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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
01.06.1974	the old ones are hard to kill	+ Program #1. "The Old Ones Are Hard To Kill". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Kellogg's. In the story you...
06.30.1980	the old maid murders	+A middle-aged secretary finds out her boss, with whom she is secretly in love, might be a foreign a...
03.24.1982	the old country	+A strategic planner travels to Russia to work for his firm's Russian office. He lapses into the pas...
09.10.1979	the odyssey of laura collins	+Program #2074. CBS net origination, WNEW, New York line feed. "The Odyssey Of Laura Collins". Spons...
01.08.1975	the oblong box	+Program #369. "The Oblong Box". Sponsored by: Buick, Sine-Off. The program was rebroadcast on Marc...
12.30.1977	the ninth volume	+ Program #1455. "The Ninth Volume". The program was rebroadcast on June 3, 1978. Program #1456 wa...
10.04.1982	the ninth commandment	+A wealthy, middle-aged woman falls for the man who attempts to burgle her home. Later, when he is a...
11.14.1979	the nine hundred ninety nine thousand dollar error	+A computer error allows a crooked lawyer in Manilla to reap a $999,000 windfall. When the bank pres...
06.10.1977	the night we died	+ Program #1252. "The Night We Died". The program was rebroadcast on October 23, 1979. Program #12...
08.30.1976	the night shift	+Program #969. "The Night Shift". Sponsored by: Contac, Buick, English Leather, Budweiser. The prog...
01.30.1975	the night of the wolf	+Program #391. "The Night Of The Wolf". Sponsored by: Vigne Wine, Buick, Sine-Off. The program was ...
03.12.1982	the new man at the yard	+In 1860, the newly-formed Scotland Yard enlists novelist and human nature expert Charles Dickens as...
04.02.1982	the naval treaty	+Program #2775. "The Naval Treaty". Participating sponsors. A Sherlock Holmes story, rebroadcast Ju...
01.11.1976	the mysterious stranger	+Program #737. "The Mysterious Stranger". Sponsored by: Time Magazine, Buick. The program was rebro...
02.03.1982	the mysterious slumber	+A dramatization of the strange case of Mary Reynolds, an 18th century woman who awakens after a len...
09.22.1980	the mysterious rochdale special	+When an entire train disappears on route to London, along with its lone wealthy passenger, Scotland...
07.19.1977	the mysterious island	+ Program #1291. "The Mysterious Island". Sponsored by: G-E CB Radios, Buick, Dramamine, Sine-Off, ...
08.06.1980	the mysterious hanging of squire huggins	+A young artist embellishes a tale of the murder of a local man of importance and soon finds himself...
08.31.1981	the musgrave ritual	+Program #2621. "The Musgrave Ritual". A Sherlock Holmes story, rebroadcast November 24, 1981. Pro...
01.07.1975	the murders in the rue morgue	+Program #368. "The Murders In The Rue Morgue". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was reb...
09.24.1980	the murder of caesar	+As Ceasar consolidates his power, his friends plot to destroy him lest he become to powerful. The l...
04.09.1974	the murder museum	+ Program #71. "The Murder Museum". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, 7-Up. + You are about to be taken on a...
12.23.1975	the murder market	+ Program #718. "The Murder Market". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Listerine Lozenges, Buick. The progra...
12.12.1979	the movie makers	+A mysterious company claims to have films of a man's entire life. Curiosity gives way to obsession ...
10.23.1981	the most necessary evil	+A woman questions her husband's recent wealth. He refuses to reveal its source and confesses to bei...

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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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