Lights Out
TV-PG
6.8
1949
Drama
, Crime
, Reality
, Sci-Fi
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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- Cast：
- Jack La Rue
Episode 52 : Follow Me
August. 20,1951
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Episode 51 : The Man With the Watch
August. 13,1951
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.
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Episode 50 : The Faceless Man
August. 06,1951
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.
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Episode 49 : The Fingers
July. 30,1951
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Episode 48 : Zero Hour
July. 23,1951
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Episode 47 : THE DEVIL IN GLENCAIRE
July. 16,1951
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.
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Episode 45 : THE ADAM BEGOT
July. 02,1951
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.
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Episode 44 : The Passage Beyond
June. 25,1951
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.
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Episode 43 : Dead Freight
June. 18,1951
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Episode 42 : Pit of the Dead
June. 11,1951
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Episode 41 : THE MARTIAN EYES
June. 04,1951
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Episode 38 : Dead Man's Coat
May. 14,1951
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.
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Episode 37 : The Lost Will of Dr. Rant
May. 07,1951
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.
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Episode 35 : THE FONCECILLE CURSE
April. 23,1951
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.
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Episode 34 : The Witness
April. 16,1951
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Episode 33 : The Crushed Rose
April. 09,1951
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Episode 32 : The Mad Dullaghan
April. 02,1951
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.
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Episode 31 : THE POWER OF BRUTE
March. 26,1951
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Episode 30 : Western Night
March. 19,1951
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Episode 29 : Leda's Portrait
March. 12,1951
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Episode 28 : THE MAN WITH ASTRAKHAN HAT
March. 05,1951
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Episode 27 : The Dispossessed
February. 26,1951
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Episode 26 : Strange Legacy
February. 19,1951
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.
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Episode 25 : Curtain Call
February. 12,1951
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 ...
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Episode 24 : THE HOUSE OF DUST (AKA) 1962
February. 05,1951
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Episode 23 : The Masque of the Red Death
January. 29,1951
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Episode 22 : For Release Today
January. 22,1951
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.
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Episode 21 : The Bottle Imp
January. 15,1951
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Episode 20 : Bird of Time
January. 08,1951
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Episode 19 : The Haunted Skyscraper
January. 01,1951
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Episode 18 : Jasper
December. 25,1950
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.
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Episode 17 : The Men on the Mountain
December. 18,1950
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Episode 16 : THE MASQUE
December. 11,1950
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Episode 15 : Beware This Woman
December. 04,1950
A woman experiencing poltergeist activity in her home secures the services of a reluctant, non-believer in the supernatural, scientist to resolve her problem.
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Episode 14 : THE MULE MEN
November. 27,1950
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Episode 13 : THE EXPERIMENT
November. 20,1950
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Episode 12 : The Waxwork
November. 13,1950
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Episode 11 : The Half Pint Flask
November. 06,1950
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Episode 9 : The Skeptics
October. 16,1950
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Episode 8 : The Thing Upstairs
October. 16,1950
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Episode 7 : Just What Happened
October. 09,1950
A man stands trial for murdering another man by throwing him out a window.
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Episode 6 : The Posthumous Dead
October. 02,1950
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Episode 5 : SISTER OF SHADOW
September. 25,1950
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Episode 4 : The Leopard Lady
September. 18,1950
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Episode 3 : The Dark Corner
September. 11,1950
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Episode 2 : Benuili Chant
September. 04,1950
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Episode 1 : IDES OF APRIL
August. 28,1950
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