I agree with you Steve!  A wonderful time for radio and a wonderful time for America.  Besides a few of the episodes that stayed in my memory for decades until I found cbsrmt.com (like 'End of the Rainbow' and the great 'Murder Preferred'), what I remember most about being a 13-year-old listening to CBS Radio Mystery Theater on the 50,000-Watt flagship WHAM out of Rochester NY was staring at the warm orange of the glowing numbers on my General Electric flip-clock radio and waiting for the 10-o-clock news to end.  E.G. made his appearance at 10:07 on the dot ("flip!").  My bedroom was in the attic so I never worried about my parents hearing it.  I would usually make it all the way to 11:00!  No wonder I was so tired getting up for school in the morning!!