Talk:CBS Radio Mystery Theater

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I put up a searchable plot/title/actor/writer RMT database at: http://cbsrmt.mousetrap.net/RMTdb/

Don't know if it warrants inclusion on the RMT page or not, but thought I'd mention it.

fm.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Fratermus (talk • contribs) 16:42, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

List of episodes

I've added a list of episodes for each season. Each season has its own article rather than having all the episodes in one article because the sheer volume of episodes would have created a page over 500kb in size which is far beyond Wikipedia's rule for small pages. As it is the list of episodes for each season is pushing that limit already. Any optional solutions are welcome. - Hydroxonium (talk) 13:35, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Public domain?

I had a concern about the legality of downloading the mp3 files made from the old broadcasts. I did a little research and found the following on http://www.archive.org/details/otr_cbsradiomysterytheater

“…Himen Browns [sic] widow has talked to the old time radio researchers group and she says she is ok with the shows being shared as long as no fee is being shared.”

Is this true?

Making Wine (talk) 21:44, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Theme Instrumentation

the horn stab in the intro music is by a trombone, not a trumpet, and the woodwind instrument is a bass clarinet. i have no references for this besides the fact that i have played in the symphony and i am personally familiar with these instruments. also, the theme music is not atonal, as the previous editor mentioned. it is in fact quite tonal, strongly centering around a minor key, either c# minor or c minor. the uncertainty of the exact key is due to speed variations in the devices used to transcribe the episodes. the quality that was mistakenly labelled atonality is instead an ominous quality produced by large, awkward jumps in the melody, such as the bass clarinet moving from the submediant up seven semitones to the mediant, which is then resolved down one semitone to the supertonic, followed by another jump of eight semitones from the submediant down to the tonic, finally ending unresolved on the leading tone, producing a feeling of suspense. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Puggloid (talk • contribs) 18:37, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

using a music excerpt from "Two" (Twilight Zone episode)

I just discovered what this article already says about the CBS Radio Mystery Theater theme appearing on the Twilight Zone episode "Two", which (episode) has its own article here on Wikipedia. I had already taken a stab at doing the RMT theme on a computer, but such arrangement is not on the web at this time. I will now have to work in a remark about Twilight Zone regarding that arrangement. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.63.16.20 (talk) 17:30, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

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1974?

1974? I was listening to CBS Radio Mystery Theater 10 or more years before that, with E.G. Marshall, host. Why is that not covered? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:387:F:4A36:0:0:0:5 (talk) 17:21, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

There were quite a few murder mystery radio shows before this one, maybe you're recalling a different program. No sources for anything earlier than 1974 for this program. Schazjmd (talk) 17:29, 29 April 2022 (UTC)