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CBS Radio Mystery Theater | Old Time Radio

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater | Old Time Radio brings you atmospheric mystery, suspense, horror, and supernatural drama from one of radio’s great revival-era anthology series. Enter stories of murder, psychological terror, strange encounters, the unexplained, and dark secrets brought vividly to life through classic radio storytelling. Each episode is an Old Time Retro Radio production, presenting the original broadcast with gently cleaned and mastered audio, a newly produced introduction and closing,

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "The Grey Ghost" (Old...

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2026/10/05

CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Grey Ghost,” episode 323, originally broadcast on August 8, 1975. Written by Ian Martin and directed by Himan Brown, the drama stars Betsy Palmer and William Redfield.After the death of her race-car-driver father, Kate Richards leaves her husband and travels to Italy. There, her encounter with a gifted driver draws her back into the high-speed world of motor racing—and toward lingering questions surrounding her father’s fatal crash.CBS Radio Mystery Theater

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44:43

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "The Sealed Room Murder"...

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2026/10/04

CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Sealed Room Murder,” originally broadcast October 23, 1975, as episode 366. Adapted by Ian Martin from Melville Davisson Post’s “The Doomdorf Mystery,” this pioneer-era Virginia locked-room drama features Howard DaSilva and Fred Gwynne.In an isolated mountain community, a much-disliked resident is found dead in a room apparently sealed from within. As local investigators look past the town’s easy explanations, the victim’s bitter history and the impossible

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43:11

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "Ghost Talk" (Old Time...

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2026/10/03

CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Ghost Talk,” episode 207, originally broadcast January 17, 1975. Written by Elspeth Eric and directed by Himan Brown, this romantic supernatural drama stars Lenka Peterson, Elliot Reid, Gordon Gould, and Robert Dryden.After Paul’s death, his devoted widow Melba struggles to let go of the life they shared. When communication seems possible across the boundary between life and death, an angelic messenger introduces a profound spiritual dilemma. A tender, lightly

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51:17

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "Dreamers and Killers"...

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2026/10/02

CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Dreamers and Killers,” originally broadcast on May 5, 1982. This is episode 1324 of the CBS Radio Network suspense series, written by Sam Dann and directed by Himan Brown, with Marian Seldes, Diane Dirkwood, and Gordon Gould.A woman haunted by recurring nightmares about her former fiancé becomes increasingly alarmed when his real-life near-fatal mishaps begin to resemble the dangers she has dreamed. A psychological tale of dread, coincidence, and the unsettling

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47:01

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "Murder by Proxy" (Old...

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2026/10/01

CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Murder by Proxy,” episode 335, originally broadcast on August 29, 1975. Written by Roy Winsor and directed by Himan Brown, this CBS suspense drama features Mandel Kramer, Grace Matthews, Lesley Woods, Earl Hammond, Leon Janney, and William Redfield.After his release from prison, Tim Cohain seeks revenge against Ed Hunter, the jury foreman whose verdict helped send him away. A past murder trial becomes the source of a mounting threat in this tense crime

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62:01

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "The Ghost Plane" (Old...

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2026/09/30

CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Ghost Plane,” episode 343, originally broadcast September 12, 1975. Written by Ian Martin and produced and directed by Himan Brown, this CBS Radio Network mystery features Richard Crenna, Janet Waldo, Casey Kasem, Virginia Gregg, and Sam Edwards.Two strangers awaken aboard an unfamiliar passenger plane with no memory of who they are, how they arrived, or where the flight is headed. As the aircraft makes stops and other equally disoriented passengers join them,

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62:44

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "The Ghost Grey Bat" (Old...

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2026/09/29

CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Ghost Grey Bat” (also listed as “The Ghost-Grey Bat”), originally broadcast March 25, 1981, as episode 1176. Hosted by E. G. Marshall, this original drama was written by Ian Martin and directed by Himan Brown.While on sabbatical, philosophy professor Alec Grant and his new wife, Moira, trade their New York apartment for an isolated Austrian chalet near Wintersbad. But their hosts are nowhere to be found, the caretaker is unsettling, and reports of a large gray

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45:58

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "Home Is Where the Ghost...

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2026/09/28

CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Home Is Where the Ghost Is,” episode 378, originally broadcast November 13, 1975. Hosted by E. G. Marshall, this original radio drama was written by Murray Burnett and directed by Himan Brown.At Calhoun University, a skeptical proctor is drawn into the troubles surrounding grieving scientist Professor Ramsey Joslin during an international scientific conference. As a Russian colleague’s possible defection raises the stakes, urgent warnings from Joslin’s late wife

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43:29

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "Episode of Terror" (Old...

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2026/09/27

CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Episode of Terror,” originally broadcast September 7, 1981, as episode 1240. Adapted from Honoré de Balzac’s “An Episode Under the Terror,” the drama was written by G. Frederick Lewis and directed by Himan Brown.In Paris during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror, two Carmelite sisters shelter a priest in hiding. When an uneasy errand and the arrival of a shadowy visitor raise fears of discovery, faith, secrecy, and trust are tested in a city gripped by

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45:31

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "Matched Pair for Murder"...

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2026/09/26

CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Matched Pair for Murder,” episode 1207, originally broadcast on June 5, 1981. Written by Sam Dann and directed by Himan Brown, the drama features Arnold Moss, Kristoffer Tabori, Evie Juster, and Bernard Grant.A young woman pleads with a judge to spare her lover from a murder conviction. When the judge allows compassion to shape his decision, the consequences of that choice begin to weigh heavily on him.CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents the original broadcast with

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44:55

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "Wine Women and Murder"...

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2026/09/25

CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Wine Women and Murder,” episode 651, originally broadcast May 20, 1977. This CBS Radio mystery was written by Sam Dann and stars Robert Dryden, with Carol Teitel.Mild-mannered American bookseller Elias Breckinridge arrives in Cologne, Germany, for an International Coleridge Society gathering. When he agrees to deliver a document to a local professor, he is pulled into a murder investigation—and soon finds himself the leading suspect in an unfamiliar city.CBS Radio

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48:08

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "The Forgetful Ghost"...

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2026/09/24

CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Forgetful Ghost,” episode 769, originally broadcast on January 23, 1978. Written by Ian Martin and directed by Himan Brown, this gentle supernatural mystery stars Mandel Kramer, Martha Greenhouse, Ian Martin, and Jackson Beck.When a seriously ill woman and her husband encounter Peter Pruitt, a mild-mannered ghost with no memory of why he has returned, an unusual attempt to help his living daughter begins. Set largely in the Gordons’ darkened home, the story

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46:37

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "The Ghost of...

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2026/09/23

CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Ghost of Andersonville,” originally broadcast April 28, 1982, as episode 1321. Written by James Agate, Jr. and directed by Himan Brown, this Civil War-era drama stars Tony Roberts and Robert Kaliban.After his release from the Confederate prison camp at Andersonville, Major Cal Russell returns North carrying a deep grievance from the war. An uneasy meeting with Union General Lysander Cutler draws him into a dangerous official inquiry and back toward the shadows

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47:29

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "The Murder Museum" (Old...

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2026/09/22

CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Murder Museum,” episode 71, originally broadcast on April 9, 1974. Hosted by E. G. Marshall, this CBS production was written by Henry Slesar and directed by Himan Brown, with Michael Wager, Marian Seldes, Robert Dryden, and Leon Janney.At Professor Rafael Gallinari’s wax museum of notorious crimes, Lisa Brandon asks to see a forthcoming murder reenactment before it opens to the public. As a guided tour moves through the museum’s unsettling displays, Lisa

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45:57

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "Terror on the Heath"...

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2026/09/21

CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Terror on the Heath,” originally broadcast November 6, 1974. This is episode 170 of the CBS Radio Network suspense series, hosted by E. G. Marshall.When David Matson finds unsettling links between himself and Charles Mason, a 19th-century murderer hanged for killings on London’s Hampstead Heath, his fascination becomes a terrifying obsession. Written by Murray Burnett and directed by Himan Brown, the drama stars Shepperd Strudwick, Marian Seldes, and William

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45:09

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "A Very Dear Ghost...

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2026/09/20

CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “A Very Dear Ghost Indeed,” episode 521, originally broadcast September 20, 1976. Written by Ian Martin and directed by Himan Brown, this CBS Radio mystery features Russell Horton, Patricia Elliott, Ian Martin, and Earl Hammond.In late-19th-century Ireland, an American father and daughter are stranded when a rural bridge washes out. Seeking shelter at an old castle, they encounter a mysterious resident and a haunting tale of greed, family, and a perilous

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44:43

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "The Ghost of San Juan...

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2026/09/19

CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Ghost of San Juan Hill,” episode 481, originally broadcast on May 10, 1976. This historical-tinged mystery was written by Sam Dann and directed by Himan Brown.As a bride prepares to remarry, the unexpected return of the husband she believed lost in the Spanish-American War throws the wedding into turmoil. Against the lingering memory of the fighting at San Juan Hill, the drama features Jack Grimes, Marian Haley, William Redfield, Bryna Raeburn, and Ian

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53:20

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "The Trouble with Murder"...

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2026/09/18

CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Trouble with Murder,” episode 147, originally broadcast on September 12, 1974. Written by Ian Martin and directed by Himan Brown, this contemporary Brooklyn crime thriller stars Robert Morse and Bryna Raeburn.As police investigate a troubling series of killings, a wealthy woman commissions an artist to paint her nude portrait. But the painter’s increasingly unsettling behavior turns a private artistic arrangement into a mounting danger.CBS Radio Mystery

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43:29

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "The Ghost in the Well"...

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2026/09/17

CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Ghost in the Well,” episode 806, originally broadcast March 28, 1978. Written by Murray Burnett and directed by Himan Brown, this CBS Radio Network drama stars Tony Roberts and Patricia Elliott.An artist becomes compelled to paint the portrait of a mysterious woman’s spirit, opening a supernatural doorway into New York’s historic Manhattan Well murder case. Inspired by the 1800 trial of Levi Weeks—defended by Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, and Henry

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45:37

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "Tomorrow's Murder" (Old...

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2026/09/16

CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Tomorrow’s Murder,” originally broadcast December 31, 1976. This is episode 575 of the CBS Radio Network suspense anthology, written by Sam Dann and produced and directed by Himan Brown.Stressed sales manager Harold K. Starbright takes a walk through Morrison City Memorial Park and encounters a stranger studying cemetery sculpture. Then Harold finds an elaborate gravestone bearing his own name, birth date, and a death date still a year in the future. Robert

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