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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
11.12.1979	house without mirrors	+An eccentric old man has a strange fear of mirrors and will allow none in his house. He is convince...
08.10.1981	hostage to terror	+A woman and her husband are kidnapped by terrorists. He is held to assure her cooperation in smuggl...
08.08.1977	hope springs eternal	+ Program #1311. "Hope Springs Eternal". The program was rebroadcast on December 10, 1977. Program...
08.03.1981	honor among thieves	+Several old men decide to knock over a bank to pay for the funeral of a dead friend. Like the prove...
01.11.1974	honeymoon with death	+ Program #6. "Honeymoon With Death". Sponsored by: + Has a horrible murder been done or is Jennife...
10.20.1980	honest mistake	+An aging, henpecked hitman is given the assignment to kill an aging, henpecked accountant. The hitm...
11.13.1975	home is where the ghost is	+ Program #678. "Home Is Where The Ghost Is". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Luden's Cough Drops, Buick. ...
12.13.1976	hit me again	+ Program #1073. "Hit Me Again". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Contac. The program was rebroadcas...
11.06.1978	hit and run	+A professional accident victim is killed when he jumps out in front of a senator's car. His hired w...
04.12.1982	his fourth wife	+A painter is commissioned to paint a portrait of the prospective bride of the notorious King Henry ...
09.13.1978	high caqueta	+A couple travel to the Andes Mountains to search for their daugther who has disappeared while mount...
08.28.1981	hidden memory	+A young man is forced to confront a horrible episode from his childhood and is seemingly cured of h...
02.26.1979	hickory dickory doom	+Program #1878. CBS net origination, WNEW, New York line feed. "Hickory, Dickory, Doom". Sponsored b...
07.05.1977	hexed	+ Program #1277. "Hexed". Sponsored by: Buick, Ex-Lax, Sea & Ski, Country Time, Dramamine, Sanka Co...
10.01.1980	heros welcome	+A shipwrecked man with amnesia finds paradise but leaves when he regains his memory years later. Wh...
02.04.1974	here goes the bride	+ Program #30. "Here Goes The Bride". Sponsored by: The supernatural doesn’t always have to presu...
03.04.1981	her long blonde hair	+A college professor is obsessed with a violin bow that he is sure is strung with the hair of his la...
06.19.1981	henriettas revenge	+A swindler needs to marry a rich woman in 31 days to avoid creditors. He seduces a powerful female ...
05.21.1979	help wanted	+A detective works a case involving a serial killer who stalks lonely, old women. His elderly aunt p...
08.18.1975	help somebody	+Program #591. "Help Somebody". Sponsored by: Florida Orange Growers, Buick, Vantage Press. The pro...
02.24.1975	hell hath no fury	+Program #416. "Hell Hath No Fury". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Contac. The program was rebroad...
03.06.1981	heads you love tails you die	+The young daughter of a murdered shopkeeper is adopted by a rich uncle and grows up wealthy. She fa...
07.30.1975	he moves in a mysterious way	+Program #572. "He Moves In Mysterious Ways". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Sine-Off. The program was re...
08.21.1974	having a horrible time	+Program #229. "Having A Horrible Time". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was rebroadcas...
12.14.1981	harrys taxi and the t machine	+A down on his luck scientist creates a transmigration machine and begins to experiment with living ...

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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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