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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 -- for an 52 Min of “the fear you can hear.”
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 Da Silva. 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 1974. After
eight years and 1,399 shows, the show ended its run on December 30, 1982.
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater was inducted into the
Radio Hall of Fame in 1990.
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