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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
12.19.1979	shadow of a lover	+A woman, entranced by hokey romance films, confuses fantasy and reality. She asks an actor on a cop...
10.04.1978	shadow of love	+A college professor who shuns all human affection is haunted by an invisible entity that radiates p...
02.28.1979	shadows from the grave	+Program #1880. CBS net origination, WNEW, New York line feed. "Shadows From The Grave". Sponsored b...
03.31.1978	shark bait	+A itenerate gambler schemes to pay off his debt by enlisting his bookie's help to murder his brothe...
11.21.1977	she	+ Program #1416. "She". The program was rebroadcast on April 23, 1978. Program #1417 was a rebroad...
10.22.1979	sheer terror	+A soap opera star is kidnapped by a derranged fan who is in love with her and wants to prevent her ...
04.19.1982	shelter	+A man, his wife, her lover, and the couple next door are forced into a bomb shelter when world even...
07.29.1976	shotgun wedding	+ Program #937. "Shotgun Wedding". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick, Budweiser, Preparation...
01.19.1979	side effects	+A scientist finds out that his new wonder drug has potentially harmful side effects that could bank...
07.09.1980	sierra alpha 638	+An El Paso to Mexico City Commuter airliner is hijacked by a cult leader so he can pick up his pot ...
07.07.1980	silent partners	+A millionaire businessman and his secretary are kidnapped in a third world, Latin American country....
09.07.1977	silent shock	+. Program #1341. "Silent Shock". The program was rebroadcast on January 22, 1978. Program #1342 w...
01.02.1981	sins of the fathers	+While investigating a racketeering case, a young reporter finds out that she was adopted. She searc...
10.07.1974	sister of death	+Program #276. "Sister Of Death". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Contac. The program was rebroadca...
04.08.1976	sleeping dogs	+The widow of a French Resistance fighter searches for the identity of the man who betrayed her husb...
10.09.1981	sleeping dogs	+A French officer swears to make a model soldier out of the lowliest, poorest recruit in his unit. W...
09.05.1975	sleepwalker	+Program #609. "Sleepwalker". Sponsored by: Buick. The program was rebroadcast on February 1, 1976....
01.23.1975	sleepy village	+Program #384. "Sleepy Village". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Contac. The program was rebroadcas...
01.27.1981	small money	+A pro golfer introduces his wife to the game and soon she is making more money than him in tourname...
07.09.1979	smile at a homely girl	+A businessman is married to an insanely jealous woman who is sure he is having an affair. When she ...
07.14.1975	snake in the grass	+ Program #556. "Snake In The Grass". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Sine-Off. The program was rebroadcas...
04.04.1977	so shall ye reap	+Program #1185. "So Shall Ye Reap". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick, Preparation H, Quaker...
09.22.1975	solid gold soldiers	+Program #626. "Solid Gold Soldiers". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was rebroadcast o...
10.22.1976	somebody stop me	+ It has been written, that everybody is born with a taste for pudding, but the problem is, not ever...
05.30.1975	someday ill find you	+Program #511. "Someday I'll Find You". Sponsored by: Buick. The program was rebroadcast on Septemb...

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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.

Wiseguy