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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
12.20.1976	date of death	+ Program #1080. "Date Of Death". Sponsored by: Greyhound Bus Lines, Buick, Ex-Lax. The program was...
06.06.1974	darling deadly dolores	+Program #153. "Darling Deadly Dolores". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, 7-Up, Budweiser, Buick, Contac. T...
10.24.1979	dangerous memory	+A few years after the war has ended, a Vietnam veteran, teetering on the edge of sanity, is sure he...
10.26.1981	daddys girls	+When the editor fires a society page columnist, she confronts him and shoots him. Her spinster sist...
08.21.1978	cross fire	+A cab driver gets caught up in murder and intrigue when he takes a wealthy man to a burned out buil...
02.13.1980	crime of passion	+An attorney is asked to defend a night watchman accused of murdering his wife after catching her wi...
03.16.1976	crime casts a shadow	+ Program #802. "Crime Casts A Shadow". Sponsored by: Carrier Air Conditioners, Contac, Buick, Budw...
11.26.1974	courtyard of death	+Program #326. "Courtyard Of Death". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Sine-Off. The program was rebr...
05.05.1978	cool killer carl	+A cold-hearted killer takes a family hostage while hiding from the cops. He is befriended by the mo...
03.26.1980	conspiracy	+Recounts the conspiracy by John Wilkes Booth and his followers to kill Abraham Lincoln, Vice Presid...
02.08.1974	conspiracy to defraud	+ Program #33. "Conspiracy To Defraud". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, Budweiser. E. G. + Welcome to the ...
01.07.1977	conquest of fear	+ Program #1098. "Conquest Of Fear". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick. The program was rebr...
10.22.1980	confession	+A wealthy man is cheated by his broker and extracts a written confession that he will use to blackm...
01.22.1975	concerto in death	+A symphony conductor refuses to accept the fact that his son -- a talented violinist -- died. His s...
01.01.1979	complete recovery	+A hit and run victim slowly recovers from her serious injuries but develops a series of phobias. Sh...
06.27.1977	come fill my cup	+Program #1269. "Come, Fill My Cup". Sponsored by: Dramamine, Sea & Ski, Buick, Country Time. The p...
07.02.1975	come back with me	+Program #544. "Come Back With Me". Sponsored by: Sine-Off, Budweiser. The program was rebroadcast ...
07.09.1982	come back next week	+A woman dutifully travels to a state prison each week to visit with the hitman who killed her husba...
04.21.1977	come away death	+Program #1202. "Come Away, Death". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Ex-Lax, Buick, Greyhound Pac...
01.13.1974	cold storage	+ Program #8. "Cold Storage". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Kellogg's. E. G. + Some ghouls robbing a gra...
05.15.1981	cold comfort	+An optometrist is blackmailed into spying for the enemies of his country because of an act he commi...
07.07.1982	code word caprice	+An honest truck driver works with the police to crack a hijacking ring.
07.24.1978	close shave	+A con artist convinces a lonely millionaire to marry the queen of a non-existent South American cou...
11.04.1976	city of the dead	+ Program #1034. "City Of The Dead". Sponsored by: Certainteed Insulation, Buick, Preparation H, Av...
08.21.1975	circle of evil	+ Program #594. "Circle Of Evil". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was rebroadcast on Ja...

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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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