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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
03.20.1978	all things are possible	+An innocent man is framed and convicted of murdering a colleague at a sales convention. His faith i...
03.21.1978	the golden amulet	+An ancient Japanese ghost story involving the son of a samuri who reaps bad karma by falling in lov...
03.23.1978	the judas kiss	+A woman-hating clairvoyant observes a woman killing her boyfriend and then her husband.
03.24.1978	wise child	+A couple finds an abondoned baby at a hotel following a tremendous thunder storm and decide to adop...
03.27.1978	the pretend person	+A woman who has open heart surgery has imaginary friends that help her deal with the various crises...
03.28.1978	the ghost in the well	+The ghost of a woman who died after falling down a well tells her tale to an artist who feels stran...
03.30.1978	big city blues	+A newlywed couple is robbed in the big city and find themselves on a human interest program on tele...
03.31.1978	shark bait	+A itenerate gambler schemes to pay off his debt by enlisting his bookie's help to murder his brothe...
04.03.1978	fortunes favorite	+An elderly spinster from Maine suspects she's being conned when she is randomly selected to receive...
04.04.1978	delusion of reprieve	+A Jewish detective struggles to solve the murders of former German SS members living in the United ...
04.06.1978	a tragedy of error	+A woman abhors her abusive husband and loves her gentle, but weak, boyfriend. She enlists the help ...
04.07.1978	the parasite	+A skeptical professor soon develops a strong belief in the power of hypnotism. He thinks the hypnot...
04.10.1978	childish laughter	+After wrecking his car to avoid hitting a little girl, a scientist is stranded at a remote home. He...
04.11.1978	blackmail	+A Hollywood starlet is blackmailed with a photo of her in the arms of a known gangster. She looks f...
04.13.1978	the shriek of the mandrake	+A movie being filmed in an old manor house is disrupted when a ghost preys on the leading men
04.14.1978	chapter of errors	+A valuable Picasso is stolen from a small-time art dealer. He places an ad asking the thief to retu...
04.17.1978	murder at troytes hill	+A lady detective in Victorian England joins a Scotland Yard detective to investigate the murder of ...
04.18.1978	uncle louis	+A police detective tries to bring down a mobster. In the process, he falls in love with a witness. ...
04.20.1978	the avocado jungle	+A writer assists an aging actess in writing her autobiography. In the process, the actress divulges...
04.21.1978	bet with the angels	+A mild-mannered advertising executive starts getting gambling tips from his dead friend who was an ...
04.24.1978	the grandee of terra loco	+A city reporter travels to a small south Texas town to do a story posthumously on the life and deat...
04.25.1978	international dateline	+A self-serving, womanizing, World War II combat pilot survivor uses up his nine lives by committing...
04.27.1978	the queen of palmyra	+A private investigator investigates a mystical woman who claims to be a prophet and the reincarnati...
04.28.1978	the house on chimney pot lane	+A professional couple buy a haunted house where past residents have disappeared. A mysterious pictu...
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...

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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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