Lights Out

1949
Lights Out

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EP1 Mrs. Manifold 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.

EP2 Blackwood Hall Sep 03, 1951

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EP3 Prophet of Darkness Sep 10, 1951

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EP4 To See Ourselves Sep 17, 1951

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EP5 Rappaccini's Daughter Sep 24, 1951

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EP6 Will-O-the-wisp Oct 01, 1951

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EP7 Dark Image Oct 08, 1951

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.

EP8 I SPY 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.

EP9 The Deal Oct 22, 1951

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

EP10 The Veil 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.

EP11 The Chamber of Gloom Nov 05, 1951

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EP12 The Beast in the Garden Nov 12, 1951

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EP13 Friday the Nineteenth Nov 19, 1951

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EP14 BEYOND THE DOOR (AKA) FAR OFF ISLAND Nov 26, 1951

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EP15 The Silent Supper Dec 03, 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.

EP16 The Angry Birds 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.

EP17 Perchance to Dream 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.

EP18 This Way to Heaven Dec 24, 1951

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EP19 Of Time and Third Avenue Dec 30, 1951

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EP20 THE SCHOOL FOR THE UNSPEAKBLE Jan 07, 1952

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EP21 Blood Relation Jan 14, 1952

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EP22 The Intruder Jan 21, 1952

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EP23 The Third Door Jan 28, 1952

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EP24 The Chain Feb 04, 1952

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EP25 Cries the String Feb 11, 1952

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EP26 The Eyes from San Francisco Feb 18, 1952

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EP27 The Perfect Servant Feb 25, 1952

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EP28 Private - Keep Out Mar 03, 1952

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EP29 The Upstairs Floor Mar 10, 1952

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.

EP30 The Borgia Lamp Mar 17, 1952

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EP31 Another Country 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.

EP32 The Pit Apr 07, 1952

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EP33 THE MEN ON THE MOUNTAIN Apr 14, 1952

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EP34 A Lucky Piece Apr 21, 1952

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EP35 For Rent Apr 28, 1952

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EP36 A Journey Into the Shadows May 05, 1952

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EP37 The Green Thumb May 12, 1952

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EP38 Little Girl May 19, 1952

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EP39 The Death's Head May 26, 1952

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EP40 Night Walk Jun 02, 1952

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EP41 Blind Man's Bluff Jun 09, 1952

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EP42 Nightmare Jun 16, 1952

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EP43 The Coins of Death Jun 23, 1952

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EP44 The Lonely Albatross Jun 30, 1952

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EP45 THE GUEST IN ROOM THIRTEEN Jul 07, 1952

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EP46 The Bog Oak Necklace Jul 14, 1952

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EP47 Death Trap Jul 28, 1952

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EP48 Man in the Dark Aug 04, 1952

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EP49 The Killer's Moon Aug 11, 1952

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EP50 Twist of Fate Aug 18, 1952

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EP51 DEATH IS A SMALL MONK Aug 25, 1952

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EP52 The Verdict Sep 01, 1952

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EP53 The Red Rose Sep 08, 1952

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EP54 The Darker Night Sep 15, 1952

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EP55 Flight Thirteen Sep 22, 1952

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EP56 The Hollow Man Sep 29, 1952

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EP57 WHEN WIDOWS WEEP Jan 15, 1972

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6.8| 0h30m| TV-PG| en| More Info
Released: 19 July 1949 Ended
Producted By: NBC
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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Synopsis

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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MartinHafer It's hard to judge this show in its entirety as there are probably only about 12-20 episodes available today (at archive.org). Most of the early shows (from 1946) were never recorded and don't exist any more. Based on what I've seen, this isn't exactly a tragedy! Compared to another similar anthology series from about the same time ("Tales of Tomorrow"), "Lights Out" is pretty limp. Both shows suffered from very poor budgets and the crudeness of early live television--but "Tales of Tomorrow" worked despite this because the writing was so good. As for "Lights Out", for a horror series, it was seldom scary and often overplayed and was seldom subtle. However, a few of the shows are quite good--such as "Dead Man's Coat" and are so good that the horrible ones like "Jasper" might just be worth wading through despite this! Very uneven and mostly second (or third) rate.
melvelvit-1 This NBC TV series was based on a popular radio show of the same name and aired Tuesday nights at 9pm. Each week, fantastic tales of terror and the supernatural were filmed "live" on kinescope and fog-bound sound stages, backdrop paintings, and a bit of inventive camera work all tried hard to disguise the limitations of early television. A disembodied head (Jack LaRue and later, Frank Gallop) opens and closes the show with pithy commentary -a gimmick later used by Alfred Hitchcock, Boris Karloff, and Rod Serling. A few of these half-hour shows even have their original commercials still intact and the guest stars include Basil Rathbone, Veronica Lake, Robert Stack, Yvonne De Carlo, John Carradine, Tom Ewell, Anne Bancroft, and Burgess Meredith. A fascinating relic.DARK IMAGE (aired 10/8/51) A young groom on his honeymoon returns to the Southwestern ranch he grew up on and his bride is soon terrorized by a bedroom mirror; in the glass is the man's dead sweetheart intent on trading places.THE MEDDLERS (aired 7/9/51) Before blowing out a candle and bellowing "Lights out!", the disembodied head (Frank Gallop), intones, "Hello. Have you ever had the urge to search for lost treasure such as the fortunes of Captain Kidd, or the ancient Incas, or others closer to home? If you have, let me remind you of an old saying: larrows catch meddlers. What are larrows? Hmmm. We shall see. Lights out!" A history teacher (John Carradine) convinces a Virginia hillbilly (E.G. Marshall) to help him find a fortune in gold buried under the old, abandoned Larrow plantation house... "I told you larrows catch meddlers!" This no-budget nugget has it all -a cursed gold shipment, a "glory hand" cut from a hanged man, betrayal, murder, and Condederate zombies. Although reminiscent of the controversial horror comics popular at the time (TALES FROM THE CRYPT, VAULT OF HORROR , etc.), I'll bet this was one series that wasn't for the kiddies. Creaky fun.AND ADAM BEGOT (aired 7/2/51) Kent CAT PEOPLE Smith stars in this pretty primitive but nonetheless ambitious episode about two men and a woman who crash their car near an archaeological find and are thrown back 50,000 years where they're hunted by a cannibalistic Neanderthal. An eerie ending helps.DEAD MAN'S COAT (aired 5/14/51) Legend has it that digging up a corpse at midnight and donning its coat will grant the wearer invisibility and a vindictive, murderous millionaire browbeats his butler into helping him find out if it's true. Basil Rathbone plays the valet and the ironic yarn starts out with the two watching a LIGHTS OUT! TV show about digging up a dead man and putting on his coat...
topat I recall Burgess Meredith in an episode involving some sort of "Time Machine" episode of "Lights Out", a la a Twilight Zone script, but mostly I remember the opening of the show... A deep voice saying, "Lights Out!" when a candle blew out. The unidentified voice was a deep male one, and one I'll never forget. I was scared to death by this as a kid, and still thought it was extremely dramatic as an adult in re-runs on a now defunct cable network, maybe one called the 'Nostalgia Channel'. I wish this program could be shown again because the talent involved in the early television shows can never be equaled today. "Lights Out" may have been performed live and filmed on kinescope, and it may have been as imperfect as a stage play, but the drama was there, and the cast was always adept with timing and creativity.