Jack La Rue
Narrator
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 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
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
Sept. 3, 1951, midnight
S3E3 - Prophet of Darkness
Sept. 10, 1951, midnight
S3E4 - To See Ourselves
Sept. 17, 1951, midnight
S3E5 - Rappaccini's Daughter
Sept. 24, 1951, midnight
S3E6 - Will-O-the-wisp
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
Nov. 5, 1951, midnight
S3E12 - The Beast in the Garden
Nov. 12, 1951, midnight
S3E13 - Friday the Nineteenth
Nov. 19, 1951, midnight
S3E14 - BEYOND THE DOOR (AKA) FAR OFF ISLAND
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
Dec. 24, 1951, midnight
S3E19 - Of Time and Third Avenue
Dec. 30, 1951, midnight
S3E20 - THE SCHOOL FOR THE UNSPEAKBLE
Jan. 7, 1952, midnight
S3E21 - Blood Relation
Jan. 14, 1952, midnight
S3E22 - The Intruder
Jan. 21, 1952, midnight
S3E23 - The Third Door
Jan. 28, 1952, midnight
S3E24 - The Chain
Feb. 4, 1952, midnight
S3E25 - Cries the String
Feb. 11, 1952, midnight
S3E26 - The Eyes from San Francisco
Feb. 18, 1952, midnight
S3E27 - The Perfect Servant
Feb. 25, 1952, midnight
S3E28 - Private - Keep Out
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
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
April 7, 1952, midnight
S3E33 - THE MEN ON THE MOUNTAIN
April 14, 1952, midnight
S3E34 - A Lucky Piece
April 21, 1952, midnight
S3E35 - For Rent
April 28, 1952, midnight
S3E36 - A Journey Into the Shadows
May 5, 1952, midnight
S3E37 - The Green Thumb
May 12, 1952, midnight
S3E38 - Little Girl
May 19, 1952, midnight
S3E39 - The Death's Head
May 26, 1952, midnight
S3E40 - Night Walk
June 2, 1952, midnight
S3E41 - Blind Man's Bluff
June 9, 1952, midnight
S3E42 - Nightmare
June 16, 1952, midnight
S3E43 - The Coins of Death
June 23, 1952, midnight
S3E44 - The Lonely Albatross
June 30, 1952, midnight
S3E45 - THE GUEST IN ROOM THIRTEEN
July 7, 1952, midnight
S3E46 - The Bog Oak Necklace
July 14, 1952, midnight
S3E47 - Death Trap
July 28, 1952, midnight
S3E48 - Man in the Dark
Aug. 4, 1952, midnight
S3E49 - The Killer's Moon
Aug. 11, 1952, midnight
S3E50 - Twist of Fate
Aug. 18, 1952, midnight
S3E51 - DEATH IS A SMALL MONK
Aug. 25, 1952, midnight
S3E52 - The Verdict
Sept. 1, 1952, midnight
S3E53 - The Red Rose
Sept. 8, 1952, midnight
S3E54 - The Darker Night
Sept. 15, 1952, midnight
S3E55 - Flight Thirteen
Sept. 22, 1952, midnight
S3E56 - The Hollow Man
Sept. 29, 1952, midnight
S3E57 - WHEN WIDOWS WEEP
Jan. 15, 1972, 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+
Rate this show
Add {Movie} to static lists