Lights Out

Lights Out

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.

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

EP 1

Edna Warren

EP 2

Promise

EP 3

Long Distance

EP 4

Crater

EP 5

SOUVENIERS OF HIS DEAD WIFE

EP 6

The Housekeeper

EP 7

Dressing Gown

EP 8

The Whisper

After defeating Morales, Lights hires trainer Ed Romeo (Eamonn Walker), who once trained Death Row Reynolds. Romeo is pa

EP 9

Conqueror's Isle

The training regimen Ed Romeo (Eamonn Walker) is imposing on Lights splits the Leary family: Theresa and the girls don't

EP 10

Pengallen's Bell

EP 11

The Fall of the House of Usher

EP 12

I Dreamt I Died

EP 13

SOMETHING IN THE WIND

EP 14

Justice Lies Waiting

EP 15

The Elevator

EP 16

The Man Who Couldn't Lose

EP 17

The Riverman

EP 18

JUDGEMENT REVERSED

EP 19

The Green Dress

EP 20

The Devil to Pay

EP 21

Reservations for Four

EP 22

Dead Pigeon

EP 23

The Invisible Staircase

EP 24

Graven Image

EP 25

Portrait of a Dead Man

EP 26

The Strange Case of John Kingman

EP 27

The Emerald Lavalier

EP 28

The Scarab

EP 29

Mary, Mary Quite Contrary

EP 30

The Queen is Dead

EP 31

The Faithful Heart

EP 32

A Toast to Sergeant Farnsworth

EP 33

The Man Who Couldn't Remember

EP 34

GLOVES OF GINO

EP 35

The Silent Voice

EP 36

The House That Time Forgot

EP 37

Rendezvous

EP 38

HOW LOVE CAME TO PROFESSOR GULDIA

EP 39

The Heart of Jonathan O'Rourke

EP 40

DETERMINED LADY

EP 41

A Child is Crying

EP 42

An Encore

EP 43

THE WHISPER (RESTAGING)

EP 44

I DREAMT I DIED (RESTAGING)

EP 45

THE DEVIL TO PAY (RESTAGING)

EP 46

THE STRANGE CASE OF JOHN KINGMAN (RESTAGING)

EP 47

THE QUEEN IS DEAD (RESTAGING)

EP 48

THE HEART OF JONATHAN O'ROURKE (RESTAGING)

EP 1

IDES OF APRIL

EP 2

Benuili Chant

EP 3

The Dark Corner

EP 4

The Leopard Lady

EP 5

SISTER OF SHADOW

EP 6

The Posthumous Dead

EP 7

Just What Happened

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

EP 8

The Thing Upstairs

EP 9

The Skeptics

EP 10

The Martian Eyes

An odd professor claims he can spot Martians, who masquerade as humans, using a pair of infrared glasses he wears. Only

EP 11

The Half Pint Flask

EP 12

The Waxwork

EP 13

THE EXPERIMENT

EP 14

THE MULE MEN

EP 15

Beware This Woman

A woman experiencing poltergeist activity in her home secures the services of a reluctant, non-believer in the supernatu

EP 16

THE MASQUE

EP 17

The Men on the Mountain

EP 18

Jasper

Songwriter Charlie has suffered with writer's block" since he and his wife moved to the country. Betty wants them to sel

EP 19

The Haunted Skyscraper

EP 20

Bird of Time

EP 21

The Bottle Imp

EP 22

For Release Today

Maggie, the press agent for actor Henry Crawford, is horrified by his lifeless performances during dress rehearsals for

EP 23

The Masque of the Red Death

EP 24

THE HOUSE OF DUST (AKA) 1962

EP 25

Curtain Call

Off-his-rocker Kruger, a famous actor coming out of retirement for a new play with his daughter (Randel), suddenly is to

EP 26

Strange Legacy

After suffering a concussion in a car accident on the Oregon coast, Stephen Elliott is carried to the home of an old man

EP 27

The Dispossessed

EP 28

THE MAN WITH ASTRAKHAN HAT

EP 29

Leda's Portrait

EP 30

Western Night

EP 31

THE POWER OF BRUTE

EP 32

The Mad Dullaghan

A man finds his missing fiancé in a mental hospital. She believes she's possessed a Dullaghan, a spirit of Irish folklo

EP 33

The Crushed Rose

EP 34

The Witness

EP 35

THE FONCECILLE CURSE

The heir of the old aristocratic Fonceville family takes his bride to the ancestral castle, where a hereditary madness t

EP 36

Grey Reminder

Charlotte is distressed by the letters addressed tor her new husband that mysteriously appear at their door. Kenneth ref

EP 37

The Lost Will of Dr. Rant

A Boston librarian is drawn into a ghostly web of deceit as he helps a beautiful heiress recover her stolen fortune by f

EP 38

Dead Man's Coat

By opening the grave of a recently deceased man and putting on his coat, a person will supposedly be granted invisibilit

EP 39

Cat's Cradle

Former hometown football star George Logan pays an unexpected late night visit on Phyllis and Bob at their country home.

EP 40

The Pattern

Al March is tortured by his failure to have stopped the bombing of an Army barracks in 1945 Germany. Awaiting surgery, h

EP 41

THE MARTIAN EYES

EP 42

Pit of the Dead

EP 43

Dead Freight

EP 44

The Passage Beyond

The ghost of Lady Anne continues to walk down the stairs, knife in hand, and into the secret passage where she murdered

EP 45

THE ADAM BEGOT

The car carrying cultured Geoffrey, brutish Claude and eligible Kay swerves off a cliff and into a mysterious valley. Su

EP 46

The Meddlers

Cecil Crofton shows up at the backwoods, hillbilly shack of Purdy with a wild proposition on how the two can split a mil

EP 47

THE DEVIL IN GLENCAIRE

Steenie, the best piper in all of Scotland, is about to be evicted if he doesn't pay his owed rent. After selling his pi

EP 48

Zero Hour

EP 49

The Fingers

EP 50

The Faceless Man

Francis Carvel visits a plastic surgeon to erase a lifetime of ugliness from his face. Now handsome, he returns to the F

EP 51

The Man With the Watch

A New York City detective is investigating the disappearance of over 200 people. Before vanishing into thin air, each pe

EP 52

Follow Me

EP 1

Mrs. Manifold

In 1890s London, Mrs. Manifold runs a boarding house for sailors on the waterfront. New hire John hears from a customer

EP 2

Blackwood Hall

EP 3

Prophet of Darkness

EP 4

To See Ourselves

EP 5

Rappaccini's Daughter

EP 6

Will-O-the-wisp

EP 7

Dark Image

On their honeymoon, a new husband brings his bride to the ranch he grew up on. The wife is soon traumatized by the antiq

EP 8

I SPY

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

EP 9

The Deal

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

EP 10

The Veil

Ambitious defense attorney David Stevenson has high political aspirations and believes his romance with a nobody like Sy

EP 11

The Chamber of Gloom

EP 12

The Beast in the Garden

EP 13

Friday the Nineteenth

EP 14

BEYOND THE DOOR (AKA) FAR OFF ISLAND

EP 15

The Silent Supper

Dede attends the silent supper, a ritual the single Bayou women conduct to foresee their future husbands. Old voodoo wom

EP 16

The Angry Birds

Bird lover Waldo Bryan leaves behind his big city art career to live in the country. His wife, Adele, has turned hateful

EP 17

Perchance to Dream

Jeff Morgan reads a story in a pulp fiction magazine exactly like one he'd written and filed away years earlier. His mee

EP 18

This Way to Heaven

EP 19

Of Time and Third Avenue

EP 20

THE SCHOOL FOR THE UNSPEAKBLE

EP 21

Blood Relation

EP 22

The Intruder

EP 23

The Third Door

EP 24

The Chain

EP 25

Cries the String

EP 26

The Eyes from San Francisco

EP 27

The Perfect Servant

EP 28

Private - Keep Out

EP 29

The Upstairs Floor

A husband rents the same upstairs apartment where he and his late wife once lived. Despite his claims of being married,

EP 30

The Borgia Lamp

EP 31

Another Country

A mysterious stranger enters a home uninvited, drawn from the street by the haunting music of Beethoven's "Geister (Ghos

EP 32

The Pit

EP 33

THE MEN ON THE MOUNTAIN

EP 34

A Lucky Piece

EP 35

For Rent

EP 36

A Journey Into the Shadows

EP 37

The Green Thumb

EP 38

Little Girl

EP 39

The Death's Head

EP 40

Night Walk

EP 41

Blind Man's Bluff

EP 42

Nightmare

EP 43

The Coins of Death

EP 44

The Lonely Albatross

EP 45

THE GUEST IN ROOM THIRTEEN

EP 46

The Bog Oak Necklace

EP 47

Death Trap

EP 48

Man in the Dark

EP 49

The Killer's Moon

EP 50

Twist of Fate

EP 51

DEATH IS A SMALL MONK

EP 52

The Verdict

EP 53

The Red Rose

EP 54

The Darker Night

EP 55

Flight Thirteen

EP 56

The Hollow Man

EP 57

WHEN WIDOWS WEEP

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