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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
03.08.1982	first impression	+ A detective travels on an airliner with a woman extradited from another state after jumping bail o...
03.05.1982	death at a distance	+A missionary doctor working in an African jungle tries to help a patient who is sure he is going to...
03.03.1982	death star	+A successful businesswoman finds herself lapsing into the memory of a 16th century woman whose husb...
03.01.1982	the blue sedan	+When a sleazy private eye is murdered, an intrepid female police lieutenant tries to piece together...
02.26.1982	the blood red ink	+A veteran cop is denied a promotion to detective while his partner is promoted. He becomes bitter a...
02.24.1982	invaders from atlantis	+Strange three-eyed aliens, in control of major cities, finally get around to sending an agent to Pa...
02.22.1982	nickles and dimes	+Ray Vance, an undercover detective, is so successful in infiltrating Big Joe's East Side organizati...
02.19.1982	the victim	+Joe Thompson's conviction for murder is based on such flimsy evidence that the great lawyer Ferras,...
02.17.1982	the washington kidnap	+Two convicts in jail use their criminal skills to thwart an effort by the Tories to kidnap General ...
02.15.1982	the 44 connection	+When an elderly secretary is fired because she is too old, she returns to the company and challenge...
02.12.1982	the bargain	+The mechanic of a racing team is in debt to gamblers for more than $50,000 and starts sabotaging th...
02.10.1982	the sand castle	+After her little brother drowns, a young girl becomes obsessed with building sand castles. She buil...
02.08.1982	change of heart	+When Millicent Sanford broke off her engagement to corporate kingpin Roger Skipworth, she called hi...
02.05.1982	the cantankerous ghost	+A pair of elderly sisters living in an old mansion are about to lose their family home to forclosur...
02.03.1982	the mysterious slumber	+A dramatization of the strange case of Mary Reynolds, an 18th century woman who awakens after a len...
02.01.1982	the good ship aud	+The biographical drama of Sir Roger Casement, beginning as he waits to be hanged for treason agains...
01.28.1982	dickens of scotland yard	+Charles Dickens employs his creative skills in detective work when he volunteers to assist Scotland...
01.26.1982	to be an empress	+The story of the rise of Catherine the Great from French minor royalty to the throne of Russia.
01.21.1982	gate 27	+A former detective becomes a drunken street bum after his wife leaves him. He drinks heavily and hi...
01.19.1982	the real world	+A police detective is told that the murder of an untalented exotic dancer is unsolvable because her...
01.15.1982	les miserables part v the final chapter ep05of05	+ Valjean and his friends flee the revolution above to the sewers of Paris where they find an unexpe...
01.14.1982	les miserables part iv fear love and death ep04of05	+Valjean is caught in the French Revolution. Collette's secret love finds her. The situation takes a...
01.13.1982	les miserables part iii no escape ep03of05	+Valjean escapes the inspector and flees to the Latin section of France. There, he finds Collete hid...
01.12.1982	les miserables part ii the lawless and the law ep02of05	+Jean Valjean improves his lot in life by becoming a factory owner. Meanwhile, he is pursued by an i...
01.11.1982	les miserables part i the thief and the bishop ep01of05	+Jean Valjean spends 19 years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread for his starving family. When h...

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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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