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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
04.30.1982	the last duel	+A Lieutenant challenges a subordinate to a duel when he catches him playing cards. Many years pass ...
10.17.1974	the last escape	+Program #286. "The Last Escape". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Contac. The program was rebroadca...
10.13.1975	the last lesson	+Program #647. "The Last Lesson". Sponsored by: Buick. The program was rebroadcast on March 7, 1976...
01.08.1982	the last orbit	+An astronaut preparing for his final flight is plagued by visions of a strange woman who claims she...
12.02.1982	the last plan	+An eccentric older woman acts as a mediator to a squabbling young neighbor couple, each of whom is ...
07.15.1976	the last trip of charter boat sally	+ Program #498. "The Last Trip Of Charter Boat Sally". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Sine-Off,...
01.13.1978	the laughing maiden	+Three sailors try to locate Captain Kidd's treasure while avoiding the gaze of the Syndicate, a neb...
10.23.1978	the lazarus syndrome	+An older man in his early 50's is a manager in a company undergoing a youth movement where older pe...
08.21.1981	the left hand of god	+Sam Clemens triest to help a fellow writer who cannot control the characters in a story he is writi...
01.12.1981	the legend of alexander part i courage ep01of05	+Alexander as a 19 year old is repulsed by his mystic mother and embraces the warrior life of his fa...
01.13.1981	the legend of alexander part ii assassination ep02of05	+Alexander's father, King Philip, embarrasses him and his mother by marrying a 17 year old girl, Cle...
01.14.1981	the legend of alexander part iii divide and conquer ep03of05	+After his father's death, Alexander consolidates his power over his holdings, learns the secret of ...
01.15.1981	the legend of alexander part iv the oracle ep04of05	+Alexander consults Apollo's Oracle of Delphi, brutally destroys Thebes (burning it to the ground), ...
01.16.1981	the legend of alexander part v the legend begins ep05of05	+Alexander continues to wage war across Persia before a long soujorn where he defines himself as one...
08.24.1981	the leopard man	+An arrogant British civil servant defiles a native temple in India after New Year's revelry. The pr...
09.28.1981	the liar	+An artist is afforded the opportunity to get revenge on the pompous, compulsive liar who married hi...
02.28.1977	the light that failed	+Program #1150. "The Light That Failed". Sponsored by: Buick, Ex-Lax, Contac. The program was rebro...
09.15.1975	the little old lady killer	+Program #619. "The Little Old Lady Killer". Sponsored by: Buick. The program was rebroadcast on Fe...
10.14.1976	the living corpse	+ Program #1014. "The Living Corpse". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Certainteed Insulation, True ...
04.08.1974	the locked room	+ Program #70. "The Locked Room". Sponsored by: Budweiser, 7-Up. + This is a tale of young love, th...
07.21.1978	the locked trunk	+A woman plots revenge on her sister who married the man she loves. After she gets her revenge, she ...
05.13.1974	the lodger	+ Program #90. "The Lodger". Sponsored by: Buick, Budweiser, Contac, Kellogg's. +The fates brou...
12.21.1976	the lone survivor	+ Program #1081. "The Lone Survivor". Sponsored by: Buick, Contac. The program was rebroadcast on A...
04.24.1981	the long blue line	+A fourth generation Irish cop detective is selected to reopen and investigate a 10 year old homicid...
01.15.1979	the long long sleep	+A man is informed he will need open heart surgery. Afterward, he encounters situations that seem to...

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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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