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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
02.21.1979	the great brain	+Program #1873. CBS net origination, WNEW, New York line feed. "The Great Brain". Sponsored by: Maxw...
07.16.1982	the great catherine	+A German born Czarina of Russia tries to solidify Russia's place among the powers of Europe by mode...
07.04.1979	the great white shark	+A charter boat captain takes an arrogant millionaire and his wife on a charter and promptly falls i...
04.22.1976	the green eyed monster	+ Program #839. "The Green-Eyed Monster". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick, Allied Van Line...
08.08.1975	the grey ghost	+Program #581. "The Grey Ghost". Sponsored by: Florida Orange Growers, Buick. The program was rebro...
11.22.1978	the grey slapper	+A former student of a teacher turned politician tries to save him from himself as he sells himself ...
09.17.1979	the guillotine	+Program #2081. CBS net origination, WNEW, New York line feed. "The Guillotine". Sponsored by: Kinne...
05.11.1978	the guilt of the innocent	+A young and poor Russian falls under the influence of a master thief who works a seaport.
09.26.1977	the guy de maupassant murders	+ Program #1360. "The Guy de Maupassant Murders". The program was rebroadcast on February 15, 1978...
08.12.1976	the haliday prediction	+Program #951. "The Haliday Prediction". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Popular Library Books, ...
07.12.1982	the hand of amnesia	+A young short-order cook marries a wealthy widow but keeps his girlfriend on the side. When his wif...
09.11.1974	the hand that refused to die	+Program #250. "The Hand That Refused To Die". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was rebr...
04.24.1974	the hand	+A young short-order cook marries a wealthy widow but keeps his girlfriend on the side. When his wif...
08.19.1974	the hands of mrs mallory	+Program #227. "The Hands Of Mrs. Mallory". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. There is a brief loss o...
07.14.1978	the hanging judge
11.21.1975	the hanging judgement	+Program #686. "The Hanging Judgement". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Luden's Cough Drops, Buick. The pr...
04.26.1982	the hanging sheriff	+A sheriff has problems imposing the death penalty when he is asked to carry out a hanging. When his...
11.08.1977	the haunted mill	+Program #1403. "The Haunted Mill". The program was rebroadcast on April 8, 1978. Program #1404 wa...
09.27.1978	the head hunters	+Newlyweds Tim and Mary Lang return to their native Phillipine island to find that Tim's grandmother...
12.23.1981	the head of a pin	+When a plane explodes killing 300 people, a silicon chip engineer realizes a design flaw caused the...
05.22.1981	the headhunters	+In the year 2100, computers are used to reprogram criminals to make them good citizens. However, a ...
09.23.1975	the headless hessian	+Program #627. "The Headless Hessian". Sponsored by: Buick, Sine-Off. The program was rebroadcast o...
08.06.1974	the headstrong corpse	+Program #214. "The Headstrong Corpse". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was rebroadcast...
03.10.1982	the heart of boadicea	+A queen, robbed of her rightful throne after the death of her husband, must decide on which course ...
03.13.1981	the heel of achilles	+A rich industrialist agrees to spend the night in a haunted house to prove to his wife and to himse...

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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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