One of the most classic of old-time radio's series. Several episodes of Suspense later resurfaced again in the television era as episodes of such anthology series as Alfred Hitchcock Presents. And of course, the classic episode "The Hitchhiker" was remade as an episode of "The Twilight Zone."

Anyone know how many times "Sorry Wrong Number" was done? I've read anywhere from 3 to 7 times, but always with Agnes Moorhead.

Not sure, but aren't there two different scripts? One that's all her and the other with other players?

I've heard two versions of "Sorry," and both had other actors. I didn't realize there was a solo version. But I have seen a photo of Ms. Moorehead seated at a table with a script and microphone with a sound technician standing behind her. It may have been staged, but maybe it was one of the solo "Sorrys."

Didn't Jack Benny also appear in an episode of Suspense, or was that Escape he appeared in?

Yes, he played a bank employee who embezelled some money. I can't think of the name of the episode at the moment though.

No surprise there, given Benny's well known penny pinching persona

Edward J. Robinson also appeared in an episode of Suspense called "The Man Who Wanted To Be Edward J. Robinson." Bob Hope was a fequent guest star.

Following up on that one, and going off-topic, I always felt that it was a shame that they didn't get Henry Fonda to play the man who looked like Henry Fonda in Catch-22.

Not sure if this is the episode you're thinking of, bu Jack Benny was in the episode A Good and Faithful Servant. He was also in the episode Murder in G-Flat.

Just listened to The Waxwork last night. Not only should one listen to it with the lights on, but with your back to the wall.

I mentioned before about several Suspense episodes later becoming epiosdes on television mystery series, mostly Alfred Hitchcok Presents. One of the most notable examples of this is the Suspense radio segment "Dead Ernest" which later became one of AHP's most famous episodes "Breakdown" starring Joseph Cotten (and directed by the master himself) which Stephen King paid tribute to in a recent short story.

In the episode The Vial of Death, the situation is that a professor's car was stolen and one of the things in the car was a vial containing cholera. In the episode, it gets referred to as bacteria. Is that true, because I thought it was a virus?

from the CDC website: Cholera is an acute, diarrheal illness caused by infection of the intestine with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.

Cholera is bacterial.

In general, if you can treat it with antibiotics, it's bacterial. This is why it's useless to ask your doctor for antibiotics for the flu (influenza is viral).

In A Vision of Death, I was a bit surprised on how quickly the stage magician accepted the idea that his assistant had developed real telepathy. I've always had the impression that stage magicians were uber-skeptics who, even if they were ever given irrefutable proof of anything supernatural, would still try to debunk it.

In the Suspense version of "The Hitchhiker" which aired in September of 1942, starring Orson Welles, the opening theme music was "The Funeral March of the Marionette" - a theme which would later be associated with a certain famous suspense-oriented television series!