Lights Out

Overview

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.

Roughly 80h 30m to watch every episode. This is an estimate: 161 episodes at the typical episode runtime of 30 minutes.

Series cast and crew

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  Jack La RueNarrator (voice)
  157 episodes

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  J. Pat O'Malley
  5 episodes

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  Richard Derr
  4 episodes

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  John Newland
  4 episodes

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  Ross Martin
  4 episodes

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  David Lewis
  4 episodes

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  John Forsythe
  3 episodes

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  Peter Capell
  3 episodes

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  Dean Harens
  3 episodes

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  Burgess Meredith
  3 episodes

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  E.G. Marshall
  3 episodes

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  Vinton Hayworth
  3 episodes

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  John Carradine
  3 episodes

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  Louisa Horton Hill
  2 episodes

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  Leslie Nielsen
  2 episodes

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  Francis L. Sullivan
  2 episodes

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  Everett Sloane
  2 episodes

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  Steven Hill
  2 episodes

Network

NBC

Seasons and episodes

• Season 11949 · 48 episodes
• Season 21950 · 52 episodes
• Season 31951 · 57 episodes
• Specials1946 · 4 episodes