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.
-
Episode 1 - Mrs. Manifold
Release Date: 1951-08-27In 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 Hall
Release Date: 1951-09-03 -
Episode 3 - Prophet of Darkness
Release Date: 1951-09-10 -
Episode 4 - To See Ourselves
Release Date: 1951-09-17 -
Episode 5 - Rappaccini's Daughter
Release Date: 1951-09-24 -
Episode 6 - Will-O-the-wisp
Release Date: 1951-10-01 -
Episode 7 - Dark Image
Release Date: 1951-10-08On 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
Release Date: 1951-10-15A 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
Release Date: 1951-10-22A man makes a deal with a mysterious businessman in order to get rid of his high spending wife.
-
Episode 10 - The Veil
Release Date: 1951-10-29Ambitious 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
Release Date: 1951-11-05 -
Episode 12 - The Beast in the Garden
Release Date: 1951-11-12 -
Episode 13 - Friday the Nineteenth
Release Date: 1951-11-19 -
Episode 14 - BEYOND THE DOOR (AKA) FAR OFF ISLAND
Release Date: 1951-11-26 -
Episode 15 - The Silent Supper
Release Date: 1951-12-03Dede 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
Release Date: 1951-12-10Bird 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
Release Date: 1951-12-17Jeff 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
Release Date: 1951-12-24 -
Episode 19 - Of Time and Third Avenue
Release Date: 1951-12-30 -
Episode 20 - THE SCHOOL FOR THE UNSPEAKBLE
Release Date: 1952-01-07 -
Episode 21 - Blood Relation
Release Date: 1952-01-14 -
Episode 22 - The Intruder
Release Date: 1952-01-21 -
Episode 23 - The Third Door
Release Date: 1952-01-28 -
Episode 24 - The Chain
Release Date: 1952-02-04 -
Episode 25 - Cries the String
Release Date: 1952-02-11 -
Episode 26 - The Eyes from San Francisco
Release Date: 1952-02-18 -
Episode 27 - The Perfect Servant
Release Date: 1952-02-25 -
Episode 28 - Private - Keep Out
Release Date: 1952-03-03 -
Episode 29 - The Upstairs Floor
Release Date: 1952-03-10A 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
Release Date: 1952-03-17 -
Episode 31 - Another Country
Release Date: 1952-03-24A 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
Release Date: 1952-04-07 -
Episode 33 - THE MEN ON THE MOUNTAIN
Release Date: 1952-04-14 -
Episode 34 - A Lucky Piece
Release Date: 1952-04-21 -
Episode 35 - For Rent
Release Date: 1952-04-28 -
Episode 36 - A Journey Into the Shadows
Release Date: 1952-05-05 -
Episode 37 - The Green Thumb
Release Date: 1952-05-12 -
Episode 38 - Little Girl
Release Date: 1952-05-19 -
Episode 39 - The Death's Head
Release Date: 1952-05-26 -
Episode 40 - Night Walk
Release Date: 1952-06-02 -
Episode 41 - Blind Man's Bluff
Release Date: 1952-06-09 -
Episode 42 - Nightmare
Release Date: 1952-06-16 -
Episode 43 - The Coins of Death
Release Date: 1952-06-23 -
Episode 44 - The Lonely Albatross
Release Date: 1952-06-30 -
Episode 45 - THE GUEST IN ROOM THIRTEEN
Release Date: 1952-07-07 -
Episode 46 - The Bog Oak Necklace
Release Date: 1952-07-14 -
Episode 47 - Death Trap
Release Date: 1952-07-28 -
Episode 48 - Man in the Dark
Release Date: 1952-08-04 -
Episode 49 - The Killer's Moon
Release Date: 1952-08-11 -
Episode 50 - Twist of Fate
Release Date: 1952-08-18 -
Episode 51 - DEATH IS A SMALL MONK
Release Date: 1952-08-25 -
Episode 52 - The Verdict
Release Date: 1952-09-01 -
Episode 53 - The Red Rose
Release Date: 1952-09-08 -
Episode 54 - The Darker Night
Release Date: 1952-09-15 -
Episode 55 - Flight Thirteen
Release Date: 1952-09-22 -
Episode 56 - The Hollow Man
Release Date: 1952-09-29 -
Episode 57 - WHEN WIDOWS WEEP
Release Date: 1972-01-15