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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
03.26.1976	extortion	+ Program #812. "Extortion". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Allstate Insurance, Buick, Carrier....
02.07.1979	everybody does it	+Program #1859. CBS net origination, WNEW, New York line feed. "Everybody Does It". Sponsored by: *S...
08.02.1976	every dog has his day	+Program #941. "Every Dog Has His Day". Sponsored by: Contac, Buick, Preparation H, Popular Library...
03.17.1975	every blossom dies	+Program #437. "Every Blossom Dies". Sponsored by: Vigne Wine, Buick, Contac, Uncle Ben's Rice. The...
06.28.1982	escape to prison	+An executive thinks there is a large conspiracy against her by her friends and coworkers to convinc...
10.01.1982	escape from anzio	+An Army pilot is shot down over occupied Italy during World War II. He and his comarades must hide ...
06.24.1974	escape escape	+Program #171. "Escape! Escape!". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, 7-Up, Budweiser, Buick, Contac. The prog...
12.07.1976	enough rope	+ Program #1067. "Enough Rope". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Contac, Arrow Shirts, True Value Ha...
03.26.1979	enemy from space	+Aliens kidnap the President and send a double back to start a nuclear war. The President's daughter...
05.11.1981	end of a queen	+The final hours of Marie Antoinette's life are recounted as she faces the tribunal of the people an...
09.11.1978	end of a memory	+A blind man stumbles into a murder scene and barely escapes with his life. Years later, he falls in...
08.19.1982	eleanora	+On opening night, an actress, playing the part of Shakespeare's Juliet, reminisces about her tragic...
05.15.1978	edmund orme	+A young man is thwarted by a ghost every time he starts to propose to the woman he loves. The woman...
08.23.1978	eavesdropper	+Myrtle Chapman, married for eight years to a man who pays little attention to her but likes to read...
05.30.1974	dressed to kill	+ Program #99. "Dressed To Kill". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, 7-Up, Buick, Sine-Off, Budweiser. + Pete...
05.23.1979	dreams	+A small time gambler uses his wife's dreams to help him gamble and win. When she is hospitalized fr...
05.05.1982	dreamers and killers	+A woman scorned has nightmares of killing her former beau in various ways. She is troubled when her...
05.02.1974	dracula	+ Program #85. "Dracula". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, 7-Up, Budweiser. E. G. + Vampire! Perhaps in the...
09.16.1976	dr petersons pills	+ Program #986. "Dr. Peterson's Pills". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Preparation H, Contac, Cert...
06.19.1978	dr jekyll and mrs hyde	+ A sheriff is asked by a defense attorney to recount how he solved a case involving blackmail and d...
06.18.1974	dr jekyll and mr hyde	+Program #165. "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, 7-Up, Contac, Budweiser, Buick. ...
02.07.1978	dr heideggers experiment	+An old doctor invites a handful of his old school friends to his home for an experiment. He gives e...
04.01.1981	down the garden path	+This is the story of a young Machiavelli learning the art of persuasion. He convinces a young man t...
09.04.1981	doublecross death	+A coroner investigates the death of his niece. The center of his suspicion is her ne'er do well hus...
12.23.1976	double zero	+Program #1083. "Double Zero". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, True Value Hardware. The program was...

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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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