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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
10.04.1982	the ninth commandment	+A wealthy, middle-aged woman falls for the man who attempts to burgle her home. Later, when he is a...
10.06.1982	the abraham lincoln murder trial	+Abraham Lincoln, working as a circuit lawyer, defends a young man in a murder trial. This story is ...
10.08.1982	the pale horse	+A dying man crosses over into the after-life briefly where he encounters souls who show him what it...
10.11.1982	tonys market	+In this psychological drama, a senseless shooting in a convenience store is examined by looking at ...
10.13.1982	fly swatter	+A married couple who work as pick-pockets decide to go straight and take a job as butler and maid f...
10.15.1982	the flash point	+An engineering executive is put out on the streets when his company is taken over. He is so traumat...
10.18.1982	desert maiden	+An aging advertising executive travels to the desert for inspiration in finding a name for a new pe...
10.20.1982	last days of a dictator	+Recounts the fall from grace of Benito Mussolini during World War II and his final ditch appeal to ...
10.22.1982	three fireflies in a bottle	+A man claims to have reacquainted himself with an extraterrestrial being he first befriended as a c...
10.25.1982	resident killer	+Five hundred years in the future, man has eliminated violence and violent thoughts in society. A vi...
10.27.1982	the voice that wouldnt die	+A young woman and her father move into a Scottish manor house on the moors. The woman hears a mourn...
10.29.1982	i hate harold	+An executive assistant to a diamond broker strongly dislikes the sycophantic, arrogant sales manage...
11.02.1982	the sensible thing	+A widower decides to marry his secretary and finds that she harbors a secret from her past that mak...
11.04.1982	the school mistress	+A Russian school mistress has a scandulous love affair in pre-revolutionary Moscow.
11.09.1982	portrait of the past	+A jeweler's curiosity about a mysterious coat of arms on an old piece of jewelry leads him into a m...
11.11.1982	the twelfth juror	+A wealthy woman scorned kills her married lover when he tries to end their affair. She manages to g...
11.16.1982	the magic dust	+A metalurgist researches a mysterious powder that does incredible things to metal. The secret of ho...
11.18.1982	diamond dotty	+A distraught, frightened woman arrives in a western frontier town in the 1880s confessing to the mu...
11.23.1982	the smile	+A reporter who has returned from an assignment in Tibet calls on his estranged wife when he can't e...
11.25.1982	the reigate mystery	+Program #2944. "The Reigate Mystery". Participating sponsors. A Sherlock Holmes story. Program #29...
11.30.1982	the goddess of death	+A moody painter finds the perfect model for his painting of Aphrodite. She has a profound affect on...
12.02.1982	the last plan	+An eccentric older woman acts as a mediator to a squabbling young neighbor couple, each of whom is ...
12.07.1982	the boatman and the devil	+The boatman who transports Russian exiles to Siberia tries to convince a young man to serve out his...

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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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