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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
06.30.1980	the old maid murders	+A middle-aged secretary finds out her boss, with whom she is secretly in love, might be a foreign a...
06.25.1980	the sweet smell of murder	+When a charter boat captain is caught red-handed with the proceeds of a bank robbery, his wife work...
06.23.1980	life blood	+A geneticist builds a life-like robot of a woman and orders it to seduce an old colleague who mistr...
06.18.1980	in the name of love	+A powerful ad agency president lives a fantasy where she is the mother of a famous actress. When th...
06.16.1980	voice from the grave	+When a female lab technician is murdered, a police detective relies on a doctor's wife who speaks i...
06.11.1980	legacy of guilt	+When a pregnant woman moves a piece of furniture out of the attic, she is haunted by the spirit of ...
06.09.1980	that magic touch	+A beautiful actress takes her son and divorces her emotionally distant and abusive producer-husband...
06.04.1980	obsession	+A writer of detective and crime stories asks his old friend, the police chief, to lock him up becau...
06.02.1980	let george do it	+An unhappy woman married to an old stockbroker seduces a traveling salesman and tries to get him to...
05.28.1980	the bluff	+A blind ex-cop plays a high stakes game of blind-man's-bluff to entice the man who blinded him and ...
05.26.1980	phantom world	+A British aristocrat and a former British military officer condemned to die for treason find love a...
05.21.1980	private demon	+When a Ph.D. candidate presents evidence to a college professor that his theories are false, the pr...
05.19.1980	two of a kind	+A lazy young man concocts a scheme to drive his aunt insane so he can go on spending her money whil...
05.14.1980	on the side of the angels	+A traveling salesman saves an oppressed young woman from her evil father and her evil brothers who ...
05.12.1980	tomorrow is never	+A world traveler meets a spinster teacher who dreams of traveling to Europe. When he meets her ther...
05.07.1980	wanted a husband	+Two grifters set up a mail order scam auctioning off a fictional wealthy widow. A postal inspector ...
05.05.1980	inner eye	+When a young woman decides to break it off with her itenerant boyfriend, he threatens to kill himse...
04.30.1980	how can i ever thank you	+A writer recounts how he did NOT kill his professional rival and former protoge' who was also havin...
04.28.1980	portrait of memory	+A wealthy woman commissions a starving American artist living in Paris to paint a portrait of a man...
04.23.1980	the dead you cant bury	+A young woman visits a fortune teller at a party. The fortune teller tells her that a man in her fu...
04.21.1980	the fourth reason	+An American businessman does not return from a business trip to Paris. His wife requests assistance...
04.16.1980	the face in the coffin	+ A young couple visits the funeral home to view a familiy member and accidentally sees the body of ...
04.14.1980	star sapphire	+An older couple adopts a teenage girl to help them on their farm and provide company for the wife w...
04.09.1980	kitty	+ A New York dancer is obsessed with cats and has a strange connection with a cat mummy. She and her...
04.07.1980	madame sirocco	+A psychic helps a police department on a missing person case. A young woman, daughter of a strict f...

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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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