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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
03.18.1981	pretty polly	+To placate meddling coworkers, a man concocts elaborate stories of a ficticious relationship with a...
03.16.1981	maiden ladies	+A young man is murdered while helping a wealthy man change a tire on his imported automobile. When ...
03.13.1981	the heel of achilles	+A rich industrialist agrees to spend the night in a haunted house to prove to his wife and to himse...
03.11.1981	last act	+A retired lawyer and a retired detective discuss the murder of a woman in a boarding house. They fe...
03.09.1981	murder on the space shuttle	+Sherlock Holmes meets Buck Rogers (not literally) in this tale of murder aboard a space shuttle. Im...
03.06.1981	heads you love tails you die	+The young daughter of a murdered shopkeeper is adopted by a rich uncle and grows up wealthy. She fa...
03.04.1981	her long blonde hair	+A college professor is obsessed with a violin bow that he is sure is strung with the hair of his la...
03.02.1981	the raft	+A multi-millionaire is tormented by written demands for one million dollars. He is also haunted by ...
02.27.1981	love me dont leave me	+An old couple find love and happiness together for 45 years. But the wife harbors a dark secret tha...
02.25.1981	a god named henry	+Henry, a henpecked, under-employed, miserable factory foreman goes sailing and runs into a storm. H...
02.23.1981	the frog prince	+A man and woman racing team relies on voodoo to keep them safe in the driver's seat. When the voodo...
02.20.1981	the gift house	+A young couple inherit an upstate New York home with a burglar alarm that continually goes off. Is ...
02.18.1981	stand in for murder	+A medical scientist clones himself and then wants to use the clone to murder his wife so he can mar...
02.16.1981	troubled waters	+A washed up civil engineer, who believes he was cursed by a river god after a bridge collapse years...
02.13.1981	behind the blue door	+A woman chases a mysterious man, a blue door, and a philosophic woman through Europe while her fian...
02.11.1981	the shadow of a killer	+A woman whose husband disappears appeals to an actor who plays a tough detective in a television se...
02.09.1981	transplant	+A group of women notice dramatic changes in their husbands after having open heart surgery performe...
02.06.1981	is venice drowning	+A female engineer wants to prove she is as capable as any man. So her boss sends her to Venice to d...
02.04.1981	who is jessica worth	+The true story of a woman who suffers from concussions and amnesia, cycling between three different...
02.02.1981	the man who saw martians	+A young reporter fakes a UFO sighting to impress a young lady with whom he is infatuated. When the ...
01.29.1981	the vanishing herd	+ Program #2469. "The Vanishing Herd". A Sherlock Holmes story, based on, "The Priory School." The...
01.27.1981	small money	+A pro golfer introduces his wife to the game and soon she is making more money than him in tourname...
01.22.1981	the final mind	+In the 30th century, a brilliant scientist rises to power in the United States and uses his intelle...
01.20.1981	the fountain of truth	+The inside story of Ponce de Leon's search for the fountain of Youth in Florida -- a scheme to find...
01.16.1981	the legend of alexander part v the legend begins ep05of05	+Alexander continues to wage war across Persia before a long soujorn where he defines himself as one...

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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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