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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
07.11.1975	the widows auxillary	+Program #553. "The Widow's Auxiliary". Sponsored by: Florida Orange Growers, Buick. The program wa...
01.26.1977	the white wolf	+ Program #1117. "The White Wolf". Sponsored by: Buick, Ex-Lax. The program was rebroadcast on May ...
12.07.1981	the white rabbit	+A British spy works with the French Underground during World War II. He tries to unite the splinter...
04.01.1976	the white ghost	+Program #818. "The White Ghost". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Carrier Air Conditioners, Buic...
04.23.1982	the whimpering pond	+A novelist visiting some old friends at a country estate witnesses the figure of what appears to be...
03.13.1978	the wheel of life	+A former soldier runs into the old Army buddy he thought was killed in Vietnam. That former buddy i...
05.07.1982	the wedding present	+In a Balkan country circa 1912, a good-natured professional swindler teams up with an unlikely fema...
02.21.1975	the weavers of death	+Program #413. "The Weavers Of Death". Sponsored by: Vigne Wine, Contac, Buick. The program was reb...
09.13.1977	the way to a dusty death	+ Program #1347. "The Way To Dusty Death". The program was rebroadcast on January 29, 1978 and Dec...
09.20.1982	the way station	+In 18th century Europe, a pair of twins overhear their gravedigger father, who lost his wife to the...
02.17.1982	the washington kidnap	+Two convicts in jail use their criminal skills to thwart an effort by the Tories to kidnap General ...
03.28.1977	the warriors from loanda	+Program #1178. "The Warriors From Loanda". Sponsored by: G-E CB Radios, Allied Van Lines, Buick, C...
01.17.1979	the wandering wind	+ A shy man marries an equally shy woman and they move into her home. She will not allow him to fix ...
02.21.1974	the walls of jericho	+ Program #43. "The Walls Of Jericho". + This is a tale of magic, what a word magic, what do we mea...
05.20.1976	the walking dead	+ Program #867. "The Walking Dead". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick, Coffee Rich, Family C...
02.17.1974	the walking corpse	+ Program #40. "The Walking Corpse". +The twin Caribbean Island of Mawicia and San Dorind is the ho...
03.03.1975	the wakeful ghost	+Program #232. "The Wakeful Ghost". Sponsored by: Vigne Wine, Buick, Contac. The program was rebroa...
09.05.1977	the waiting room	+ Program #1339. "The Waiting Room". The program was rebroadcast on January 21, 1978. Program #134...
05.01.1981	the voices	+A young girl held prisoner by the Nazis in Vichy France during WWII seems to be reliving the life o...
05.09.1975	the voices of death	+ Program #91. "Voices Of Death". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, 7-Up, Sine-Off, Buick. + If you ever too...
10.27.1982	the voice that wouldnt die	+A young woman and her father move into a Scottish manor house on the moors. The woman hears a mourn...
09.11.1975	the voice of death	+Program #615. "The Voice Of Death". Sponsored by: Buick, Sine-Off. The program was rebroadcast on ...
04.14.1982	the visions of sir philip sidney	+In 19th century London, a Zulu War veteran is plagued by visions of people on a train who no one el...
07.13.1978	the village of fools	+Program #1650. "The Village Of Fools". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Buick, Freedent, Wet One...
02.19.1982	the victim	+Joe Thompson's conviction for murder is based on such flimsy evidence that the great lawyer Ferras,...

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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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