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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
03.22.1977	the imposter	+Program #1172. "The Imposter". Sponsored by: Buick. The program was rebroadcast on July 30, 1977. ...
03.14.1978	the impossible is true	+Ghosts and death haunt a young woman who inherits the family estate. A police detective helps her i...
05.17.1982	the imperfect crime	+ A police detective assumes that it is just routine when he is asked to complete a report on the hi...
09.03.1974	the imp in the bottle	+Program #242. "The Imp In The Bottle". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was rebroadcast...
12.22.1975	the image	+Program #717. "The Image". Sponsored by: Listerine Lozenges, Buick. The program was rebroadcast on...
09.10.1975	the ideas of march	+Program #614. "The Ides Of March". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was rebroadcast on ...
01.31.1978	the ice palace	+Sailors on an ice-breaking mission find that the polar ice caps are melting. When the pilot sent to...
05.19.1978	the hundred dollar difference	+A no-good gambler conspires with his girlfriend to murder his rich aunt to inherit her money. When ...
04.28.1978	the house on chimney pot lane	+A professional couple buy a haunted house where past residents have disappeared. A mysterious pictu...
12.19.1974	the house of the voodoo queen	+Program #349. "The House Of The Voodoo Queen". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was reb...
06.13.1974	the house of the seven gables	+ Program #160. "The House Of The Seven Gables". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, 7-Up, Buick, Budweiser, S...
07.16.1979	the house of the dead heart	+A college student travels to Siena Italy to visit the House of the Dead Heart and view a secret, un...
10.27.1977	the house by the seine	+Program #1391. "The House By The Seine". TheThere's a house in Paris by the Seine which might hav...
03.06.1978	the house and the brain	+Strange goings-on lead two men on a trail of intrigue spanning more than 100 years. They learn the ...
03.01.1977	the hound of the baskervilles	+ Program #1151. "The Hound Of The Baskervilles". Sponsored by: G-E CB Radios, Buick, Contac, Greyh...
02.24.1974	the horse that wasnt for sale	+ Program #45. "The Horse That Wasn't For Sale". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, Budweiser. E. G. + The st...
04.17.1974	the horror within	+ Program #76. "The Horror Within". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, Budweiser. E + There are many fearful ...
02.09.1976	the horror of dead lake	+ Program #766. "The Horror Of Dead Lake". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Contac, Allstate Insuran...
02.22.1974	the horla	+ Program #44. "The Horla". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, Budweiser. + Historical Juvenile Quiz Show S...
05.09.1979	the hole in the sky	+ A star pilot is forced to take a job smuggling contraband. To get to his destination on time, he m...
08.01.1974	the hit man	+Program #209. "The Hit Man". Sponsored by: Budweiser, 7-Up, Buick, Sine-Off. The program was rebro...
05.14.1982	the hills of arias	+A former revolutionary of a Central American country escapes the rising dictatorship and settles in...
04.07.1977	the high priest	+Program #1188. "The High Priest". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick, Sine-Off, Freedent. Th...
03.13.1981	the heel of achilles	+A rich industrialist agrees to spend the night in a haunted house to prove to his wife and to himse...
03.10.1982	the heart of boadicea	+A queen, robbed of her rightful throne after the death of her husband, must decide on which course ...

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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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