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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
10.01.1980	heros welcome	+A shipwrecked man with amnesia finds paradise but leaves when he regains his memory years later. Wh...
09.29.1980	the ruby lamp	+A terrifying experiment in thought photography. A college professor develops a device to photograph...
09.24.1980	the murder of caesar	+As Ceasar consolidates his power, his friends plot to destroy him lest he become to powerful. The l...
09.22.1980	the mysterious rochdale special	+When an entire train disappears on route to London, along with its lone wealthy passenger, Scotland...
09.17.1980	the threshold	+A hardware store owner and the mayor of a small town grow concerned when a married couple purchase ...
09.15.1980	number one	+A movie company is filming on location in Central America when they are taken hostage by a local wa...
09.10.1980	ocean of emptiness	+A married couple on the first manned mission to Jupiter find strange things in Jupiter's orbit. Dur...
09.08.1980	hand in glove	+A surgeon receives a hand transplant from a serial killer who murdered five pretty young blond nurs...
09.03.1980	leave well enough alone	+Guy de Maupassant serves as marriage counselor to a couple he knows. We find out where the famous w...
09.01.1980	the power of zeus	+A hole in the ozone threatens to destroy Earth's food supply. Two scientists are dispatched to a re...
08.27.1980	a feast of death	+Historically true story: In 1917 Paris, an older man befriends a young woman and then marries her. ...
08.25.1980	poor lester	+A wife asks the god Zeus to allow her to change places with her recently deceased scientist husband...
08.20.1980	kill now pay later	+A rich man wants to marry a poor woman, but his domineering mother, who controls the money, objects...
08.18.1980	human error	+A man in the midst of a midlife crisis accidently hits a young woman and puts her in the hospital. ...
08.13.1980	the return of edward blair	+A man walks away from a logging camp and into a small town. there, he is mistaken for a man who com...
08.11.1980	the master minds	+A Boston police detective works with a Scotland Yard detective to catch a master jewel thief who ha...
08.06.1980	the mysterious hanging of squire huggins	+A young artist embellishes a tale of the murder of a local man of importance and soon finds himself...
08.04.1980	this deadly fraternity	+Members of a frat house mysteriously die on the anniversary of their Hell week. Years later a young...
07.30.1980	the death disk	+An applicant for a job with a charitable organization is first told she has the job. But the charit...
07.28.1980	a ton of gold	+An archeologist, his wife, and his assistant, set off into the New Mexico desert in search of lost ...
07.16.1980	murder preferred	+A recently widowed woman hires a lawyer for the man who is accused of murdering her husband. She co...
07.14.1980	nightmare in gillette castle	+Program #2326. "Nightmare In Gillette Castle". Participating sponsors. A Sherlock Holmes story. Th...
07.09.1980	sierra alpha 638	+An El Paso to Mexico City Commuter airliner is hijacked by a cult leader so he can pick up his pot ...
07.07.1980	silent partners	+A millionaire businessman and his secretary are kidnapped in a third world, Latin American country....
07.02.1980	maud evelyn	+A wealthy but unmotivated twenty-something falls for a 14 year old girl he has never met. He's neve...

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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