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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
08.07.1978	the sixth commandment	+An older brother covets his younger brother's wife as they all try to co-exist on a failing family ...
08.09.1978	the versegy case	+A detective suspects that a mentally unstable college professor may have robbed his own safe. Set i...
08.11.1978	doctor eduardo	+A Mexican doctor moves to a tiny fishing village and is welcomed by the community. The mayor's son ...
08.14.1978	the black sheep and the captain	+A young man's long, lost uncle summons him to his house in the moors to help protect him from an ol...
08.16.1978	raptures of the deep	+A Greek diver searching for a sunken Spanish galleon and its lost treasure stumbles into the lost k...
08.18.1978	our own jailer	+An unhappy capitalist finds himself in the magical commune of Xanadu where he is allowed to indulge...
08.21.1978	cross fire	+A cab driver gets caught up in murder and intrigue when he takes a wealthy man to a burned out buil...
08.23.1978	eavesdropper	+Myrtle Chapman, married for eight years to a man who pays little attention to her but likes to read...
08.25.1978	the other soul	+While visiting Greece, a young doctor is handed a card with Greek writing on it. When he shows it t...
08.28.1978	will the real amy stand up	+A young, mentally unstable heiress must confront the fact that her live-in relatives are trying to ...
08.30.1978	the biggest fish in the world	+A farce where a woman tries to get the authorities to save her husband who has been swallowed by a ...
09.01.1978	flash point	+A photographer shooting a steel mill has an affair with the wife of a steel worker. Trouble begins ...
09.04.1978	devils gold	+A sailor receives a gold coin as a reward from a shopkeeper at the Devil's Boutique for turning in ...
09.06.1978	dead wrong	+When a new collector of souls for Heaven gets the wrong guy, he tries to put things right. But the ...
09.08.1978	ignorant armies	+An unassuming mommy's boy finds himself in a world of trouble for lies he told a young girl while h...
09.11.1978	end of a memory	+A blind man stumbles into a murder scene and barely escapes with his life. Years later, he falls in...
09.13.1978	high caqueta	+A couple travel to the Andes Mountains to search for their daugther who has disappeared while mount...
09.15.1978	the secret of crows nest	+A man returns to a mountain cabin that holds a terrible secret for him.
09.18.1978	its hard to be rich	+A wealthy writer moves into a cheap flat to write, but the piano music coming from next door drives...
09.20.1978	the beheading	+A woman by the name of Joyce is speaking to another woman about her experiences. She provides the l...
09.22.1978	the conversion factor	+A physicist needs just one thing to complete his study of a new kind of math: a conversion factor. ...
09.25.1978	a table for two	+A professional thief blackmails the maitre'd at an upscale restaurant so he can burglarize their ho...
09.27.1978	the head hunters	+Newlyweds Tim and Mary Lang return to their native Phillipine island to find that Tim's grandmother...
09.29.1978	a thousand year old story	+A millionaire is murdered aboard his yacht. The local authorities are convinced it was his personal...
10.02.1978	the forever alley	+A police detective confronts his brother-in-law about ignoring his marriage in favor of his obsessi...

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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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