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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
01.01.1975	the deadly pearls	+Program #362. "The Deadly Pearls". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Contac. The program was rebroad...
07.22.1974	the deadly process	+Program #199. "The Deadly Process". Sponsored by: Budweiser, 7-Up, Buick, Sine-Off. The program wa...
05.01.1974	the death bell	+Program #117. "The Death Bell". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, Budweiser, 7-Up. The program was rebroadc...
07.30.1980	the death disk	+An applicant for a job with a charitable organization is first told she has the job. But the charit...
04.10.1975	the death of halpin fraser	+Program #461. "The Death Of Halpin Fraser". Sponsored by: Vigne Wine, Buick. The program was rebro...
12.14.1977	the death shot	+Program #1439. "The Death Shot". The program was rebroadcast on May 17, 1978. Program #1440 was a...
03.01.1976	the death trail	+ Program #787. "The Death Trail". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Allstate Insurance Buick. The program w...
11.21.1974	the death watch	+Program #321. "The Death Watch". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Contac. The program was rebroadca...
03.19.1980	the death wish	+ To relax, a stressed-out businessman takes up 'rhapsodic meditation.' While meditating, he has vis...
02.17.1975	the death wisher	+Program #409. "The Death Wisher". Sponsored by: Vigne Wine, Buick, Contac. The program was rebroad...
10.27.1976	the deathly white man	+ Program #1027. "The Deathly White Man". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Avon Books, Contac, Bu...
01.27.1978	the defectors	+A spy catches a senator in a compromising position with a woman who is not his wife. He tries to bl...
10.31.1974	the demon spirit	+Program #300. "The Demon Spirit". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was rebroadcast on D...
02.06.1980	the deserter	+A couple and their infant son are stranded in the California's Sierra mountains by a rockslide. The...
07.11.1974	the devil god	+Program #188. "The Devil-God". Sponsored by: Budweiser, 7-Up, Buick. The program was rebroadcast o...
12.06.1978	the devils bargain	+A con artist and master of disguises steals items, then poses as a psychic and offers to find the g...
08.04.1975	the devils boutique	+Program #577. "The Devil's Boutique". Sponsored by: Florida Orange Growers, Buick. The program was...
08.02.1978	the devils brew	+When a baseball player leaves his mother and father to go to the big leagues, the Devil lays claim ...
06.04.1975	the devils leap	+Program #516. "The Devil's Leap". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Sine-Off. The program was rebroadcast o...
12.02.1974	the dice of doom	+Program #332. "The Dice Of Doom". Sponsored by: Buick, Sine-Off, Budweiser. The program was rebroa...
05.21.1982	the different people	+A 20th century professor of anthropology discovers a letter written during the Civil War that hints...
01.31.1975	the disembodied voice	+Program #392. "The Disembodied Voice". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Contac. The program was reb...
12.16.1976	the doctors evidence	+ Program #1076. "The Doctor's Evidence". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick, Contac, Ex-Lax....
12.04.1981	the dog walker murders	+A man, filled with hatred for his mother, is prophesied to meet his downfall at the hands of a woma...
10.10.1974	the doll	+Program #279. "The Doll". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Sine-Off. The program was rebroadcast on...

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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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