Delbert Mann
Director
Lights Out (1949)
Season 3
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 19, 1949
Episode 30 min
10+
Genres: Crime, Drama, 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
Watch Providers: Tubi TV
Production Companies: Admiral Corporation, Erwin, Wasey & Co. Inc., NBC
Network: NBC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S3E1 - Mrs. Manifold
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.
Aug. 27, 1951, midnight
S3E2 - Blackwood Hall
None
Sept. 3, 1951, midnight
S3E3 - Prophet of Darkness
None
Sept. 10, 1951, midnight
S3E4 - To See Ourselves
None
Sept. 17, 1951, midnight
S3E5 - Rappaccini's Daughter
None
Sept. 24, 1951, midnight
S3E6 - Will-O-the-wisp
None
Oct. 1, 1951, midnight
4.0
S3E7 - Dark Image
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.
Oct. 8, 1951, midnight
S3E8 - I SPY
A survey taker makes a startling discovery when she visits the home of two very paranoid, eccentric, elderly collectors of odds and ends.
Oct. 15, 1951, midnight
S3E9 - The Deal
A man makes a deal with a mysterious businessman in order to get rid of his high spending wife.
Oct. 22, 1951, midnight
S3E10 - The Veil
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.
Oct. 29, 1951, midnight
S3E11 - The Chamber of Gloom
None
Nov. 5, 1951, midnight
S3E12 - The Beast in the Garden
None
Nov. 12, 1951, midnight
S3E13 - Friday the Nineteenth
None
Nov. 19, 1951, midnight
S3E14 - BEYOND THE DOOR (AKA) FAR OFF ISLAND
None
Nov. 26, 1951, midnight
S3E15 - The Silent Supper
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.
Dec. 3, 1951, midnight
S3E16 - The Angry Birds
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.
Dec. 10, 1951, midnight
S3E17 - Perchance to Dream
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.
Dec. 17, 1951, midnight
S3E18 - This Way to Heaven
None
Dec. 24, 1951, midnight
S3E19 - Of Time and Third Avenue
None
Dec. 30, 1951, midnight
S3E20 - THE SCHOOL FOR THE UNSPEAKBLE
None
Jan. 7, 1952, midnight
S3E21 - Blood Relation
None
Jan. 14, 1952, midnight
S3E22 - The Intruder
None
Jan. 21, 1952, midnight
S3E23 - The Third Door
None
Jan. 28, 1952, midnight
S3E24 - The Chain
None
Feb. 4, 1952, midnight
S3E25 - Cries the String
None
Feb. 11, 1952, midnight
S3E26 - The Eyes from San Francisco
None
Feb. 18, 1952, midnight
S3E27 - The Perfect Servant
None
Feb. 25, 1952, midnight
S3E28 - Private - Keep Out
None
March 3, 1952, midnight
S3E29 - The Upstairs Floor
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.
March 10, 1952, midnight
S3E30 - The Borgia Lamp
None
March 17, 1952, midnight
S3E31 - Another Country
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.
March 24, 1952, midnight
S3E32 - The Pit
None
April 7, 1952, midnight
S3E33 - THE MEN ON THE MOUNTAIN
None
April 14, 1952, midnight
S3E34 - A Lucky Piece
None
April 21, 1952, midnight
S3E35 - For Rent
None
April 28, 1952, midnight
S3E36 - A Journey Into the Shadows
None
May 5, 1952, midnight
S3E37 - The Green Thumb
None
May 12, 1952, midnight
S3E38 - Little Girl
None
May 19, 1952, midnight
S3E39 - The Death's Head
None
May 26, 1952, midnight
S3E40 - Night Walk
None
June 2, 1952, midnight
S3E41 - Blind Man's Bluff
None
June 9, 1952, midnight
S3E42 - Nightmare
None
June 16, 1952, midnight
S3E43 - The Coins of Death
None
June 23, 1952, midnight
S3E44 - The Lonely Albatross
None
June 30, 1952, midnight
S3E45 - THE GUEST IN ROOM THIRTEEN
None
July 7, 1952, midnight
S3E46 - The Bog Oak Necklace
None
July 14, 1952, midnight
S3E47 - Death Trap
None
July 28, 1952, midnight
S3E48 - Man in the Dark
None
Aug. 4, 1952, midnight
S3E49 - The Killer's Moon
None
Aug. 11, 1952, midnight
S3E50 - Twist of Fate
None
Aug. 18, 1952, midnight
S3E51 - DEATH IS A SMALL MONK
None
Aug. 25, 1952, midnight
S3E52 - The Verdict
None
Sept. 1, 1952, midnight
S3E53 - The Red Rose
None
Sept. 8, 1952, midnight
S3E54 - The Darker Night
None
Sept. 15, 1952, midnight
S3E55 - Flight Thirteen
None
Sept. 22, 1952, midnight
S3E56 - The Hollow Man
None
Sept. 29, 1952, midnight
S3E57 - WHEN WIDOWS WEEP
None
Jan. 15, 1972, midnight
NBC
30 min/ep
4710 min
July 19, 1949
Jan. 15, 1972, midnight
Ended
TV-PG / 10+
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