CBS Radio Mystery Theater and Astoria Bank jingle 1976

[MysteryTheaterRadio]

The ENTIRE Series of CBS Radio Mystery Theater being uploaded on my channel, FULL EPISODES, check it out if you’re a fan of the show!

[alwaysquestiongov]

Awesome I remember this sooooo well. Look how similar life in 1976 was to previous years.

It's funny how the internet has changed so many fibers of our life.

We were forced to use our mind as kids and programs like this one stimulated our imagination.

Thanks for posting!

[rightyaso]

7-10 W G B S The CSB Radio Mystery Theatre presents .... (door opens). Come in. Welcome i'm E G Marshall

When i was in living in Jamaica i use to listen to CBSRMT on WGBS 710AM - a station from Miami. I repeat the above line even today at work!

Yeah mon

[remuswolfrocket]

I purchased all of the CBS Mystery Theatre on MP3 several years ago. Some of the episode include the original commercials, weather and the CBS news broadcasts of the era. News like the Watergate scandal and the oil embargo and the fuel shortage of the early 70's. Great stuff.

[notredamehesamighty]

What a great show... hats off to radio legend Himan Brown for producing this show on an incredible assembly-line format. There are nearly 1,400 episodes, all produced in New York from 1974-1982. What guts he had to pitch this to CBS back in '74.

Actors were paid scale, as were writers. An episode took less than six hours from dry-run to in-the-can and he did several per week.

Himan Brown was a GOD.

[Spirosaur]

I don't suppose you have the rest of The Artist do you ?

[zenarcade64]

@Spirosaur Yes, Spiro, I do. You can just do a search online for the archive. Also I'd recommend a show noone knows about: Theater Five, a great radio show from the 1960s.

[greenghostpress]

I lived in Houston, Texas in the 1970's. As a child I would listen to Radio Mystery Theatre under my covers at night... I loved it. I lived for it. Thanks for sharing... it brings back so many great memories.

[missdaedae541]

you can find full story online just google it

[FriedrichKling]

Such fond memories of my youth listening on KMOX radio. Back in the good old days prior to all the crazies and talking heads.

[calchick82]

Great theme music

[1001erickp]

It seems everyone was listening to this secretly as kids while we were supposed to be sleeping. It was an amazing show for your imagination. I can still recall some episodes.

[pnkpnther222]

mom and dad sent us of to bed a 6 so they could set and watch telle well back then they just got it but us kids oh anyway we set and listened very quietly to the tiny transistor radio we had wow soo long ago seems am telling my age

[Stentor7]

@pnkpnther222 My god, that's exactly what I used to do too! I had this little green transistor radio that my Grandma gave me, & I would turn the volume down low as possible, & put it on my pillow under my head. I remember the repeat effect of it gradually broke the volume knob into pieces, so I had trouble adjusting it. I remember one night my Dad came into my room to check on me, in a panic I tried to turn the radio off, but only ended up turning it up to the maximum, & he took it away from me.

[pnkpnther222]

I remember as a child I had this tiny radio listening to this what a way to grow old huh hay some had there childhood memoirs luvs mystery luv it behind please for give me

[taxingtexan]

Is there a part two to this story? I liked listening to RMT in the '70's, too.

[YOU2UUB]

cbs radio mystery theater with e.g. marshall was absolutely wonderful and exciting. I never thought listening to mystery without seeing it would be exciting, wow! was i ever wrong. This is the best great stories, cast and music to make this the best ever.

[mojo2906]

WBBM in the 70's good childhood memories of trying to keep awake. Looked everywhere and cant find recordings for my kids to enjoy!

[1967mustanggta]

I forgot to say - I grew up in a little town in the mountains of North Carolina but some how picked it up on WCKY out of Cincinnati 1460 AM or something like that. At any rate being a kid and not understanding the network thing I thought they were the only ones in the world to carry it and I was so lucky to be able to pick it up.

Used to listen to WLS too. We didn't have any radio stations worth listening to where I lived or they all went off the air in the evening.

[serrano59]

I use to have a reacuring dream that someone would grab my feet when i got out of bed. That dream was the result of listening to this radio show when i was a kid. I don't i was the only one who had nightmares anybody else?

[tatulover2120]

@blackhawk247 DISCS

[ebf1957]

Used to listen to this on WBBM Radio. Also Mutual Radio had a show called "Zero Hour" which was hosted by Rod Serling.

[Terry7111967]

This is so excellent. I listened to this every night on the old KBEA 1480AM at 10:30pm. "The Fear You Can Hear" was always on in my bedroom when I was young.

[WC3POchannel10A]

@Terry7111967 You must be from Kansas City. I remember KBEA :-) and RMT.

[Terry7111967]

@WC3POchannel10A Yep. It was on the old 61 Country(WDAF-AM) for a time before it moved to KBEA, which is now all Spanish. I was dragging my behind through elementary school the next day. But, I didn't care!!!!!

[WC3POchannel10A]

@Terry7111967 Was that the era of WDAF when they had the talk show with a guy named Chuck Boyle or Broyles? I liked listening to that also.

[Terry7111967]

@WC3POchannel10A I don't remember the talk shows during that time. I know they did have some talk shows along with Middle Of The Road music before 61 Country came along. KBEA was all news, then it went to old 30's and 40's music after that, followed by Headline News Radio then La Doble Zeta(Spanish Top 40).

[AsydicWaters]

I used to go to bed listening to the Atlanta Hawks games on a little radio under my pillow. After the game, I used to relish listening to Mystery Theater when I should have been going to sleep.

[RadioHamGuy]

I listened to this as a pre-teen and into my teen years on KGLO AM 1300, a CBS affiliate in Mason City, Iowa. Great stuff.  Every night at 10 or 11 PM. Some nights I fell asleep before the end as I would listen in bed, so many endings I missed.

[exmoagogo]

I listened to this every night as a kid. Thanks for posting it!

[1964nickel]

These always remind me of the long trips home after visiting my grandparents. It was always dark most of the trip, and I have vivid recollections of perched in the center of the back seat, arms crossed over the back of the front seat watching the road with my Dad and listening to Mystery Theater -- priceless memories, thank you.

[KeatonMovieFever]

I loved this show. This show started, it seemed, at the height of the nostalgia craze, when I was a teenager and just getting into all the old radio show re-runs. I lived in Phoenix at the time, and the local CBS station aired this at 11 p.m. I used to listen to it every night and loved it. I suppose that, at the risk of sounding cliched, we'll never hear its like again.

[prkendora]

I would listen to CBS radio mystery theater everynight....every school night. Yes, I remember CBS adventure theater, but my all time favorite was CBS radio mystery theater.

[Johngtr13]

zenarcade64: Thank you for posting this wonderful radio show. Where did you get a copy of the shows? I'm interested.

[fromthesidelines]

Incidentally, Ralph Bell, a veteran radio actor who appeared numerous times on the "MYSTERY THEATER", is the announcer for the Buick commercial...

[fromthesidelines]

Himan Brown, veteran radio producer, who produced this from 1974 through '82 (using his famous "squeaking door" from his days as producer of "INNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES"), passed away on June 4th at the age of 99. The theme was actually a cue by Nathan Van Cleave, written for a 1961 "TWILIGHT ZONE" episode, "Two". WOR [and later, WNEW] carried this in New York when WCBS wouldn't {they didn't want to interrupt their "all news, all the time" format}.

[dandydonaldo]

Used to hear it on KMOX 1120 in St. Louis, followed by "The Big Bumper" Jim White.

[zbaby82]

This was a good show. I wish someone would re-broadcast them. I was teen in the 1970s. And listening to this was fun.

[majik2hanz]

A bit of nostalgia and classic radio revival. I used to listen late into the night on multiple 50,000 watt Am stations. It was great to catch it twice : )

One of the all time best radio intros....(having listened to many old time radio shows on cassette) Bulldog drummond was also clasisc...out of the fog and into the night

[TheMikester307]

Oh, yeah, I remember Adventure Theater and the short-lived attempt to revive radio drama. A buddy of mine and I wanted to write a pilot for a weekly radio sitcom based on "Auntie Mame." Never got around to it!

[KCash69]

We always listened to this in the dark when we were kids. All I remember is the sound of the squeaky door.

[misharyutubbee]

I used to LOVE this radio show in the 1970s. I would lie in bed with my little radio and tune it in as best I could. What memories...

[WINDHAMMAN]

thanks for sharing I remember listening to this in jr high

[kaboompoop]

I remember I was a little kid when this would play on WCCO here in Minneapolis....CRIPES that tune scared the shit out of me. My brother would crank it up when I was somewhere in the house alone...and I ran like a little girl into my moms bedroom! DAAYY-UM!

[fhood]

I remember listening these in the late 1970s as a kid. They used to come on at 10 PM. This is why, as an adult, I now LOVE haunted houses, horror movies, and other spooky stuff.

[larocca100]

Remember this from 1974,during the

summer we used to listen at midnight

out on the patio in the dark,those were

great times in Brunswick-ohio.

[berwin19]

I used to listen to this series on Saturday nights when I was in high school during the late 70's. I could pick this up from KSL AM Radio, Salt Lake City. This sure brings back alot of memories.

[zomett]

I remember the opening theme , so cool my parents use to play it.

[flexbrat]

loved this show !

[EarthquakeQueen64]

I listened in college and after. I was already grown up

[1967mustanggta]

I lived for this. Had to go to bed at 9 and I would secretly listen every night.

Remember the short lived CBS adventure theatre - which had a different theme each night? I remember Andy Griffith hosted comedy night and Cicily Tyson did one of the other nights.

[zenarcade64]

I never heard he Adventure Theater, but like you I grew up listening to Mystery Theater.

[Schlicht]

@zenarcade64

Same here! I had a little transistor radio and would play it low so my folks thought I was asleep.

Good times, this is just great to hear again...brings it all back.

[batterymaker]

@1967mustanggta That was originally called the Sears Mystery Theater.

[MarkJ1961]

@1967mustanggta Actually, you're thinking of the Sears Radio Theater on CBS Radio in 1979, which moved to Mutual in 1980, with the different themes each night. The CBS Radio Adventure Theater was in 1977, Sat/Sun afternoons, and aimed at children (classic adventure stories and such), but produced by the same (recently deceased) Himan Brown group in NYC. The Sears-later-Mutual Radio Theater (1979 and 1980) with different themes each night was Elliot Lewis produced out of Hollywood.

[MarkJ1961]

@MarkJ1961 AND, I do most certainly remember listening to the (NYC Himan Brown prodcued) CBS Radio Mystery Theater every night, from 1974 to 1982! And that's why I also like old time radio too, many affiliates that carried Mystery Theater also ran tapes of old radio dramas/comedies/etc from the 1930s-1962 before or after Mystery Theater!

[darkgardyner]

@1967mustanggta I had to laugh when I read this...I did the same thing. Layed in the dark, listening to a transistor radio beneath my pillow, scared half out of my mind. It was great!

zenar....thanks ever so much for uploading!

[cass2112]

i live in Scotland but got a hold of cbs mt a few years ago,never off my  mp3 player,superb stories,gives me the creeps,love the old ads as well....superb!

[chrisnroses]

AWESOME!!!!!! When I was a kid this was the scary highlight of my life at night...sometimes too scary!!! HORROR RULES!!! I LOVE THE INTRO AND THE DOOR AND MUSIC...old school!!!

[geofbrit59]

I was just listening to a CBSRMT & decided to type it in search. Low & behold here you are.

[TheMikester307]

I loved this in jnr high! Last thing I expected to see on You Tube was a radio show!

[NowhereMan1966]

I used to listen to CBS Radio Mystery Theater a lot when I was young, mainly with my grandmother and sometimes with a radio under my pillow. Good show. BTW, Hiram Brown, the producer, is still around.

[MichaelKazmar]

The theme music and Marshall's narration still give me shivers! Just like it did in the mid-70's listening on Philadelphia's WCAU-AM 1210.

We would sleep out iduring the summer in the backyard in a tent and play RMT in the dark!

Pretty scary for 11-12 year old boys...

[turntapzap]

I know exactly what you mean. By brother & I had these wrist - band AM radios when we were about 10. We listened to Mystery Theater every night. Very creepy.

Very cool. I love them to this day!

[hiresrootbeer1876]

@MichaelKazmar I also remember this being on WCAU 121 at 10:06 PM or right after the Phillies "Star Of The Game" show with Harry Kalas or Rich Ashburn. Seeing that this "clip" was from WOR (not a CBS station) they cut out the original dialog before the theme started. It was by E. G. Marshall saying "The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents" then the theme began.

[dam2630]

@MichaelKazmar Think they still sleep out in the backyard in Philly?!

[majik2hanz]

Thank you for posting. Great memories of listening to this which inspired me to collect many old time radio shows. I love the timeless themes and lessons conveyed in radio format. Much more entertaining then TV. Radio allows the imagination to be the television so much better. Especially with mystery / thriller type genre.

Recall listening to the many AM Radio stations late at night: Bos WBZ Larry Glick, Phl KYW, Stl KMOX, Det WJR, etc....memories transport me back..... pleasant dreams

[buffalocrotch]

I loved this show, used to listen to it many years ago, great stuff!

[maha77]

I have so many memories of listening to this show as a child, love the intro, thanks for posting..!

[CityslickCaptain]

They are available. I bought them all a month ago on mp3. I'll find the site and post it.

[maha77]

please if you have a link or site, let me know. I would love to get all these shows. thanks!

[michaeluae]

good luck getting 5% on your money today

[07311952]

Used to listen to CBS Mystery Theater on my way home from work,pretty creepy stuff

[bigroy38]

This song still scares the HELL Outta me.lol.