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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
03.12.1980	the secret of the fifth bell	+A woman buys her husband a set of antique Chinese bells, one of which rings on its own. When it rin...
07.22.1977	the secret of the aztecs	+ Program #1294. "The Secret Of The Aztecs". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Minute Maid, Ex-Lax...
07.28.1977	the secret of laurels	+ Program #1300. "The Secret Of Laurels". The program was rebroadcast on December 17, 1977.
09.15.1978	the secret of crows nest	+A man returns to a mountain cabin that holds a terrible secret for him.
07.03.1974	the secret life of bobby deland	+Program #180. "The Secret Life Of Bobby Deeland". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, 7-Up, Contac, Budweiser...
06.20.1974	the secret doctrine	+Program #167. "The Secret Doctrine". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, 7-Up, Sine-Off, Budweiser, Buick. Th...
11.05.1976	the secret chamber	+ Program #1035. "The Secret Chamber". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick, Certainteed Insula...
04.28.1977	the second chance lady	+Program #1209. "The Second Chance Lady". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, G-E CB Radios, A.R.M.,...
12.15.1978	the search for myra	+ A wealthy industrialist inexplicably starts calling his secretary and wife Myra. But who is Myra? ...
10.23.1975	the sealed room muder	+Program #657. "The Sealed Room Murder". Sponsored by: Buick. The program was rebroadcast on March ...
10.05.1977	the sea nymph	+ Program #1369. "The Sea Nymph". The program was rebroadcast on February 26, 1978. Program #1370 ...
11.04.1982	the school mistress	+A Russian school mistress has a scandulous love affair in pre-revolutionary Moscow.
03.29.1976	the saxon curse	+Program #815. "The Saxon Curse". Sponsored by: Allstate Insurance, Sine-Off, Buick. The program wa...
02.10.1982	the sand castle	+After her little brother drowns, a young girl becomes obsessed with building sand castles. She buil...
01.26.1978	the safety match	+Two brilliant detectives, one young and arrogant, the other old and pompous, team up to solve a com...
01.07.1976	the russian passport	+ Program #733. "The Russian Passport". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Budweiser, Buick. The pr...
06.01.1981	the runaway general	+Recounts the story of the only POW to escape from German POW camps in both World Wars. The story is...
09.29.1980	the ruby lamp	+A terrifying experiment in thought photography. A college professor develops a device to photograph...
08.14.1975	the root of all evil	+Program #587. "The Root Of All Evil". Sponsored by: Florida Orange Growers, Buick. The program was...
11.29.1978	the romany revenge	+When four heirs to a $2 million fortune in diamonds start disappearing, the local detective suspect...
07.05.1982	the romance of mary oates	+Romance finally comes to a lonely secretary who still lives with her father at age 40. But she find...
07.26.1977	the rockets red glare	+ Program #1298. "The Rocket's Red Glare". Sponsored by: Sine-Off, Ex-Lax, Buick, Preparation H, Ko...
07.02.1979	the rivalry	+ A Washington, D.C. detective works the murder of a lounge singer with international connections. A...
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 ...
02.04.1977	the ripple effect	+ Program #1126. "The Ripple Effect". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Contac, Buick. The program...

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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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