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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
01.15.1981	the legend of alexander part iv the oracle ep04of05	+Alexander consults Apollo's Oracle of Delphi, brutally destroys Thebes (burning it to the ground), ...
01.14.1981	the legend of alexander part iii divide and conquer ep03of05	+After his father's death, Alexander consolidates his power over his holdings, learns the secret of ...
01.13.1981	the legend of alexander part ii assassination ep02of05	+Alexander's father, King Philip, embarrasses him and his mother by marrying a 17 year old girl, Cle...
01.12.1981	the legend of alexander part i courage ep01of05	+Alexander as a 19 year old is repulsed by his mystic mother and embraces the warrior life of his fa...
01.08.1981	in the dark	+In a totalitarian state, a woman's husband fails to return home. Her best friend has mysteriously d...
01.06.1981	the tenth life	+While investigating murders that take place in the building in which he lives, a reporter encounter...
01.02.1981	sins of the fathers	+While investigating a racketeering case, a young reporter finds out that she was adopted. She searc...
01.01.1981	catch the smallest devil	+An arrogant self-centered contankerous old rich man dies after heart surgery and is denied entrance...
12.25.1980	a holiday visit	+A couple on their way to beautiful Runyonville, Ohio to visit her parents for Christmas have an acc...
11.26.1980	breakout	+During World War I, Two French soldiers escape a German POW camp and flee across the German country...
11.24.1980	the killer instinct	+A salesman asks his wife to let him invest her money in a new, risky business venture. Shortly afte...
11.19.1980	the iron horse	+If only I had 250 cronnen! A chance meeting between a down-on-his-luck dreamer and a bandit and con...
11.17.1980	the eleventh plague	+A small spaceship is dispatched to locate and retrieve a magician who was marooned on a distant pla...
11.12.1980	natural sugar	+An actor is murdered every night on stage with poison, but this time it's for real. A police detect...
11.10.1980	the dagger of almohades	+A beautiful woman enjoys pitting men against each other for her amusement -- sometimes to fight to ...
11.05.1980	the question	+An actress retires to her childhood beach home where she encounters a ghost who wants to paint her ...
11.03.1980	guilty	+A washed-up playwrite tries to convince a detective and his relatives that he killed his uncle to g...
10.29.1980	bloodline	+A stockbroker is facing indictment for having swindled his employer out of $2 million. He tells how...
10.27.1980	the gilbert stuart	+An art appraiser at a museum is asked to appraise, then purchase an unsigned painting by a famous a...
10.22.1980	confession	+A wealthy man is cheated by his broker and extracts a written confession that he will use to blackm...
10.20.1980	honest mistake	+An aging, henpecked hitman is given the assignment to kill an aging, henpecked accountant. The hitm...
10.15.1980	the bright golden murders	+A nuclear scientist is murdered by a mobster because he was having an affair with the mobster's gir...
10.13.1980	napoleon and the queen of sheba	+Two good witches try to help a small-time con man stop his life of crime.
10.08.1980	portrait of an assassin	+This is the story of the life of Charles Guiteau, the arrogant assassin of President Garfield. The ...
10.06.1980	second sight	+Program #2386/2445. "Second Sight". The program was rebroadcast December 26, 1980. In fact, this ...

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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.

Wiseguy