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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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Air Date	Title	Synopsis
06.10.1974	a bargain in blood	+ Program #157. "A Bargain In Blood". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, 7-Up, Budweiser, Contac, Buick. The ...
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...
12.04.1974	a bride for death	+Program #334. "A Bride For Death". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Sine-Off. The program was rebro...
10.24.1974	a cage for augie karo	+Program #293. "A Cage For Augie Carroll". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Contac. The program was ...
06.12.1975	a case of negligence	+Program #524. "A Case Of Negligence". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Sine-Off. The program was rebroadca...
04.18.1975	a challenge for the dead	+Program #469. "A Challenge For The Dead". Sponsored by: Buick. The program was rebroadcast on July...
02.28.1974	a choice of witnesses	+ Program #47. "A Choice Of Witnesses". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Kellogg's. E. G. + In this story y...
12.24.1975	a christmas carol	+ Program #719. "A Christmas Carol". Sponsored by: Buick. The program was rebroadcast on December 2...
01.27.1975	a coffin for the devil	+Program #388. "A Coffin For The Devil". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Contac. The program was re...
01.08.1976	a connecticut yankee in king arthurs court	+ Program #735. "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, L...
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...
05.30.1979	a curious experience	+A young man enlisted in the Union Army is accused of being a spy. To escape the ultimate sanction, ...
01.16.1975	a death of kings	+ Program #377. "A Death Of Kings". Sponsored by: Sine-Off, Vigne Wine, Buick. The program was rebr...
01.14.1977	a departmental case	+ Program #1105. "A Departmental Case". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick. The program was r...
02.12.1974	a dream of death	+Program #36. "A Dream Of Death". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Kellogg's. E. G. + They say, “hell hat...
05.01.1978	a drink with dionysius	+A petty thief and con artist accidentally acquires a nuclear warhead named for the ancient God of w...
08.27.1980	a feast of death	+Historically true story: In 1917 Paris, an older man befriends a young woman and then marries her. ...
02.02.1974	a ghostly game of death	+ Program #28. "A Ghostly Game Of Death". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, Budweiser. E. G. + Welcome to th...
02.25.1981	a god named henry	+Henry, a henpecked, under-employed, miserable factory foreman goes sailing and runs into a storm. H...
06.02.1977	a god named smith	+ Program #1244. "A God Named Smith". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick, Greyhound Package E...
11.18.1977	a grain of salt	+Program #1413. "A Grain Of Salt". The program was rebroadcast on April 22, 1978. Program #1414 wa...
11.20.1981	a handful of dust	+This is the story of a curse placed upon a woman and all her descendants by a pharaoh's wife whom s...
02.18.1977	a heart of gold	+ Program #1140. "A Heart Of Gold". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick, Pocketbooks, Shell Oi...
12.25.1980	a holiday visit	+A couple on their way to beautiful Runyonville, Ohio to visit her parents for Christmas have an acc...
12.11.1978	a horror story	+A chef makes the most delicious cuisine. The secret is in the meat. Meanwhile, downstairs, a shoema...

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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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