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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
05.26.1980	phantom world	+A British aristocrat and a former British military officer condemned to die for treason find love a...
01.02.1978	peter peter pumpkin eater	+Peter Perkins is ignored at work and henpecked at home. So, he creates daydreams where he is the he...
08.25.1975	person to be notified	+Program #598. "Person To Be Notified". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was rebroadcast...
06.17.1976	pension plan	+Program #895. "Pension Plan". Sponsored by: Jovan, Fedders Air Conditioners, Preparation H, Family...
09.15.1977	passport to freedom	+ Program #708. "Passport To Freedom". The program was rebroadcast on February 1, 1978. + Behind t...
11.11.1975	party girl	+ Program #676. "Party Girl". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Singer Sewing Centers, Buick. The program wa...
03.11.1976	pandora	+Program #797. "Pandora". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Sine-Off, Buick. The program was rebro...
08.09.1976	overnight to freedom	+ Program #948. "Overnight To Freedom". Sponsored by: Popular Library Books, Buick, Budweiser, Cont...
05.29.1981	out of the past	+An artist hired to do sketches for a television station at a trial believes he recognizes one of th...
10.15.1979	out of the mist	+A man riding his motorcycle across the country hooks up with an elderly horticulturalist who puts h...
03.02.1974	out of sight	+ Program #48. "Out Of Sight". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Kellogg's. + Out of Sight is a contemporary...
04.10.1974	out of focus	+ Program #72. "Out Of Focus". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, 7-Up. + All of us daydream, it seems a harm...
08.18.1978	our own jailer	+An unhappy capitalist finds himself in the magical commune of Xanadu where he is allowed to indulge...
02.21.1977	orient express	+ Program #1143. "Orient Express". Sponsored by: G-E CB Radios, Buick, Berkeley Books. The progam w...
03.21.1974	ordeal by fire	+ Program #61. "Ordeal By Fire". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, Budweiser. + If any human could control f...
04.15.1974	only the dead remember	+ Program #74. "Only The Dead Remember". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, 7-Up. + Justice the noblest creat...
04.07.1982	only a woman	+A woman who claims to be the daughter of the goddess Dagon recounts for her biographer how she brou...
01.01.1976	one of the missing	+ Program #727. "One Of The Missing". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick. The program was reb...
09.28.1976	one girl in a million	+ Program #998. "One Girl In A Million". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Sine-Off. The program was ...
01.21.1980	once upon an island	+A young couple on their honeymoon visit her uncle on a Carribean Island. They notice an old house o...
07.24.1981	once a thief	+A detective arrests a young punk for ripping off an electronics store. The punk's father is wealthy...
05.14.1980	on the side of the angels	+A traveling salesman saves an oppressed young woman from her evil father and her evil brothers who ...
03.29.1982	on the night of the dead	+Women of a village stricken with disease and famine think they have found a savior in a man who cla...
09.02.1977	olive darling and morton dear	+Program #1336. "Olive Darling and Morton Dear". The program was rebroadcast on January 18, 1978. ...
09.10.1980	ocean of emptiness	+A married couple on the first manned mission to Jupiter find strange things in Jupiter's orbit. Dur...

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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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