Radio Mystery Theater radio show (1974-1982, United States)
Original title
CBS Radio Mystery Theater
Episode time
45 minutes
Language
English
Radio drama anthology created by Himan Brown, who during his long career directed more than 30,000 radio shows, including such series as Bulldog Drummond, Dick Tracy, Flash Gordon, Grand Central Station and Inner Sanctum Mysteries. The series kept format similar to the classic shows of 1930s and 1940s (like The Mysterious Traveler and The Whistler), but despite having Mystery Theater in the title Brown introduced episodes containing scripts from other genre, like horror, science fiction, comedy, Western and even historical dramas.
Each episode of the show was introduced by narrator, E.G. Marshall, later actress Tammy Grimes, and closed with the same conclusion line, which was another homage to the classic mystery show of old time radio. Episodes were longer, about 45 minutes each, which allowed to deeper and more complicated storylines to be used. Well known actors from past, as well as upcoming stars, were taking part in episodes, like Mercedes McCambridge and Morgan Fairchild, Santos Ortega and John Lithgow to name few. CBS Radio Mystery Theater was a place, where aucience could listen to stars of the old time radio (f.e. Hans Conried, Agnes Moorehead) as well as people that were raising to stardom on TV (like Richard Crenna, Holland Taylor, Julie Newmar).
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