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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
07.18.1979	the case of the forced divorce	+ A gentleman con man and his American police detective try to assist a British woman who is being h...
07.16.1979	the house of the dead heart	+A college student travels to Siena Italy to visit the House of the Dead Heart and view a secret, un...
07.11.1979	the fools	+A young man is forced to fend for himself in post-revolutionary Russia after his father dies. He fa...
07.09.1979	smile at a homely girl	+A businessman is married to an insanely jealous woman who is sure he is having an affair. When she ...
07.04.1979	the great white shark	+A charter boat captain takes an arrogant millionaire and his wife on a charter and promptly falls i...
07.02.1979	the rivalry	+ A Washington, D.C. detective works the murder of a lounge singer with international connections. A...
06.27.1979	the giuseppe verdi autobus	+A widow vactioning in Italy falls in love with a widower on vacation from Los Angeles. When they tr...
06.25.1979	mission from zython	+A farmer and his son, living near a military base, take a few pictures of a flying saucer landing. ...
06.20.1979	the spaces on the wall	+A private investigator is hired by an art broker to investigate the swindling of a business associa...
06.18.1979	the unquiet tomb	+An old ship's captain lives on an island with a personal assistant. Another couple joins them and t...
06.13.1979	the copenhagen connection	+A detective confronts betrayal while tracing a bogus life insurance claim through Mexico and Europe...
06.11.1979	look whos coming	+A middle-aged couple having marital problems hit a real crisis when the wife watches space aliens w...
06.06.1979	the pardon	+A man accidentally kills his mother-in-law and is sent to prison. When his wife has a horrible drea...
06.04.1979	willy and dilly	+A broker falls for a younger woman who is really working with her boyfriend to swindle him.
05.30.1979	a curious experience	+A young man enlisted in the Union Army is accused of being a spy. To escape the ultimate sanction, ...
05.28.1979	the outsider	+A man misses his stop on the train and travels to a town that is stuck in 1949 where no one can ent...
05.23.1979	dreams	+A small time gambler uses his wife's dreams to help him gamble and win. When she is hospitalized fr...
05.21.1979	help wanted	+A detective works a case involving a serial killer who stalks lonely, old women. His elderly aunt p...
05.16.1979	messenger from yesterday	+A college professor purchases a life size statue of a pharoah for his wife's birthday and places it...
05.14.1979	virtue is its own reward	+ A good angel and a succubus take earthly form to win the soul of a real estate investor and busine...
05.09.1979	the hole in the sky	+ A star pilot is forced to take a job smuggling contraband. To get to his destination on time, he m...
05.07.1979	search for eden	+A mountain climbing guide is caught in an avalanche and lands in a mystical village where nobody ha...
05.02.1979	the fabulous pillow	+A couple are in a car crash and the husband loses consciousness. He dreams of going for help and en...
04.30.1979	war of angels	+Arch-Angel Michael and Lucipher debate over where the soul of a rutheless business woman should go....
04.25.1979	letter of love letter of death	+A detective investigates the murder of a theatrical producer. While all the evidence points to a pr...

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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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