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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
10.22.1979	sheer terror	+A soap opera star is kidnapped by a derranged fan who is in love with her and wants to prevent her ...
10.17.1979	jerry the convincer	+A meek, law-abiding yacht owner is lured into drug smuggling by a friend who is eager to make a qui...
10.15.1979	out of the mist	+A man riding his motorcycle across the country hooks up with an elderly horticulturalist who puts h...
10.10.1979	at the end of the passage	+Set in colonial India, British military officer begins abusing servants as he succumbs to the oppre...
10.08.1979	wilhemina wilson	+A quiet young Olympic swimmer, fascinated with Edgar Allen Poe, disappears from the library without...
10.03.1979	the finger of god	+Program #2097. CBS net origination, WNEW, New York line feed. "The Finger Of God". Sponsored by: Se...
10.01.1979	the beast	+Program #2095. CBS net origination, WNEW, New York line feed. "The Beast". Sponsored by: Serta Matt...
09.26.1979	the eighth day	+Program #2090. CBS net origination, WNEW, New York line feed. "The Eighth Day". Sponsored by: Serta...
09.24.1979	the gettysburg address	+Program #2088. CBS net origination, WNEW, New York line feed. "The Gettysburg Address". Sponsored b...
09.19.1979	youre better off guilty	+Program #2083. CBS net origination, WNEW, New York line feed. "You're Better Off Guilty". Sponsored...
09.17.1979	the guillotine	+Program #2081. CBS net origination, WNEW, New York line feed. "The Guillotine". Sponsored by: Kinne...
09.12.1979	the two sams	+Program #2076. CBS net origination, WNEW, New York line feed. "The Two Sams". Sponsored by: A.R.M.,...
09.10.1979	the odyssey of laura collins	+Program #2074. CBS net origination, WNEW, New York line feed. "The Odyssey Of Laura Collins". Spons...
09.05.1979	the man in the black cap	+Program #2069. CBS net origination, WNEW, New York line feed. "The Man In The Black Cap". Sponsored...
09.03.1979	tomorrow will never come	+An old elevator attendant finds out that he is about to lose his life's love -- his elevator he aff...
08.29.1979	ninety lives	+A waitress falls in love with an amnesia victim that wanders into her diner late in the day. She is...
08.27.1979	a cup of bitter chocolate	+A man tries to poison his mother to collect his inheritance, but her butler foils the crime without...
08.22.1979	stranger from nowhere	+ A scientist is convinced that he is an alien sent to Earth to observe its inhabitants. When he enc...
08.20.1979	taboo means death	+ A pilot flies to Samoa to find his old college flame who has quit writing to him. He finds out tha...
08.15.1979	body and soul	+A bed-ridden woman lapses into a coma and has an out of body experience. She watches as her estrang...
08.13.1979	tiger tiger burning bright	+A woman comes to a psychiatrist complaining of unexplained anxiety and sickness. Under hypnosis, sh...
08.01.1979	the love goddess caper	+While traveling in Europe, Twain encounters a woman who implores the famous author to assist in obt...
07.30.1979	relax and enjoy it	+A successful businessman is kidnapped by anti-capitalist Latvian revolutionaries who demands $10 mi...
07.25.1979	catch a falling star	+People of a small town take their sewing work to a substandard and crazy seamstress to be nice. But...
07.23.1979	no mans land	+During World War II, two American soldiers are taken prisoner by the people of a French village. Th...

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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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