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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
06.04.1980	obsession	+A writer of detective and crime stories asks his old friend, the police chief, to lock him up becau...
09.15.1980	number one	+A movie company is filming on location in Central America when they are taken hostage by a local wa...
11.30.1976	now you see them now you dont	+ Program #1060. "Now You See Them, Now You Don't". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Greyhound Bus Lines, C...
09.30.1976	not for sale	+ Program #1000. "Not For Sale". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Contac, Preparation H, True Value ...
12.09.1976	nobody dies	+ Program #1069. "Nobody Dies". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Arrow Shirts, Buick, Contac. The...
12.27.1978	no way out	+An elderly man keeps having the same number, 2172, occur at random in his life. His nephew blows it...
07.23.1979	no mans land	+During World War II, two American soldiers are taken prisoner by the people of a French village. Th...
01.10.1974	no hiding place	+ Program #5. "No Hiding Place". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Kellogg's. The story you are about to hea...
08.29.1979	ninety lives	+A waitress falls in love with an amnesia victim that wanders into her diner late in the day. She is...
07.17.1975	nightmares nest	+Program #559. "Nightmare's Nest". Sponsored by: Florida Orange Growers, Buick. The program was reb...
07.14.1980	nightmare in gillette castle	+Program #2326. "Nightmare In Gillette Castle". Participating sponsors. A Sherlock Holmes story. Th...
11.24.1978	night visitor	+A young woman who is supposed to be dead shows up days later in the bed of her parents' visitor. Sc...
08.28.1975	night of the howling dog	+Program #601. "Night Of The Howling Dog". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was rebroadc...
02.13.1978	night eyes	+A stable hand at a race track ends up dead after he notices that a lousy racehorse has been replace...
02.22.1982	nickles and dimes	+Ray Vance, an undercover detective, is so successful in infiltrating Big Joe's East Side organizati...
10.20.1975	never in this world	+Program #654. "Never In This World". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was rebroadcast o...
10.18.1978	never answer an advertisement	+A country doctor has trouble attracting new patients, so he answers a strange advertisement for a p...
01.12.1979	nefertiti part 5 the curse of the scarab ep05of05	+Nefertiti tries to bury her daughter in a traditional ceremony involving all the gods rather than j...
01.11.1979	nefertiti part 4 the head with one eye ep04of05	+While his neighbors threaten war, Ahkenaten acts the pacifist while he builds his city. When his da...
01.10.1979	nefertiti part 3 the cobra strikes ep03of05	+Ahkenaten and Nefertiti build the City of Truth, known as Amarna, to advance their new religion. Ne...
01.09.1979	nefertiti part 2 to kill a pharoah ep02of05	+The conspiracy to kill Ahkenaten fails and Nefertiti finds that she is developing love and respect ...
01.08.1979	nefertiti part 1 the vulture ep01of05	+Nefertiti, daughter of the Prime Minister, is to be wed to Prince Ahkenaten, a timid, scared soul w...
12.02.1977	neatness counts	+ Program #1427. "Neatness Counts". The program was rebroadcast on May 6, 1978. Program #1428 was ...
11.12.1980	natural sugar	+An actor is murdered every night on stage with poison, but this time it's for real. A police detect...
10.13.1980	napoleon and the queen of sheba	+Two good witches try to help a small-time con man stop his life of crime.

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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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