CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER OLD TIME RADIO 1399 Episodes plus 84 rebroadcasts with Himan Brown as host Includes bonus disc with 109 episodes of the best of SUSPENSE - 5 mp3 DVD- A total of 1592 Shows - Total Playtime: 1176:28:55 (Old Time Radio - Mystey/Horror Series)

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The CBS Radio Mystery Theater was an ambitious effort by veteran radio producer Himan Brown to revive interest in American Radio Drama. Every night from 1974 to 1982, host E. G. Marshall (later Tammy Grimes) ushered listeners through a creaking door -- similar to the one Brown used on Inner Sanctum decades earlier -- for an hour of the fear you can hear. Himan Brown produced nearly 200 new episodes of Mystery Theater every year, using both original scripts and adaptations of classic stories by Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Mystery Theater brought many veterans from radio?s golden age back before the microphone, including Agnes Moorehead, Richard Widmark, Celeste Holm, Mercedes McCambridge and Howard daSilva. The show also featured performances from many up-and-coming stage and film actors, including Tony Roberts, John Lithgow, Morgan Fairchild, Mandy Patinkin and Sarah Jessica Parker. The CBS Radio Mystery Theater won the George A. Peabody Award in 1975. After eight years and 1399 episodes, the show ended its run on December 30, 1982. *** E. G. Marshall died on August 24, 1998. *** The CBS Radio Mystery Theater was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1990. ********************************** CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER OLD TIME RADIO (1399 Episodes plus 84 rebroadcasts with Himan Brown as host, instead E.G. Marshall) Includes bonus disc with 109 episodes of the best of SUSPENSE - Radio Mystery Theater & The Best of Suspense - 5 mp3 DVD - A total of 1592 Shows - Total Playtime: 1176:28:55