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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
10.29.1981	in touch	+In the town of Ungerton, a medical student asks to be allowed to treat an adolescent girl who suffe...
11.25.1977	indian giver	+Program #1420. "Indian Giver". The program was rebroadcast on April 29, 1978. Program #1421 was a...
05.05.1980	inner eye	+When a young woman decides to break it off with her itenerant boyfriend, he threatens to kill himse...
01.02.1976	insight into murder	+ Program #728. "Insight Into Murder". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Contac, True Value Hardware....
05.20.1981	insomnia	+A woman who cannot sleep starts listening to radio stations that do not exist,etc. When she does fi...
04.25.1978	international dateline	+A self-serving, womanizing, World War II combat pilot survivor uses up his nine lives by committing...
02.24.1982	invaders from atlantis	+Strange three-eyed aliens, in control of major cities, finally get around to sending an agent to Pa...
12.22.1981	invited guests	+A lonely man refuses all invitations to join others for dinner and other social engagements. A form...
01.06.1976	is he living or is he dead	+Program #732. "Is He Living Or Is He Dead?". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Contac. The program w...
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...
12.12.1974	is the lady dead	+Program #342. "Is The Lady Dead?". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Contac. The program was rebroad...
02.06.1981	is venice drowning	+A female engineer wants to prove she is as capable as any man. So her boss sends her to Venice to d...
09.23.1974	island of the lost	+Program #262. "Island Of The Lost". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Contac. The program was rebroa...
12.20.1978	it has to be true	+A traveling salesman is arrested for the murder of a woman he says he doesn't know after his clothe...
09.18.1978	its hard to be rich	+A wealthy writer moves into a cheap flat to write, but the piano music coming from next door drives...
10.31.1975	its hell to pay the piper	+Program #665. "It's Hell To Pay The Piper". Sponsored by: Luden's Cough Drops, Buick. The program ...
03.18.1975	its murder mr lincoln	+Program #438. "It's Murder, Mr. Lincoln". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Sine-Off, Buick, Uncle Ben's Ri...
03.27.1974	its simply murder	+ Program #64. "It's Simply Murder". + This is the story of a natural born loser. Henry Green was m...
10.16.1981	j accuse	+A French officer is falsely accused of treason based on the faulty examination of a handwriting sam...
02.22.1977	jane eyre	+ Program #1144. "Jane Eyre". Sponsored by: Contac, Buick, Johnson CB Radios. The program was rebro...
10.17.1979	jerry the convincer	+A meek, law-abiding yacht owner is lured into drug smuggling by a friend who is eager to make a qui...
01.16.1977	jimmy valentines gamble	+ Program #1107. "Jimmy Valentine's Gamble". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick. The program ...
03.17.1977	jobo	+Program #1167. "Jobo". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Ex-Lax, Buick, Arrow Shirts, True Temper...
02.10.1975	journey into nowhere	+Program #402. "Journey Into Nowhere". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Contac. The program was rebr...
08.14.1974	journey into terror	+Program #222. "Journey Into Terror". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was rebroadcast o...

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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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