The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1974–1975
- Surviving broadcasts
- 405
- Genre
- suspense
This upload contains all 1399 episodes of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Marshall (and for the last 11 months, Tammy Grimes) and produced by Himan Brown, both veterans of radio from the Golden Age, the Mystery Theater was CBS's attempt to revive radio drama from 1974-1982.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
4 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air, with 1 year where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1975, in original transmission order.
- 1. CBSRMT The Coffin With The Golden Nails · 18 Sep 1975
- 2. CBSRMT The Third Person · 19 Sep 1975
- 3. CBSRMT Solid Gold Soldiers · 22 Sep 1975
CBSRMT Sagamore Cottage
31 Dec 1975 · 45 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 31 December 1975. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
CBSRMT The Memory Killers
29 Dec 1975 · 45 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 29 December 1975. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
CBSRMT License to Kill
26 Dec 1975 · 52 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 26 December 1975. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
CBSRMT A Christmas Carol
24 Dec 1975 · 43 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 24 December 1975. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
CBSRMT The Murder Market
23 Dec 1975 · 43 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 23 December 1975. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
CBSRMT The Image
22 Dec 1975 · 43 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 22 December 1975. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
CBSRMT The Corpse Wrote Shorthand
19 Dec 1975 · 41 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 19 December 1975. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
CBSRMT Fireball
18 Dec 1975 · 43 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 18 December 1975. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
What it became
The anthology of dread
A voice, a creaking door, and a self-contained story designed to frighten you in half an hour. Suspense and Lights Out built the grammar every horror anthology still uses.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of CBS Radio Mystery Theater
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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