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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
03.15.1982	the face of the waters	+A lurid tale that takes place at the turn of the century in Louisiana. An uncle is strongly attract...
03.17.1982	tippecanoe and tyler too	+A 60 plus year old furniture maker decides to marry his 30 year old secretary -- much to the conste...
03.19.1982	the magic stick of manitu	+An interstellar diplomat travels to a remote planet with her boss to establish relations with a peo...
03.22.1982	the tool shed	+A reporter for the London Times travels to a writer's farm to do a story on him and his works regar...
03.24.1982	the old country	+A strategic planner travels to Russia to work for his firm's Russian office. He lapses into the pas...
03.26.1982	in the cards	+The story of the Empress Josephine, her obsession with fortune telling through tarot cards, and her...
03.29.1982	on the night of the dead	+Women of a village stricken with disease and famine think they have found a savior in a man who cla...
03.31.1982	i am the killer	+In a 19th century hospital, the head of obstetrics tries to find out why a high number of women die...
04.02.1982	the naval treaty	+Program #2775. "The Naval Treaty". Participating sponsors. A Sherlock Holmes story, rebroadcast Ju...
04.05.1982	widow wonderland	+A cad makes a living off of meeting women in the cemetary when they are visiting the graves of thei...
04.07.1982	only a woman	+A woman who claims to be the daughter of the goddess Dagon recounts for her biographer how she brou...
04.09.1982	you tell me your dream	+Ed Larsen has been having a recurring dream in which he is viciously attacked in his favorite bar b...
04.12.1982	his fourth wife	+A painter is commissioned to paint a portrait of the prospective bride of the notorious King Henry ...
04.14.1982	the visions of sir philip sidney	+In 19th century London, a Zulu War veteran is plagued by visions of people on a train who no one el...
04.16.1982	something to live for	+A retired cop stops an immigrant shop owner from killing himself, then helps him nail the gangsters...
04.19.1982	shelter	+A man, his wife, her lover, and the couple next door are forced into a bomb shelter when world even...
04.21.1982	the jataka	+A young college professor is invited to her mentor's mansion to study with him. When she gets there...
04.23.1982	the whimpering pond	+A novelist visiting some old friends at a country estate witnesses the figure of what appears to be...
04.26.1982	the hanging sheriff	+A sheriff has problems imposing the death penalty when he is asked to carry out a hanging. When his...
04.28.1982	the ghost of andersonville	+A prisoner, recently released from the Confederacy's most infamous prison camp, is asked to meet a ...
04.30.1982	the last duel	+A Lieutenant challenges a subordinate to a duel when he catches him playing cards. Many years pass ...
05.03.1982	guilty as charged	+A hardware salesman is charged with a series of robberies and kidnappings he did not commit. The su...
05.05.1982	dreamers and killers	+A woman scorned has nightmares of killing her former beau in various ways. She is troubled when her...
05.07.1982	the wedding present	+In a Balkan country circa 1912, a good-natured professional swindler teams up with an unlikely fema...
05.10.1982	tourist trap	+A stressed-out couple get in an auto accident while getting off the interstate. Thinking it's not v...

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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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