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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
02.16.1978	something in the air	+A father desperately tries to stop his daughter from marrying a much older, poorer man. For all his...
04.16.1982	something to live for	+A retired cop stops an immigrant shop owner from killing himself, then helps him nail the gangsters...
04.03.1981	somewhere else	+A woman tells her analyst how she dreams she is a Viking woman who is betrothed to a fat farmer but...
01.17.1977	son of satan	+ Program #1108. "Son Of Satan". Sponsored by: Vantage Press, Buick. The program was rebroadcast on...
01.19.1978	sophia and the pilgrim	+A mystic induces young women to leave their homes and families to follow him. They are compelled to...
10.21.1977	sorry to let you go	+ Program #1385. "Sorry To Let You Go". The program was rebroadcast on March 15, 1978. Program #13...
07.10.1978	sound advice	+An advice columnist tells a woman to leave her husband and then finds out the woman dies the next d...
01.25.1974	speak of the devil	+ Program #20. "Speak Of The Devil". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, Budweiser. Speak of the Devil is a ta...
12.03.1979	spectre bridegroom	+A young bride is widowed on the eve of her marriage. However, the bridegroom still appears nightly ...
12.01.1978	squaring the triangle	+When a CEO's plane is diverted to a remote airport by a snowstorm, he is stranded with an employee'...
06.13.1975	stairway to oblivion	+Program #525. "Stairway To Oblivion". Sponsored by: Buick. The program was rebroadcast on October ...
02.14.1977	stamped for death	+Program #1136. "Stamped For Death". Sponsored by: G-E CB Radios, Buick, Pocketbooks, Contac. The p...
03.22.1976	stampede	+ Program #808. "Stampede". Sponsored by: Buick, Carrier Air Conditioners, Budweiser. The program w...
02.18.1981	stand in for murder	+A medical scientist clones himself and then wants to use the clone to murder his wife so he can mar...
04.14.1980	star sapphire	+An older couple adopts a teenage girl to help them on their farm and provide company for the wife w...
10.16.1975	stay out of dutchmans woods	+ Program #650. "Stay Out Of Dutchman's Woods". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was reb...
12.16.1974	stephanies room	+Program #346. "Stephanie's Room". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Contac. The program was rebroadc...
04.21.1975	sting of death	+Program #472. "Sting Of Death". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was rebroadcast on Jul...
12.09.1975	stitch in time	+ Program #704. "Stitch In Time". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was rebroadcast on Ma...
02.06.1976	straight from the horses mouth	+ Program #763. "Straight From The Horse's Mouth". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Luden's Cough...
06.08.1981	stranded	+Two astronauts exploring a neighboring solar system are struck by a asteroid and forced to land on ...
02.26.1975	strange case of lucas lauder	+Program #418. "The Strange Case Of Lucas Lauder". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Contac. The prog...
04.11.1974	strange company	+ Program #73. "Strange Company". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, 7-Up. + Belle Richards is an elderly wom...
11.26.1979	strange new tomorrow	+In a distant future, after the second Hundred Years War, mankind is afflicted with diseases caused ...
04.15.1976	strange passenger	+Program #832. "Strange Passenger". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Allied Van Lines, Buick, All...

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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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