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Strange Tales (Old Time Radio)

Present Tense by Suspense

Strange Tales (Old Time Radio)

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4.6700 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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This week on Strange Tales, Vincent Price stars in Present Tense, the March 3, 1957, episode of Suspense. Listen to more from Suspense https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/e55e1c7a-e213-4a20-8701-21862bdf1f8a/StrangeTales820.mp3 Download StrangeTales820 | Subscribe | Spotify | Support Strange Tales Relic Radio is funded solely by listener donations. If you would like to help support it, visit Donate.RelicRadio.com for more information. Thank you.

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Strange Tales

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RELES

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Relic Radio.com presents tales of the strange and bizarre, the weird and the wicked.

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Stories not necessarily of the supernatural, but of the unnatural.

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Join us now for Strange Tales, featuring radio drama at its most mysterious and unusual.

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Welcome back to Strange Tales. We're going to hear a story from suspense this week, but first a quick reminder, if you'd like to help support Strange Tales and all of the Relic Radio shows, you can do so by visiting donate.relicradio.com or clicking on the support link in the show notes. Your support makes Relic Radio possible and has for 18 years. Thank you, as always,

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to those who have helped out. We're going to hear from suspense this week, a CBS series that aired from

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1942 to 1962. Over 900 stories over those years. One we'll hear today features Vincent Price.

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From March 3rd, 1957, here's present tense.

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Suspense. Suspense.

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And the producer of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, the master of mystery and adventure, William and Robson.

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It is a principle of law that a man cannot be charged, convicted, and sentenced twice for the same crime.

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But there is no law in the books that says a man cannot murder his wife over and over again

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in his fantasy. For a man of sufficient imagination, repetitive oxoricide can indeed become a pleasant

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way of bringing time to a stop, as Vincent Price accomplishes it in present tense,

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a tale well calculated to keep you in...

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Suspense.

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Suspense.

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The... The Through the dim pane the cold dark land wheels away, and the hills beyond below the stars are black and sharp.

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Dead hills, dark sky, Cold steel below my feet, cold as the

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face of the officer at my side, cold as the cuffs which link my arm to his, which join us on

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