Desc | Cbs Radio Mystery Theater | Thriller

Thanks

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.

Click here to read more about Cbs Radio Mystery Theater

Radio Shows
Comments
Photos

Please enjoy these 1398 old time radio episodes:

Air Date	Title	Synopsis
10.11.1976	my wife doesnt understand me	+ Program #1011. "My Wife Doesn't Understand Me". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Sine-Off, Ex-Lax....
07.25.1974	my sister death	+Program #202. "My Sister-Death". Sponsored by: Budweiser, 7-Up, Buick, Sine-Off. The program was r...
04.15.1975	my own murderer	+Program #466. "My Own Murderer". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was rebroadcast on Ju...
07.05.1978	my kingdom for a horse	+The story of a gambler, his horse, and the conversations they have.
07.06.1981	my good name	+An artist gives up his art to pursue wealth as a dress designer. When he ends up dead at the hands ...
06.04.1982	my first rogue	+A sophisticated art thief plays cat and mouse with a French detective.
01.28.1977	my fair lady killer	+ Program #1119. "My Fair Lady-Killer". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Ex-Lax, Buick. The progr...
11.12.1974	must kill edna	+Program #312. "I Must Kill Edna". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Contac. The program was rebroadc...
02.20.1975	must hope perish	+Program #412. "Must Hope Perish". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Contac, Buick. The program was rebroadc...
05.06.1974	murder with malice	+ Program #86. "Murder With Malice". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, 7-Up, Budweiser. + All Mark thinks ab...
07.03.1975	murder will out	+Program #545. "Murder Will Out". Sponsored by: Buick. The program was rebroadcast on November 6, 1...
09.30.1974	murder to perfection	+Program #269. "Murder To Perfection". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Sine-Off. The program was re...
07.16.1980	murder preferred	+A recently widowed woman hires a lawyer for the man who is accused of murdering her husband. She co...
06.14.1977	murder one	+Program #1256. "Murder One". The program was rebroadcast on October 29, 1979. Program #1257 was a...
03.09.1981	murder on the space shuttle	+Sherlock Holmes meets Buck Rogers (not literally) in this tale of murder aboard a space shuttle. Im...
04.19.1976	murder most foul	+ Program #836. "Murder Most Foul". Sponsored by: Greyhound Package Express, Allied Van Lines, Buic...
08.29.1975	murder by proxy	+ Program #602. "Murder By Proxy". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The story is based on a Sherlock...
08.05.1982	murder by decree	+The story of King Henry VIII's unfortunate second wife is told from the time she gives birth to her...
04.17.1978	murder at troytes hill	+A lady detective in Victorian England joins a Scotland Yard detective to investigate the murder of ...
05.02.1977	much too much	+Program #1213. "Much Too Much". Sponsored by: Greyhound Package Express, Buick, Contac, Buick, Ex-...
01.30.1974	mother love	+ Program #25. "Mother Love". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Kellogg's. aula Richards and her husband hav...
10.03.1977	mother knows best	+A young, small time hood and former college football star who is down on his luck and desperate for...
06.25.1979	mission from zython	+A farmer and his son, living near a military base, take a few pictures of a flying saucer landing. ...
01.28.1976	mirror mirror	+ Program #754. "Mirror, Mirror". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick, Allstate Insurance, Sin...
05.27.1974	mirror for murder	+ Program #97. "Mirror For Murder". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, 7-Up, Budweiser, Buick, Contac. + Wh...

1 2 3 … 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 … 54 55 56

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.

Wiseguy