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Sears Radio Theater was a radio drama anthology series that ran weeknights on CBS Radio in 1979, sponsored by the Sears chain. Often paired with The CBS Radio Mystery Theater during its first season, the program offered a different genre of drama for each evening's broadcast.

In January 1980, the program moved from CBS to the Mutual Broadcasting System and was renamed Mutual Radio Theater. The Mutual series broadcast repeats from the CBS run until September 1980, when a short season of new dramas was presented. Sears continued as a sponsor during the Mutual run. The program turned out to be Mutual's final radio drama series. Mutual continued to broadcast repeats of the program (along with a few previously unaired episodes) until December 1981.

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Episode numbers do not correlate with the podcast episode number but rather is a way for us to organize the episodes and give us a better sense of what episodes we are missing.
* - Original air dates are accurate to the best of our ability and rely on external sources (including but not limited to) RadioGOLDINdex, OTRRpedia, On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio by John Dunning and Old-Time Radio Researchers. Episode numbers is for organizational purposes only since they were made up by hobbyists and not actually from the networks.