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The show was broadcast nightly and ran for one hour, including commercials. Typically, a week consisted of three to four new episodes, with the remainder of the week filled out with reruns. There were a total of 1399 original episodes broadcast. The total number of broadcasts, including reruns, was 2969.
The late E. G. Marshall hosted the program every year but the series' last, when actress Tammy Grimes took over. Each episode began with the ominous sound of a creaking door, slowly opening to invite listeners in for the evening's adventure. At the end of each show, the door would swing shut, with Marshall signing off, "Until next time, pleasant...dreams?"
Despite the series' title, Brown expanded its scope beyond mysteries to include horror, science fiction, historical drama, and even comedy. In addition to original stories, there were adaptations of classic tales by such writers as Edgar Allan Poe (no fewer than seven Poe stories were adapted in 1975 alone), O. HenryHenry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter ( September 11, 1862 June 5, 1910), whose clever use of twist endings in his stories popularized the term "O. Henry Ending. Henry was released from prison in Austin, Texas on July 24, 1901 after serving thre, Mark TwainSamuel Langhorne Clemens ( November 30, 1835- April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain was a famous and popular American humorist, writer and lecturer. Mark Twain was also a steamboat pilot, gold prospector, and journalist. At his peak, he, Ambrose BierceAmbrose Gwinnett Bierce (b. June 24, 1842, Meigs County, Ohio d. 1913 or early 1914, presumably in Mexico) was an American satirist, litterateur and critic, short story writer, editor and journalist. His dark, sardonic views gave him the nickname Bitter B, Charles DickensCharles John Huffam Dickens ( February 7, 1812 June 9, 1870), pen-name " Boz", was an English novelist of the Victorian era. The popularity of his books during his lifetime and to the present is demonstrated by the fact that none of his novels has ever go and others. Later in the series Brown even experimented with multi-part, five-episode adaptations of novels such as Les Miserables and The Last Days of Pompeii , as well as an original five-part story about EgyptJumhuriyat Misr al-Arabiyah ( In Detail) Official language Arabic Capital Cairo Largest City Cairo President Hosni Mubarak Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif Area Total % water Ranked 29th 1,001,450 kmē 0. 6% Population Total (2003) Density Ranked 15th 74,718,797ian queen NefertitiNefertiti was the wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep IV (later Akhenaten), and mother-in-law of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Her name roughly translates to "the beautiful one is come". She also shares her name with a type of elongated gold bead that she w with Tammy Grimes in the title role.
A host of prominent actors from radio and screen performed on the series, including Agnes MooreheadMoorehead as Endora on Bewitched Agnes Moorehead ( December 6, 1900 April 30, 1974) was a United States character actress. She was born in Clinton, Massachusetts. Moorehead was a graduate of Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio. She was also part of Ors, Joan Hackett, Mercedes McCambridge, Morey Amsterdam, Roy Thinnes, Keir Dullea, Fred Gwynne, Richard Crenna, Kim Hunter, Larry Haines, Morgan Fairchild, John Lithgow, and even a very young Sarah Jessica Parker.
Actors were paid union scale at around $73.92 per show. Writers earned a flat rate of $350.00 per show. The production took place with assembly-line precision. Brown would meet with actors at 9:00 AM for the first reading of the script. He would then assign roles and recording would begin. By noon the recording of the actors was complete and Brown handed everyone their checks. Post-production would take place in the afternoon.
In 1975, CBSRMT won the prestigious Peabody Award, and in 1990 it was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame . In 1998, the still-active Brown attempted a brief revival of the series, rebroadcasting selected old episodes with his own introductions replacing Marshall's.
CBSRMT remains perennially popular with collectors to this day, with numerous websites, discussion forums, and even a Usenet newsgroup devoted to trading MP3 files of episodes.
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