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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
04.02.1980	the fateful bell	+Set in ancient China, an emperor orders the casting of a bell of magificent size and precious metal...
03.31.1980	the end of the rainbow	+A neglected and lonely housewife goes to a singles bar and gets picked up by a stranger. They head ...
03.26.1980	conspiracy	+Recounts the conspiracy by John Wilkes Booth and his followers to kill Abraham Lincoln, Vice Presid...
03.24.1980	the blue tiger	+A cold-blooded assassin is pursued by a district attorney determined to bring him to justice for th...
03.19.1980	the death wish	+ To relax, a stressed-out businessman takes up 'rhapsodic meditation.' While meditating, he has vis...
03.17.1980	the evil eye	+A female fiction writer finds that everybody with whom she becomes angry befalls misfortune -- incl...
03.12.1980	the secret of the fifth bell	+A woman buys her husband a set of antique Chinese bells, one of which rings on its own. When it rin...
03.10.1980	youre going to like rodney	+A menacing child torments his uncle and aunt while they babysit him for a week. Is he a child or so...
03.05.1980	a matter of identity	+A 17-year-old girl disappears while on a visit to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Her cousin and her boyfrie...
03.03.1980	laundry money	+An accountant accidently gets lured into a money laundering scheme by his best friend. What he does...
02.27.1980	the intruder	+A scientist's son comes home from college on spring break and discloses that he is actually an alie...
02.25.1980	the unseen and the seen	+A widower banker, who is an aspiring artist, and his mother-in-law live in a house that may be haun...
02.20.1980	the vampire plant	+A wimpy mama's boy marries an assertive woman who nurtures a man-eating plant, hemo anderantus, whi...
02.18.1980	the time box	+A newspaper reporter discovers a time traveling invention developed in the 1880s. He uses it to tra...
02.13.1980	crime of passion	+An attorney is asked to defend a night watchman accused of murdering his wife after catching her wi...
02.11.1980	talk to me	+An old and lonely man calls a crime tip hotline and pretends he's witnessed a crime, just so he can...
02.06.1980	the deserter	+A couple and their infant son are stranded in the California's Sierra mountains by a rockslide. The...
02.04.1980	thats what friends are for	+A British officer stationed in India lives in a house haunted by a ghost that plays bagpipes. His f...
01.30.1980	the crystal gazer	+A man sees his death in a crystal ball and 'The Thinking Machine' discovers the truth. A young woma...
01.28.1980	the god machine	+In an unfeeling, perfect future, marriages and reproduction are dictated by a master computer. When...
01.23.1980	the forty four	+A wealthy, lonely landowner confesses she killed her cousin with an antique Colt .44 when he confro...
01.21.1980	once upon an island	+A young couple on their honeymoon visit her uncle on a Carribean Island. They notice an old house o...
01.16.1980	prisoner of the machines	+During a war between humans and machines, a group of men are taken prisoner by the robots and kept ...
01.14.1980	the better half	+An ad agency executive marries a woman who is more talented than he is. He soon grows jealous and m...
01.11.1980	the last days of pompeii the buried city ep05of05	+Marcus and Orianna flee burning Pompeii with the assistance of the blind slave, Lydia who is able t...

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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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