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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
10.24.1977	trial for murder	+ Program #1388. "Trial For Murder". The program was rebroadcast on March 18, 1978.
09.30.1977	trilby	+ Program #1364. "Trilby". The program was rebroadcast on February 22, 1978. Program #1365 was a r...
10.30.1975	triptych for a witch	+ Program #664. "Triptych For A Witch". Sponsored by: Listerine Lozenges, Budweiser, Buick. The pro...
02.16.1981	troubled waters	+A washed up civil engineer, who believes he was cursed by a river god after a bridge collapse years...
12.26.1974	turn about is foul play	+A man conspires with his girlfriend to off his wealthy but sick wife. He changes his mind at the la...
06.17.1977	two motives for murder	+Program #1259. "Two Motives For Murder". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick, Sine-Off, Freed...
05.19.1980	two of a kind	+A lazy young man concocts a scheme to drive his aunt insane so he can go on spending her money whil...
04.29.1976	two plus two equals death	+ Program #846. "Two Plus Two Equals Death". Sponsored by: Buick, Allied Van Lines, True Value Hard...
01.10.1977	two renegades	+ Program #1101. "Two Renegades". Sponsored by: Buick, Ex-Lax. The program was rebroadcast on Augus...
09.16.1982	two sisters	+A pair of twin sisters, one popular with men and one not, vie for the affections of a doctor. Compl...
06.02.1982	two times dead	+ A reporter interviews a man who manages to frame himself for murder -- his own murder! Based on a ...
06.15.1981	twos a crowd	+A small time swindler randomly meets his identical twin from whom he was separated at birth. He imm...
04.18.1978	uncle louis	+A police detective tries to bring down a mobster. In the process, he falls in love with a witness. ...
02.14.1974	under grave suspicion	+ Program #38. "Under Grave Suspicion" + This play poses a dilemma you have never faced or are like...
06.21.1982	universe hollow	+Patricia Ellicott is a contemptuous, fallen-from-grace newspaper reporter assigned to cover a story...
02.23.1978	vanishing lady	+A man refuses to give up when his fiance mysteriously disappears. The police are no help, the girl'...
11.30.1981	vanity and jane	+The resident of a sea side resort falls for the tourist that moves in next door to him. He soon fin...
04.02.1976	vanity dies hard	+ Program #819. "Vanity Dies Hard". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Carrier Air Conditioners, Bu...
05.14.1979	virtue is its own reward	+ A good angel and a succubus take earthly form to win the soul of a real estate investor and busine...
06.16.1980	voice from the grave	+When a female lab technician is murdered, a police detective relies on a doctor's wife who speaks i...
05.14.1974	voices of death	+Program #130. "Voices Of Death". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, 7-Up, Sine-Off, Buick. The program was r...
04.02.1979	voyage to intrastar	+A psychologist who visits his dead wife through his dreams is convinced that he has found a secret ...
06.29.1981	waking and sleeping	+Character finds himself with everything he ever wanted. But there is still something missing from h...
05.07.1980	wanted a husband	+Two grifters set up a mail order scam auctioning off a fictional wealthy widow. A postal inspector ...
04.30.1979	war of angels	+Arch-Angel Michael and Lucipher debate over where the soul of a rutheless business woman should go....

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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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