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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
09.14.1976	journey to jerusalem	+ Program #984. "Journey to Jerusalem". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Preparation H, Contac. The ...
05.04.1978	journey to somewhere	+A train full of lost souls carries passengers through snow to a small town that each one of them is...
05.29.1975	just one more day	+ Program #510. "Just One More Day". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Sine-Off. The program was rebroadcast...
10.25.1977	just to keep busy	+ Program #1389. "Just To Keep Busy". The program was rebroadcast on March 19, 1978. Program #1390...
03.28.1975	key to murder	+Program #448. "Key To Murder". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Uncle Ben's Rice. The program was r...
08.20.1980	kill now pay later	+A rich man wants to marry a poor woman, but his domineering mother, who controls the money, objects...
06.30.1982	killer crab	+In a future society on a planet named Vivian, inventor and recent divorcee Joe Harkness takes a spa...
03.31.1975	killer of the year	+Program #451. "Killer Of The Year". Sponsored by: Vigne Wine, Buick, Uncle Ben's Rice. The program...
10.18.1976	killers appointment	+ Program #1018. "Killer's Appointment". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Ex-Lax, Contac. The program was r...
09.07.1976	killers helper	+Program #977. "Killer's Helper". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Contac. The program was rebroadcast Nove...
11.07.1975	killing valley	+Program #672. "Killing Valley". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Luden's Cough Drops, Buick. The program w...
07.03.1978	king bank robber	+A law-abiding architect turns into a masterful bankrobber to get revenge on the justice system for ...
04.09.1980	kitty	+ A New York dancer is obsessed with cats and has a strange connection with a cat mummy. She and her...
06.26.1978	lady bluebeard	+An insurance investigator is sent to check on an attractive beneficiary of 6 elderly men, all of wh...
05.31.1982	lady macbeth at the zoo	+A couple witness a man and his girlfriend plotting the murder of the man's uncle. Waldo is determin...
11.20.1975	lamps of the devil	+ Program #685. "Lamps Of The Devil". Sponsored by: Luden's Cough Drops, Buick, Sine-Off. The progr...
11.03.1977	land of the living dead	+ Program #1398. "Land Of Living Dead". The program was rebroadcast on April 1, 1978.
03.11.1981	last act	+A retired lawyer and a retired detective discuss the murder of a woman in a boarding house. They fe...
10.20.1982	last days of a dictator	+Recounts the fall from grace of Benito Mussolini during World War II and his final ditch appeal to ...
02.24.1977	last judgement	+Program #1146. "Last Judgement". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick, Contac, Bantam Books. T...
11.01.1977	last train out	+ Program #1396. "Last Train Out". The program was rebroadcast on March 29, 1978. Program #1397 wa...
03.03.1980	laundry money	+An accountant accidently gets lured into a money laundering scheme by his best friend. What he does...
09.03.1980	leave well enough alone	+Guy de Maupassant serves as marriage counselor to a couple he knows. We find out where the famous w...
06.11.1980	legacy of guilt	+When a pregnant woman moves a piece of furniture out of the attic, she is haunted by the spirit of ...
02.25.1977	legend of phoenix hill	+When an archeologist takes his adopted son on an expedition to China, the expedition is besieged by...

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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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