Lights Out — Season 3

195157 episodes4.0/10 (1 votes)

About this season

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.

Episodes (57)

1. Mrs. Manifold

Aired 27 August 1951 • 30 min

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.

2. Blackwood Hall

Aired 3 September 1951 • 30 min

3. Prophet of Darkness

Aired 10 September 1951 • 30 min

4. To See Ourselves

Aired 17 September 1951 • 30 min

5. Rappaccini's Daughter

Aired 24 September 1951 • 30 min

6. Will-O-the-wisp

Aired 1 October 1951 • 30 min

7. Dark Image

4.0

Aired 8 October 1951 • 30 min

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.

8. I SPY

Aired 15 October 1951 • 30 min

A survey taker makes a startling discovery when she visits the home of two very paranoid, eccentric, elderly collectors of odds and ends.

9. The Deal

Aired 22 October 1951 • 30 min

A man makes a deal with a mysterious businessman in order to get rid of his high spending wife.

E10

10. The Veil

Aired 29 October 1951 • 30 min

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.

E11

11. The Chamber of Gloom

Aired 5 November 1951 • 30 min

E12

12. The Beast in the Garden

Aired 12 November 1951 • 30 min

E13

13. Friday the Nineteenth

Aired 19 November 1951 • 30 min

E14

14. BEYOND THE DOOR (AKA) FAR OFF ISLAND

Aired 26 November 1951 • 30 min

E15

15. The Silent Supper

Aired 3 December 1951 • 30 min

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.

E16

16. The Angry Birds

Aired 10 December 1951 • 30 min

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.

E17

17. Perchance to Dream

Aired 17 December 1951 • 30 min

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.

E18

18. This Way to Heaven

Aired 24 December 1951 • 30 min

E19

19. Of Time and Third Avenue

Aired 30 December 1951 • 30 min

E20

20. THE SCHOOL FOR THE UNSPEAKBLE

Aired 7 January 1952 • 30 min

E21

21. Blood Relation

Aired 14 January 1952 • 30 min

E22

22. The Intruder

Aired 21 January 1952 • 30 min

E23

23. The Third Door

Aired 28 January 1952 • 30 min

E24

24. The Chain

Aired 4 February 1952 • 30 min

E25

25. Cries the String

Aired 11 February 1952 • 30 min

E26

26. The Eyes from San Francisco

Aired 18 February 1952 • 30 min

E27

27. The Perfect Servant

Aired 25 February 1952 • 30 min

E28

28. Private - Keep Out

Aired 3 March 1952 • 30 min

E29

29. The Upstairs Floor

Aired 10 March 1952 • 30 min

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.

E30

30. The Borgia Lamp

Aired 17 March 1952 • 30 min

E31

31. Another Country

Aired 24 March 1952 • 30 min

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.

E32