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Lights Out

  • 1946-1952
  • 4 seasons
  • NBC
  • Horror, Suspense, Science Fiction

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.

Season 4 Episode Guide

56 Episodes 1951 - 1952

Episode 1

Mrs. Manifold

Mon, 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."

Episode 2

Blackwood Halt

Mon, Sep 3, 1951

Episode 3

Prophet of Darkness

Mon, Sep 10, 1951 30 mins

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Episode 4

To See Ourselves

Mon, Sep 17, 1951

Episode 5

Rappaccini's Daughter

Mon, Sep 24, 1951

Episode 6

Will-o'-the-Wisp

Mon, Oct 1, 1951

Mr. Corbeau wants to turn pristine Beware Island into a gambling destination. His plans for building a connecting bridge to the natural paradise are continually delayed; his engineers all fall from the island's cliffs, led there by by a spirit, the Will-O'-The-Wisp. His greedy daughter, Marina, tries to manipulate her ex-fiancé into designing the bridge. Their visit there also proves fatal.

Episode 7

Dark Image

Mon, Oct 8, 1951 30 mins

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.

Episode 8

I Spy

Mon, 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.

Episode 9

The Deal

Mon, Oct 22, 1951 30 mins

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

Episode 10

The Veil

Mon, 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.

Episode 11

The Chamber of Gloom

Mon, Nov 5, 1951

Episode 12

The Beast in the Garden

Mon, Nov 12, 1951

Episode 13

Friday the Nineteenth

Mon, Nov 19, 1951

Episode 14

Beyond the Door

Mon, Nov 26, 1951

Episode 15

The Silent Supper

Mon, 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.

Episode 16

The Angry Birds

Mon, 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.

Episode 17

Perchance to Dream

Mon, 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.

Episode 18

This Way to Heaven

Mon, Dec 24, 1951 30 mins

Episode 19

Of Time and Third Avenue

Mon, Dec 31, 1951

Episode 20

School for the Unspeakable

Mon, Jan 7, 1952

Episode 21

Blood Relation

Mon, Jan 14, 1952 30 mins

Episode 22

The Intruder

Mon, Jan 21, 1952 30 mins

Episode 23

The Third Door

Mon, Jan 28, 1952

Episode 24

The Chain

Mon, Feb 4, 1952

Episode 25

Cries the String

Mon, Feb 11, 1952 30 mins

Episode 26

The Eyes from San Francisco

Mon, Feb 18, 1952 30 mins

Episode 27

The Perfect Servant

Mon, Feb 25, 1952

Episode 28

Private--Keep Out

Mon, Mar 3, 1952

Episode 29

The Upstairs Floor

Mon, Mar 10, 1952 30 mins

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.

Episode 30

The Borgia Lamp

Mon, Mar 17, 1952

Episode 31

Another Country

Mon, 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.

Episode 32

The Pit

Mon, Apr 7, 1952

Episode 33

The Men on the Mountain (Restaged)

Mon, Apr 14, 1952

Episode 34

A Lucky Piece

Mon, Apr 21, 1952

Episode 35

For Rent

Mon, Apr 28, 1952

Episode 36

A Journey into the Shadows

Mon, May 5, 1952

Episode 37

The Green Thumb

Mon, May 12, 1952

Episode 38

Little Girl

Mon, May 19, 1952 30 mins

Episode 39

The Death's Head

Mon, May 26, 1952 30 mins

Episode 40

Night Walk

Mon, Jun 2, 1952

Episode 41

Blind Man's Bluff

Mon, Jun 9, 1952 30 mins

Episode 42

Nightmare

Mon, Jun 16, 1952

Episode 43

The Coins of Death

Mon, Jun 23, 1952

Episode 44

The Lonely Albatross

Mon, Jun 30, 1952

Episode 45

The Corpse in Room Thirteen

Mon, Jul 7, 1952

Episode 46

The Bog-Oak Necklace

Mon, Jul 14, 1952 30 mins

Episode 47

Death Trap

Mon, Jul 28, 1952

Episode 48

Man in the Dark

Mon, Aug 4, 1952 30 mins

Episode 49

The Killer's Moon

Mon, Aug 11, 1952

Episode 50

Twist of Fate

Mon, Aug 18, 1952

Episode 51

Death Is a Small Monkey

Mon, Aug 25, 1952 30 mins

Episode 52

The Verdict

Mon, Sep 1, 1952 30 mins

Episode 53

The Red Rose

Mon, Sep 8, 1952 30 mins

Episode 54

The Darker Night

Mon, Sep 15, 1952 30 mins

Episode 55

Flight Thirteen

Mon, Sep 22, 1952 30 mins

Episode 56

The Hollow Man

Mon, Sep 29, 1952

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