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CBS Radio Mystery Theater

American radio program, 1974–1982

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.

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“CBS Radio Mystery Theater” enters the record as american radio program, 1974–1982. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Radio, Mystery and Theater can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974, 1982—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Radio, Mystery and Theater.
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“CBS Radio Mystery Theater” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Radio, Mystery and Theater provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1974 and 1982.

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This entry incorporates text from “CBS Radio Mystery Theater” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.