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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
04.23.1979	the glass bubble	+A young woman shuts herself in her sterile glass room and believes that it gives her special psychi...
04.18.1979	the golden girl	+A young woman from another planet in the future is sent back in time to Earth to kill a quasi-polit...
04.16.1979	ring of evil	+A young woman witnesses a murder. All she sees is the distinctive ring on the murderer's hand. Shor...
04.11.1979	the channel house	+ A young woman takes a job in a rest home to find out what happened to her father who was a residen...
04.09.1979	the permanent man	+On the planet Neptune, a scientist performs medical experiments on a human subject with terrifing r...
04.04.1979	the believers	+People seem to enter their neighbor's house but never come out. A nosy neighbor sends her son over ...
04.02.1979	voyage to intrastar	+A psychologist who visits his dead wife through his dreams is convinced that he has found a secret ...
03.28.1979	waste paper	+A lady detective investigates the murder of a cleaning woman in an office complex. She finds that t...
03.26.1979	enemy from space	+Aliens kidnap the President and send a double back to start a nuclear war. The President's daughter...
03.21.1979	masks	+A retired Hollywood producer is robbed of a silver cigarette case on a train. Trying to solve that ...
03.19.1979	the unseen watcher	+A gambler, desperate to pay off before his bookie kills him, conspires to kill his wife and torch h...
03.14.1979	the love god	+Women's Lib meets traditional values in British-occupied India. A strongly opinionated woman aliena...
03.12.1979	all the time in the world	+Program #1892. CBS net origination, WNEW, New York line feed. "All The Time In The World". Sponsore...
03.07.1979	watchers of the living	+Program #1887. CBS net origination, WNEW, New York line feed. "Watcher Of The Living". Sponsored by...
03.05.1979	the fall of gentryville	+Program #1885. CBS net origination, WNEW, New York line feed. "The Fall Of Gentryville". Sponsored ...
02.28.1979	shadows from the grave	+Program #1880. CBS net origination, WNEW, New York line feed. "Shadows From The Grave". Sponsored b...
02.26.1979	hickory dickory doom	+Program #1878. CBS net origination, WNEW, New York line feed. "Hickory, Dickory, Doom". Sponsored b...
02.21.1979	the great brain	+Program #1873. CBS net origination, WNEW, New York line feed. "The Great Brain". Sponsored by: Maxw...
02.19.1979	the shock of his life	+Program #1871. CBS net origination, WNEW, New York line feed. "The Shock Of His Life". Sponsored by...
02.14.1979	the missing day	+Program #1866. CBS net origination, WNEW, New York line feed. "The Missing Day". Sponsored by: Hick...
02.12.1979	the sinister shadow	+A meek woman recounts how she found her double in a bar and how that double rebelled against her wh...
02.07.1979	everybody does it	+Program #1859. CBS net origination, WNEW, New York line feed. "Everybody Does It". Sponsored by: *S...
02.05.1979	love after death	+ Program #1857. CBS net origination, WNEW, New York line feed. "Love After Death". Sponsored by: Ma...
01.26.1979	the dominant personality	+A waitress from the city marries a loner who lives in a cabin in the wilderness. When murders start...
01.24.1979	the burning bough	+An ancient myth comes alive for a woman who believes a log she saved from a fireplace keeps her son...

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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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