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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
09.27.1982	roll call of the dead	+ In 1888, Clark and Jimmy, two East Coast college students, set out to discover the Wild West with ...
09.24.1982	the force of evil	+A young woman is spurnned by her lover who elects to marry another, more intellectual woman. She us...
09.22.1982	pursuit of a dream	+The story of Madam Marie Currie and the discovery of radiation in Radium.
09.20.1982	the way station	+In 18th century Europe, a pair of twins overhear their gravedigger father, who lost his wife to the...
09.16.1982	two sisters	+A pair of twin sisters, one popular with men and one not, vie for the affections of a doctor. Compl...
09.14.1982	the forbidden house	+An old circus performer shows up on the doorstep of a young couple who have just purchased an old h...
09.09.1982	the riddle	+A young couple purchase an old camera and a bundle of letters from an estate sale. The pictures the...
09.07.1982	scenes from a murder	+A down on his luck music teacher turns to murder to solve his financial woes.
09.02.1982	the rim of eternity	+A down-on-his luck journalist working at a disreputable community paper tries to work his way back ...
08.31.1982	how do you like those apples	+A cheating husband encounters a fortune teller during one of his extra-marital affairs. She shows h...
08.26.1982	barn burner	+A pair of race horse owners try to pull off a swindle by substituting ringers for their horses. Nat...
08.24.1982	funeral without a corpse	+A district attorney aspiring to be a U.S. Senator is blackmailed by a man who threatens to reveal a...
08.19.1982	eleanora	+On opening night, an actress, playing the part of Shakespeare's Juliet, reminisces about her tragic...
08.17.1982	famous last words	+A young professional woman reports that she has found a dead body outside of a warehouse. When the ...
08.12.1982	the man with the xray eyes	+A prosecutor with big political aspirations brings in a psychic to assist with the investigation --...
08.10.1982	a pair of green eyes	+When an archeologist dies in a remote country, a mystery involving murder and jewel smuggling ensue...
08.05.1982	murder by decree	+The story of King Henry VIII's unfortunate second wife is told from the time she gives birth to her...
08.03.1982	redhead	+A bus driver feels guilty about the murder of a young woman whom he let out at the wrong stop. So h...
07.29.1982	mind over mind	+A young bank teller is questioned about her role in a bank robbery. She has no memory of participat...
07.27.1982	adolph and eva	+The story of Adolph Hitler and Eva Braun in their final days, as told by Braun.
07.22.1982	yearbook	+A lonely reclusive widow thinks she sees a man stash a body inside a car trunk and looks to her hig...
07.20.1982	formula z the protector	+In order to fingerprint suspects and criminals in murder investigations, an ink pad is required. Bu...
07.16.1982	the great catherine	+A German born Czarina of Russia tries to solidify Russia's place among the powers of Europe by mode...
07.14.1982	the innocent murderer	+ The story of Lincoln assassination conspirator John Surratt as he flees from Canada to Liverpool, ...
07.12.1982	the hand of amnesia	+A young short-order cook marries a wealthy widow but keeps his girlfriend on the side. When his wif...

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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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