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Lights Out

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First Aired:July 19, 1949
Seasons:3 seasons
Episodes:161
Status:Ended

Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. Versions of Lights Out aired on different networks, at various times, from January 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television. In 1946, NBC Television brought Lights Out to TV in a series of four specials, broadcast live and produced by Fred Coe, who also contributed three of the scripts. NBC asked Cooper to write the script for the premiere, "First Person Singular", which is told entirely from the point of view of an unseen murderer who kills his obnoxious wife and winds up being executed. Variety gave this first episode a rave review ("undoubtedly one of the best dramatic shows yet seen on a television screen"), but Lights Out did not become a regular NBC-TV series until 1949.

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Seasons & Episodes

E1Edna Warren

30m

Jul 19, 1949

E2Promise

30m

Jul 26, 1949

E3Long Distance

30m

Aug 2, 1949

E4Crater

30m

Aug 9, 1949

E5SOUVENIERS OF HIS DEAD WIFE

30m

Aug 16, 1949

E6The Housekeeper

30m

Aug 23, 1949

E7Dressing Gown

30m

Aug 30, 1949

E8The Whisper

30m

Sep 23, 1949

After defeating Morales, Lights hires trainer Ed Romeo (Eamonn Walker), who once trained Death Row Reynolds. Romeo is part boxing guru and part psychologist, and his approach is very different from Pops'. Meanwhile, Theresa worries about Ava's attitude about life.

E9Conqueror's Isle

30m

Nov 7, 1949

The training regimen Ed Romeo (Eamonn Walker) is imposing on Lights splits the Leary family: Theresa and the girls don't like its late-night hours, but they do like Ed. Johnny doesn't, and he's upset that Ed won't let Lights promote the Reynolds fight. For his part, Ed thinks that Lights' brother is "bleeding him dry."

E10Pengallen's Bell

30m

Nov 14, 1949

E11The Fall of the House of Usher

30m

Nov 21, 1949

E12I Dreamt I Died

30m

Nov 28, 1949

E13SOMETHING IN THE WIND

30m

Dec 5, 1949

E14Justice Lies Waiting

30m

Dec 12, 1949

E15The Elevator

30m

Dec 19, 1949

E16The Man Who Couldn't Lose

30m

Dec 26, 1949

E17The Riverman

30m

Jan 2, 1950

E18JUDGEMENT REVERSED

30m

Jan 9, 1950

E19The Green Dress

30m

Jan 16, 1950

E20The Devil to Pay

30m

Jan 23, 1950

E21Reservations for Four

30m

Jan 30, 1950

E22Dead Pigeon

30m

Feb 6, 1950

E23The Invisible Staircase

30m

Feb 13, 1950

E24Graven Image

30m

Feb 20, 1950

E25Portrait of a Dead Man

30m

Feb 27, 1950

E26The Strange Case of John Kingman

30m

Mar 6, 1950

E27The Emerald Lavalier

30m

Mar 13, 1950

E28The Scarab

30m

Mar 20, 1950

E29Mary, Mary Quite Contrary

30m

Mar 29, 1950

E30The Queen is Dead

30m

Apr 3, 1950

E31The Faithful Heart

30m

Apr 10, 1950

E32A Toast to Sergeant Farnsworth

30m

Apr 17, 1950

E33The Man Who Couldn't Remember

30m

Apr 24, 1950

E34GLOVES OF GINO

30m

May 1, 1950

E35The Silent Voice

30m

May 8, 1950

E36The House That Time Forgot

30m

May 15, 1950

E37Rendezvous

30m

Sep 22, 1950

E38HOW LOVE CAME TO PROFESSOR GULDIA

30m

May 29, 1950

E39The Heart of Jonathan O'Rourke

30m

Jun 5, 1950

E40DETERMINED LADY

30m

Jun 12, 1950

E41A Child is Crying

30m

Jun 19, 1950

E42An Encore

30m

Jun 26, 1950

E43THE WHISPER (RESTAGING)

30m

Jul 3, 1950

E44I DREAMT I DIED (RESTAGING)

30m

Jul 10, 1950

E45THE DEVIL TO PAY (RESTAGING)

30m

Jul 17, 1950

E46THE STRANGE CASE OF JOHN KINGMAN (RESTAGING)

30m

Jul 31, 1950

E47THE QUEEN IS DEAD (RESTAGING)

30m

Aug 14, 1950

E48THE HEART OF JONATHAN O'ROURKE (RESTAGING)

30m

Aug 21, 1950

E1IDES OF APRIL

30m

Aug 28, 1950

E2Benuili Chant

30m

Sep 4, 1950

E3The Dark Corner

30m

Sep 11, 1950

E4The Leopard Lady

30m

Sep 18, 1950

E5SISTER OF SHADOW

30m

Sep 25, 1950

E6The Posthumous Dead

30m

Oct 2, 1950

E7Just What Happened

30m

Oct 9, 1950

A man stands trial for murdering another man by throwing him out a window.

E8The Thing Upstairs

30m

Oct 16, 1950

E9The Skeptics

30m

Oct 16, 1950

E10The Martian Eyes

30m

Oct 30, 1950

An odd professor claims he can spot Martians, who masquerade as humans, using a pair of infrared glasses he wears. Only then can you see the third eyeball in the middle of their forehead. He relates his wild theory to a photographer sitting by him in a bar--and the man believes him. While playing around with infrared film, the photographer says he's snapped a shot of a man with three eyes. The two team up to convince authorities of their find.

E11The Half Pint Flask

30m

Nov 6, 1950

E12The Waxwork

30m

Nov 13, 1950

E13THE EXPERIMENT

30m

Nov 20, 1950

E14THE MULE MEN

30m

Nov 27, 1950

E15Beware This Woman

30m

Dec 4, 1950

A woman experiencing poltergeist activity in her home secures the services of a reluctant, non-believer in the supernatural, scientist to resolve her problem.

E16THE MASQUE

30m

Dec 11, 1950

E17The Men on the Mountain

30m

Dec 18, 1950

E18Jasper

30m

Dec 25, 1950

Songwriter Charlie has suffered with writer's block" since he and his wife moved to the country. Betty wants them to sell the house to pay the bills, but Charlie doesn't want to part with the family estate. His late ancestor, Jasper, isn't thrilled with the idea either.

E19The Haunted Skyscraper

30m

Jan 1, 1951

E20Bird of Time

30m

Jan 8, 1951

E21The Bottle Imp

30m

Jan 15, 1951

E22For Release Today

30m

Jan 22, 1951

Maggie, the press agent for actor Henry Crawford, is horrified by his lifeless performances during dress rehearsals for his new play. She comments that he seems dead, to which his wife, Elaine, declares that he is. A year earlier, Elaine's ex-fiancรฉ Balsamo had cursed Henry when he stole her away, promising Henry that he'd be through in one year.

E23The Masque of the Red Death

30m

Jan 29, 1951

E24THE HOUSE OF DUST (AKA) 1962

30m

Feb 5, 1951

E25Curtain Call

30m

Feb 12, 1951

Off-his-rocker Kruger, a famous actor coming out of retirement for a new play with his daughter (Randel), suddenly is tormented by the ghost of his late, thought-to-be-a-suicide wife. His daughter is a triumph in her first big stage role, but ... can Kruger take the adulation she receives ...

E26Strange Legacy

30m

Feb 19, 1951

After suffering a concussion in a car accident on the Oregon coast, Stephen Elliott is carried to the home of an old man and his beautiful daughter-in-law to recover. The young woman tells Stephen that her husband, a World War II pilot, had died the year before and left an uncompleted musical composition, a model airplane and a piece of sculpture, as well as a strange will.

E27The Dispossessed

30m

Feb 26, 1951

E28THE MAN WITH ASTRAKHAN HAT

30m

Mar 5, 1951

E29Leda's Portrait

30m

Mar 12, 1951

E30Western Night

30m

Mar 19, 1951

E31THE POWER OF BRUTE

30m

Mar 26, 1951

E32The Mad Dullaghan

30m

Apr 2, 1951

A man finds his missing fiancรฉ in a mental hospital. She believes she's possessed a Dullaghan, a spirit of Irish folklore that jumped to her from her late father when she kissed him farewell at his funeral. The finance investigates and learns that her parent had been a famous ventriloquist and his dummy was named Mr. Dullagham.

E33The Crushed Rose

30m

Apr 9, 1951

E34The Witness

30m

Apr 16, 1951

E35THE FONCECILLE CURSE

30m

Apr 23, 1951

The heir of the old aristocratic Fonceville family takes his bride to the ancestral castle, where a hereditary madness takes over his dreams, one that tries to induce the murder of his new wife.

E36Grey Reminder

30m

Apr 30, 1951

Charlotte is distressed by the letters addressed tor her new husband that mysteriously appear at their door. Kenneth refuses to discuss their contents, but they clearly disturb him. Fearing he's seeing another woman, Charlotte demands to know who's writing them. She's shocked to find they're from his domineering first wife who seems intent on controlling him even in death.

E37The Lost Will of Dr. Rant

30m

May 7, 1951

A Boston librarian is drawn into a ghostly web of deceit as he helps a beautiful heiress recover her stolen fortune by finding a missing will written in a rare version of the Talmud.

E38Dead Man's Coat

30m7.0

May 14, 1951

By opening the grave of a recently deceased man and putting on his coat, a person will supposedly be granted invisibility. A bitter man with scores to settle decides to put the superstition to the test. He forces his reluctant butler to join him in his scheme of grave-robbing and murder.

E39Cat's Cradle

30m

May 21, 1951

Former hometown football star George Logan pays an unexpected late night visit on Phyllis and Bob at their country home. Down on his luck, he's obsessed with having never fit in, and holds a grudge against the world. His one talent is weaving a string into a cat's cradle and, he claims, using it to cast spells and murder people who get in his way. A skeptical Bob call it nonsense so an irate George is determined to prove him wrong.

E40The Pattern

30m

May 28, 1951

Al March is tortured by his failure to have stopped the bombing of an Army barracks in 1945 Germany. Awaiting surgery, he tells his sister that the two men and a woman he killed the night before were the same ones who had planted the explosives. Even though they had died in the blast, they had been chasing him for the past six years because he lived and they didn't.

E41THE MARTIAN EYES

30m

Jun 4, 1951

E42Pit of the Dead

30m

Jun 11, 1951

E43Dead Freight

30m

Jun 18, 1951

E44The Passage Beyond

30m

Jun 25, 1951

The ghost of Lady Anne continues to walk down the stairs, knife in hand, and into the secret passage where she murdered her domineering husband. She vividly demonstrates her disapproval of Rodney's attempt to conduct an affair with a visiting friend of his wife.

E45THE ADAM BEGOT

30m

Jul 2, 1951

The car carrying cultured Geoffrey, brutish Claude and eligible Kay swerves off a cliff and into a mysterious valley. Surprised by the weird vegetation and climate, they come to believe they've traveled back in time 50,000 years. An encounter with an unfriendly caveman results in all three being held captive in the wild man's cave.

E46The Meddlers

30m

Jul 9, 1951

Cecil Crofton shows up at the backwoods, hillbilly shack of Purdy with a wild proposition on how the two can split a million dollars. Crofton as figured out that a ton gold that once belonged to the Confederacy is buried locally, in the cellar of a house that had burned down and was rebuilt. Purdy figures rightly that it's the old Larro place, but the abandoned house is cursed by the ghosts of Larro ancestors from the Civil War.

E47THE DEVIL IN GLENCAIRE

30m

Jul 16, 1951

Steenie, the best piper in all of Scotland, is about to be evicted if he doesn't pay his owed rent. After selling his pipes to raise the money, a mysterious stranger appears, ready with a deal: it involves Steenie's money, bagpipes--and his immortal soul.

E48Zero Hour

30m

Jul 23, 1951

E49The Fingers

30m

Jul 30, 1951

E50The Faceless Man

30m

Aug 6, 1951

Francis Carvel visits a plastic surgeon to erase a lifetime of ugliness from his face. Now handsome, he returns to the French inn where, a year earlier, an lovely woman had spurned his affection. Complicating Carvel's plans is a new traveling companion, a disfigured man in bandages who knows everything about him.

E51The Man With the Watch

30m

Aug 13, 1951

A New York City detective is investigating the disappearance of over 200 people. Before vanishing into thin air, each person has reported a dream involving a fat man with a bizarre watch who convinces them to join him on his planet of Aleria.

E52Follow Me

30m

Aug 20, 1951

E1Mrs. Manifold

30m

Aug 27, 1951

In 1890s London, Mrs. Manifold runs a boarding house for sailors on the waterfront. New hire John hears from a customer that her wine-guzzling husband, Ambrose, long ago disappeared and that some say she killed him. The old lady gets jumpy when a strange man reeking of wine signs the register "Ambrose Manifold.

E2Blackwood Hall

30m

Sep 3, 1951

E3Prophet of Darkness

30m

Sep 10, 1951

E4To See Ourselves

30m

Sep 17, 1951

E5Rappaccini's Daughter

30m

Sep 24, 1951

E6Will-O-the-wisp

30m

Oct 1, 1951

E7Dark Image

30m4.0

Oct 8, 1951

On their honeymoon, a new husband brings his bride to the ranch he grew up on. The wife is soon traumatized by the antique bedroom mirror once owned by the husband's deceased former love. The dead girlfriend appears in the reflection, wanting to trade places with the newly-married woman.

E8I SPY

30m

Oct 15, 1951

A survey taker makes a startling discovery when she visits the home of two very paranoid, eccentric, elderly collectors of odds and ends.

E9The Deal

30m

Oct 22, 1951

A man makes a deal with a mysterious businessman in order to get rid of his high spending wife.

E10The Veil

30m

Oct 29, 1951

Ambitious defense attorney David Stevenson has high political aspirations and believes his romance with a nobody like Sylvia Willis will only hold him back. Calling in a favor from a murderer he once saved from conviction, he has his bride-to-be shot. Sylvia, however, is not so easily silenced. She demands justice and forces the great attorney to defend himself before a jury of the dead.

E11The Chamber of Gloom

30m

Nov 5, 1951

E12The Beast in the Garden

30m

Nov 12, 1951

E13Friday the Nineteenth

30m

Nov 19, 1951

E14BEYOND THE DOOR (AKA) FAR OFF ISLAND

30m

Nov 26, 1951

E15The Silent Supper

30m

Dec 3, 1951

Dede attends the silent supper, a ritual the single Bayou women conduct to foresee their future husbands. Old voodoo woman Miss Watkins had told Dede that she'd meet her husband at the supper that night. Miss Watkins has the misfortune of meeting up with troublemaker Jean Duval, who stabs her and steals her silver. Then, uninvited, he crashes the silent supper.

E16The Angry Birds

30m

Dec 10, 1951

Bird lover Waldo Bryan leaves behind his big city art career to live in the country. His wife, Adele, has turned hateful, angry that he made her give up the city life. To get even, she lets Waldo's beloved parakeet out of it's cage to be killed by her cat. The birds outside seem to know of Adele's evil deed and turn on her, turning her into the caged one.

E17Perchance to Dream

30m

Dec 17, 1951

Jeff Morgan reads a story in a pulp fiction magazine exactly like one he'd written and filed away years earlier. His meeting with the author, Frank Joyce, is eerie; he already knows everything about the man without having met him before. Convinced Frank is his doppelganger, Jeff panics when he dreams Frank steps onto an elevator that malfunctions and plunges fifteen stories. Frank just scoffs at his frantic warning.

E18This Way to Heaven

30m

Dec 24, 1951

E19Of Time and Third Avenue

30m

Dec 30, 1951

E20THE SCHOOL FOR THE UNSPEAKBLE

30m

Jan 7, 1952

E21Blood Relation

30m

Jan 14, 1952

E22The Intruder

30m

Jan 21, 1952

E23The Third Door

30m

Jan 28, 1952

E24The Chain

30m

Feb 4, 1952

E25Cries the String

30m

Feb 11, 1952

E26The Eyes from San Francisco

30m

Feb 18, 1952

E27The Perfect Servant

30m

Feb 25, 1952

E28Private - Keep Out

30m

Mar 3, 1952

E29The Upstairs Floor

30m

Mar 10, 1952

A husband rents the same upstairs apartment where he and his late wife once lived. Despite his claims of being married, the elderly landlady feels that something is not quite right. After weeks, she's yet to meet the woman. In fact, she's never heard so much as a sound coming from upstairs floor.

E30The Borgia Lamp

30m

Mar 17, 1952

E31Another Country

30m

Mar 24, 1952

A mysterious stranger enters a home uninvited, drawn from the street by the haunting music of Beethoven's "Geister (Ghost) Trio" that three musicians are performing. The pianist is immediately smitten with the woman of obvious wealth and status, soon proposing they marry. She says it is impossible, as the man would be forced to choose between her or his music.

E32The Pit

30m

Apr 7, 1952

E33THE MEN ON THE MOUNTAIN

30m

Apr 14, 1952

E34A Lucky Piece

30m

Apr 21, 1952

E35For Rent

30m

Apr 28, 1952

E36A Journey Into the Shadows

30m

May 5, 1952

E37The Green Thumb

30m

May 12, 1952

E38Little Girl

30m

May 19, 1952

E39The Death's Head

30m

May 26, 1952

E40Night Walk

30m

Jun 2, 1952

E41Blind Man's Bluff

30m

Jun 9, 1952

E42Nightmare

30m

Jun 16, 1952

E43The Coins of Death

30m

Jun 23, 1952

E44The Lonely Albatross

30m

Jun 30, 1952

E45THE GUEST IN ROOM THIRTEEN

30m

Jul 7, 1952

E46The Bog Oak Necklace

30m

Jul 14, 1952

E47Death Trap

30m

Jul 28, 1952

E48Man in the Dark

30m

Aug 4, 1952

E49The Killer's Moon

30m

Aug 11, 1952

E50Twist of Fate

30m

Aug 18, 1952

E51DEATH IS A SMALL MONK

30m

Aug 25, 1952

E52The Verdict

30m

Sep 1, 1952

E53The Red Rose

30m

Sep 8, 1952

E54The Darker Night

30m

Sep 15, 1952

E55Flight Thirteen

30m

Sep 22, 1952

E56The Hollow Man

30m

Sep 29, 1952

E57WHEN WIDOWS WEEP

30m

Jan 15, 1972

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Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. Versions of Lights Out aired on different networks, at various times, from January 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television. In 1946, NBC Television brought Lights Out to TV in a series of four specials, broadcast live and produced by Fred Coe, who also contributed three of the scripts. NBC asked Cooper to write the script for the premiere, "First Person Singular", which is told entirely from the point of view of an unseen murderer who kills his obnoxious wife and winds up being executed. Variety gave this first episode a rave review ("undoubtedly one of the best dramatic shows yet seen on a television screen"), but Lights Out did not become a regular NBC-TV series until 1949.

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