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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
02.27.1981	love me dont leave me	+An old couple find love and happiness together for 45 years. But the wife harbors a dark secret tha...
02.05.1979	love after death	+ Program #1857. CBS net origination, WNEW, New York line feed. "Love After Death". Sponsored by: Ma...
01.09.1974	lost dog	+ Program #4. "Lost Dog". + Lost Dog is a dog story but please don’t expect a charming tale about...
02.24.1978	loser take all	+A young man plays second fiddle to a friend who is seemingly better than him at everything. But our...
07.01.1976	loser take all	+Program #909. "Loser Takes All". Sponsored by: Buick, Bantam Books, Lysol, Budweiser, True Value H...
06.11.1979	look whos coming	+A middle-aged couple having marital problems hit a real crisis when the wife watches space aliens w...
03.14.1977	look backward sometimes	+Program #1164. "Look Backward Sometimes". Sponsored by: True Temper Tools, Ex-Lax, Buick, Freedent...
04.23.1976	long live the king is dead	+ Program #840. "Long Live The King Is Dead". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick, Allied Van ...
05.27.1981	little richard	+Determined to reform after his prison sentence for check forging, a young man discovers that the wh...
06.16.1977	little lucys lethal libation	+Program #1258. "Little Lucy's Lethal Libation". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Country Time, E...
03.18.1977	little green death	+Program #1168. "Little Green Death". Sponsored by: G-E CB Radios, Buick, Contac, Allied Van Lines,...
06.23.1980	life blood	+A geneticist builds a life-like robot of a woman and orders it to seduce an old colleague who mistr...
01.24.1977	license to kill	+ Program #1115. "License To Kill". Sponsored by: Buick, Contac. The program was rebroadcast on May...
12.26.1975	license to kill	+ Program #721. "License To Kill". Sponsored by: Luden's Cough Drops, Buick. The program was rebroa...
04.25.1979	letter of love letter of death	+A detective investigates the murder of a theatrical producer. While all the evidence points to a pr...
01.22.1979	let the buyer beware	+Marcie purchases a table at an estate sale and finds a secret drawer in it containing a revolver th...
08.07.1981	let no man put asunder	+Two men spend the night together in jail on New Years Eve discussing how one of them ended up charg...
06.02.1980	let george do it	+An unhappy woman married to an old stockbroker seduces a traveling salesman and tries to get him to...
01.15.1982	les miserables part v the final chapter ep05of05	+ Valjean and his friends flee the revolution above to the sewers of Paris where they find an unexpe...
01.14.1982	les miserables part iv fear love and death ep04of05	+Valjean is caught in the French Revolution. Collette's secret love finds her. The situation takes a...
01.13.1982	les miserables part iii no escape ep03of05	+Valjean escapes the inspector and flees to the Latin section of France. There, he finds Collete hid...
01.12.1982	les miserables part ii the lawless and the law ep02of05	+Jean Valjean improves his lot in life by becoming a factory owner. Meanwhile, he is pursued by an i...
01.11.1982	les miserables part i the thief and the bishop ep01of05	+Jean Valjean spends 19 years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread for his starving family. When h...
02.25.1977	legend of phoenix hill	+When an archeologist takes his adopted son on an expedition to China, the expedition is besieged by...
06.11.1980	legacy of guilt	+When a pregnant woman moves a piece of furniture out of the attic, she is haunted by the spirit of ...

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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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