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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
01.04.1978	family album	+A notorious gangster is found dead and a reporter is dispatched to Europe to dig up background on h...
10.25.1978	family ties	+A woman's husband disappears after receiving a mysterious phone call. He leaves the address of an o...
08.17.1982	famous last words	+A young professional woman reports that she has found a dead body outside of a warehouse. When the ...
06.24.1977	fan mail	+ Program #1266. "Fan Mail". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick, Ex-Lax, Country Time, A.R.M....
07.21.1975	fateful reunion	+Program #563. "Fateful Reunion". Sponsored by: Florida Orange Growers, Buick. The program was rebr...
11.19.1975	fear	+ Program #684. "Fear". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Singer Sewing Centers, Buick. The program was rebr...
12.07.1977	fire and ice	+ Program #1432. "Fire and Ice". The program was rebroadcast on May 10, 1978. Program #1433 was a ...
12.18.1975	fireball	+ Program #713. "Fireball". Sponsored by: Buick. The program was rebroadcast on May 25, 1976. + Lou...
09.12.1977	first childhood	+ Program #1346. "First Childhood". The program was rebroadcast on January 28, 1978.
03.08.1982	first impression	+ A detective travels on an airliner with a woman extradited from another state after jumping bail o...
02.02.1976	first prize death	+ Program #759. "First Prize: Death". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Allstate Insurance, Buick, Contac. T...
06.13.1977	first woman in space	+Program #1255. "The First Woman In Space". The program was rebroadcast on October 26, 1977.
10.06.1975	five ghostly indians	+Program #640. "The Five Ghostly Indians". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Sine-Off. The program wa...
09.01.1978	flash point	+A photographer shooting a steel mill has an affair with the wife of a steel worker. Trouble begins ...
09.14.1981	flower of evil	+An 1849 prospector is anxious to meet his mail-order bride. He and his son both get more than they ...
10.13.1982	fly swatter	+A married couple who work as pick-pockets decide to go straight and take a job as butler and maid f...
04.09.1976	fools gold	+ Program #826. "Fool's Gold". Sponsored by: True Value, Carrier Air Conditioning, Buick, Allied Va...
05.12.1975	for tomorrow we die	+Program #493. "For Tomorrow We Die". Sponsored by: Uncle Ben's Rice, Buick. The program was rebroa...
08.12.1977	for want of a nail	+ Program #1315. "For Want Of A Nail". The program was rebroadcast on December 25, 1977. Program #...
07.20.1982	formula z the protector	+In order to fingerprint suspects and criminals in murder investigations, an ink pad is required. Bu...
04.03.1978	fortunes favorite	+An elderly spinster from Maine suspects she's being conned when she is randomly selected to receive...
06.28.1976	forty five minutes to murder	+Program #906. "Forty-Five Minutes To Murder". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Pace CB Radios, Buick, Mirr...
06.18.1975	frameup	+Program #530. "Frame-Up". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Sine-Off. The program was rebroadcast on Octobe...
03.19.1974	frankenstein revisited	+ Program #59. "Frankenstein Revisited". Sponsored by. + Are there more things in heaven and eart...
06.10.1976	free the beast	+Program #888. "Free The Beast". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Budweiser, Buick, Wet Ones. The...

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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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