Back in the late 70s I use to lay in my room at my parents house and listen to this program every Friday night I loved it. Now my folks are gone and the house is now mine and I’m back in the same room listening again. I’m 63 years old and I truly love the nostalgia of it all.
I'm 54 only competition was the Dodgers and Ram games when were hunting central Nevada 70-90 s radio was still only contact to outside world when were in the mountains good entertainment for young and older alike nice 👍 throwback in time Mama and Papa been gone made for good memories always...
When I was in elementary school in the 70s my Dad would tune this in on the am radio it was always scary to hear the opening of the creaking door. These cool old radio programs bring back so many memories. Thank You for bringing them back
I hate profanity in audiobooks and dramas like this kind. It is so completely unnecessary to good literature. I won’t listen to anything that contains filthy language no matter how good.
@@mpinky777 I agree that often times it's unnecessary and I don't like it. However if someone wants realistic writing, then it's probably necessary since most people curse daily, whether it's our of anger or passion, it's common. But... In the narration and not the characters talking, then yeah it's completely unnecessary and ruins good writing.
@@beckygarcia4416 I wish I had known about them in the 70s and 80s or even the sixties when I was a child! I think I could have learned quite a bit from them not to mention being entertained.
Quantum Bob It costs too damned much! And the cost goes up all the time. I’ve got DVD’s of my favorite movies and I can find more things that I like on RUclips! Merry 🎄 Christmas!!
When I was in high school in the 70s, my friends and I would drive around at night in the rain and listen to these shows and sometimes we would go into the very old cemetery and our imaginations would go wild! Thank you!
My friends and I would love those rainy nights and set in the room with a Coleman lantern(battery) and listen to spooky stories as the rain made the background! lots of fun!
It's amazing to hear E.G. speculate on how the 2000's would possibly be back then, when we are listening to this program while we are actually living in the 21st century.
I was 13 when this first aired. My parents loved going for rides in the car. We used to listen to shows like this on the radio. I sure miss those rides.
I still love The Waltons and Mayberry RFD all those good old shows. Also found in Chicago Pacific Garden mission. They play Unshackled true life stories. I think you would enjoy it
he quoted from the King James Bible. Dr. Gene Kim talks about Genesis and Giants on the Earth and what's in the center of the Earth. Only this is all true.
producers of this got a message across and every single program. There's always a part of the truth that they tell. Somebody knew something about what was actually going on with the world. It might have been the first conspiracy theory people. You know certain things you can't just say. Like the Beatles had a message through their music. The producer of this episode has been dead but a lot of what he is saying is going on. Why is that? There's a video out called the deeps. Very interesting kind of scary
I remember being a little girl, probably age 10, in 1976, or 77 in Philadelphia, pa, and my dad putting these on the radio in my room at night when I would go to bed. I'll forever be attached to these wonderful memories. There is nothing on TV these days that compares to these great stories.
When I was in the United States Marine Corps I would listen to CBS Radio Mystery Theater on the way home for the weekend.... from Camp LeJeune North Carolina to Charleston, West Virginia, back Sep75 to Oct77
Back 1976/77 when I would drive from southern Michigan to the upper penninsula about every other weekend for almost a year an a half I would listen to this. It sure ate up the miles. Too bad CBS still doesn't do this.
I remember being a kid in the 70s Hiding a little Radio under my pillow listing to Mystery. Im so happy i can listen to them now thank u so much for sharing with all of us.
Just came across this. Love it. I’d stay up way past my bedtime to listen to these at my grandmas house. Like so many others, I too had a little pocket radio. Just a simple 5transistor am Realistic. But that’s all I needed. In St.Louis, it was KMOX, 1120. Listened for years. Thanks for posting this. 📻👍🙂‼️
I’m wow Eleven as of yesterday! And I have been subscribed to ChillySunshine for years! I love EVERYTHING about the 70s and watch nothing but MeTV. The music was wonderful, the people were happy, and life was just great! Sometimes I just get ecstatic listening to E.G Marshal’s stories. Thank you for blessing us, ChillySunshine!
Holy crap... I've been trying to find this forever! My brother and I used to listen to this back in the 70s but I could not remember the name of the program. Once I heard that theme I recognized it immediately!!!
When I was 9 or 10, (1974), I was up late because my dad took me to a St. Louis Blues hockey game and in his car, he kept the radio tuned to KMOX, and this came on (around 11 pm) and I asked him what it was and he said, "Oh, they've started doing this. They're trying to show people what radio was like before television. It's kind of silly." But I was fascinated! After bedtime, I'd turn it on in my room on low volume and I listened faithfully for about 3 or 4 years. I remember often hearing the familiar voice of Fred Gwynne of TV's The Munsters. Mercedes McCainbridge was a very frequent guest voice. A few future stars, like Mandy Patinkin did them. This was the only scripted, acted Radio show in America after the 1950s and hardly anyone listened to it.
This used to air at 11:00 p.m. in my city. I listened on a clock radio every weeknight. The music and E.G. Marshall's voice bring back such good memories.
Himan Brown tryed to bring them back in 1999 and really did not have any luck. look him up on the web he was a very intresting man and the shows that he did.
Listening to radio requires imagination and an ability to connect to a story line. Video/TV does not. That is why TV won out and radio has devolved into what it is.
BBC Radio Four broadcasts radio plays every day and these can be listened to online. A lot of them are not much good in my opinion, and heavily influenced by PC culture, but there are still occasional gems to be found.
@@Mina-ok5qm This reminded me of a long gone era. I mentioned listening to this on our families council stereo as I followed your suggestion to post on facebook. It was bigger than a loveseat and that was a big chunk of real estate in a home back then. Today? The same amount of stereo would fit on a coaster and some sandwich sized speakers.
@@Damaged262 My parents had a stereo like that too - a huge elegant claw-footed piece of wooden furniture about 6 ft long. Weighed about as much as a Volkswagen.
Thank you for posting these. When I was a little girl my grandmother and I used to listen to these when I stayed with her. She would put a little transistor am radio under her pillow and we would go to sleep listening to these stories. Thank you for a wonderful piece of comfort from my childhood!
I did the same thing in Boarding school. My Dad (Who is now 83 (2018) used to buy Cassetes Tapes with shoes on them at one time he had hundreds of them, I found Digital copies of them all over the workld and now have about 7000 hours of shows. at one time there was a server at nasa that hosted all of the CBSRMT Shows. and everyoine started to get all the shows/ it is sad that there are no 100% good copy's opf all the old shows. (I have all the shows on 10 DVD's (Mp4) that i bought many years ago.
@@madmextupapa those radio broadcasts were incredibly descriptive. Radio had a hay day long before TV but sadly "video killed the radio star" as the song goes. They helped me pass long night hours creating images for my advertising classes in art school. Things were created by hand back then. Not so much today. Personally I think craftsmanship was better back in the day. Today its all about instant gratification. I'm glad I was born in 1960. Kids today have too many choices . Its mind boggling. Love from Arizona.
When I was stationed at Camp LeJeune North Carolina I would listen to these great radio shows on the way home for the weekend to Charleston, West Virginia.That was back in Sep75 to Oct77. I usually picked up WCHS radio station around Bluefield, West Virginia when I would get on the West Virginia Turnpike.
I use to listen on the radio as a kid growing up in Houston. My uncles introduced my brother and I to the show. We would listen to the show during the summer months at our grandparents house. At home, we would have the radio on in our bedrooms; my room, my brother's room and my parent's room. The sound of the creaking door would resonate through in a dark settled home. It set the mood. Great memories. Rest in peace Mom, Dad, Grandma and Grandpa.
There was also a short-lived radio series of Twilight Zone Radio Dramas ( c.2002) which was hosted by Stacy Keach, Jr. His & James father, Stacy, Sr. was one of the director's on Tales of the Texas Rangers.
@@terrymccoy8950 I have heard "Tales Of The Texas Rangers," starring Joel McCray om YESTERDAY USA on my computer, also "The Six Shooter," starring Jimmy Steward, The Alice Faye & Phil Harris show & many others.
Autoplay on. Charger in phone. Last joint smouldering in the ashtray, dog snuggled up behind my knees and the rain outside pattering down. perfect. Goodnight.
Back in high school in the 70s I made an AM radio from a radio shack kit. Had it on a stand next to my bed and would lay in bed listening to this show before I went to sleep. It was on from 10 to 11. My father began collecting old radio shows in the 70s and he recorded every one of these. Now I listen to this and all the old radio shows from the 40s and 50s whenever I am driving or working in my shop. I have turned into my father which is not a bad thing. Lots of great memories.
Cold, dark nights...time to pull the bedclothes over you with ghost stories and fantasy! Perhaps two radio play ghost stories I’ve produced AND a brand new mystery listed on my channel “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT AND a radio fantasy comedy, “A Trip to the Moon” starring Joyce Randolph of The Honeymooners, which features Larry Robinson, who, as a child actor, actually worked with Orson Welles. Here’s the link: ruclips.net/video/Hex2ltykNTM/видео.html--Claud. If you don’t want to click the link just search “Claude Chabot presents” on RUclips.
and the funny thing is my dads got me inot his in the laste 70's before CBSRMT there was X minus one and Dimensiuon X alot of old shows were produced and direct by the same person that did CBSRMT. does anyone know that name?
I used to get in trouble in the 70's for sneaking a radio to bed and listening to this show under the covers. Cool to listen to E.G. Marshall and these chilling radio plays once again!
I bought a 1934 Packard-Bell radio when I was a kid in 1974 from our lovely old neighbor lady for 3 bucks and used to listen to this radio show at night and pretend I was a kid in the 30's!
I love old time radio theatre / shows . They are captivating without moving pictures . Must have been great to come home , flip the radio on and listen to your fav shows 👍
Used to listen to these laying across the backseat in Mom and Dad's car on the way back home from visiting relatives. We went often and it was a long drive, so I've heard lots of these... but so long ago that they all are new again. Thanks ChillySunshine and.... pleasant....dreams?
Captivating radio in the early 1970s. It was so much fun to listen to. Who needed tv when you had these most vivid stories by word. An art never better: radio !
Many a lonely night I listened to each one of these stories while on guard duty. For at least one hour every night I was not bored to death. Never missed the broadcast. Was devastated when my radio station stopped broadcasting them.
Funny how E.G. mentions life in the 21st century in his opening. Saying how some will see it and "the rest of us" can only speculate about how different it will be. It's hard now to imagine life without all our toys and gadgets, and how much HAS changed since these shows aired.
taclas1 and he lived through quite a century. i was only around for the second half. there’s a lot to be missed, but much to enjoy now. it’s weird to live with a mind in two such different places. does that always happen to older people? mmm? :) ☃️
Cold, dark nights...time to pull the bedclothes over you with ghost stories and fantasy! Perhaps two radio play ghost stories I’ve produced AND a brand new mystery listed on my channel “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT AND a radio fantasy comedy, “A Trip to the Moon” starring Joyce Randolph of The Honeymooners, which features Larry Robinson, who, as a child actor, actually worked with Orson Welles. Here’s the link: ruclips.net/video/Hex2ltykNTM/видео.html--Claud. If you don’t want to click the link just search “Claude Chabot presents” on RUclips.
"We drove ourselves from the garden when it was always possible to return, up until now. Now it looks as though we may have planted seeds in the dead soil of a lost world. A world that may have to go on, if it goes on, without us." Incredibly prophetic words.
I listened on WHAM 1180 am out of Rochester, New York! The show came on at 10 PM - I had to turn the volume down, so as not to disturb my parents or older sister. I didn't have a transistor radio (with an earphone), so I listened on an old Zenith table radio. To this day, I love radio drama! My father was a child of the Depression, and back then the radio was people's primary source of news and entertainment. Kudos to the people who have digitized these radio shows and preserved them for future generations to enjoy!
What a throwback to my teens. My sister and I would lay in our beds listening to our radios in our rooms and would talk about the episodes the next day, especially the creepy ones.
I remember when I had just come home for my first leave from the Corp I was trying to find something on TV and started listening 🎧 to something like this. Thank You So Very Much For Bringing This Back
What's absolutely brilliant is all of "us" who listen to these terrific shows all have the 21st century trappings and here we all are listening to stories written 40+yrs ago, doesn't that say something about the longevity of these wonderful tales and sadly how little (sometimes) the stories of our time lack the thrill and impact of these historic and exciting stories!!! Of course there are great writers now but nothing like these thought provoking stories that never (in our opinion) grow old!! As a footnote I also listen to X minus 1, Suspense, The Whistler, Box 13, Johnny Dollar, Vincent Price-Fear and I may have missed a classic here oops Dragnet!!!! These shows if listened to by most kids of today they would dismiss them out of hand for X-box and the likes but it's not their fault as my 14 yr old daughter is sadly one of the said kids!!
How about.....THE SHADOW! and the Scarlet Pimpernel, and of course, Inner Sanctum, Ripley's Believe It or Not! Suspense, Escape, The Mysterious Traveler. But the number one all-time radio drama favorite (of mine) because by big brother set me up big time....Mercury Theater - War of the Worlds! 3o years after that broadcast, it still scared the crap out of me.
@@davidk4940 hi thanx for ur reply sorry I'm 3 months late but I only listened to the original broadcast of wotw with Orson Welles and ur right it's such a fantastic story but how Orson presented it as tho it were really happening is truly historic and just think how people reacted to it shit they must have thought it was the end of the world!!!
@@simonmcgrath4112 'War of the Worlds' radio broadcast sparked fear, panic 80 years ago in America, Orlando By ROGER SIMMONS ORLANDO SENTINEL | OCT 30, 2018 AT 8:25 AM “Hysteria among radio listeners throughout the nation and actual panicky evacuations from sections of the New York metropolitan area resulted from a too-realistic radio broadcast last night describing a fictitious and devastating visitation of strange men from Mars,” the Associated Press reported. “Excited and weeping persons across all of the country swamped newspaper and police switchboards with the question: ‘It is true?’” www.orlandosentinel.com/features/gone-viral/os-ae-war-of-the-worlds-radio-anniversary-20181030-story.html
This would come on at precisely 8:06 pm, and God help anyone who interfered with the radio or being all set in place when E.G. Marshall came on. Not one peep! If we were in the car when it happened to come on, everyone had to shut up and not talk over it (fortunately most everyone agreed), then once we got home, I’d wait for a commercial break to run into the house to catch the rest of it. Couldn’t miss a single second of it. RMT was a serious deal. Thanks for the upload:)
I'm so happy I've found these. Houston 740am played these at 9pm. My father used to make me turn the lights off at 9 but I'd always sneak my radio under my cover hoping not to get caught. Those were great times and the golden years of America. I'm glad I grew up back then instead of now.
@@johnbrown1960 :) I think we were happier as kids in those days. Technology is wonderful and useful but it comes with some cost. Kids today are so stressed out keeping up with the Joneses.
Chilly thanx for posting these old time radio shows. It’s Coronavirus quarantine time and literally my brain needs an escape. This offers up so much imagination, I have the best dreams after I listen. I don’t think u posted these thinking you’d be doing a public service...
The past can be a very comfortable place to be, we know it is safe. I’m 72 and feel like most of the others who have written here. I’m the oldest of eight, and had to get a part-time job when I was 14, worked after school for 30 hrs/wk. I feel like I grew up in a golden age. Wish I could go back just for a few hours………it was wonderful.
I LOVE ALL of these Stories. I grew up listening to radio.. and the scarry "Squeeking Door" later, I found the ones you are playing.. Now, later on in my life, I find them again.. Always so peaceful to listen to .
I was stationed in Frankfurt Germany in the middle 70's and we didn't have tv but we had radio shows and I listened to them while cleaning my room and getting my uniforms ready for the week. It was great.
Back in the early 80's when my husband and I were on vacation in utah we would bed down in the van and listen to Mystery Theater. Fun times, fun times. No really they were.
I don't know of any US radio that does this type of thing anymore. I remember I used to lay in bed and fall asleep listening to the CBS radio mystery theater. There were some really fantastic stories. I don't know why they don't do these types of shows anymore....probably the cost. But...... Get the BBC app for your phone and then tune into BBC 4 extra. It features 24/7 of radio dramas.....history, SciFi, mystery, thrillers, horror, audio books, etc. The broadcasts are from 1950's upto present day
Travis Peach, You're not supposed to give chocolate to your dog. (S)he lacks the liver enzyme to digest it. Every Christmas many vets see dogs who have eaten chocolate. Some of them cannot be saved. My dog loves coffee. Every time the missus or I have a cup, he will pester us until he gets some. We always share, unless it's Mocha.
@@j.d.schultzsr.9215 Sadly chocolate is not good for doggies. Just an hour ago I finished some chocolate cake. He licked the few crumbs off the saucer. I just couldn't take it away from him! I don't know what I would do without him in these solitary times.
I got a transistor radio from my grandma for Christmas in the mid 1970s, when my mom and dad made me go to my bedroom upstairs I would turn it down low and listen to mystery theater every night they came on. Loved them, brings back memories.
I used to listen to this program on the radio with my brothers back when we were teens. Miss those old shows where the background music and sounds let your mind build the visuals for you making the experience unique for each of us.
Back in the late 70s I use to lay in my room at my parents house and listen to this program every Friday night I loved it. Now my folks are gone and the house is now mine and I’m back in the same room listening again. I’m 63 years old and I truly love the nostalgia of it all.
So glad you can enjoy these stories, it really is comforting
You don’t realise how fast time has flown by
I did the same thing and now at 64 I get to listen to them again.
I'm 54 only competition was the Dodgers and Ram games when were hunting central Nevada 70-90 s radio was still only contact to outside world when were in the mountains good entertainment for young and older alike nice 👍 throwback in time Mama and Papa been gone made for good memories always...
I'm 65 and have the same story. Where did our lives go?
When I was in elementary school in the 70s my Dad would tune this in on the am radio it was always scary to hear the opening of the creaking door. These cool old radio programs bring back so many memories. Thank You for bringing them back
Love these radio shows driving to and from work. No f bombs, just imagination and good writing.
Cursing or not, the effort to be unique alongside the incredible voice acting and awesome practical sound effects, it's all so good!
I hate profanity in audiobooks and dramas like this kind. It is so completely unnecessary to good literature. I won’t listen to anything that contains filthy language no matter how good.
@@mpinky777 I agree that often times it's unnecessary and I don't like it. However if someone wants realistic writing, then it's probably necessary since most people curse daily, whether it's our of anger or passion, it's common.
But... In the narration and not the characters talking, then yeah it's completely unnecessary and ruins good writing.
@@mpinky777 censorship leads to ignorance, leads to hate, leads to war and finally death.
You drove a covered wagon, no doubt. lol That's ridiculous. And stupid.
My Dad used to tape these
(remember cassettes?)
and send them to me while I was in the service. Great memories.
I still listen to cassets from Don Nesbitt
T/Y for serving our country when you were young.
I remember cassettes - They were the dispensers for the shiny festive streamers that used to decorate roadsides all across the land.
Thank you for your service
Thank you for your service, sir.
The best part of these audio programs you can enjoy with your eyes closed. In fact it is more vivid with your eyes closed.
I've gotten so tired of trying to find something on TV that's worth watching... I'm thrilled to find these stories... awesome..
Michael Johnson I know what you mean! I usually just stick with RUclips.
So true. I am captivated and I am only one minute in
TV "programming " is over, turned them off years ago.
Michael Johnson I used to listen to them when they were on the radio.
@@beckygarcia4416 I wish I had known about them in the 70s and 80s or even the sixties when I was a child! I think I could have learned quite a bit from them not to mention being entertained.
I don’t watch TV anymore...I’d much rather use my imagination! I LOVE going to sleep listening to books like this...it makes for GREAT dreams!
I haven't used cable, satellite or antenna TV for 8 years.
I do the same, listen as I go to sleep!😃
Quantum Bob
It costs too damned much! And the cost goes up all the time. I’ve got DVD’s of my favorite movies and I can find more things that I like on RUclips!
Merry 🎄 Christmas!!
@@pam1574 .............. Hence the Ending Quote.............. Until Next Time.............. Pleasant............... Dreams?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Edwin Bitsoe
😊 Exactly!! Sweet dreams...
and Merry Christmas to u!!
🎄🦌
When I was in high school in the 70s, my friends and I would drive around at night in the rain and listen to these shows and sometimes we would go into the very old cemetery and our imaginations would go wild! Thank you!
My friends and I would love those rainy nights and set in the room with a Coleman lantern(battery) and listen to spooky stories as the rain made the background! lots of fun!
Sounds like fun
Those times are not forgotten but sadly missed my freind.
We did that too !! Driving around at night in the snow snorting coke and listening to am radio
I did the same, man. Your post brought back some good ass memories!😃
Today 11-28 -2020 listening to these is much better for my husband and I to listen to,we love them . Better that TV
Yes 💙🧡💜🌺🦀🦞♦️🍂⛸🀄🌷🥀🦋💗
It's amazing to hear E.G. speculate on how the 2000's would possibly be back then, when we are listening to this program while we are actually living in the 21st century.
Even they couldn't imagine the horrors that we deal with nowadays.
Anyone who misses these great stories is missing history at its best.
Grew up listening to these. What a blast from the past!Thank you for posting them. Fond memories of my childhood and my parents, whom I miss dearly.
These gems help me fall asleep today just like they did in the late 70s and early 80s.
I was 13 when this first aired. My parents loved going for rides in the car. We used to listen to shows like this on the radio. I sure miss those rides.
What a wonderful time when a family would listen to radio stories back when the world made sense.
I still love The Waltons and Mayberry RFD all those good old shows. Also found in Chicago Pacific Garden mission. They play Unshackled true life stories. I think you would enjoy it
also Chuck Missler transhumanism and Dr. Gene Kim what's going on in the world
he quoted from the King James Bible. Dr. Gene Kim talks about Genesis and Giants on the Earth and what's in the center of the Earth. Only this is all true.
producers of this got a message across and every single program. There's always a part of the truth that they tell. Somebody knew something about what was actually going on with the world. It might have been the first conspiracy theory people. You know certain things you can't just say. Like the Beatles had a message through their music. The producer of this episode has been dead but a lot of what he is saying is going on. Why is that?
There's a video out called the deeps. Very interesting kind of scary
'Back when the world made sense.' You mean back when the world was in a nuclear standoff?
I was 10 to 18 in the 8 years this series aired on radio. It was great from 1974 to 1982 and is still great now. Thanks so much!
That is sad.
I remember being a little girl, probably age 10, in 1976, or 77 in Philadelphia, pa, and my dad putting these on the radio in my room at night when I would go to bed. I'll forever be attached to these wonderful memories. There is nothing on TV these days that compares to these great stories.
When I was in the United States Marine Corps I would listen to CBS Radio Mystery Theater on the way home for the weekend.... from Camp LeJeune North Carolina to Charleston, West Virginia, back Sep75 to Oct77
Used to sneak my transistor radio in bed as kid an listened to these every week night. Intro and closing used to freak me the flip out. Ah good times
Morgan Walker
Ikr??? 😆
I love the old radio commercials they play during intermission. Brings back memories.
Me too!! For many years!!
Yea,..I took my little round red and white "satellite" crystal radio to bed and listen to these stories.
Me too! Exactly the same!
Back 1976/77 when I would drive from southern Michigan to the upper penninsula about every other weekend for almost a year an a half I would listen to this. It sure ate up the miles. Too bad CBS still doesn't do this.
I remember being a kid in the 70s Hiding a little Radio under my pillow listing to Mystery. Im so happy i can listen to them now thank u so much for sharing with all of us.
Just came across this.
Love it. I’d stay up way past my bedtime to listen to these at my grandmas house. Like so many others, I too had a little pocket radio. Just a simple 5transistor am Realistic. But that’s all I needed. In St.Louis, it was KMOX, 1120.
Listened for years.
Thanks for posting this.
📻👍🙂‼️
Takes me back to a time when both tv and radio were both good. I cut my cable about 3 years ago and honestly don't miss it.
I’m wow
Eleven as of yesterday! And I have been subscribed to ChillySunshine for years! I love EVERYTHING about the 70s and watch nothing but MeTV. The music was wonderful, the people were happy, and life was just great! Sometimes I just get ecstatic listening to E.G Marshal’s stories. Thank you for blessing us, ChillySunshine!
whoever you are, ChillySunshine, thank you for uploading these little gems, greetings from Bruges!
Holy crap... I've been trying to find this forever! My brother and I used to listen to this back in the 70s but I could not remember the name of the program. Once I heard that theme I recognized it immediately!!!
so Glad 4 you this is a Treasure
When I was 9 or 10, (1974), I was up late because my dad took me to a St. Louis Blues hockey game and in his car, he kept the radio tuned to KMOX, and this came on (around 11 pm) and I asked him what it was and he said, "Oh, they've started doing this. They're trying to show people what radio was like before television. It's kind of silly." But I was fascinated! After bedtime, I'd turn it on in my room on low volume and I listened faithfully for about 3 or 4 years. I remember often hearing the familiar voice of Fred Gwynne of TV's The Munsters. Mercedes McCainbridge was a very frequent guest voice. A few future stars, like Mandy Patinkin did them. This was the only scripted, acted Radio show in America after the 1950s and hardly anyone listened to it.
This used to air at 11:00 p.m. in my city. I listened on a clock radio every weeknight. The music and E.G. Marshall's voice bring back such good memories.
Man, I miss the 20th century so much.
Great channel. Thank you.
Old radio programs are excellent.
"... waaaay back in the year 1998..."
Indeed.
Why don't we have these types of programs any more? this sparks the imagination.
Vincent Von Black ... I know! in the quest to make things better we left behind some real treasures!🙁
Himan Brown tryed to bring them back in 1999 and really did not have any luck. look him up on the web he was a very intresting man and the shows that he did.
Listening to radio requires imagination and an ability to connect to a story line. Video/TV does not.
That is why TV won out and radio has devolved into what it is.
David E Thompson try bbc radio, they have them
BBC Radio Four broadcasts radio plays every day and these can be listened to online. A lot of them are not much good in my opinion, and heavily influenced by PC culture, but there are still occasional gems to be found.
I used to listen to these in the 70's when I was in high school. Reminds me of my parent's old house. Great memories. Thank you.
Just the right thing during a Quarantine- 2020.
Keep sharing to FB. We need to spread something fun during these times.
@@Mina-ok5qm This reminded me of a long gone era. I mentioned listening to this on our families council stereo as I followed your suggestion to post on facebook. It was bigger than a loveseat and that was a big chunk of real estate in a home back then. Today? The same amount of stereo would fit on a coaster and some sandwich sized speakers.
They also have old-time radio shows of all sorts. I'm Gunsmoke to Unshackled
@@Damaged262 My parents had a stereo like that too - a huge elegant claw-footed piece of wooden furniture about 6 ft long. Weighed about as much as a Volkswagen.
What happened?
Thank you for posting these. When I was a little girl my grandmother and I used to listen to these when I stayed with her. She would put a little transistor am radio under her pillow and we would go to sleep listening to these stories. Thank you for a wonderful piece of comfort from my childhood!
+Ruth Erbach You're Most Welcome!
I did the same thing in Boarding school. My Dad (Who is now 83 (2018) used to buy Cassetes Tapes with shoes on them at one time he had hundreds of them, I found Digital copies of them all over the workld and now have about 7000 hours of shows. at one time there was a server at nasa that hosted all of the CBSRMT Shows. and everyoine started to get all the shows/ it is sad that there are no 100% good copy's opf all the old shows. (I have all the shows on 10 DVD's (Mp4) that i bought many years ago.
I do this now!! Same idea different technology,
R.I.P. Ruth Erbach :(
Sounds like a wonderful memory, Ruth.
This is when you had to use your mind for thinking about things and not your fingers 👍
I.m from the UK..enjoying listening to these now
.2017!
I’m 60 yrs now. Used to listen to this using a pillow speaker because it aired after hours!! 👁
Carlos Magana I haven’t thought about pillow speakers in years.
Ahh yes, 1960, it was a very good year. Happy belated birthday Carlos.
@@danthomas6587 you are very kind. Now 61 yrs young. These were so eerie and awesome. Took me to another place. You?
@@madmextupapa those radio broadcasts were incredibly descriptive. Radio had a hay day long before TV but sadly "video killed the radio star" as the song goes. They helped me pass long night hours creating images for my advertising classes in art school. Things were created by hand back then. Not so much today. Personally I think craftsmanship was better back in the day. Today its all about instant gratification. I'm glad I was born in 1960. Kids today have too many choices . Its mind boggling. Love from Arizona.
I love hearing these great radio shows when I'm on the road. I drive a big truck n drive long hours. Hearing these shows makes time go by better
When I was stationed at Camp LeJeune North Carolina I would listen to these great radio shows on the way home for the weekend to Charleston, West Virginia.That was back in Sep75 to Oct77. I usually picked up WCHS radio station around Bluefield, West Virginia when I would get on the West Virginia Turnpike.
I remember a Am station would play these in our city in the 70's . Last of the times .
They playthese still on 105.9 in chicago. One night i got high in my car n this got my attention lol
I use to listen on the radio as a kid growing up in Houston. My uncles introduced my brother and I to the show. We would listen to the show during the summer months at our grandparents house. At home, we would have the radio on in our bedrooms; my room, my brother's room and my parent's room. The sound of the creaking door would resonate through in a dark settled home. It set the mood. Great memories.
Rest in peace Mom, Dad, Grandma and Grandpa.
There was also a short-lived radio series of Twilight Zone Radio Dramas ( c.2002) which was hosted by Stacy Keach, Jr.
His & James father, Stacy, Sr. was one of the director's on Tales of the Texas Rangers.
@@terrymccoy8950 I have heard "Tales Of The Texas Rangers," starring Joel McCray om YESTERDAY USA on my computer, also "The Six Shooter," starring Jimmy Steward, The Alice Faye & Phil Harris show & many others.
10pm on 1180 WHAM in Rochester NY! I would listen religiously.
I remember listening to these driving home from my part time job while in college. That ‘creaking door’ gets me every time!
Was on the edge of my wheel chair listening to this program. Excellent taste for entertainment.
I did listen also,during the late 60's to 70's in my first '67 LeSabre car.
Autoplay on. Charger in phone. Last joint smouldering in the ashtray, dog snuggled up behind my knees and the rain outside pattering down. perfect. Goodnight.
Don't get no better
@Veni Vidi Vici nasty
Sounds like a great night
Oh my God! Well, my wonderful dog is in the chair next to me. He's too big for my lap
Sounds great' enjoy...
Back in high school in the 70s I made an AM radio from a radio shack kit. Had it on a stand next to my bed and would lay in bed listening to this show before I went to sleep. It was on from 10 to 11. My father began collecting old radio shows in the 70s and he recorded every one of these. Now I listen to this and all the old radio shows from the 40s and 50s whenever I am driving or working in my shop. I have turned into my father which is not a bad thing. Lots of great memories.
Cold, dark nights...time to pull the bedclothes over you with ghost stories and fantasy! Perhaps two radio play ghost stories I’ve produced AND a brand new mystery listed on my channel “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT AND a radio fantasy comedy, “A Trip to the Moon” starring Joyce Randolph of The Honeymooners, which features Larry Robinson, who, as a child actor, actually worked with Orson Welles. Here’s the link: ruclips.net/video/Hex2ltykNTM/видео.html--Claud. If you don’t want to click the link just search “Claude Chabot presents” on RUclips.
I now listen to these after all these years...ahh the 70's freakin rocked! Now I listen to these when I go to bed..lol pretty kool...
These stories put me to sleep every night!
Same here..everything you said.
and the funny thing is my dads got me inot his in the laste 70's before CBSRMT there was X minus one and Dimensiuon X alot of old shows were produced and direct by the same person that did CBSRMT. does anyone know that name?
@@cloggersd Hiram Brown
@@CuteLesbo69 Himan
I used to get in trouble in the 70's for sneaking a radio to bed and listening to this show under the covers. Cool to listen to E.G. Marshall and these chilling radio plays once again!
I did the same exact thing 😅!
Back in the 1970's, I used to listen to Mysrery Theater on a.m. radio...I miss those days...
I'm so glad that I found this. I used to listen as a kid in the 70's before sleeping. I loved these! Brings back some great memories.
I also used to listen to these in bed at night when a kid in the 70s. Glad I thought to look this up. Thank you.
I bought a 1934 Packard-Bell radio when I was a kid in 1974 from our lovely old neighbor lady for 3 bucks and used to listen to this radio show at night and pretend I was a kid in the 30's!
Heyy thanks! God bless you Martha Broyles!
But these were not broadcast in the 1930s .
Nice cover art. The sky is marvelous.
I'm 10 years old listening to the radio with my Dad again! Thank you!
Listening to these plays in the 70's was a guilty pleasure a 10yr old staying up past midnight could ask for. Thanks for bringing back those memories
I love old time radio theatre / shows .
They are captivating without moving pictures . Must have been great to come home , flip the radio on and listen to your fav shows 👍
Used to listen to these laying across the backseat in Mom and Dad's car on the way back home from visiting relatives. We went often and it was a long drive, so I've heard lots of these... but so long ago that they all are new again. Thanks ChillySunshine and.... pleasant....dreams?
Captivating radio in the early 1970s. It was so much fun to listen to. Who needed tv when you had these most vivid stories by word. An art never better: radio !
I remember listening to the CBS Radio Mystery Theater every night as a teenager, WRKO in Boston played it 6 nights per week, 10:00-11:00 pm.
I'm 60 when I was 12 I stayed at the camp listened to these with my farther he is gone now, I'll go soon enough but love these memories!!!
Many a lonely night I listened to each one of these stories while on guard duty. For at least one hour every night I was not bored to death. Never missed the broadcast. Was devastated when my radio station stopped broadcasting them.
Funny how E.G. mentions life in the 21st century in his opening. Saying how some will see it and "the rest of us" can only speculate about how different it will be. It's hard now to imagine life without all our toys and gadgets, and how much HAS changed since these shows aired.
E G Marshall died in 1998...almost made it to the 21st Century...
taclas1 and he lived through quite a century. i was only around for the second half. there’s a lot to be missed, but much to enjoy now. it’s weird to live with a mind in two such different places. does that always happen to older people? mmm? :) ☃️
And musing interestingly, I've lived in the 20th and living in 21st...so I've seen two centuries. And I've lived in two millennia???!!!
Listen to the song the year 2525 on RUclips. Yikes!
Nothing to enjoy now? There are literally millions of things to go out and enjoy in the world.
Oh wow! I loved these shows when I was growing up. Had forgotten about them until I stumbled upon this!
Cold, dark nights...time to pull the bedclothes over you with ghost stories and fantasy! Perhaps two radio play ghost stories I’ve produced AND a brand new mystery listed on my channel “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT AND a radio fantasy comedy, “A Trip to the Moon” starring Joyce Randolph of The Honeymooners, which features Larry Robinson, who, as a child actor, actually worked with Orson Welles. Here’s the link: ruclips.net/video/Hex2ltykNTM/видео.html--Claud. If you don’t want to click the link just search “Claude Chabot presents” on RUclips.
Finding Radio Dramas from early Welles’ Mercury Theatre to BBC dramas of today have to be in the top 5 things that have enriched my life for the best.
"We drove ourselves from the garden when it was always possible to return, up until now. Now it looks as though we may have planted seeds in the dead soil of a lost world. A world that may have to go on, if it goes on, without us." Incredibly prophetic words.
Dear Lord - you picked up the central part & it is truly so sad - there are still some of us who care 🌹
I listened on WHAM 1180 am out of Rochester, New York! The show came on at 10 PM - I had to turn the volume down, so as not to disturb my parents or older sister. I didn't have a transistor radio (with an earphone), so I listened on an old Zenith table radio.
To this day, I love radio drama! My father was a child of the Depression, and back then the radio was people's primary source of news and entertainment. Kudos to the people who have digitized these radio shows and preserved them for future generations to enjoy!
My mom and I road tripped from CT to the NJ shore most weekends. Loved listening to this show on each trip. Mom died 17 years ago, missing her :-)
Wonderful stories!love to listen to them every night.500 channels and I still listen every day.
+franklin3376 ~ I hear ya.............All those channels and not a darn thing worth watching!
we lived in a differnet generatation. back when we all had imanganatatation.
I wonder what if tv hadn’t come along how much more of these might had been created
What a throwback to my teens. My sister and I would lay in our beds listening to our radios in our rooms and would talk about the episodes the next day, especially the creepy ones.
I remember when I had just come home for my first leave from the Corp I was trying to find something on TV and started listening 🎧 to something like this. Thank You So Very Much For Bringing This Back
EG Marshall and these shows were awesome. A way life gone by still in the 70s making thrills and chills. Loved the ones with Fred Gwynne.
What's absolutely brilliant is all of "us" who listen to these terrific shows all have the 21st century trappings and here we all are listening to stories written 40+yrs ago, doesn't that say something about the longevity of these wonderful tales and sadly how little (sometimes) the stories of our time lack the thrill and impact of these historic and exciting stories!!! Of course there are great writers now but nothing like these thought provoking stories that never (in our opinion) grow old!! As a footnote I also listen to X minus 1, Suspense, The Whistler, Box 13, Johnny Dollar, Vincent Price-Fear and I may have missed a classic here oops Dragnet!!!! These shows if listened to by most kids of today they would dismiss them out of hand for X-box and the likes but it's not their fault as my 14 yr old daughter is sadly one of the said kids!!
Yes, indeed.
How about.....THE SHADOW! and the Scarlet Pimpernel, and of course, Inner Sanctum, Ripley's Believe It or Not! Suspense, Escape, The Mysterious Traveler. But the number one all-time radio drama favorite (of mine) because by big brother set me up big time....Mercury Theater - War of the Worlds! 3o years after that broadcast, it still scared the crap out of me.
You just have to get on with the proper classic movies...like The Horn Blows at Midnight ;-)
@@davidk4940 hi thanx for ur reply sorry I'm 3 months late but I only listened to the original broadcast of wotw with Orson Welles and ur right it's such a fantastic story but how Orson presented it as tho it were really happening is truly historic and just think how people reacted to it shit they must have thought it was the end of the world!!!
@@simonmcgrath4112 'War of the Worlds' radio broadcast sparked fear, panic 80 years ago in America, Orlando
By ROGER SIMMONS
ORLANDO SENTINEL |
OCT 30, 2018 AT 8:25 AM
“Hysteria among radio listeners throughout the nation and actual panicky evacuations from sections of the New York metropolitan area resulted from a too-realistic radio broadcast last night describing a fictitious and devastating visitation of strange men from Mars,” the Associated Press reported. “Excited and weeping persons across all of the country swamped newspaper and police switchboards with the question: ‘It is true?’”
www.orlandosentinel.com/features/gone-viral/os-ae-war-of-the-worlds-radio-anniversary-20181030-story.html
This would come on at precisely 8:06 pm, and God help anyone who interfered with the radio or being all set in place when E.G. Marshall came on. Not one peep! If we were in the car when it happened to come on, everyone had to shut up and not talk over it (fortunately most everyone agreed), then once we got home, I’d wait for a commercial break to run into the house to catch the rest of it. Couldn’t miss a single second of it. RMT was a serious deal. Thanks for the upload:)
I listened to this with my dad on KMOX St Louis in the 1970s. Thanks for posting.
I'm so happy I've found these. Houston 740am played these at 9pm. My father used to make me turn the lights off at 9 but I'd always sneak my radio under my cover hoping not to get caught. Those were great times and the golden years of America. I'm glad I grew up back then instead of now.
I did the same thing!
@@johnbrown1960 :) I think we were happier as kids in those days. Technology is wonderful and useful but it comes with some cost. Kids today are so stressed out keeping up with the Joneses.
Used to listen to these with my dad in the car on Sunday evenings drivin home from up north.
Chilly thanx for posting these old time radio shows. It’s Coronavirus quarantine time and literally my brain needs an escape. This offers up so much imagination, I have the best dreams after I listen. I don’t think u posted these thinking you’d be doing a public service...
I grew up listening to these shows. Now I appreciate the production value.
This is so awesome, its like going back in time ,i love these stories at night while going to sleep
The past can be a very comfortable place to be, we know it is safe. I’m 72 and feel like most of the others who have written here. I’m the oldest of eight, and had to get a part-time job when I was 14, worked after school for 30 hrs/wk. I feel like I grew up in a golden age. Wish I could go back just for a few hours………it was wonderful.
Oh my, I loved this when I was in high school. I would turn off the lights, get into bed and turn on the radio.
I LOVE ALL of these Stories. I grew up listening to radio.. and the scarry "Squeeking Door" later, I found the ones you are playing.. Now, later on in my life, I find them again.. Always so peaceful to listen to .
I was stationed in Frankfurt Germany in the middle 70's and we didn't have tv but we had radio shows and I listened to them while cleaning my room and getting my uniforms ready for the week. It was great.
Even as a young girl in the sixties I could not fathom living in the year 2000 but especially not 2020!
Right?? It’s weird!😁
Just imagine! NO ONE would have predicted the S--t hitting the fan in the way it has. This is just the tip of the ice berg!
This is better than any movie.
I use to listen to the CBS radio mystery 40 years ago
Back in the early 80's when my husband and I were on vacation in utah we would bed down in the van and listen to Mystery Theater. Fun times, fun times. No really they were.
I used to listen to this with my father. Great memories.
mr sunshine put a lot of light in many lives with these plays,got me out of a dark place ill say that much .
Very kind of you to say and that's great that the plays helped you so much.
This night is December 31, 2020. This is wonderful! Thank you!
I don't know of any US radio that does this type of thing anymore. I remember I used to lay in bed and fall asleep listening to the CBS radio mystery theater. There were some really fantastic stories. I don't know why they don't do these types of shows anymore....probably the cost. But......
Get the BBC app for your phone and then tune into BBC 4 extra. It features 24/7 of radio dramas.....history, SciFi, mystery, thrillers, horror, audio books, etc. The broadcasts are from 1950's upto present day
Thank you for bringing these stories to life and this is one of my top favorites!
I can listen to it again and again.
I couldn't sleep the other night so me and my dog listened to old horror podcasts.
Yeah we were both curled up by the fire place with a cup of hot chocolate, she took hers in a bowl.
Travis Peach,
You're not supposed to give chocolate to your dog. (S)he lacks the liver enzyme to digest it. Every Christmas many vets see dogs who have eaten chocolate. Some of them cannot be saved.
My dog loves coffee. Every time the missus or I have a cup, he will pester us until he gets some. We always share, unless it's Mocha.
@@j.d.schultzsr.9215 Sadly chocolate is not good for doggies. Just an hour ago I finished some chocolate cake. He licked the few crumbs off the saucer. I just couldn't take it away from him! I don't know what I would do without him in these solitary times.
I listened to this program each night after going to bed as a kid back in the 1970’s. Thanks for posting.
I got a transistor radio from my grandma for Christmas in the mid 1970s, when my mom and dad made me go to my bedroom upstairs I would turn it down low and listen to mystery theater every night they came on. Loved them, brings back memories.
my granny said a lot of old or people who lived alone would listen to the radio (back in the 30s and 40s) to not feel alone.
and we never thought someday it would be us lol
Now we all have smartphones.......
Thanks for this .
It's always the same thing on TV these days.
Such great memories of people, places, and times gone by listening to this! Thank you for sharing!
Listened to these in Fayetteville NC back then in 1977.
Listening to this brings back childhood memories while Iam in lockdown for the Coronavirus in 2020
Thank you for these GREAT radio shows, many, many more PLEASE!!!!!!!!!
Use to love this program on the radio in the early 80's. Great stories. And E.G. Marshall, best host you could want.
I used to listen to this program on the radio with my brothers back when we were teens. Miss those old shows where the background music and sounds let your mind build the visuals for you making the experience unique for each of us.