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Many may remember E.G. Marshall (later Tammy Grimes) introducing this relatively modern CBS radio show . The brainchild of Himan Brown (who guided Inner Sanctum), CBS in allowed Mr. Brown to relive the days of thrilling radio for an hour a full seven nights a week! The late E.G. Marshall hosted the program every year but the final one, when actress Tammy Grimes took over.

The mixed cast of television and radio stars offer a range of stories from the pens of the great writers, as well as offering new tales of mystery and imagination. Rarely performed tales by Mark Twain and O. Henry and classic radio tales by Edgar Allen Poe were featured.

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Air Date	Title	Synopsis
05.22.1981	the headhunters	+In the year 2100, computers are used to reprogram criminals to make them good citizens. However, a ...
05.25.1981	the innocent face	+A plain innocent looking honest Arkansas farm girl moves to California and falls hard for a gambler...
05.27.1981	little richard	+Determined to reform after his prison sentence for check forging, a young man discovers that the wh...
05.29.1981	out of the past	+An artist hired to do sketches for a television station at a trial believes he recognizes one of th...
06.01.1981	the runaway general	+Recounts the story of the only POW to escape from German POW camps in both World Wars. The story is...
06.03.1981	the cats paw	+Spy story in which a spy poses as a scientist from the Los Alamos atomic facility to serve as a dec...
06.05.1981	matched pair for murder	+A judge's judgement is affected by a murder defendent's girlfriend who pleads on her boyfriend's be...
06.08.1981	stranded	+Two astronauts exploring a neighboring solar system are struck by a asteroid and forced to land on ...
06.10.1981	second look at murder	+A Boston journalist with unusual motives reconstructs the events surrounding Lizzie Borden and the ...
06.12.1981	when in rome	+A wealthy man accepts an ambassadorship to a small, European country because his wife wants it. Whi...
06.15.1981	twos a crowd	+A small time swindler randomly meets his identical twin from whom he was separated at birth. He imm...
06.17.1981	the final step	+A holocaust survivor, determined to avenge the deaths of her family, stalks a man she is sure is th...
06.19.1981	henriettas revenge	+A swindler needs to marry a rich woman in 31 days to avoid creditors. He seduces a powerful female ...
06.29.1981	waking and sleeping	+Character finds himself with everything he ever wanted. But there is still something missing from h...
07.01.1981	the fourth bullet	+Selected from the memoirs of famous composer Hector Bellios. He develops and carries out a bizarre ...
07.03.1981	a second chance	+A man has a heart attack and when he wakes up ...
07.06.1981	my good name	+An artist gives up his art to pursue wealth as a dress designer. When he ends up dead at the hands ...
07.08.1981	death and the dreamer	+ An Italian revolutionary, Giuseppe Garibaldi, searches for his lost youth while living in America....
07.10.1981	a man of honor	+A college professor, who is about to receive an major book award, is suddenly overcome with forgetf...
07.13.1981	the good sheperds	+Priests, pastors and doctors work with the French Underground to hide Jewish Children in France who...
07.15.1981	a l i c e	+The Defense Department's artificial intelligent computer wants to become a woman because it has dev...
07.17.1981	pie in the sky	+A pipe tobacco mix-up results in strange time shifts and gives a young man the ability to see into ...
07.20.1981	the eye of the idol	+A compulsive gambler loses his fortune and his girlfriend when he hits a bad losing streak. A guard...
07.22.1981	toy death	+A woman has a childish and strange obsession with dolls, just like her late mother. Her boyfriend a...
07.24.1981	once a thief	+A detective arrests a young punk for ripping off an electronics store. The punk's father is wealthy...

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There is a really good Christmas episode of The Saint.

Keith

Great series - I remember listening to this show as a teenager -- scared the pants off me back then.

Ralph

I loved listening to CBS mystery theater when I was a kid!

Darrell

I love this series.

Bruce

Have most of them on my iPod great series

Brett

Listened to CBS radio mystery theatre for the first time last night on youtube. Quite enjoyable. I imagine the show I listened to, The Time Box, must have been a departure from the norm given the horror ambiance of the presentation. I was expecting everyone to die in the end, but instead it turned out a romance.

Daniel

Spent 8 years listening to CBSRMT when it was originally on in the 70s. My favorite episode is from the second month February 1974...A Choice of Witnesses. Other favorites include the Sherlock Holmes and Edgar Allan Poe week long series that they did

Eric

Too many episodes should have been called The CBS Supernatural Theater. Never cared for those. Just give me mystery and detective shows, thanks.

Dan

I love CBS Radio Mystery Theater. There's some ghoulish ones and romantic ones, supernaturally-tainted ones. I like the one where the guy starts off being killed in battle then wakes up in his bedroom as a kid with his father waking him up for school. No giveaways - that's just how it begins. Keep exploring the episodes ( so many!) - you'll find something entertaining without a doubt!

Laura

Haha they did that one did they? That one was done both in dimention X and X minus 1 I think.

Dan

CBS Radio mystery is how I got started with OTR. I first heard it about 40 years ago when I was a teenager back in the 70s. Then when I was an adult living in my own apartment with no TV in the mid 80s, I was able to find what I thought was the same as what I had heard in the 70s. What I ended up listening to was OTR being put on ever night at 9 pm and 2 am on KNX radio in Los Angeles. For probably 10 years or more, I had been trying to find the original episode (I didn't knot it was CBS radio) I had first heard back in the 70s. I thought it was Suspense or Lights Out. Somehow I found out that it was CBS Radio from the 70s and not OTR from the 40s. I was finally able to find the original episode called Age Cannot Wither Her. This got me started wtih OTR and Mildred Pierce got me started with film noir. I love old movies, old radio and old TV shows.

Del

Many OTR (Old Time Radio) collectors call this NTR (New Time Radio) program the Son of Inner Sanctum. It was an ambitious attempt to bring back drama to modern radio listeners. It was broadcast on CBS from January 6, 1974 and ran seven days a week until December 31, 1982. We had this listed before, and because so many folk asked, here it is again.

CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER

The theme music (or at least the one I remember) was composed by Nathan Van Cleave for The Twilight Zone episode "Two," which starred Elizabeth Montgomery and Charles Bronson. The Twilight Zone was owned and broadcast by CBS.

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