Lights Out (1949)
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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Episode 1 - IDES OF APRIL
Release Date: 1950-08-28 -
Episode 2 - Benuili Chant
Release Date: 1950-09-04 -
Episode 3 - The Dark Corner
Release Date: 1950-09-11 -
Episode 4 - The Leopard Lady
Release Date: 1950-09-18 -
Episode 5 - SISTER OF SHADOW
Release Date: 1950-09-25 -
Episode 6 - The Posthumous Dead
Release Date: 1950-10-02 -
Episode 7 - Just What Happened
Release Date: 1950-10-09A man stands trial for murdering another man by throwing him out a window.
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Episode 8 - The Thing Upstairs
Release Date: 1950-10-16 -
Episode 9 - The Skeptics
Release Date: 1950-10-16 -
Episode 10 - The Martian Eyes
Release Date: 1950-10-30An 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.
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Episode 11 - The Half Pint Flask
Release Date: 1950-11-06 -
Episode 12 - The Waxwork
Release Date: 1950-11-13 -
Episode 13 - THE EXPERIMENT
Release Date: 1950-11-20 -
Episode 14 - THE MULE MEN
Release Date: 1950-11-27 -
Episode 15 - Beware This Woman
Release Date: 1950-12-04A woman experiencing poltergeist activity in her home secures the services of a reluctant, non-believer in the supernatural, scientist to resolve her problem.
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Episode 16 - THE MASQUE
Release Date: 1950-12-11 -
Episode 17 - The Men on the Mountain
Release Date: 1950-12-18 -
Episode 18 - Jasper
Release Date: 1950-12-25Songwriter 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.
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Episode 19 - The Haunted Skyscraper
Release Date: 1951-01-01 -
Episode 20 - Bird of Time
Release Date: 1951-01-08 -
Episode 21 - The Bottle Imp
Release Date: 1951-01-15 -
Episode 22 - For Release Today
Release Date: 1951-01-22Maggie, 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.
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Episode 23 - The Masque of the Red Death
Release Date: 1951-01-29 -
Episode 24 - THE HOUSE OF DUST (AKA) 1962
Release Date: 1951-02-05 -
Episode 25 - Curtain Call
Release Date: 1951-02-12Off-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 ...
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Episode 26 - Strange Legacy
Release Date: 1951-02-19After 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.
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Episode 27 - The Dispossessed
Release Date: 1951-02-26 -
Episode 28 - THE MAN WITH ASTRAKHAN HAT
Release Date: 1951-03-05 -
Episode 29 - Leda's Portrait
Release Date: 1951-03-12 -
Episode 30 - Western Night
Release Date: 1951-03-19 -
Episode 31 - THE POWER OF BRUTE
Release Date: 1951-03-26 -
Episode 32 - The Mad Dullaghan
Release Date: 1951-04-02A 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.
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Episode 33 - The Crushed Rose
Release Date: 1951-04-09 -
Episode 34 - The Witness
Release Date: 1951-04-16 -
Episode 35 - THE FONCECILLE CURSE
Release Date: 1951-04-23The 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.
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Episode 36 - Grey Reminder
Release Date: 1951-04-30Charlotte 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.
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Episode 37 - The Lost Will of Dr. Rant
Release Date: 1951-05-07A 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.
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Episode 38 - Dead Man's Coat
Release Date: 1951-05-14By 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.
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Episode 39 - Cat's Cradle
Release Date: 1951-05-21Former 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.
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Episode 40 - The Pattern
Release Date: 1951-05-28Al 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.
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Episode 41 - THE MARTIAN EYES
Release Date: 1951-06-04 -
Episode 42 - Pit of the Dead
Release Date: 1951-06-11 -
Episode 43 - Dead Freight
Release Date: 1951-06-18 -
Episode 44 - The Passage Beyond
Release Date: 1951-06-25The 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.
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Episode 45 - THE ADAM BEGOT
Release Date: 1951-07-02The 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.
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Episode 46 - The Meddlers
Release Date: 1951-07-09Cecil 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.
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Episode 47 - THE DEVIL IN GLENCAIRE
Release Date: 1951-07-16Steenie, 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.
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Episode 48 - Zero Hour
Release Date: 1951-07-23 -
Episode 49 - The Fingers
Release Date: 1951-07-30 -
Episode 50 - The Faceless Man
Release Date: 1951-08-06Francis 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.
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Episode 51 - The Man With the Watch
Release Date: 1951-08-13A 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.
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Episode 52 - Follow Me
Release Date: 1951-08-20