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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
07.09.1982	come back next week	+A woman dutifully travels to a state prison each week to visit with the hitman who killed her husba...
07.07.1982	code word caprice	+An honest truck driver works with the police to crack a hijacking ring.
07.05.1982	the romance of mary oates	+Romance finally comes to a lonely secretary who still lives with her father at age 40. But she find...
07.02.1982	bring back my body	+A woman has split personalities. One is a mild-mannered spinster. The other is an embittered woman ...
06.30.1982	killer crab	+In a future society on a planet named Vivian, inventor and recent divorcee Joe Harkness takes a spa...
06.28.1982	escape to prison	+An executive thinks there is a large conspiracy against her by her friends and coworkers to convinc...
06.25.1982	dont kill me	+A woman with a sick elderly husband allows him to die so she can marry his rich friend. It's man's ...
06.23.1982	matching chairs	+This is a tale of sibling rivalry between two brothers who are haunted by cursed chairs. The younge...
06.21.1982	universe hollow	+Patricia Ellicott is a contemptuous, fallen-from-grace newspaper reporter assigned to cover a story...
06.18.1982	the fifth man	+The writer for a British aviation magazine works part time to ferret out commuist spies in the avia...
06.16.1982	a most dangerous animal	+The wife of a vicious and corrupt boxer, 'Killer' Vincent, tries to get a divorce to marry the man ...
06.14.1982	the woman who wanted to live	+A killer who breaks out of a maximum security prison murders a man and attempts to murder a pretty ...
06.04.1982	my first rogue	+A sophisticated art thief plays cat and mouse with a French detective.
06.02.1982	two times dead	+ A reporter interviews a man who manages to frame himself for murder -- his own murder! Based on a ...
05.31.1982	lady macbeth at the zoo	+A couple witness a man and his girlfriend plotting the murder of the man's uncle. Waldo is determin...
05.28.1982	the chess master	+An unemployed advertising agent plays a pickup game of chess in the park with a stranger. That game...
05.26.1982	why is the lady smiling	+An imaginary tale about the origin of the famous painting, the Mona Lisa. In 1498 Italy, Leonardo d...
05.24.1982	your desires my guilt	+A couple of modest income find that they can have whatever they want just by wishing for it togethe...
05.21.1982	the different people	+A 20th century professor of anthropology discovers a letter written during the Civil War that hints...
05.19.1982	the brooch	+A governess signs on with a wealthy but eccentric couple to school their children. The husband is p...
05.17.1982	the imperfect crime	+ A police detective assumes that it is just routine when he is asked to complete a report on the hi...
05.14.1982	the hills of arias	+A former revolutionary of a Central American country escapes the rising dictatorship and settles in...
05.12.1982	the wound that would not heal	+A man is accused of murdering his mistress. At first, he is confident that he did not, but when she...
05.10.1982	tourist trap	+A stressed-out couple get in an auto accident while getting off the interstate. Thinking it's not v...
05.07.1982	the wedding present	+In a Balkan country circa 1912, a good-natured professional swindler teams up with an unlikely fema...

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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