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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
12.23.1975	the murder market	+ Program #718. "The Murder Market". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Listerine Lozenges, Buick. The progra...
12.24.1975	a christmas carol	+ Program #719. "A Christmas Carol". Sponsored by: Buick. The program was rebroadcast on December 2...
12.26.1975	license to kill	+ Program #721. "License To Kill". Sponsored by: Luden's Cough Drops, Buick. The program was rebroa...
12.29.1975	the memory killers	+Program #724. "The Memory Killers". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was rebroadcast on...
12.31.1975	sagamore cottage	+ Program #726. "Sagamore Cottage". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick. The program was rebro...
01.01.1976	one of the missing	+ Program #727. "One Of The Missing". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick. The program was reb...
01.02.1976	insight into murder	+ Program #728. "Insight Into Murder". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Contac, True Value Hardware....
01.05.1976	tom sawyer detective	+Program #731. "Tom Sawyer, Detective". Sponsored by: Buick. The program was rebroadcast on Novembe...
01.06.1976	is he living or is he dead	+Program #732. "Is He Living Or Is He Dead?". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Contac. The program w...
01.07.1976	the russian passport	+ Program #733. "The Russian Passport". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Budweiser, Buick. The pr...
01.08.1976	a connecticut yankee in king arthurs court	+ Program #735. "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, L...
01.09.1976	the man that corrupted hadleyburg	+ Program #735. "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick. The ...
01.10.1976	the stolen white elephant	+ Program #736. "The Stolen White Elephant". Sponsored by: Time Magazine, Buick. The program was re...
01.11.1976	the mysterious stranger	+Program #737. "The Mysterious Stranger". Sponsored by: Time Magazine, Buick. The program was rebro...
01.12.1976	what the sheperd saw	+ Program #738. "What The Shepherd Saw". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Contac. The program was re...
01.14.1976	the elixer of death	+ Program #740. "The Elixir Of Death". Sponsored by: Budweiser, True Value Hardware, Buick. The pro...
01.16.1976	the red frisbee	+While playing on an Antilles beach with his dog and a red Frisbee, Ben meets Nikki, a young girl wi...
01.19.1976	theres no business like	+ Program #745. "There's No Business Like". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Greyhound. The program ...
01.21.1976	the lady of the mist	+ Program #747. "The Lady Of The Mist". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Sine-Off, Contac, Buick,...
01.23.1976	the slick and the dead	+ Program #749. "The Slick and The Dead". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Luden's Cough Drops, B...
01.26.1976	the ferret	+ Program #752. "The Ferret". Sponsored by: Sine-Off, Buick, Allstate Insurance. The program was re...
01.28.1976	mirror mirror	+ Program #754. "Mirror, Mirror". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick, Allstate Insurance, Sin...
01.30.1976	castle kerfol	+ Program #756. "Castle Kerfol". Sponsored by: Allstate Insurance, Buick, Budweiser, True Value Har...
02.02.1976	first prize death	+ Program #759. "First Prize: Death". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Allstate Insurance, Buick, Contac. T...
02.03.1976	the dead deserve to rest	+ Program #760. "The Dead Deserve To Rest". Sponsored by: Buick, Allstate Insurance, Greyhound. The...

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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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