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Lights Out
1949 - 1972 5.3 (3 votes) 3 Seasons
Genres
Sci-Fi & Fantasy Crime Drama Reality
Networks
NBC

Lights Out

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Producer: Fred Coe

Top Cast

Jack La Rue
Jack La Rue

Narrator (voice)

Seasons

Season 1 (1949)

No overview available.

48 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Edna Warren
1949-07-19

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Promise
1949-07-26

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Long Distance
1949-08-02

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Crater
1949-08-09

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: SOUVENIERS OF HIS DEAD WIFE
1949-08-16

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: The Housekeeper
1949-08-23

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Dressing Gown
1949-08-30

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: The Whisper
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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Conqueror's Isle
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."

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: Pengallen's Bell
1949-11-14

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: The Fall of the House of Usher
1949-11-21

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: I Dreamt I Died
1949-11-28

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: SOMETHING IN THE WIND
1949-12-05

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: Justice Lies Waiting
1949-12-12

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 15: The Elevator
1949-12-19

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 16: The Man Who Couldn't Lose
1949-12-26

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 17: The Riverman
1950-01-02

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 18: JUDGEMENT REVERSED
1950-01-09

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 19: The Green Dress
1950-01-16

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 20: The Devil to Pay
1950-01-23

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 21: Reservations for Four
1950-01-30

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 22: Dead Pigeon
1950-02-06

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 23: The Invisible Staircase
1950-02-13

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 24: Graven Image
1950-02-20

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 25: Portrait of a Dead Man
1950-02-27

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 26: The Strange Case of John Kingman
1950-03-06

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 27: The Emerald Lavalier
1950-03-13

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 28: The Scarab
1950-03-20

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 29: Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
1950-03-29

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 30: The Queen is Dead
1950-04-03

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 31: The Faithful Heart
1950-04-10

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 32: A Toast to Sergeant Farnsworth
1950-04-17

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 33: The Man Who Couldn't Remember
1950-04-24

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 34: GLOVES OF GINO
1950-05-01

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 35: The Silent Voice
1950-05-08

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 36: The House That Time Forgot
1950-05-15

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 37: Rendezvous
1950-09-22

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 38: HOW LOVE CAME TO PROFESSOR GULDIA
1950-05-29

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 39: The Heart of Jonathan O'Rourke
1950-06-05

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 40: DETERMINED LADY
1950-06-12

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 41: A Child is Crying
1950-06-19

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 42: An Encore
1950-06-26

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 43: THE WHISPER (RESTAGING)
1950-07-03

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 44: I DREAMT I DIED (RESTAGING)
1950-07-10

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 45: THE DEVIL TO PAY (RESTAGING)
1950-07-17

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 46: THE STRANGE CASE OF JOHN KINGMAN (RESTAGING)
1950-07-31

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 47: THE QUEEN IS DEAD (RESTAGING)
1950-08-14

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 48: THE HEART OF JONATHAN O'ROURKE (RESTAGING)
1950-08-21

Runtime: 30 min
Season 2 (1950)

No overview available.

52 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: IDES OF APRIL
1950-08-28

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Benuili Chant
1950-09-04

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: The Dark Corner
1950-09-11

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: The Leopard Lady
1950-09-18

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: SISTER OF SHADOW
1950-09-25

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: The Posthumous Dead
1950-10-02

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Just What Happened
1950-10-09

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: The Thing Upstairs
1950-10-16

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: The Skeptics
1950-10-16

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: The Martian Eyes
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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: The Half Pint Flask
1950-11-06

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: The Waxwork
1950-11-13

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: THE EXPERIMENT
1950-11-20

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: THE MULE MEN
1950-11-27

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 15: Beware This Woman
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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 16: THE MASQUE
1950-12-11

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 17: The Men on the Mountain
1950-12-18

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 18: Jasper
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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 19: The Haunted Skyscraper
1951-01-01

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 20: Bird of Time
1951-01-08

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 21: The Bottle Imp
1951-01-15

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 22: For Release Today
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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 23: The Masque of the Red Death
1951-01-29

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 24: THE HOUSE OF DUST (AKA) 1962
1951-02-05

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 25: Curtain Call
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 ...

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 26: Strange Legacy
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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 27: The Dispossessed
1951-02-26

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 28: THE MAN WITH ASTRAKHAN HAT
1951-03-05

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 29: Leda's Portrait
1951-03-12

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 30: Western Night
1951-03-19

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 31: THE POWER OF BRUTE
1951-03-26

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 32: The Mad Dullaghan
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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 33: The Crushed Rose
1951-04-09

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 34: The Witness
1951-04-16

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 35: THE FONCECILLE CURSE
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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 36: Grey Reminder
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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 37: The Lost Will of Dr. Rant
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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 38: Dead Man's Coat
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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 39: Cat's Cradle
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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 40: The Pattern
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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 41: THE MARTIAN EYES
1951-06-04

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 42: Pit of the Dead
1951-06-11

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 43: Dead Freight
1951-06-18

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 44: The Passage Beyond
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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 45: THE ADAM BEGOT
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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 46: The Meddlers
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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 47: THE DEVIL IN GLENCAIRE
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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 48: Zero Hour
1951-07-23

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 49: The Fingers
1951-07-30

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 50: The Faceless Man
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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 51: The Man With the Watch
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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 52: Follow Me
1951-08-20

Runtime: 30 min
Season 3 (1951)

No overview available.

57 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Mrs. Manifold
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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Blackwood Hall
1951-09-03

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Prophet of Darkness
1951-09-10

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: To See Ourselves
1951-09-17

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Rappaccini's Daughter
1951-09-24

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Will-O-the-wisp
1951-10-01

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Dark Image
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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: I SPY
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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: The Deal
1951-10-22

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: The Veil
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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: The Chamber of Gloom
1951-11-05

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: The Beast in the Garden
1951-11-12

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: Friday the Nineteenth
1951-11-19

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: BEYOND THE DOOR (AKA) FAR OFF ISLAND
1951-11-26

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 15: The Silent Supper
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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 16: The Angry Birds
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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 17: Perchance to Dream
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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 18: This Way to Heaven
1951-12-24

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 19: Of Time and Third Avenue
1951-12-30

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 20: THE SCHOOL FOR THE UNSPEAKBLE
1952-01-07

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 21: Blood Relation
1952-01-14

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 22: The Intruder
1952-01-21

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 23: The Third Door
1952-01-28

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 24: The Chain
1952-02-04

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 25: Cries the String
1952-02-11

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 26: The Eyes from San Francisco
1952-02-18

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 27: The Perfect Servant
1952-02-25

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 28: Private - Keep Out
1952-03-03

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 29: The Upstairs Floor
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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 30: The Borgia Lamp
1952-03-17

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 31: Another Country
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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 32: The Pit
1952-04-07

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 33: THE MEN ON THE MOUNTAIN
1952-04-14

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 34: A Lucky Piece
1952-04-21

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 35: For Rent
1952-04-28

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 36: A Journey Into the Shadows
1952-05-05

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 37: The Green Thumb
1952-05-12

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 38: Little Girl
1952-05-19

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 39: The Death's Head
1952-05-26

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 40: Night Walk
1952-06-02

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 41: Blind Man's Bluff
1952-06-09

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 42: Nightmare
1952-06-16

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 43: The Coins of Death
1952-06-23

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 44: The Lonely Albatross
1952-06-30

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 45: THE GUEST IN ROOM THIRTEEN
1952-07-07

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 46: The Bog Oak Necklace
1952-07-14

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 47: Death Trap
1952-07-28

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 48: Man in the Dark
1952-08-04

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 49: The Killer's Moon
1952-08-11

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 50: Twist of Fate
1952-08-18

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 51: DEATH IS A SMALL MONK
1952-08-25

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 52: The Verdict
1952-09-01

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 53: The Red Rose
1952-09-08

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 54: The Darker Night
1952-09-15

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 55: Flight Thirteen
1952-09-22

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 56: The Hollow Man
1952-09-29

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 57: WHEN WIDOWS WEEP
1972-01-15

Runtime: 30 min

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