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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
04.10.1978	childish laughter	+After wrecking his car to avoid hitting a little girl, a scientist is stranded at a remote home. He...
12.06.1976	child of the sea	+ Program #1066. "Child Of The Sea". Sponsored by: Buick, Ex-Lax, Contac, Minute Maid. The program ...
12.03.1976	child of misfortune	+ Program #1063. "Child Of Misfortune". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Budweiser, Buick, Minute...
06.24.1976	child of fate	+Program #902. "Child Of Fate". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick, Budweiser, Mirro-Matic Co...
01.15.1977	cherchez la femme	+ Program #1106. "Cherchez la Femme". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick. The program was reb...
06.21.1976	checkmate	+Program #899. "Checkmate". Sponsored by: Mirro-Matic Cookers, Buick, Preparation H, Family Circle....
06.14.1978	charlie the actor	+A police officer is assigned to guard the king of a tiny, little-known country during the king's vi...
12.18.1974	charity is never dead	+ Program #348. "Charity Is Never Dead". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Contac. The program was re...
04.14.1978	chapter of errors	+A valuable Picasso is stolen from a small-time art dealer. He places an ad asking the thief to retu...
02.08.1982	change of heart	+When Millicent Sanford broke off her engagement to corporate kingpin Roger Skipworth, she called hi...
01.01.1981	catch the smallest devil	+An arrogant self-centered contankerous old rich man dies after heart surgery and is denied entrance...
07.25.1979	catch a falling star	+People of a small town take their sewing work to a substandard and crazy seamstress to be nice. But...
01.31.1977	casual affair	+ Program #1122. "A Casual Affair". Sponsored by: G-E CB Radios, Buick, Bantam Books. The program w...
01.30.1976	castle kerfol	+ Program #756. "Castle Kerfol". Sponsored by: Allstate Insurance, Buick, Budweiser, True Value Har...
08.10.1977	case closed	+Program #1313. "Case Closed". The program was rebroadcast on December 22, 1977. Program #1314 was...
07.31.1975	carmilla	+Program #573. "Carmilla". Sponsored by: Buick, Florida Orange Growers. The opening teaser and lead...
06.20.1975	can you trust your husband	+Program #532. "Can You Trust Your Husband?". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Sine-Off. The program was re...
11.21.1979	by word of mouth	+A young doctor treats the princess of a primitive tribe in India -- making her an outcast for havin...
04.17.1981	but with blood	+The story of John Brown, his anti-slavery followers, and the siege at Harpers Ferry that brought th...
11.04.1974	bury me again	+Program #304. "Bury Me Again". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Contac. The program was rebroadcast...
12.15.1975	burn witch burn	+ Program #710. "Burn, Witch, Burn". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick. The program was rebroadcast on...
04.24.1975	bulletproof	+Program #475. "Bullet Proof". Sponsored by: Buick. The program was rebroadcast on August 2, 1975 a...
12.19.1977	brothers of the angle	+ Program #1444. "Brothers Of The Angle". The program was rebroadcast on May 21, 1978. Progrtam #1...
07.02.1982	bring back my body	+A woman has split personalities. One is a mild-mannered spinster. The other is an embittered woman ...
11.26.1980	breakout	+During World War I, Two French soldiers escape a German POW camp and flee across the German country...

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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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