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When William Bendix visited Suspense, it was anything but a \\u201crevoltin\\u2019 development.\\u201d Best known as bumbling sitcom patriarch Chester A. Riley in The Life of Riley, Bendix could show off the dramatic chops he displayed on the big screen when he appeared on \\u201cradio\\u2019s outstanding theater of thrills.\\u201d We\\u2019ll hear him as a job seeker who finds more than he bargained for in \\u201cThree Faces at Midnight\\u201d (originally aired on CBS on February 27, 1947) and as a safecracker trying to keep his son from a career in crime in \\u201cThe Gift of Jumbo Brannigan\\u201d (originally aired on CBS on March 1, 1951).