The CBS Radio Mystery Theater

[Jhammes]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVMzDTCcCoQ

("New 'Old Time' Radio"... 1970's ?)

[shimp scrampi]

I enjoy CBSRMT quite a bit. Like any anthology, it's hit or miss, but I think it's sometimes unfairly criticized through a lens of nostalgia, i.e., it just wasn't as "good as the old days". People think the writing's a little off, but, really, if you listen to a lot of LIGHTS OUT or INNER SANCTUM, the scripts here are generally no worse and frequently a LOT better! E.G. Marshall was a good host too.

[Jhammes]

Himan Brown would have reached the century mark this July 21: he missed it by only a month and a half.
Radio is apparently good for the soul (and imagination).

[Maxwell]

Himan Brown would have reached the century mark this July 21: he missed it by only a month and a half.
Radio is apparently good for the soul (and imagination).

Speaking of the century mark, Norman Corwin passed that milestone on May 3.

[Mister Kitzel]

Oh, gosh! Those CBS Radio Mystery Theater shows are as well made as radio ever got. I have often wondered if they pulled out a bunch of production people from the old days to make that series. OTR ended a little over a decade before that show was produced.

[Brad from Georgia]

I did notice that E.G. Marshall pronounced "drama" the same way Jack Benny did--not DRAH-ma, but with a flatter Midwestern sort of initial "a" sound. Sort of like "dramma," rhyming with "gramma."

[scottp]

I remember seeing a magazine ad for it at a doctor's waiting room circa 1975... maybe Time magazine?
I never got into it much (Basically, I wanted it to be "Suspense.")
But once I did realize that I had heard Staats Cottsworth working with Robert Dryden, in the 1970s (CBS Radio Mystery Theater), in the mid-1950s (CBS Radio Workshop) and in the late 40s/early 50s (Casey Crime Photographer.)