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Suspense was one of the best radio programs of all time, and it was simply too good not to copy. The other American networks had to create their own imitations, but the BBC was able to copy the program almost directly, changing little more than the title and the host. The result was Appointment With Fear which used the same scripts, even the same music! The British “man in black” was veteran actor Valentine Dyall who hosted 9 of the ten series. The season he missed (perhaps due to Wartime commitments) he was replaced by his father, Franklin Dyall. Click here to read more about Appointment With Fear

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Please enjoy these 2 old time radio episodes:

Air Date	Title	Synopsis	Rating
11.20.1945	and the deep shuddered
05.18.1944	the clock strikes eight

"Appointment With Fear" was the British version of the American series, "Suspense." The British were very much enamored with the Suspense series. So much so the BBC Launched their own version of Suspense on September 11th, 1943 and called it Appointment with fear, complete with the Man in Black and scripts by John Dickson Carr, but with different titles. For example, the "Suspense" program of May 11th, 1943 was a very strange Dickson Carr script called "Mr. Markham, Antique Dealer." That exact same script was later used on the BBC series, "Appointment With Fear" on April 13th, 1944, Also known as "The Speaking Clock."

Jerald