | 1949-10-04 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 6 | The Cask of Amontillado | 1949-10-11 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 7 | The Serpent Ring | 1949-10-18 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 8 | The Murderer | 1949-10-25 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 9 | Black Passage | 1949-11-01 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 10 | Suspicion | 1949-11-08 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 11 | The Thin Edge of Violence | 1949-11-15 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 12 | The Third One | 1949-11-22 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 13 | The Man in the House | 1949-11-29 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 14 | The Scar | 1949-12-06 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 15 | The Gray Helmet | 1949-12-13 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 16 | The Seeker and the Sought | 1949-12-20 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 17 | The Case of Lady Sannox | 1949-12-27 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 18 | Morning Boat to Africa | 1950-01-03 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 19 | The Bomber Command | 1950-01-10 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 20 | Summer Storm | 1950-01-17 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 21 | The Horizontal Man | 1950-01-24 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 22 | The Distant Island | 1950-01-31 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 23 | Escape This Night | 1950-02-07 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 24 | The Suicide Club | 1950-02-14 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 25 | Roman Holiday | 1950-02-21 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 26 | The Man Who Talked in His Sleep | 1950-02-28 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 27 | The Ledge | 1950-03-07 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 28 | The Parcel | 1950-03-14 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 29 | The Old Man's Badge | 1950-03-21 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 30 | The Second Class Passenger | 1950-03-28 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 31 | 1000 to One | 1950-04-04 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 32 | Steely, Steely Eyes | 1950-04-11 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 33 | Murder at the Mardi Gras | 1950-04-18 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 34 | The Gentleman From America | 1950-04-25 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 35 | Death of a Dummy | 1950-05-02 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 36 | Red Wine | 1950-05-09 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 37 | One and One's a Lonesome | 1950-05-16 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 38 | Photo Finish | 1950-05-23 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 39 | Listen, Listen | 1950-05-30 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 40 | Black Bronze | 1950-06-06 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 41 | I'm No Hero | 1950-06-20 | 25 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 42 | Wisteria Cottage | 1950-06-27 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 1 | Poison | 1950-08-29 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 2 | A Pocketful of Murder | 1950-09-05 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 3 | Edge of Panic | 1950-09-12 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 4 | Dark Shadows | 1950-09-19 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 5 | Six to One | 1950-09-26 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 6 | The Monkey's Paw | 1950-10-03 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 7 | Criminal's Mark | 1950-10-10 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 8 | The Man Who Would Be King | 1950-10-17 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 9 | Breakdown | 1950-10-24 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 10 | Halloween Hold Up | 1950-10-31 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 11 | Nightmare | 1950-11-07 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 12 | The Brush Off | 1950-11-14 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 13 | The Death Cards | 1950-11-21 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 14 | The Hands of Mr. Ottermole | 1950-11-28 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 15 | The Guy From Nowhere | 1950-12-05 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 16 | The Mallet | 1950-12-12 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 17 | Dancing Dan's Christmas | 1950-12-19 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 18 | The Tip | 1950-12-26 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 19 | Death in a River | 1951-01-02 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 20 | Tough Cop | 1951-01-09 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 21 | The Fool's Heart | 1951-01-16 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 22 | Dead Fall | 1951-01-23 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 23 | The Rose Garden | 1951-01-30 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 24 | Night Break | 1951-02-06 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 25 | Double Entry | 1951-02-13 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 26 | The Victims | 1951-02-20 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 27 | Margin For Safety | 1951-02-27 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 28 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | 1951-03-06 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 29 | On a Country Road | 1951-03-13 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 30 | Telephone Call | 1951-03-20 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 31 | The Three of Silence | 1951-03-27 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 32 | Go Home Dead Man | 1951-04-03 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 33 | The Foggy Night Visitor | 1951-04-10 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 34 | The Juice Man | 1951-04-17 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 35 | The Meeting | 1951-04-24 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 36 | No Friend Like an Old Friend | 1951-05-01 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 37 | Murder in the Ring | 1951-05-08 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 38 | Too Hot to Live | 1951-05-15 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 39 | Escape This Night | 1951-05-22 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 40 | Vamp Till Dead | 1951-05-29 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 41 | The Call | 1951-06-05 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 42 | De Mortuis | 1951-06-12 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 43 | A Killing in Abilene | 1951-06-19 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 44 | The Greatest Crime | 1951-06-26 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 45 | Blood on the Trumpet | 1951-07-03 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 46 | Tent on the Beach | 1951-07-10 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 47 | Wisteria Cottage | 1951-07-17 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 48 | The Incident at Story Point | 1951-07-24 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 49 | A Vision of Death | 1951-07-31 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 50 | Killers of the City | 1951-08-07 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 51 | Death Sabre | 1951-08-14 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 52 | This is Your Confession (1) | 1951-08-21 | 25 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 53 | This is Your Confession (2) | 1951-08-28 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 1 | This Way Out | 1951-09-04 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 2 | Strange For a Killer | 1951-09-11 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 3 | Merryman's Murder | 1951-09-18 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 4 | Doctor Anonymous | 1951-09-25 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 5 | Journey to Nowhere | 1951-10-02 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 6 | High Street | 1951-10-09 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 7 | The Fifth Dummy | 1951-10-16 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 8 | The Train from Czechoslovakia | 1951-10-23 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 9 | Court Day | 1951-10-30 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 10 | Moonfleet (1) | 1951-11-06 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 11 | Moonfleet (2) | 1951-11-13 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 12 | Frisco Payoff | 1951-11-20 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 13 | Mikki Knows | 1951-11-27 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 14 | The Far-Off House | 1951-12-04 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 15 | Mediation in Mexico | 1951-12-11 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 16 | Pier 17 | 1951-12-18 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 17 | The Lonely Place | 1951-12-25 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 18 | Routine Patrol | 1952-01-01 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 19 | Flare Week | 1952-01-08 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 20 | The Spider | 1952-01-15 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 21 | The Red Signal | 1952-01-22 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 22 | Death Drum | 1952-01-29 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 23 | Betrayal in Vienna | 1952-02-05 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 24 | North of Shanghai | 1952-02-12 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 25 | Summer Night | 1952-02-19 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 26 | Night Drive | 1952-02-26 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 27 | Day of Infamy | 1952-03-04 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 28 | Four Days to Kill | 1952-03-11 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 29 | The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1) | 1952-03-18 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 30 | The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2) | 1952-03-25 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 31 | Black Panther | 1952-04-08 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 32 | Night of Evil | 1952-04-15 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 33 | Alibi Me | 1952-04-22 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 34 | The Purloined Letter | 1952-04-29 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 35 | The Corsage | 1952-05-06 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 36 | Fingers of Fear | 1952-05-13 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 37 | Hunted Down | 1952-05-20 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 38 | The Debt | 1952-05-27 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 39 | Murder of Necessity | 1952-06-03 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 40 | House of Masks | 1952-06-10 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 41 | Phantom of the Riviera | 1952-06-17 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 42 | Night of Reckoning | 1952-06-24 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 43 | Fifty Beautiful Girls | 1952-07-01 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 44 | For the Love of Randi | 1952-07-15 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 45 | The Crooked Frame | 1952-07-29 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 46 | Death Cargo | 1952-08-05 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 47 | Remember Me | 1952-08-12 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 48 | Her Last Adventure | 1952-08-19 | 25 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 49 | Woman in Love | 1952-08-26 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 1 | The Old Lady of Bayeux | 1952-09-02 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 2 | Always Trust a Cop | 1952-09-09 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 3 | The Return of Dr. Bourdette | 1952-09-16 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 4 | Set-Up For Death | 1952-09-23 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 5 | The Beach of Falesa | 1952-09-30 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 6 | The Man in the Mirror | 1952-10-07 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 7 | Blue Panther | 1952-10-14 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 8 | The Man Who Had Seven Hours | 1952-10-21 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 9 | All Hallow's Eve | 1952-10-28 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 10 | The Moving Target | 1952-11-11 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 11 | Monsieur Vidocq | 1952-11-18 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 12 | The Whispering Killer | 1952-11-25 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 13 | A Time of Innocence | 1952-12-02 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 14 | The Girl Who Saw Tomorrow | 1952-12-09 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 15 | The Tortured Hand | 1952-12-16 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 16 | The Deadly Lamb | 1952-12-23 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 17 | The Invisible Killer | 1952-12-31 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 18 | Little Camorra | 1953-01-06 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 19 | Mr. Matches | 1953-01-13 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 20 | Vacancy for Death | 1953-01-20 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 21 | Career | 1953-01-27 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 22 | Mutiny Below | 1953-02-03 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 23 | A Study in Stone | 1953-02-10 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 24 | The Quarry | 1953-02-17 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 25 | They Haven't Killed Me Yet | 1953-02-24 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 26 | The Kiss Off | 1953-03-03 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 27 | The Legend of Lizzie | 1953-03-10 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 28 | The Black Prophet | 1953-03-17 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 29 | Portrait of Constance | 1953-03-24 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 30 | Death in the Cave | 1953-03-31 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 31 | Kiss Me Again, Stranger | 1953-04-14 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 32 | The Duel | 1953-04-21 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 33 | F.O.B. Vienna | 1953-04-28 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 34 | The Suitor | 1953-05-05 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 35 | Death of an Editor | 1953-05-12 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 36 | Come into My Parlor | 1953-05-19 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 37 | The Adventure of the Black Baronet | 1953-05-26 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 38 | The Queen's Ring | 1953-06-02 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 39 | The Man Who Cried Wolf | 1953-06-09 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 40 | See No Evil | 1953-06-16 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 41 | The Signal Man | 1953-06-23 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 42 | The Fury of Senorita Gomez | 1953-06-30 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 43 | The Mascot | 1953-07-07 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 44 | The Dutch Schultz Story | 1953-07-14 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 45 | Pigeon in the Cage | 1953-07-21 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 46 | The Dance | 1953-07-28 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 47 | Vial of Death | 1953-08-04 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 48 | Point Blank | 1953-08-11 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 49 | Nightmare at Ground Zero | 1953-08-18 | 25 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 50 | Death in Passing | 1953-08-25 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 1 | Paradise Junction | 1953-09-01 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 2 | Reign of Terror | 1953-09-08 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 3 | The Darkest Night | 1953-09-15 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 4 | The Riddle of Mayerling | 1953-09-22 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 5 | The Sisters | 1953-09-29 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 6 | Death at Skirkerud Pond | 1953-10-06 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 7 | The Accounting | 1953-10-13 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 8 | The Valley of the Kings | 1953-10-20 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 9 | The Others | 1953-10-27 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 10 | The Interruption | 1953-11-03 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 11 | Needle in a Haystack | 1953-11-10 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 12 | The Newcomer | 1953-11-17 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 13 | My Short Walk to Freedom | 1953-11-24 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 14 | Laugh It Off | 1953-12-01 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 15 | Day Never Came | 1953-12-08 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 16 | Cagliostro and the Chess Player | 1953-12-15 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 17 | The Gift of Fear | 1953-12-22 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 18 | Mr. Nobody | 1953-12-29 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 19 | Diamonds in the Sky | 1954-01-05 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 20 | The Scrap Iron Curtain | 1954-01-12 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 21 | The Haunted | 1954-01-19 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 22 | An Affair With a Ghost | 1954-01-26 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 23 | The Man Who Wouldn't Talk | 1954-02-02 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 24 | The Moonstone | 1954-02-09 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 25 | The Execution | 1954-02-16 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 26 | Death on the Screen | 1954-02-23 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 27 | I Do Solemnly Swear | 1954-03-02 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 28 | Before the Act | 1954-03-09 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 29 | The Fourth Degree | 1954-03-16 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 30 | The Tenth Reunion | 1954-03-23 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 31 | Torment | 1954-03-30 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 32 | Operation: Barracuda | 1954-04-13 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 33 | The Return Journey | 1954-04-20 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 34 | The Terror Begins | 1954-04-27 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 35 | Smoke | 1954-05-04 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 36 | Operation: Nightmare | 1954-05-11 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 37 | Breakout | 1954-05-18 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 38 | Fingerprint | 1954-05-25 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 39 | Race Against Murder | 1954-06-01 | 25 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 40 | North Side | 1954-06-08 | 25 min |
