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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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Please enjoy these 1398 old time radio episodes:

Air Date	Title	Synopsis
01.10.1980	the last days of pompeii danger love and death ep04of05	+The lion refuses to attack Marcus, The Egyptian priest kidnaps Orianna after eluding justice. Mount...
01.09.1980	the last days of pompeii half prophet half friend ep03of05	+Lydia and Orianna scheme to get Marcus released from prison. The Priest of Isis schemes to keep him...
01.08.1980	the last days of pompeii thrown to the lions ep02of05	+Pompeii is hit by an earthquake. Julia conspires with a priest of Isis to put a love spell on Marcu...
01.07.1980	the last days of pompeii city of the dead ep01of05	+Marcus moves to Pompeii, meets a ship owner, saves a slave girl named Lydia, and falls in love with...
01.02.1980	revenge is not sweet	+A wealthy man dies of apparent natural causes. But a detective suspects that one or both of his chi...
12.31.1979	the one thousand pound gorilla	+While attending a golf outing, a man learns that his wife was married before from her ex-husband. W...
12.27.1979	between these worlds	+A space pilot on a planet three galaxies away is dispatched to Earth to scout it out for potential ...
12.25.1979	death is a woman	+A man invites three old friends to visit him at his seaside estate. He tells them of a painting of ...
12.19.1979	shadow of a lover	+A woman, entranced by hokey romance films, confuses fantasy and reality. She asks an actor on a cop...
12.17.1979	beyond belief	+A young woman wandering New York City with no memory is taken in by a couple who own a small shop. ...
12.12.1979	the movie makers	+A mysterious company claims to have films of a man's entire life. Curiosity gives way to obsession ...
12.10.1979	if a body	+Set in the 1800's, a woman claims her husband walked into a field and vanished right in front of he...
12.05.1979	appointment at sarajevo	+A doctor narrates the story of Archduke Ferdinand, his lover, and the events leading up to the assa...
12.03.1979	spectre bridegroom	+A young bride is widowed on the eve of her marriage. However, the bridegroom still appears nightly ...
11.28.1979	the philosophers stone	+A man walks into a bank and asked for a $100 loan and puts down a philosopher's stone for collatera...
11.26.1979	strange new tomorrow	+In a distant future, after the second Hundred Years War, mankind is afflicted with diseases caused ...
11.21.1979	by word of mouth	+A young doctor treats the princess of a primitive tribe in India -- making her an outcast for havin...
11.19.1979	the god that failed	+A U.S. senator is dispatched to visit a small, third world country on a diplomatic mission. After v...
11.14.1979	the nine hundred ninety nine thousand dollar error	+A computer error allows a crooked lawyer in Manilla to reap a $999,000 windfall. When the bank pres...
11.12.1979	house without mirrors	+An eccentric old man has a strange fear of mirrors and will allow none in his house. He is convince...
11.07.1979	davey jerrolds jacket	+In 1803, a dumb general deeds the entire western United States to an obscure Indian tribe. One hund...
11.05.1979	the terrorist	+An elderly lady author, her niece, and her publisher's nephew are held captive in the author's secl...
10.31.1979	who has seen the wind	+A claustrophobic woman is trapped in her apartment and calls a friend to plead with her to let her ...
10.29.1979	the alien guest	+An aristocrat kills his cousin in a duel to possess his estate, wealth, and woman. On his deathbed,...
10.24.1979	dangerous memory	+A few years after the war has ended, a Vietnam veteran, teetering on the edge of sanity, is sure he...

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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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