• Air date: 28 Aug '50 52 episodes
      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.
  • List of Episodes (52)
    • 1. IDES OF APRIL

      28 Aug '50
    • 2. Benuili Chant

      04 Sep '50
    • 3. The Dark Corner

      11 Sep '50
    • 4. The Leopard Lady

      18 Sep '50
    • 5. SISTER OF SHADOW

      25 Sep '50
    • 6. The Posthumous Dead

      02 Oct '50
    • 7. Just What Happened

      09 Oct '50
      A man stands trial for murdering another man by throwing him out a window.
    • 8. The Thing Upstairs

      16 Oct '50
    • 9. The Skeptics

      16 Oct '50
    • 10. The Martian Eyes

      30 Oct '50
      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.
    • 11. The Half Pint Flask

      06 Nov '50
    • 12. The Waxwork

      13 Nov '50
    • 13. THE EXPERIMENT

      20 Nov '50
    • 14. THE MULE MEN

      27 Nov '50
    • 15. Beware This Woman

      04 Dec '50
      A woman experiencing poltergeist activity in her home secures the services of a reluctant, non-believer in the supernatural, scientist to resolve her problem.
    • 16. THE MASQUE

      11 Dec '50
    • 17. The Men on the Mountain

      18 Dec '50
    • 18. Jasper

      25 Dec '50
      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.
    • 19. The Haunted Skyscraper

      01 Jan '51
    • 20. Bird of Time

      08 Jan '51
    • 21. The Bottle Imp

      15 Jan '51
    • 22. For Release Today

      22 Jan '51
      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.
    • 23. The Masque of the Red Death

      29 Jan '51
    • 24. THE HOUSE OF DUST (AKA) 1962

      05 Feb '51
    • 25. Curtain Call

      12 Feb '51
      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 ...