COLLECTION · Series · 1949
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.
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* 6.0 (5)CrimeDramaFantasyScience FictionUnited States
Countries
United States
Studios
NBC · Admiral Corporation · Erwin, Wasey & Co. Inc.
Runtime
30 min/ep
Age rating
TV-PG
Release
19/07/1949
Score
6.0 / 10 (5)
Where to watch
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Specials
4 episodes · 1946
Episode 1. First Person Singular
1946-06-30 · 30 min
A man, driven crazy by his wife's constant nagging and the oppressive summer heat, decides to strangle the woman. The murderers dream of a nice, cool place ends with a date with the hangman.
Episode 2. Something in the Wind
1946-08-11 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 3. DeMortius
1946-09-01 · 30 min
Has the doctor murdered his flighty wife? And if he hasn't, will he, sometime soon?
Episode 4. The Brave Man with a Cord
1946-10-13 · 30 min
No synopsis
Season 1
48 episodes · 1949
Episode 1. Edna Warren
1949-07-19 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 2. Promise
1949-07-26 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 3. Long Distance
1949-08-02 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 4. Crater
1949-08-09 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 5. SOUVENIERS OF HIS DEAD WIFE
1949-08-16 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 6. The Housekeeper
1949-08-23 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 7. Dressing Gown
1949-08-30 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 8. The Whisper
1949-09-23 · 30 min
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…
Episode 9. Conqueror's Isle
1949-11-07 · 30 min
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…
Episode 10. Pengallen's Bell
1949-11-14 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 11. The Fall of the House of Usher
1949-11-21 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 12. I Dreamt I Died
1949-11-28 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 13. SOMETHING IN THE WIND
1949-12-05 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 14. Justice Lies Waiting
1949-12-12 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 15. The Elevator
1949-12-19 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 16. The Man Who Couldn't Lose
1949-12-26 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 17. The Riverman
1950-01-02 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 18. JUDGEMENT REVERSED
1950-01-09 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 19. The Green Dress
1950-01-16 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 20. The Devil to Pay
1950-01-23 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 21. Reservations for Four
1950-01-30 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 22. Dead Pigeon
1950-02-06 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 23. The Invisible Staircase
1950-02-13 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 24. Graven Image
1950-02-20 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 25. Portrait of a Dead Man
1950-02-27 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 26. The Strange Case of John Kingman
1950-03-06 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 27. The Emerald Lavalier
1950-03-13 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 28. The Scarab
1950-03-20 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 29. Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
1950-03-29 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 30. The Queen is Dead
1950-04-03 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 31. The Faithful Heart
1950-04-10 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 32. A Toast to Sergeant Farnsworth
1950-04-17 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 33. The Man Who Couldn't Remember
1950-04-24 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 34. GLOVES OF GINO
1950-05-01 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 35. The Silent Voice
1950-05-08 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 36. The House That Time Forgot
1950-05-15 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 37. Rendezvous
1950-09-22 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 38. HOW LOVE CAME TO PROFESSOR GULDIA
1950-05-29 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 39. The Heart of Jonathan O'Rourke
1950-06-05 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 40. DETERMINED LADY
1950-06-12 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 41. A Child is Crying
1950-06-19 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 42. An Encore
1950-06-26 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 43. THE WHISPER (RESTAGING)
1950-07-03 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 44. I DREAMT I DIED (RESTAGING)
1950-07-10 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 45. THE DEVIL TO PAY (RESTAGING)
1950-07-17 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 46. THE STRANGE CASE OF JOHN KINGMAN (RESTAGING)
1950-07-31 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 47. THE QUEEN IS DEAD (RESTAGING)
1950-08-14 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 48. THE HEART OF JONATHAN O'ROURKE (RESTAGING)
1950-08-21 · 30 min
No synopsis
Season 2
52 episodes · 1950
Episode 1. IDES OF APRIL
1950-08-28 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 2. Benuili Chant
1950-09-04 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 3. The Dark Corner
1950-09-11 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 4. The Leopard Lady
1950-09-18 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 5. SISTER OF SHADOW
1950-09-25 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 6. The Posthumous Dead
1950-10-02 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 7. Just What Happened
1950-10-09 · 30 min
A man stands trial for murdering another man by throwing him out a window.
Episode 8. The Thing Upstairs
1950-10-16 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 9. The Skeptics
1950-10-16 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 10. The Martian Eyes
1950-10-30 · 30 min
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…
Episode 11. The Half Pint Flask
1950-11-06 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 12. The Waxwork
1950-11-13 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 13. THE EXPERIMENT
1950-11-20 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 14. THE MULE MEN
1950-11-27 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 15. Beware This Woman
1950-12-04 · 30 min
A woman experiencing poltergeist activity in her home secures the services of a reluctant, non-believer in the supernatural, scientist to resolve her problem.
Episode 16. THE MASQUE
1950-12-11 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 17. The Men on the Mountain
1950-12-18 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 18. Jasper
1950-12-25 · 30 min
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,…
Episode 19. The Haunted Skyscraper
1951-01-01 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 20. Bird of Time
1951-01-08 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 21. The Bottle Imp
1951-01-15 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 22. For Release Today
1951-01-22 · 30 min
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,…
Episode 23. The Masque of the Red Death
1951-01-29 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 24. THE HOUSE OF DUST (AKA) 1962
1951-02-05 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 25. Curtain Call
1951-02-12 · 30 min
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,…
Episode 26. Strange Legacy
1951-02-19 · 30 min
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,…
Episode 27. The Dispossessed
1951-02-26 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 28. THE MAN WITH ASTRAKHAN HAT
1951-03-05 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 29. Leda's Portrait
1951-03-12 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 30. Western Night
1951-03-19 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 31. THE POWER OF BRUTE
1951-03-26 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 32. The Mad Dullaghan
1951-04-02 · 30 min
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…
Episode 33. The Crushed Rose
1951-04-09 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 34. The Witness
1951-04-16 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 35. THE FONCECILLE CURSE
1951-04-23 · 30 min
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.
Episode 36. Grey Reminder
1951-04-30 · 30 min
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…
Episode 37. The Lost Will of Dr. Rant
1951-05-07 · 30 min
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.
Episode 38. Dead Man's Coat
1951-05-14 · 30 min
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…
Episode 39. Cat's Cradle
1951-05-21 · 30 min
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…
Episode 40. The Pattern
1951-05-28 · 30 min
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…
Episode 41. THE MARTIAN EYES
1951-06-04 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 42. Pit of the Dead
1951-06-11 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 43. Dead Freight
1951-06-18 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 44. The Passage Beyond
1951-06-25 · 30 min
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…
Episode 45. THE ADAM BEGOT
1951-07-02 · 30 min
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…
Episode 46. The Meddlers
1951-07-09 · 30 min
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…
Episode 47. THE DEVIL IN GLENCAIRE
1951-07-16 · 30 min
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…
Episode 48. Zero Hour
1951-07-23 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 49. The Fingers
1951-07-30 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 50. The Faceless Man
1951-08-06 · 30 min
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…
Episode 51. The Man With the Watch
1951-08-13 · 30 min
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…
Episode 52. Follow Me
1951-08-20 · 30 min
No synopsis
Season 3
57 episodes · 1951
Episode 1. Mrs. Manifold
1951-08-27 · 30 min
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…
Episode 2. Blackwood Hall
1951-09-03 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 3. Prophet of Darkness
1951-09-10 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 4. To See Ourselves
1951-09-17 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 5. Rappaccini's Daughter
1951-09-24 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 6. Will-O-the-wisp
1951-10-01 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 7. Dark Image
1951-10-08 · 30 min
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,…
Episode 8. I SPY
1951-10-15 · 30 min
A survey taker makes a startling discovery when she visits the home of two very paranoid, eccentric, elderly collectors of odds and ends.
Episode 9. The Deal
1951-10-22 · 30 min
A man makes a deal with a mysterious businessman in order to get rid of his high spending wife.
Episode 10. The Veil
1951-10-29 · 30 min
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…
Episode 11. The Chamber of Gloom
1951-11-05 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 12. The Beast in the Garden
1951-11-12 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 13. Friday the Nineteenth
1951-11-19 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 14. BEYOND THE DOOR (AKA) FAR OFF ISLAND
1951-11-26 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 15. The Silent Supper
1951-12-03 · 30 min
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…
Episode 16. The Angry Birds
1951-12-10 · 30 min
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…
Episode 17. Perchance to Dream
1951-12-17 · 30 min
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.…
Episode 18. This Way to Heaven
1951-12-24 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 19. Of Time and Third Avenue
1951-12-30 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 20. THE SCHOOL FOR THE UNSPEAKBLE
1952-01-07 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 21. Blood Relation
1952-01-14 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 22. The Intruder
1952-01-21 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 23. The Third Door
1952-01-28 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 24. The Chain
1952-02-04 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 25. Cries the String
1952-02-11 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 26. The Eyes from San Francisco
1952-02-18 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 27. The Perfect Servant
1952-02-25 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 28. Private - Keep Out
1952-03-03 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 29. The Upstairs Floor
1952-03-10 · 30 min
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…
Episode 30. The Borgia Lamp
1952-03-17 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 31. Another Country
1952-03-24 · 30 min
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…
Episode 32. The Pit
1952-04-07 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 33. THE MEN ON THE MOUNTAIN
1952-04-14 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 34. A Lucky Piece
1952-04-21 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 35. For Rent
1952-04-28 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 36. A Journey Into the Shadows
1952-05-05 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 37. The Green Thumb
1952-05-12 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 38. Little Girl
1952-05-19 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 39. The Death's Head
1952-05-26 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 40. Night Walk
1952-06-02 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 41. Blind Man's Bluff
1952-06-09 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 42. Nightmare
1952-06-16 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 43. The Coins of Death
1952-06-23 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 44. The Lonely Albatross
1952-06-30 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 45. THE GUEST IN ROOM THIRTEEN
1952-07-07 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 46. The Bog Oak Necklace
1952-07-14 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 47. Death Trap
1952-07-28 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 48. Man in the Dark
1952-08-04 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 49. The Killer's Moon
1952-08-11 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 50. Twist of Fate
1952-08-18 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 51. DEATH IS A SMALL MONK
1952-08-25 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 52. The Verdict
1952-09-01 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 53. The Red Rose
1952-09-08 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 54. The Darker Night
1952-09-15 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 55. Flight Thirteen
1952-09-22 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 56. The Hollow Man
1952-09-29 · 30 min
No synopsis
Episode 57. WHEN WIDOWS WEEP
1972-01-15 · 30 min
No synopsis
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