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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
07.31.1978	the vanishing point	+While visiting Germany, a physics professor searches for an old German physicist who was working on...
07.28.1978	double take	+Two women who seem to have written the same novel find themselves living the plot.
07.27.1978	the cabinet of the unsolved	+An amateur actor uses his skill to hustle wealthy poker players. He ends up dead on a train without...
07.25.1978	the stranger inside	+An aristocratic woman goes through a voyage of self discovery after the murder of her step-daughter...
07.24.1978	close shave	+A con artist convinces a lonely millionaire to marry the queen of a non-existent South American cou...
07.21.1978	the locked trunk	+A woman plots revenge on her sister who married the man she loves. After she gets her revenge, she ...
07.20.1978	the further you go the less you know	+A guru convinces a small time con artist that he is actually the reincarnation of Leonardo DaVinci ...
07.18.1978	the absent minded league	+A french detective is asked by Scotland yard to help in a counterfeiting case. The Character is ver...
07.17.1978	the telltale scar	+Program #1654. "The Tell-Tale Scar". Sponsored by: Buick. The program was rebroadcast on April 3, ...
07.14.1978	the hanging judge
07.13.1978	the village of fools	+Program #1650. "The Village Of Fools". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick, Freedent, Wet One...
07.11.1978	guardian angel	+Program #1648. "Guardian Angel". Sponsored by: Contac, Buick, Country Time. The program was rebroa...
07.10.1978	sound advice	+An advice columnist tells a woman to leave her husband and then finds out the woman dies the next d...
07.07.1978	the four fifteen express	+A man encounters a former acquaintance on a train. The acquaintance had reportedly absconded with 7...
07.05.1978	my kingdom for a horse	+The story of a gambler, his horse, and the conversations they have.
07.03.1978	king bank robber	+A law-abiding architect turns into a masterful bankrobber to get revenge on the justice system for ...
06.30.1978	the good times express	+A salesman's flight is diverted due to a June snow storm in Boston. He decides to hop a train and f...
06.28.1978	the quadruple	+A trapeze performer sells his soul in exchange for being able to perform the ultimate stunt.
06.26.1978	lady bluebeard	+An insurance investigator is sent to check on an attractive beneficiary of 6 elderly men, all of wh...
06.23.1978	the black door	+A young man is forced to live in an old mansion to await his inheritance when he turns 21. The key ...
06.21.1978	a matter of faith	+A man in the import business encounters a long lost love in a restaurant. He is sure he saw her exe...
06.19.1978	dr jekyll and mrs hyde	+ A sheriff is asked by a defense attorney to recount how he solved a case involving blackmail and d...
06.16.1978	the unholy miracle	+A couple finds out the daughter they adopted from Russia 20 years ago might actually be the product...
06.14.1978	charlie the actor	+A police officer is assigned to guard the king of a tiny, little-known country during the king's vi...
06.12.1978	alias mr aladdin	+An evil woman and her loser boyfriend try to figure out where the woman's dead husband kept his mon...

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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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