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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
09.18.1975	the coffin with the golden nails	+Program #622. "The Coffin With The Golden Nails". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was ...
11.23.1981	the code	+A small town sheriff calls on a carnival psychic to solve the murder of a man who was shot, stabbed...
06.19.1975	the climbing boy	+Program #531. "The Climbing Boy". Sponsored by: Buick. The program was rebroadcast on October 17, ...
10.01.1976	the clairvoyant	+ Program #1001. "The Clairvoyant". Sponsored by: Certainteed Insulation, True Value Hardware, Buic...
02.17.1978	the church of hell	+A vacationing couple return home to find out the tenant and caretaker of their home has been murder...
01.20.1974	the chinaman button	+ Program #15. "The Chinaman Button". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Kellogg's. + Listening to this story...
05.17.1977	the childs cats paw	+Program #1228. "The Child's Cat's Paw". Sponsored by: Buick, Arrow Shirts, Contac, Ex-Lax, Sea & S...
02.05.1976	the children of death	+Program #762. "The Children Of Death". Sponsored by: Budweiser, True Value Hardware, Luden's Cough...
05.28.1982	the chess master	+An unemployed advertising agent plays a pickup game of chess in the park with a stranger. That game...
04.11.1979	the channel house	+ A young woman takes a job in a rest home to find out what happened to her father who was a residen...
03.14.1975	the cezar curse	+Program #434. "The Cezar Curse". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Sine-Off, Uncle Ben's Rice. The p...
06.03.1981	the cats paw	+Spy story in which a spy poses as a scientist from the Los Alamos atomic facility to serve as a dec...
02.02.1977	the cat is dead	+ Program #1124. "The Cat Is Dead". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Berkeley Books, Buick, Conta...
01.12.1975	the cask of amontillado	+ Program #373. "The Cask Of Amontillado". Sponsored by: Vigne Wine, Buick, Sine-Off. The program w...
07.18.1979	the case of the forced divorce	+ A gentleman con man and his American police detective try to assist a British woman who is being h...
10.12.1977	the case of the chateau margaux	+ Program #1376. "The Case Of Chateau-Margaux". The program was rebroadcast on March 5, 1978. Prog...
08.22.1974	the case of m j h	+Program #230. "The Case Of M.J.H.". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was rebroadcast on...
10.06.1978	the captain of the polestar	+A Captain leads his whaling ship through ice near the North Pole in search of riches. The ship's do...
07.15.1974	the canterville ghost	+Program #192. "The Cantorville Ghost". Sponsored by: Budweiser, 7-Up, Buick, Sine-Off. The program...
02.05.1982	the cantankerous ghost	+A pair of elderly sisters living in an old mansion are about to lose their family home to forclosur...
07.27.1978	the cabinet of the unsolved	+An amateur actor uses his skill to hustle wealthy poker players. He ends up dead on a train without...
09.23.1977	the burning whirlwind	+ Program #1357. "The Burning Whirlwind". The program was rebroadcast on February 12, 1978. Progra...
01.24.1979	the burning bough	+An ancient myth comes alive for a woman who believes a log she saved from a fireplace keeps her son...
01.08.1974	the bullet	+ Program #3. "The Bullet". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Kellogg's. +Gerry was a young man of twenty wh...
05.19.1982	the brooch	+A governess signs on with a wealthy but eccentric couple to school their children. The husband is p...

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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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