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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
03.25.1976	the transformation of joebee	+ Program #811. "The Transformation Of Joebee". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Budweiser, Buick...
08.23.1976	the train stops	+Program #962. "The Train Stops". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Contac, Lysol, Preparation H, Buick, Eng...
10.08.1976	the tortured twins	+ Program #1008. "The Tortured Twins". Sponsored by: True Value Hardware, Preparation H, Buick, FTD...
03.22.1982	the tool shed	+A reporter for the London Times travels to a writer's farm to do a story on him and his works regar...
08.15.1977	the together place	+Program #1318. "The Together Place". The program was rebroadcast on December 27, 1977. Program #1...
03.16.1978	the time fold	+A doomed airplane, along with the flight crew and their mobster boss, accidentally enters a space-t...
02.18.1980	the time box	+A newspaper reporter discovers a time traveling invention developed in the 1880s. He uses it to tra...
09.17.1980	the threshold	+A hardware store owner and the mayor of a small town grow concerned when a married couple purchase ...
04.26.1976	the three elders of lifeboat landing	+ Program #843. "The Three Elders Of Lifeboat Landing". Sponsored by: Buick, Allied Van Lines. The ...
08.17.1981	the thracian lovers	+A man accused of murdering his wife and her lover recounts how he was King Urabus of Thrace Greece ...
07.29.1977	the thousand and first door	+Program #1301. "The Thousand and First Door". The program was rebroadcast on December 18, 1977. P...
09.27.1975	the thomas jefferson defense	+Program #631. "The Thomas Jefferson Defense". Sponsored by: Buick. The program was rebroadcast on ...
09.19.1975	the third person	+Program #623. "The Third Person". Sponsored by: Buick, Sine-Off. The program was rebroadcast on Fe...
04.04.1974	the thing inside	+ Program #69. "The Thing Inside". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, Budweiser. + Prepare to be sitting on t...
03.11.1974	the thing in the cave	+ Program #54. "The Thing In The Cave". Sponsored by: Kellogg's, Budweiser. + Four young Spelunkers...
11.20.1978	the thing at nolan	+In frontier Missouri, a rebellious son fights and threatens his domineering father. When the father...
11.07.1977	the therapeutic cat	+ Program #1402. "The Therapeutic Cat". The program was rebroadcast on April 5, 1978.
11.05.1979	the terrorist	+An elderly lady author, her niece, and her publisher's nephew are held captive in the author's secl...
04.22.1981	the terrifying gift	+A woman wanders into the den of a fortune teller who tells her she is her long lost grand-daughter....
01.06.1981	the tenth life	+While investigating murders that take place in the building in which he lives, a reporter encounter...
12.12.1977	the ten million dollar heist	+ Program #1437. "The Ten Million Dollar Heist". The program was rebroadcast on May 14, 1978. Prog...
07.17.1978	the telltale scar	+Program #1654. "The Tell-Tale Scar". Sponsored by: Buick. The program was rebroadcast on April 3, ...
01.11.1975	the tell tale heart	+ Program #372. "The Tell-Tale Heart". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Sine-Off. The program was re...
09.13.1976	the tell tale corpse	+Program #983. "The Tell-Tale Corpse". Sponsored by: Budweiser, Buick, Sine-Off, English Leather St...
11.30.1977	the teddy bear	+ Program #1425. "The Teddy Bear". The program was rebroadcast on May 3, 1978. Program #1426 was a...

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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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