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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
01.23.1978	the forgetful ghost	+This is the whimsical tale of an affable ghost who has returned to the world of the living but who ...
01.23.1980	the forty four	+A wealthy, lonely landowner confesses she killed her cousin with an antique Colt .44 when he confro...
01.20.1981	the fountain of truth	+The inside story of Ponce de Leon's search for the fountain of Youth in Florida -- a scheme to find...
07.07.1978	the four fifteen express	+A man encounters a former acquaintance on a train. The acquaintance had reportedly absconded with 7...
07.01.1981	the fourth bullet	+Selected from the memoirs of famous composer Hector Bellios. He develops and carries out a bizarre ...
04.21.1980	the fourth reason	+An American businessman does not return from a business trip to Paris. His wife requests assistance...
11.28.1975	the frammis	+ Program #693. "The Frammis". Sponsored by: Listerine Lozenges, Buick. The program was rebroadcast...
02.23.1981	the frog prince	+A man and woman racing team relies on voodoo to keep them safe in the driver's seat. When the voodo...
08.13.1974	the frontier of fear	+Program #221. "The Frontier Of Fear". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was rebroadcast ...
07.20.1978	the further you go the less you know	+A guru convinces a small time con artist that he is actually the reincarnation of Leonardo DaVinci ...
09.19.1974	the garden	+Program #258. "The Garden". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was rebroadcast on Novembe...
04.03.1975	the garrison of the dead	+Program #454. "The Garrison Of The Dead". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Uncle Ben's Rice. The pr...
09.24.1979	the gettysburg address	+Program #2088. CBS net origination, WNEW, New York line feed. "The Gettysburg Address". Sponsored b...
03.20.1974	the ghost at the gate	+ Program #60. "The Ghost At The Gate". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, Budweiser. + Even though Charles i...
04.23.1974	the ghost driver	+ Program #79. "The Ghost Driver". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, 7-Up. + Do ghosts exist? Mel Stout do...
03.25.1981	the ghost grey bat	+A young New York couple swap homes with an Austrian couple for a year so a college professor can fi...
03.28.1978	the ghost in the well	+The ghost of a woman who died after falling down a well tells her tale to an artist who feels stran...
04.28.1982	the ghost of andersonville	+A prisoner, recently released from the Confederacy's most infamous prison camp, is asked to meet a ...
05.10.1976	the ghost of san juan hill	+ Lois Nettleton, Robert L. Green, Bryna Raeburn, Nat Polen, E. G. Marshall (host), Bob Juhren (writ...
09.12.1975	the ghost plane	+Program #616. "The Ghost Plane". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was rebroadcast on Fe...
12.16.1977	the ghost with a knife	+ Program #1441. "The Ghost With A Knife". The program was rebroadcast on May 20, 1978. Program #1...
09.27.1976	the ghostly private eye	+ Program #997. "The Ghostly Private Eye". Sponsored by: Buick, Preparation H, Contac. The program ...
07.10.1975	the ghostly rival	+Program #552. "The Ghostly Rival". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Sine-Off. The program was rebroadcast ...
12.26.1977	the ghosts of yesterday	+Program #1451. "The Ghosts Of Yesterday". The program was rebroadcast on May 28, 1978. Program #1...
02.20.1981	the gift house	+A young couple inherit an upstate New York home with a burglar alarm that continually goes off. Is ...

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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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