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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
11.27.1978	alien presences	+A flying saucer crashes on Earth way out in the country. An elderly couple sees the crash and find ...
11.24.1978	night visitor	+A young woman who is supposed to be dead shows up days later in the bed of her parents' visitor. Sc...
11.22.1978	the grey slapper	+A former student of a teacher turned politician tries to save him from himself as he sells himself ...
11.20.1978	the thing at nolan	+In frontier Missouri, a rebellious son fights and threatens his domineering father. When the father...
11.17.1978	the favor of women	+ In the year 3039, the Earth is running out of an energy source called Selco which it imports from ...
11.15.1978	the conspiracy	+A model conspires to embarrass and torment her former boyfriend who abandoned her. He had been her ...
11.13.1978	the pilgrim soul	+An American nurse travels to England to help in a hospital during World War II. She is friendly wit...
11.10.1978	a better mousetrap	+ A man kills his older wealthy wife when she finds out he is involved with his secretary. He stages...
11.08.1978	second sight	+A grounded pilot who sees things in the sky that others can't see is told by a psychiatrist to take...
11.06.1978	hit and run	+A professional accident victim is killed when he jumps out in front of a senator's car. His hired w...
11.03.1978	the man with the claret mark	+Set during the Irish Rebellion, the last of the DeLacy's, an Irish matron, tells her younger family...
11.01.1978	the midas of castle hill	+A rich father, disappointed in his son, hides his family fortune in his castle and does not tell hi...
10.27.1978	the sound of terror	+A police detective's girlfriend answers a ringing pay phone and finds herself involved with a terro...
10.25.1978	family ties	+A woman's husband disappears after receiving a mysterious phone call. He leaves the address of an o...
10.23.1978	the lazarus syndrome	+An older man in his early 50's is a manager in a company undergoing a youth movement where older pe...
10.20.1978	the outside girl	+An alcoholic who lives with his wealthy mother is obsessed with a portrait he painted of his father...
10.18.1978	never answer an advertisement	+A country doctor has trouble attracting new patients, so he answers a strange advertisement for a p...
10.16.1978	the winds of time	+A woman is plagued by terrible headaches and visits paranormal expert Bryce Bond. He guides her on ...
10.13.1978	how much land does a man need	+In 1760, a greedy aristocrat in Colonial America is of...
10.11.1978	the man in black	+A woman witnesses a murder near the embassies in Washington, D.C. When the police arrive, all evide...
10.09.1978	the triple crown	+A poor stable hand purchases a horse that he is sure is the next Seabiscuit. However, he can not ra...
10.06.1978	the captain of the polestar	+A Captain leads his whaling ship through ice near the North Pole in search of riches. The ship's do...
10.04.1978	shadow of love	+A college professor who shuns all human affection is haunted by an invisible entity that radiates p...
10.02.1978	the forever alley	+A police detective confronts his brother-in-law about ignoring his marriage in favor of his obsessi...
09.29.1978	a thousand year old story	+A millionaire is murdered aboard his yacht. The local authorities are convinced it was his personal...

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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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