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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
09.25.1974	the deadly blind mans bluff	+Program #264. "The Deadly Blind Man's Bluff". Sponsored by: Buick, Contac. The program was rebroad...
08.26.1974	the deadliest favor	+Program #234. "The Deadliest Favor". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was rebroadcast o...
04.23.1980	the dead you cant bury	+A young woman visits a fortune teller at a party. The fortune teller tells her that a man in her fu...
12.29.1978	the dead house	+While traveling in Germany, Twain visits with the night caretaker of a morgue who tells him a tale ...
02.03.1976	the dead deserve to rest	+ Program #760. "The Dead Deserve To Rest". Sponsored by: Buick, Allstate Insurance, Greyhound. The...
11.27.1975	the dead dead ringer	+ Program #692. "The Dead, Dead-Ringer". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Singer Sewing Centers, Buick. The...
03.30.1981	the dead come alive	+The people of a small Ohio town find out that a man is coming to town who can raise and restore the...
03.12.1975	the dark closet	+Program #432. "The Dark Closet". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Sine-Off, Buick, Uncle Ben's Rice. The p...
12.10.1974	the damned thing	+Program #340. "The Damned Thing". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Sine-Off. The program was rebroa...
11.10.1980	the dagger of almohades	+A beautiful woman enjoys pitting men against each other for her amusement -- sometimes to fight to ...
06.07.1977	the curse of conscience	+ Program #1249. "The Curse Of Conscience". The program was rebroadcast on October 20, 1977. Progr...
01.30.1980	the crystal gazer	+A man sees his death in a crystal ball and 'The Thinking Machine' discovers the truth. A young woma...
03.07.1974	the creature from the swamp	+ Program #53. "The Creature From The Swamp". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Kellogg's. E. G. + Just ment...
05.20.1974	the crack in the wall	+ Program #94. "The Crack In The Wall". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, 7-Up, Budweiser, Sine-Off. Anne Co...
03.23.1976	the covered bridge	+ Program #809. "The Covered Bridge". Sponsored by: Buick, Budweiser, Sine-Off, Pocketbooks, Allsta...
05.26.1977	the countess	+Program #1237. "The Countess". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick, Cargo Coil, Sea & Ski. Si...
12.19.1975	the corpse wrote shorthand	+Program #714. "The Corpse Wrote Shorthand". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Listerine Lozenges, Buick. Th...
06.07.1976	the corpse that wouldnt die	+Program #885. "The Corpse That Would Not Die". Sponsored by: Greyhound Package Express, Buick, Cof...
05.03.1976	the cornstarch killer	+Program #850. "The Cornstarch Killer". Sponsored by: Buick, Allied Van, Greyhound Package Express,...
06.13.1979	the copenhagen connection	+A detective confronts betrayal while tracing a bogus life insurance claim through Mexico and Europe...
09.22.1978	the conversion factor	+A physicist needs just one thing to complete his study of a new kind of math: a conversion factor. ...
11.15.1978	the conspiracy	+A model conspires to embarrass and torment her former boyfriend who abandoned her. He had been her ...
11.09.1976	the colony	+ Program #1039. "The Colony". Sponsored by: Sine-Off, Buick, Master Lock Burglar Alarms, Bronkaid....
07.12.1977	the colonel chabert	+Program #1284. "The Colonel Chabert". Sponsored by: Buick, Ex-Lax, Singer Sewing Centers, Preparat...
03.29.1977	the coldest killer	+Program #1179. "The Coldest Killer". Sponsored by: Buick, Ex-Lax, Freedent, Allied Van Lines, True...

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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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