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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
01.09.1975	berenice	+Program #370. "Berenice". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Contac. The program was rebroadcast on March 11...
04.21.1978	bet with the angels	+A mild-mannered advertising executive starts getting gambling tips from his dead friend who was an ...
12.27.1979	between these worlds	+A space pilot on a planet three galaxies away is dispatched to Earth to scout it out for potential ...
11.02.1981	between two mirrors	+Time becomes frazzled and disjointed for a woman whose husband lies in a coma after a train acciden...
12.17.1979	beyond belief	+A young woman wandering New York City with no memory is taken in by a couple who own a small shop. ...
03.07.1977	beyond the barrier	+Program #1157. "Beyond The Barrier". Sponsored by: G-E CB Radios, Buick, Contac. The program was r...
03.30.1978	big city blues	+A newlywed couple is robbed in the big city and find themselves on a human interest program on tele...
04.27.1981	big momma	+A city planner is pressured and bribed to allow a factory to be built in his city. When he gets his...
04.29.1975	black widow	+Program #480. "Black Widow". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Uncle Ben's Rice. The program was reb...
04.11.1978	blackmail	+A Hollywood starlet is blackmailed with a photo of her in the arms of a known gangster. She looks f...
05.17.1976	blind witness	+Program #864. "Blind Witness". Sponsored by: Buick. The program was rebroadcast on September 11, 1...
02.18.1974	blizzard of terror	+ Program #41. "Blizzard Of Terror". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Kellogg's. E. G. + Helen and Jim Cran...
07.12.1976	blood red roses	+ Program #920. "Blood Red Roses". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Mirro-Matic Cookers, Bantam Book...
04.08.1977	blood thunder and a woman in green	+Program #1189. "Blood, Thunder, and A Woman In Green". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick, T...
11.26.1976	blood will tell	+Program #1056. "Blood Will Tell". Sponsored by: Minute Maid, Buick, Contac, True Value Hardware. T...
10.29.1980	bloodline	+A stockbroker is facing indictment for having swindled his employer out of $2 million. He tells how...
06.03.1976	blue justice	+ Program #881. "Blue Justice". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick, Coffee Rich. The program ...
08.15.1979	body and soul	+A bed-ridden woman lapses into a coma and has an out of body experience. She watches as her estrang...
07.04.1977	boomerang	+ Program #1276. "Boomerang". Sponsored by: Buick, Sine-Off, Dramamine, Country Time. The program w...
04.15.1977	borderline case	+Program #1196. "Borderline Case". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick, G-E CB Radios, Allied ...
05.06.1977	bottom of the world	+Program #1217. "Bottom Of The World". Sponsored by: Buick, A.R.M., Popular Library Books, Presto P...
04.25.1977	bound east for haiti	+Program #1206. "Bound East For Haiti". Sponsored by: Buick, Presto Pressure Cookers, Sine-Off, Ex-...
03.24.1976	brain drain	+Program #810. "Brain Drain". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Carrier Air Conditioners, Buick, B...
11.26.1980	breakout	+During World War I, Two French soldiers escape a German POW camp and flee across the German country...
07.02.1982	bring back my body	+A woman has split personalities. One is a mild-mannered spinster. The other is an embittered woman ...

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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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