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.
Seasons
1. Edna Warren
Air Date: 1949-07-19
2. Promise
Air Date: 1949-07-26
3. Long Distance
Air Date: 1949-08-02
4. Crater
Air Date: 1949-08-09
5. SOUVENIERS OF HIS DEAD WIFE
Air Date: 1949-08-16
6. The Housekeeper
Air Date: 1949-08-23
7. Dressing Gown
Air Date: 1949-08-30
8. The Whisper
Air Date: 1949-09-23
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.
9. Conqueror's Isle
Air Date: 1949-11-07
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."
10. Pengallen's Bell
Air Date: 1949-11-14
11. The Fall of the House of Usher
Air Date: 1949-11-21
12. I Dreamt I Died
Air Date: 1949-11-28
13. SOMETHING IN THE WIND
Air Date: 1949-12-05
14. Justice Lies Waiting
Air Date: 1949-12-12
15. The Elevator
Air Date: 1949-12-19
16. The Man Who Couldn't Lose
Air Date: 1949-12-26
17. The Riverman
Air Date: 1950-01-02
18. JUDGEMENT REVERSED
Air Date: 1950-01-09
19. The Green Dress
Air Date: 1950-01-16
20. The Devil to Pay
Air Date: 1950-01-23
21. Reservations for Four
Air Date: 1950-01-30
22. Dead Pigeon
Air Date: 1950-02-06
23. The Invisible Staircase
Air Date: 1950-02-13
24. Graven Image
Air Date: 1950-02-20
25. Portrait of a Dead Man
Air Date: 1950-02-27
26. The Strange Case of John Kingman
Air Date: 1950-03-06
27. The Emerald Lavalier
Air Date: 1950-03-13
28. The Scarab
Air Date: 1950-03-20
29. Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
Air Date: 1950-03-29
30. The Queen is Dead
Air Date: 1950-04-03
31. The Faithful Heart
Air Date: 1950-04-10
32. A Toast to Sergeant Farnsworth
Air Date: 1950-04-17
33. The Man Who Couldn't Remember
Air Date: 1950-04-24
34. GLOVES OF GINO
Air Date: 1950-05-01
35. The Silent Voice
Air Date: 1950-05-08
36. The House That Time Forgot
Air Date: 1950-05-15
37. Rendezvous
Air Date: 1950-09-22
38. HOW LOVE CAME TO PROFESSOR GULDIA
Air Date: 1950-05-29
39. The Heart of Jonathan O'Rourke
Air Date: 1950-06-05
40. DETERMINED LADY
Air Date: 1950-06-12
41. A Child is Crying
Air Date: 1950-06-19
42. An Encore
Air Date: 1950-06-26
43. THE WHISPER (RESTAGING)
Air Date: 1950-07-03
44. I DREAMT I DIED (RESTAGING)
Air Date: 1950-07-10
45. THE DEVIL TO PAY (RESTAGING)
Air Date: 1950-07-17
46. THE STRANGE CASE OF JOHN KINGMAN (RESTAGING)
Air Date: 1950-07-31
47. THE QUEEN IS DEAD (RESTAGING)
Air Date: 1950-08-14
48. THE HEART OF JONATHAN O'ROURKE (RESTAGING)
Air Date: 1950-08-21
1. IDES OF APRIL
Air Date: 1950-08-28
2. Benuili Chant
Air Date: 1950-09-04
3. The Dark Corner
Air Date: 1950-09-11
4. The Leopard Lady
Air Date: 1950-09-18
5. SISTER OF SHADOW
Air Date: 1950-09-25
6. The Posthumous Dead
Air Date: 1950-10-02
7. Just What Happened
Air Date: 1950-10-09
A man stands trial for murdering another man by throwing him out a window.
8. The Thing Upstairs
Air Date: 1950-10-16
9. The Skeptics
Air Date: 1950-10-16
10. The Martian Eyes
Air Date: 1950-10-30
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.
11. The Half Pint Flask
Air Date: 1950-11-06
12. The Waxwork
Air Date: 1950-11-13
13. THE EXPERIMENT
Air Date: 1950-11-20
14. THE MULE MEN
Air Date: 1950-11-27
15. Beware This Woman
Air Date: 1950-12-04
A woman experiencing poltergeist activity in her home secures the services of a reluctant, non-believer in the supernatural, scientist to resolve her problem.
16. THE MASQUE
Air Date: 1950-12-11
17. The Men on the Mountain
Air Date: 1950-12-18
18. Jasper
Air Date: 1950-12-25
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.
19. The Haunted Skyscraper
Air Date: 1951-01-01
20. Bird of Time
Air Date: 1951-01-08
21. The Bottle Imp
Air Date: 1951-01-15
22. For Release Today
Air Date: 1951-01-22
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-fiancé Balsamo had cursed Henry when he stole her away, promising Henry that he'd be through in one year.
23. The Masque of the Red Death
Air Date: 1951-01-29
24. THE HOUSE OF DUST (AKA) 1962
Air Date: 1951-02-05
25. Curtain Call
Air Date: 1951-02-12
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 ...
26. Strange Legacy
Air Date: 1951-02-19
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.
27. The Dispossessed
Air Date: 1951-02-26
28. THE MAN WITH ASTRAKHAN HAT
Air Date: 1951-03-05
29. Leda's Portrait
Air Date: 1951-03-12
30. Western Night
Air Date: 1951-03-19
31. THE POWER OF BRUTE
Air Date: 1951-03-26
32. The Mad Dullaghan
Air Date: 1951-04-02
A man finds his missing fiancé 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.
33. The Crushed Rose
Air Date: 1951-04-09
34. The Witness
Air Date: 1951-04-16
35. THE FONCECILLE CURSE
Air Date: 1951-04-23
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.
36. Grey Reminder
Air Date: 1951-04-30
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.
37. The Lost Will of Dr. Rant
Air Date: 1951-05-07
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.
38. Dead Man's Coat
Air Date: 1951-05-14
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.
39. Cat's Cradle
Air Date: 1951-05-21
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.
40. The Pattern
Air Date: 1951-05-28
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.
41. THE MARTIAN EYES
Air Date: 1951-06-04
42. Pit of the Dead
Air Date: 1951-06-11
43. Dead Freight
Air Date: 1951-06-18
44. The Passage Beyond
Air Date: 1951-06-25
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.
45. THE ADAM BEGOT
Air Date: 1951-07-02
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.
46. The Meddlers
Air Date: 1951-07-09
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.
47. THE DEVIL IN GLENCAIRE
Air Date: 1951-07-16
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.
48. Zero Hour
Air Date: 1951-07-23
49. The Fingers
Air Date: 1951-07-30
50. The Faceless Man
Air Date: 1951-08-06
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.
51. The Man With the Watch
Air Date: 1951-08-13
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.
52. Follow Me
Air Date: 1951-08-20
1. Mrs. Manifold
Air Date: 1951-08-27
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.
2. Blackwood Hall
Air Date: 1951-09-03
3. Prophet of Darkness
Air Date: 1951-09-10
4. To See Ourselves
Air Date: 1951-09-17
5. Rappaccini's Daughter
Air Date: 1951-09-24
6. Will-O-the-wisp
Air Date: 1951-10-01
7. Dark Image
Air Date: 1951-10-08
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.
8. I SPY
Air Date: 1951-10-15
A survey taker makes a startling discovery when she visits the home of two very paranoid, eccentric, elderly collectors of odds and ends.
9. The Deal
Air Date: 1951-10-22
A man makes a deal with a mysterious businessman in order to get rid of his high spending wife.
10. The Veil
Air Date: 1951-10-29
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.
11. The Chamber of Gloom
Air Date: 1951-11-05
12. The Beast in the Garden
Air Date: 1951-11-12
13. Friday the Nineteenth
Air Date: 1951-11-19
14. BEYOND THE DOOR (AKA) FAR OFF ISLAND
Air Date: 1951-11-26
15. The Silent Supper
Air Date: 1951-12-03
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.
16. The Angry Birds
Air Date: 1951-12-10
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.
17. Perchance to Dream
Air Date: 1951-12-17
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.
18. This Way to Heaven
Air Date: 1951-12-24
19. Of Time and Third Avenue
Air Date: 1951-12-30
20. THE SCHOOL FOR THE UNSPEAKBLE
Air Date: 1952-01-07
21. Blood Relation
Air Date: 1952-01-14
22. The Intruder
Air Date: 1952-01-21
23. The Third Door
Air Date: 1952-01-28
24. The Chain
Air Date: 1952-02-04
25. Cries the String
Air Date: 1952-02-11
26. The Eyes from San Francisco
Air Date: 1952-02-18
27. The Perfect Servant
Air Date: 1952-02-25
28. Private - Keep Out
Air Date: 1952-03-03
29. The Upstairs Floor
Air Date: 1952-03-10
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.
30. The Borgia Lamp
Air Date: 1952-03-17
31. Another Country
Air Date: 1952-03-24
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.
32. The Pit
Air Date: 1952-04-07
33. THE MEN ON THE MOUNTAIN
Air Date: 1952-04-14
34. A Lucky Piece
Air Date: 1952-04-21
35. For Rent
Air Date: 1952-04-28
36. A Journey Into the Shadows
Air Date: 1952-05-05
37. The Green Thumb
Air Date: 1952-05-12
38. Little Girl
Air Date: 1952-05-19
39. The Death's Head
Air Date: 1952-05-26
40. Night Walk
Air Date: 1952-06-02
41. Blind Man's Bluff
Air Date: 1952-06-09
42. Nightmare
Air Date: 1952-06-16
43. The Coins of Death
Air Date: 1952-06-23
44. The Lonely Albatross
Air Date: 1952-06-30
45. THE GUEST IN ROOM THIRTEEN
Air Date: 1952-07-07
46. The Bog Oak Necklace
Air Date: 1952-07-14
47. Death Trap
Air Date: 1952-07-28
48. Man in the Dark
Air Date: 1952-08-04
49. The Killer's Moon
Air Date: 1952-08-11
50. Twist of Fate
Air Date: 1952-08-18
51. DEATH IS A SMALL MONK
Air Date: 1952-08-25
52. The Verdict
Air Date: 1952-09-01
53. The Red Rose
Air Date: 1952-09-08
54. The Darker Night
Air Date: 1952-09-15
55. Flight Thirteen
Air Date: 1952-09-22
56. The Hollow Man
Air Date: 1952-09-29
57. WHEN WIDOWS WEEP
Air Date: 1972-01-15
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Rating
5.3/10
Release Date
1949-07-19
Episodes
161 (3 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
Production Companies
Admiral Corporation
Erwin, Wasey & Co. Inc.
NBC