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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
03.24.1977	the gift of doom	+Program #1174. "The Gift Of Doom". Sponsored by: G-E CB Radios, True Value Hardware, Buick, Contac...
07.08.1977	the gift	+ Program #1280. "The Gift". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick, Dramamine, Minute Maid, Shel...
10.27.1980	the gilbert stuart	+An art appraiser at a museum is asked to appraise, then purchase an unsigned painting by a famous a...
05.22.1978	the girl he left behind	+Under pressure from her mother, a young girl turns down a proposal from her boyfriend who is on lea...
01.19.1974	the girl who found things	+ Program #14. "The Girl Who Found Things". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, Budweiser. + E.G Marshall welc...
06.27.1979	the giuseppe verdi autobus	+A widow vactioning in Italy falls in love with a widower on vacation from Los Angeles. When they tr...
04.23.1979	the glass bubble	+A young woman shuts herself in her sterile glass room and believes that it gives her special psychi...
11.14.1977	the gloria scott	+ Program #1409. "The Gloria Scott". The program was rebroadcast on April 15, 1978.
10.12.1976	the god killer	+ Program #1012. "The God Killer". Sponsored by: Buick, Budweiser, Contac, Preparation H, FTD Flori...
01.28.1980	the god machine	+In an unfeeling, perfect future, marriages and reproduction are dictated by a master computer. When...
11.19.1979	the god that failed	+A U.S. senator is dispatched to visit a small, third world country on a diplomatic mission. After v...
11.30.1982	the goddess of death	+A moody painter finds the perfect model for his painting of Aphrodite. She has a profound affect on...
03.21.1978	the golden amulet	+An ancient Japanese ghost story involving the son of a samuri who reaps bad karma by falling in lov...
10.03.1974	the golden blood of the sun	+Program #272. "The Golden Blood Of The Sun". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Contac, Buick. The program w...
06.30.1975	the golden caldron	+Program #542. "The Golden Cauldron". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Sine-Off. The program was rebroadcas...
02.12.1976	the golden chalices	+Program #769. "The Golden Chalices". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Luden's Cough Drops, Allst...
04.18.1979	the golden girl	+A young woman from another planet in the future is sent back in time to Earth to kill a quasi-polit...
08.19.1976	the golden people	+Program #958. "The Golden People". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick, Budweiser, English Le...
12.30.1974	the golem	+Program #360. "The Golem". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Contac. The program was rebroadcast on ...
07.13.1981	the good sheperds	+Priests, pastors and doctors work with the French Underground to hide Jewish Children in France who...
02.01.1982	the good ship aud	+The biographical drama of Sir Roger Casement, beginning as he waits to be hanged for treason agains...
06.30.1978	the good times express	+A salesman's flight is diverted due to a June snow storm in Boston. He decides to hop a train and f...
04.24.1978	the grandee of terra loco	+A city reporter travels to a small south Texas town to do a story posthumously on the life and deat...
04.06.1981	the gratitude of the serpent	+A young girl is sold to a Spaniard who is set on conquering the Mayans. She is torn between loyalty...
11.08.1976	the graveyard	+ Program #1038. "The Graveyard". Sponsored by: Buick, Contac, Bronkaid, Ex-Lax. The program was re...

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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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