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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
11.05.1980	the question	+An actress retires to her childhood beach home where she encounters a ghost who wants to paint her ...
03.02.1981	the raft	+A multi-millionaire is tormented by written demands for one million dollars. He is also haunted by ...
09.21.1976	the rainbow man	+ Program #991. "The Rainbow Man". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Sine-Off, Preparation H. The pro...
06.27.1975	the rape of maia	+Program #539. "The Rape Of The Maia". Sponsored by: Buick. The program was rebroadcast on October ...
06.12.1974	the rat	+A scientist develops a super-intelligent rat and sics it on the man who is having an affair with hi...
07.17.1974	the real printers devil	+Program #194. "The Real Printer's Devil". Sponsored by: Budweiser, 7-Up, Buick, Sine-Off. The prog...
01.19.1982	the real world	+A police detective is told that the murder of an untalented exotic dancer is unsolvable because her...
02.10.1977	the recluse	+ Program #1132. "The Recluse". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick, Contac, Popular Library B...
06.23.1977	the red circle	+Program #1265. "The Red Circle". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick, G-E CB Radios, Lysol. T...
01.16.1976	the red frisbee	+While playing on an Antilles beach with his dog and a red Frisbee, Ben meets Nikki, a young girl wi...
03.07.1978	the red scarf	+The classic love triangle except that the woman ditches her lover after he kills her husband. He th...
11.25.1982	the reigate mystery	+Program #2944. "The Reigate Mystery". Participating sponsors. A Sherlock Holmes story. Program #29...
01.02.1975	the reluctant killer	+ Before the story you can hear news on the US tennis open championship of the time. I love it when ...
11.06.1981	the rescue	+A one-legged flight instructor and a Jewish fugitive flee Vichy France in a dilapidated airplane.
01.15.1974	the resident	+ Program #10. "The Resident". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Kellogg's. + Come in welcome I am E. G. Mar...
09.02.1974	the return of anatole chevenic	+Program #241. "The Return Of Anatole Chevenic". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was re...
08.13.1980	the return of edward blair	+A man walks away from a logging camp and into a small town. there, he is mistaken for a man who com...
01.07.1974	the return of the moresbys	+ Program #2. "Return Of The Moresbys". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Kellogg's. The story you are about...
08.31.1977	the reunion	+ Program #1334. "The Reunion". The program was rebroadcast on January 15, 1978. Program #1335 was...
05.29.1978	the rich ostrich	+An amusing and intriguing farce about a circus ostrich that snatches and swallows a valuable diamon...
09.09.1982	the riddle	+A young couple purchase an old camera and a bundle of letters from an estate sale. The pictures the...
09.02.1982	the rim of eternity	+A down-on-his luck journalist working at a disreputable community paper tries to work his way back ...
01.26.1974	the ring of truth	+ Program #21. "The Ring Of Truth". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, Budweiser. P>Lorna Kitty Kitteridge’...
02.04.1977	the ripple effect	+ Program #1126. "The Ripple Effect". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Contac, Buick. The program...
05.16.1975	the rise and fall of the fourth reich	+Program #497. "The Rise and Fall Of The Fourth Reich". Sponsored by: Uncle Ben's Rice, Buick. The ...

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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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