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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
10.19.1981	the equalizer	+A mercenary is hired by revolutionaries in a third world country to help organize and train an army...
10.23.1981	the most necessary evil	+A woman questions her husband's recent wealth. He refuses to reveal its source and confesses to bei...
10.26.1981	daddys girls	+When the editor fires a society page columnist, she confronts him and shoots him. Her spinster sist...
10.29.1981	in touch	+In the town of Ungerton, a medical student asks to be allowed to treat an adolescent girl who suffe...
11.02.1981	between two mirrors	+Time becomes frazzled and disjointed for a woman whose husband lies in a coma after a train acciden...
11.06.1981	the rescue	+A one-legged flight instructor and a Jewish fugitive flee Vichy France in a dilapidated airplane.
11.09.1981	golden time	+A gregarious plumber makes a house call and finds himself in a real life adventure when he is taken...
11.13.1981	the presence	+A pampered college student returns home from a sea voyage to find an unseen presence watching over ...
11.16.1981	death will not silence me	+The tragic story of Mary Todd Lincoln. Two young sons dying, a husband assassinated, delusions, and...
11.20.1981	a handful of dust	+This is the story of a curse placed upon a woman and all her descendants by a pharaoh's wife whom s...
11.23.1981	the code	+A small town sheriff calls on a carnival psychic to solve the murder of a man who was shot, stabbed...
11.27.1981	diana the huntress	+The scorned wife of a doctor who is having an affair with his nurse takes a shot at killing them bo...
11.30.1981	vanity and jane	+The resident of a sea side resort falls for the tourist that moves in next door to him. He soon fin...
12.04.1981	the dog walker murders	+A man, filled with hatred for his mother, is prophesied to meet his downfall at the hands of a woma...
12.07.1981	the white rabbit	+A British spy works with the French Underground during World War II. He tries to unite the splinter...
12.11.1981	the song of the siren	+A man missing for eight days is found in the desert weighing 125 pounds less than when he went in. ...
12.14.1981	harrys taxi and the t machine	+A down on his luck scientist creates a transmigration machine and begins to experiment with living ...
12.22.1981	invited guests	+A lonely man refuses all invitations to join others for dinner and other social engagements. A form...
12.23.1981	the head of a pin	+When a plane explodes killing 300 people, a silicon chip engineer realizes a design flaw caused the...
12.28.1981	the silver mirror	+Program #2706. "The Silver Mirror". A Sherlock Holmes story, rebroadcast March 2, 1982. Program #...
12.31.1981	too early too late	+Four friends spending a night in a remote cabin visit an old cemetary after being commanded to do s...
01.04.1982	the acquisition	+A rich financier crash lands on a remote island and finds that his financial skills are not valued....
01.08.1982	the last orbit	+An astronaut preparing for his final flight is plagued by visions of a strange woman who claims she...
01.11.1982	les miserables part i the thief and the bishop ep01of05	+Jean Valjean spends 19 years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread for his starving family. When h...
01.12.1982	les miserables part ii the lawless and the law ep02of05	+Jean Valjean improves his lot in life by becoming a factory owner. Meanwhile, he is pursued by an i...

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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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