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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
05.15.1981	cold comfort	+An optometrist is blackmailed into spying for the enemies of his country because of an act he commi...
05.13.1981	diogenes inc	+When their circus burns to the ground, two circus performers open a private detective agency. Their...
05.11.1981	end of a queen	+The final hours of Marie Antoinette's life are recounted as she faces the tribunal of the people an...
05.08.1981	is the doctor in	+A dermatoligist is forced to do surgery at gun point when gangsters burst into his office with a wo...
05.06.1981	the apparition	+A young jail inmate becomes obsessed with his father's health, sure that he is deathly ill depsite ...
05.04.1981	garden of the moon	+A cosmetics firm executive purchases some make-up from a new health store that specializes in food ...
05.01.1981	the voices	+A young girl held prisoner by the Nazis in Vichy France during WWII seems to be reliving the life o...
04.29.1981	the man of two centuries	+A college professor and historian is assisted in writing a book by a Huron Indian who claims to be ...
04.27.1981	big momma	+A city planner is pressured and bribed to allow a factory to be built in his city. When he gets his...
04.24.1981	the long blue line	+A fourth generation Irish cop detective is selected to reopen and investigate a 10 year old homicid...
04.22.1981	the terrifying gift	+A woman wanders into the den of a fortune teller who tells her she is her long lost grand-daughter....
04.20.1981	the power of ode	+Two old friends compete for the love of a woman who is afraid of light. She has come under the infl...
04.17.1981	but with blood	+The story of John Brown, his anti-slavery followers, and the siege at Harpers Ferry that brought th...
04.15.1981	the fatal 50000	+An employee of a real estate developer misappropriates $50,000 to appear profitable to his boss. Wh...
04.13.1981	death trail	+Colonel Royce returns to Texas from a visit to the Wyoming Territory, convinced he can drive cattle...
04.10.1981	the empty coffin	+A woman who was adopted in the U.S. during World War II is contacted by the lawyer of her birth fat...
04.08.1981	the doll	+A pair of twin men with a psychic connection struggle to come to grips with the death of their sist...
04.06.1981	the gratitude of the serpent	+A young girl is sold to a Spaniard who is set on conquering the Mayans. She is torn between loyalty...
04.03.1981	somewhere else	+A woman tells her analyst how she dreams she is a Viking woman who is betrothed to a fat farmer but...
04.01.1981	down the garden path	+This is the story of a young Machiavelli learning the art of persuasion. He convinces a young man t...
03.30.1981	the dead come alive	+The people of a small Ohio town find out that a man is coming to town who can raise and restore the...
03.27.1981	did i say murder	+The tragic story of King Henry of England and his Courtier, Thomas Beckett, as told by his adultero...
03.25.1981	the ghost grey bat	+A young New York couple swap homes with an Austrian couple for a year so a college professor can fi...
03.23.1981	the first day of eternity	+A shrewd and heartless businessman tries to buy eternal life but ends up buying something much more...
03.20.1981	the million dollar scam	+A man and woman scam team work a millionaire heiress for one million dollars.

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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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