Jack La Rue
Narrator
Lights Out (1949)
Season 2
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.
Released July 20, 1949
Episode 30 min
10+
Genres: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Reality, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction
Keywords: tmdb.anthology, imdb.based-on-radio-show, imdb.cult-favorite, imdb.horror-host, imdb.male-horror-host, imdb.usa-horror-host, imdb.usa-male-horror-host + 4 more, imdb.psychotronic-series, imdb.suspense, imdb.anthology, imdb.ghost
Production Companies: Admiral Corporation, Erwin, Wasey & Co. Inc., NBC
Network: NBC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S2E1 - IDES OF APRIL
Aug. 28, 1950, midnight
S2E2 - Benuili Chant
Sept. 4, 1950, midnight
S2E3 - The Dark Corner
Sept. 11, 1950, midnight
S2E4 - The Leopard Lady
Sept. 18, 1950, midnight
S2E5 - SISTER OF SHADOW
Sept. 25, 1950, midnight
S2E6 - The Posthumous Dead
Oct. 2, 1950, midnight
S2E7 - Just What Happened
A man stands trial for murdering another man by throwing him out a window.
Oct. 9, 1950, midnight
S2E8 - The Thing Upstairs
Oct. 16, 1950, midnight
S2E9 - The Skeptics
Oct. 16, 1950, midnight
S2E10 - The Martian Eyes
An 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.
Oct. 30, 1950, midnight
S2E11 - The Half Pint Flask
Nov. 6, 1950, midnight
S2E12 - The Waxwork
Nov. 13, 1950, midnight
S2E13 - THE EXPERIMENT
Nov. 20, 1950, midnight
S2E14 - THE MULE MEN
Nov. 27, 1950, midnight
S2E15 - Beware This Woman
A woman experiencing poltergeist activity in her home secures the services of a reluctant, non-believer in the supernatural, scientist to resolve her problem.
Dec. 4, 1950, midnight
S2E16 - THE MASQUE
Dec. 11, 1950, midnight
S2E17 - The Men on the Mountain
Dec. 18, 1950, midnight
S2E18 - Jasper
Songwriter 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.
Dec. 25, 1950, midnight
S2E19 - The Haunted Skyscraper
Jan. 1, 1951, midnight
S2E20 - Bird of Time
Jan. 8, 1951, midnight
S2E21 - The Bottle Imp
Jan. 15, 1951, midnight
S2E22 - For Release Today
Maggie, 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.
Jan. 22, 1951, midnight
S2E23 - The Masque of the Red Death
Jan. 29, 1951, midnight
S2E24 - THE HOUSE OF DUST (AKA) 1962
Feb. 5, 1951, midnight
S2E25 - Curtain Call
Off-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 ...
Feb. 12, 1951, midnight
S2E26 - Strange Legacy
After 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.
Feb. 19, 1951, midnight
S2E27 - The Dispossessed
Feb. 26, 1951, midnight
S2E28 - THE MAN WITH ASTRAKHAN HAT
March 5, 1951, midnight
S2E29 - Leda's Portrait
March 12, 1951, midnight
S2E30 - Western Night
March 19, 1951, midnight
S2E31 - THE POWER OF BRUTE
March 26, 1951, midnight
S2E32 - The Mad Dullaghan
A 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.
April 2, 1951, midnight
S2E33 - The Crushed Rose
April 9, 1951, midnight
S2E34 - The Witness
April 16, 1951, midnight
S2E35 - THE FONCECILLE CURSE
The 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.
April 23, 1951, midnight
S2E36 - Grey Reminder
Charlotte 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.
April 30, 1951, midnight
S2E37 - The Lost Will of Dr. Rant
A 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.
May 7, 1951, midnight
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S2E38 - Dead Man's Coat
By 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.
May 14, 1951, midnight
S2E39 - Cat's Cradle
Former 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.
May 21, 1951, midnight
S2E40 - The Pattern
Al 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.
May 28, 1951, midnight
S2E41 - THE MARTIAN EYES
June 4, 1951, midnight
S2E42 - Pit of the Dead
June 11, 1951, midnight
S2E43 - Dead Freight
June 18, 1951, midnight
S2E44 - The Passage Beyond
The 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.
June 25, 1951, midnight
S2E45 - THE ADAM BEGOT
The 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.
July 2, 1951, midnight
S2E46 - The Meddlers
Cecil 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.
July 9, 1951, midnight
S2E47 - THE DEVIL IN GLENCAIRE
Steenie, 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.
July 16, 1951, midnight
S2E48 - Zero Hour
July 23, 1951, midnight
S2E49 - The Fingers
July 30, 1951, midnight
S2E50 - The Faceless Man
Francis 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.
Aug. 6, 1951, midnight
S2E51 - The Man With the Watch
A 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.
Aug. 13, 1951, midnight
S2E52 - Follow Me
Aug. 20, 1951, midnight
Network: NBC
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 30 min.
Released: July 20, 1949
Last Air Date: Jan. 15, 1972, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-PG / 10+
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