
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.
- 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
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