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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
08.05.1976	lovers and killers	+Program #944. "Lovers and Killers". Sponsored by: Popular Library Books, Buick, Budweiser, True Va...
11.25.1976	m u r d e r	+ Program #1055. "M-U-R-D-E-R". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Singer Sewing Centers, True Value Hardware...
05.01.1975	mad monkton	+Program #482. "Mad Monkton". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Uncle Ben's Rice. The program was reb...
04.07.1980	madame sirocco	+A psychic helps a police department on a missing person case. A young woman, daughter of a strict f...
03.16.1981	maiden ladies	+A young man is murdered while helping a wealthy man change a tire on his imported automobile. When ...
04.12.1977	mansized in marble	+Program #1193. "Man-Sized In Marble". Sponsored by: Greyhound Package Express, Buick, Freedent, Al...
05.23.1975	markheim man or monster	+Program #504. "Markheim: Man Or Monster?". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Sine-Off, Uncle Ben's Rice. Th...
12.12.1975	marry for murder	+Program #707. "Marry For Murder". Sponsored by: Luden's Cough Drops, Buick. The program was rebroa...
03.21.1979	masks	+A retired Hollywood producer is robbed of a silver cigarette case on a train. Trying to solve that ...
02.11.1977	masquerade	+ Program #1133. "Masquerade". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick, Freedent. The program was ...
10.02.1981	mata hari	+The story of the flighty seductress that was a spy for the Germans in World War I.
06.05.1981	matched pair for murder	+A judge's judgement is affected by a murder defendent's girlfriend who pleads on her boyfriend's be...
06.23.1982	matching chairs	+This is a tale of sibling rivalry between two brothers who are haunted by cursed chairs. The younge...
07.02.1980	maud evelyn	+A wealthy but unmotivated twenty-something falls for a 14 year old girl he has never met. He's neve...
05.16.1977	mayerling revisited	+Program #1227. "Mayerling Revisited". Sponsored by: Buick, Presto Pressure Cookers, Sea & Ski, Joh...
08.29.1974	medium rare	+Program #237. "Medium Rare". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was rebroadcast on Octobe...
11.22.1976	meeting by chance	+ Program #1052. "Meeting By Chance". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Bronkaid, Preparation H, C...
04.16.1974	men without mouths	+ Program #75. "Men Without Mouths". + Prior to the show you can listen to 5 minutes of Information...
05.16.1979	messenger from yesterday	+A college professor purchases a life size statue of a pharoah for his wife's birthday and places it...
10.21.1975	million dollar murder	+ Program #655. "Million Dollar Murder". Sponsored by: Listerine Lozenges, Buick. The program was r...
10.21.1974	mind over matthew	+Program #290. "Mind Over Matthew". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was rebroadcast on ...
07.29.1982	mind over mind	+A young bank teller is questioned about her role in a bank robbery. She has no memory of participat...
06.06.1978	miracle in sharon city	+A mayor recruits a major chemical manufacturer to build a new plant in a small town and is hailed a...
05.27.1974	mirror for murder	+ Program #97. "Mirror For Murder". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, 7-Up, Budweiser, Buick, Contac. + Wh...
01.28.1976	mirror mirror	+ Program #754. "Mirror, Mirror". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick, Allstate Insurance, Sin...

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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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