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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
06.09.1978	a long way from home	+Two buddies from Ohio enlist in the Union Army during the Civil War. They agree to stay together an...
06.08.1978	death spell	+An out-of-work artist and his out-of-work actress wife move into the home of a wealthy friend who i...
06.06.1978	miracle in sharon city	+A mayor recruits a major chemical manufacturer to build a new plant in a small town and is hailed a...
06.05.1978	the undying heart	+ WOR, New York. Sponsored by: The Provident Bank, The State Of New Jersey, The Meadowlands. The Fir...
06.02.1978	diamond cut diamond	+While on holiday in Monte Carlo, a wealthy man is swindled by a man who claims to be a psychic.
06.01.1978	the silent woman	+After a woman is forced to marry a man befitting her social position, she falls into a 27 year sile...
05.30.1978	the bittersweet honeymoon	+A newly-wed couple thinks themselves lucky when a cruise line screw-up puts them in a luxury suite ...
05.29.1978	the rich ostrich	+An amusing and intriguing farce about a circus ostrich that snatches and swallows a valuable diamon...
05.26.1978	arctic encounter	+American and Russian cold war planes crash in the arctic circle after encountering an energy draini...
05.25.1978	the spy and the traitor	+A fictionalized account of Benedict Arnold's betrayal of West Point to the British.
05.23.1978	window to oblivion	+A World War II pilot disappears while on routine patrol over the Bermuda Triangle. Thirty years lat...
05.22.1978	the girl he left behind	+Under pressure from her mother, a young girl turns down a proposal from her boyfriend who is on lea...
05.19.1978	the hundred dollar difference	+A no-good gambler conspires with his girlfriend to murder his rich aunt to inherit her money. When ...
05.18.1978	time out of mind	+A college student is in a car accident. While unconscious, he travels back in time and takes the pl...
05.16.1978	girl talk	+Two women who were friends in school meet after not seeing each other for several years. One is a h...
05.15.1978	edmund orme	+A young man is thwarted by a ghost every time he starts to propose to the woman he loves. The woman...
05.12.1978	the secret of the shen si	+A college professor becomes worried when his wife can recite unaccountably a first hand account of ...
05.11.1978	the guilt of the innocent	+A young and poor Russian falls under the influence of a master thief who works a seaport.
05.09.1978	room 418	+A handsome man charms his way into a full hotel. The girl behind the desk lets him stay in a room w...
05.08.1978	death and desire	+Two ex-circus performers go into business as fake mediums but problems arise when the Ghost dies.
05.05.1978	cool killer carl	+A cold-hearted killer takes a family hostage while hiding from the cops. He is befriended by the mo...
05.04.1978	journey to somewhere	+A train full of lost souls carries passengers through snow to a small town that each one of them is...
05.02.1978	the figure in the moonlight	+A strange engraving of a house reveals a figure acting out a long forgotten crime. When the couple ...
05.01.1978	a drink with dionysius	+A petty thief and con artist accidentally acquires a nuclear warhead named for the ancient God of w...
04.28.1978	the house on chimney pot lane	+A professional couple buy a haunted house where past residents have disappeared. A mysterious pictu...

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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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