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The Classic TV Archive - US Dramatic Anthology Series

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Episode Guide
version 10.0 January 2008

(Ep 2.37, 2.44, 2.51)
compiled by
The Classic TV Archive

with contributions by:

Bob Huggins (RBH)
Rina Fox
references:
Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (http://us.imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive

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July 19, 1949 to September 29, 1952
US thriller/suspense anthology (live)

Host Frank Gallop (1950-1952)

Narrator Jack La Rue (1949-1950)

Special Musical Effects

Arlo Hults, organ (1949-52)

Paul Lipman, theremin (1949)

Doris Johnson, harp (1950-52)

Live suspense anthology

At the beginning of each episode viewers would see only a close shot of

a pair of eyes, then a bloody hand reaching to turn out the lights,

followed by an eerie laugh and the words, "Lights Out, Everybody"....

And in 1946 Fred Coe produced four specials of Lights Out.

NBC Production

based on the radio program of the same title

Lights Out began in radio in 1934.

Produced by Herbert Swope Jr and Ernie Walling

Directed by William Corrigan

Writer Arch Obler

sponsor - Admiral

Available on DVD: http://oldies.com/product-view/4832D.html

Opening Narration: "Hello, looking for a good book to relax with tonight,

well you've come to the right place, we have thousands of them.

There's one in particular an old and curious one, come I'll get it for you.

.....Lights Out ......"

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1.01 [--]Lights Out: EDNA WARREN

1.02 [--]Lights Out: PROMISE

1.03 [--]Lights Out: LONG DISTANCE

02-Aug-1949 NBC Tue
Produced by Fred Coe
Adapted by Douglas Gilbert
Based on the original radio play written by Harry Junkin
Directed by Kingman T. Moore
Assistant director Delbert Mann
Technical director Don Pike
starring
Jan Miner
John D. Seymour
Synopsis:
A wife frantically telephones around the country to locate a judge

who can save her husband from the gallows. [RF]

1.04 Lights Out: CRATER
09Aug1949 NBC Tue

1.05 Lights Out: SOUVENIRS OF HIS DEAD WIFE
16Aug1949 NBC Tue

1.06 Lights Out: THE HOUSEKEEPER
23Aug1949 NBC Tue
Written by Bob Wald
Directed by Kingman T. Moore

1.07 Lights Out: THE DRESSING GOWN
30Aug1949 NBC Tue
Directed by Kingman T. Moore

1.08 Lights Out: THE WHISPER
23Sep1949 NBC Tue (restaged 03Jul50)
Produced by Fred Coe

Adapted by Douglas Wood Gibson
Based on Gerald Kersch's story
Directed by Kingman T. Moore

starring
Paul Winchell
Synopsis:
A ventriloquist adopts the personality of his dummy.

[October 22, 1949 New York Times]
"Lights Out," the psychological suspense series of dramatic shows will return
to the NBC television network on Mondays at 9 P. M. under the sponsorship of
the Admiral Corporation, which last year put on the "Broadway Revue." The
starting date will be either Oct. 31 or Nov. 7.

[November 3, 1949 New York Times]
Jack LaRue, the movie villain, has been assigned as regular host for the
"Lights Out" television series, which resumes over NBC Monday at 9 P. M. He
will introduce each play and set the mood.

1.09 [--]Lights Out: CONQUEROR'S ISLE

1.10 [--]Lights Out: PENGALLEN'S BELL

Produced by Kingman T. Moore

Written by Sumner Locke Elliott

Directed by Delbert Mann

1.11 [--]Lights Out: THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER

Producer Ernest Walling

Based on the Edgar Allan Poe story. (1839)

Directed by Kingman T. Moore

Synopsis:
A friend pays a visit to a man who lives in a sinister, dark mansion. [RF]

1.12 [--]Lights Out: I DREAMT I DIED

1.13 [--]Lights Out: SOMETHING IN THE WIND

1.14 [--]Lights Out: JUSTICE LIES WAITING

1.15 [--]Lights Out: THE ELEVATOR

1.16 [--]Lights Out: THE MAN WHO COULDN'T LOSE

Based on the story by Richard Harding Davis

1.17 [--]Lights Out: THE RIVERMAN

Based on the children's scary bedtime story written by Zanzibar Province

*Line: "A'right, gather 'round little ones. Gather 'round an' hear the tale of the dreaded riverman."

1.18 [--]Lights Out: JUDGMENT REVISITED

1.19 [--]Lights Out: THE GREEN DRESS

Lynn Salisbury
Synopsis:
The story of a pair of twins, one is alive and the other dead.

1.20 [--]Lights Out: THE DEVIL TO PAY

Written by Frederick Lonsdale

1.21 [--]Lights Out: RESERVATION FOR FOUR

1.22 [--]Lights Out: DEAD PIGEON

1.23 [--]Lights Out: THE INVISIBLE STAIRCASE

1.24 [--]Lights Out: GRAVEN IMAGE

1.25 [--]Lights Out: PORTRAIT OF A DEAD MAN

1.26 [--]Lights Out: THE STRANGE CASE OF JOHN KINGMAN

Synopsis:
A man from the unknown has six fingers on each hand.

1.27 [--]Lights Out: THE EMERALD LAVALIER

written by Douglas Parkirst

1.28 [--]Lights Out: THE SCARAB

1.29 [--]Lights Out: MARY

From a story by John Collier

1.30 [--]Lights Out: THE QUEEN IS DEAD

1.31 [--]Lights Out: THE FAITHFUL HEART

1.32 [--]Lights Out: A TOAST TO SERGEANT FARNSWORTH

[April 21, 1950 New York Times]

Frank Gallop has been named as a permanent replacement for

Jack La Rue as host on NBC television's "Lights Out" series.

Gallop had been serving on a temporary basis during the last few weeks.

1.33 [--]Lights Out: THE MAN WHO COULDN'T REMEMBER

Tom Walsh
Roger DeKoven

1.34 [--]Lights Out: THE GLOVES OF GINO

1.35 Lights Out: THE SILENT VOICE
08May1950
starring
Douglas Parkhirst
Synopsis:
A GI returning from the Korean war with his hearing affected

by a bomb, now hears high frequencies.

1.36 [--]Lights Out: THE HOUSE THAT TIME FORGOT

1.37 [--]Lights Out: RENDEZVOUS

Based on the story by August Derleth
starring

1.38 [--]Lights Out: HOW LOVE CAME TO PROFESSOR GUILDEA

Arnold Moss ...... Professor Guildea

Synopsis:
A nuclear physicist is pursued about his own house by a ghost who

has fallen in love with him, which he describes as "a soft, shapeless,

mindless lump of undulating flesh."

1.39 [--]Lights Out: THE HEART OF JONATHAN O'ROURKE

Synopsis:
A condemned killer's heart comes into play when it is questioned

whether the heart of an evil man should be kept alive.

1.40 [--]Lights Out: THE DETERMINED LADY

1.41 [--]Lights Out: A CHILD IS CRYING

1.42 [--]Lights Out: ENCORE

1.43 [--]Lights Out: THE WHISPER

03-Jul-1950 (restaging of 23Sep49)

1.44 [--]Lights Out: I DREAM I DIED

10-Jul-1950 (restaging of 28Nov49)

1.45 [--]Lights Out: THE DEVIL TO PAY

17-Jul-1950 (restaging of 23Jan50)

1.46 [--]Lights Out: THE STRANGE CASE OF JOHN KINGMAN

31-Jul-1950 (restaging of 06Mar50)

1.47 Lights Out: THE QUEEN IS DEAD
14Aug1950 (restaging of 03Apr50)

1.48 Lights Out: THE HEART OF JONATHAN O'ROURKE
21Aug1950 (restaging of 05Jun50)

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2.01 [--]Lights Out: THE IDES OF APRIL

2.02 [--]Lights Out: BENUILI CHANT

2.03 [--]Lights Out: THE DARK CORNER

2.04 [--]Lights Out: THE LEOPARD LADY

Based on the story by Dorothy L. Sayers
starring

2.05 [--]Lights Out: SISTERS OF SHADOW

2.06 [--]Lights Out: THE POSTHUMOUS DEAD

2.07 [--]Lights Out: JUST WHAT HAPPENED

[October 1950 "Radio In Review" column by John Crosby]

On Lights Out, the NBC-TV show, a couple of weeks ago, a disfigured
playwright locked himself in a tenement of an office to write a play. He
created a couple of characters, as playwrights do, but these characters,
unlike those of, say, Robert E. Sherwood, instantly sprang into existence in
his dirty little office. One was a blind girl. The playwright had deliberately
created her that way so she couldn't see his maimed face. Love ensued. The
other character was her brother, a reptilian individual, who was the
playwright's self or Inner Self, or something like that. I forget how it
ended.

2.08 [--]Lights Out: THE THING UPSTAIRS

2.09 [--]Lights Out: THE SKEPTICS

2.10 [--]Lights Out: THE MARTIAN EYES

Producer Herbert Bayard Swope Jr.
Directed by Laurence Schwab Jr.

Burgess Meredith
J. Pat O'Malley
David Lewis
Gavin Gordon

Synopsis:
A man in a bar tells everyone his prescription glasses allow him to see Martians, who are invading the Earth and following him. [RBH]

*Note: Remade into a movie They Live!

2.11 [--]Lights Out: THE HALF-PINT FLASK

From the 1927 story by DuBose Heyward
starring

2.12 [--]Lights Out: THE WAXWORK

2.13 [--]Lights Out: DR. HEIDEGGER'S EXPERIMENT

2.14 [--]Lights Out: THE MULE MAN

2.15 [--]Lights Out: BEWARE THIS WOMAN

2.16 [--]Lights Out: MASQUE

Mary Stuart
Lynn Salisbury

2.17 [--]Lights Out: THE MEN ON THE MOUNTAIN

2.18 [--]Lights Out: JASPER

Directed by Laurence Schwab Jr.
starring
Elmer Lehr ....... Jasper
Janis Carter ..... Betty
Johnny Johnston .. Charlie
Meg Mundy ........ Stella
Synopsis:
Charlie's wife isn't thrilled with his writer's block and she wants to

sell his deceased uncle's house and move back to the city.

2.19 [--]Lights Out: THE HAUNTED SKYSCRAPER

2.20 [--]Lights Out: BIRD OF TIME

2.21 [61]Lights Out: THE BOTTLE IMP

adapted from the story by Robert Louis Stevenson

2.22 [--]Lights Out: FOR RELEASE TODAY

2.23 [--]Lights Out: THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH

Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe
starring

2.24 [--]Lights Out: THE HOUSE OF DUST

Synopsis:
After surviving an atomic blast, a couple must now survive a plague of rats.

2.25 [--]Lights Out: CURTAIN CALL

Synopsis:
A stage actor is haunted by his wife's spirit.

2.26 [--]Lights Out: STRANGE LEGACY

2.27 [--]Lights Out: THE DISPOSSESSED

2.28 [--]Lights Out: THE MAN WITH THE ASTRAKHAN HAT

2.29 [--]Lights Out: LEDA'S PORTRAIT

Written by Ira Levin

2.30 [--]Lights Out: WESTERN NIGHT

2.31 [--]Lights Out: THE POWER OF THE BRUTE

2.32 [--]Lights Out: THE MAD DULLAGHEN

Written by Aaron Weingarten

Stella Andrew ........ Catherine Riordan

Glenn Langan ....... Steve Denham

Synopsis:
A woman commits herself to an insane asylum because she believes

she is possessed by a spirit of an Irish fairy called Dullaghan.

2.33 [--]Lights Out: THE CRUSHED ROSE

Synopsis:
A scientist develops a robotic man that can speak and think.

2.34 [--]Lights Out: THE WITNESS

2.35 [--]Lights Out: THE FONCEVILLE CURSE

Directed by Lawrence Schwab Jr.
starring

2.36 [--]Lights Out: GREY REMINDER

Written by Robert Henney
Directed by Herbert Swope Jr.
starring
John Newland
Beatrice Straight
Parker McCormick
Helene Dumas
Synopsis:
An attorney's late first wife is sending him letters vowing to return,

this does not sit well with his second wife.

2.37 [--]Lights Out: THE LOST WILL OF DR. RANT

Produced by Herbert Swope Jr.
Written by Doris Halman
Based upon "The Tractate Middoth" by M.R. James
Directed by Laurence Schwab Jr.
Narrator Frank Gallop
starring
Leslie Nielsen ..... Bill
Russell Collins .... John Eldred
Pat Englund ........ Mary Simpson
Eva Condon ......... Mrs. Simpson
John Gerstad ....... George Earle
Marvin Paige ....... Peters
Florence Anguish ... Mrs. Dawkins
Fred Ardath ........ Dr. John Rant

Technical Director H.L. Folkerts

Settings Tom Jewett
Lighting Bill Ahern
Music Arlo

Synopsis:
An anxious old man searching for a rare edition of the Talmud finally

tracks the tome down at a research library in Boston. But before

he can get his hands on it, a hideous apparition intervenes.

2.38 [--]Lights Out: DEAD MAN'S COAT

Written by Willis Cooper

2.39 [--]Lights Out: THE CAT'S CRADLE

2.40 [--]Lights Out: THE PATTERN

Written by Ira Levin
Based on a story by Fredric Brown
starring

2.41 [--]Lights Out: THE MARTIAN EYES

04-Jun-1951 (restaging of 30Oct50)

Synopsis:
A man receives a pair of glasses which allow him to see Martians.

2.42 [--]Lights Out: PIT OF THE DEAD

Written by Willis Cooper
Directed by William Corrigan

2.43 [--]Lights Out: DEAD FREIGHT

2.44 [--]Lights Out: THE PASSAGE BEYOND

Produced by Herbert Swope Jr.
Written by Doris Halman
Directed by William Corrigan
starring
Stella Andrew ..... Milly Turner
Ralph Clanton ..... Rod Turner
Monica Lang ....... Trixie
Byron Russell ..... Stires
Sherry Bennett .... Lady Anne

Synopsis:
Rodd and Milly Turner and their houseguest return from a party to their creepy

gothic home... a house haunted by the ghost of family ancestor Lady Ann. [RBH]

2.45 Lights Out: AND ADAM BEGOT
02Jul1951

2.46 [--]Lights Out: THE MEDDLERS

2.47 [--]Lights Out: THE DEVIL IN GLENCAIRN

Written by Brett Warren
Directed by Laurence Schwab Jr.
starring
Richard Carlson .... Steenie
Jonathan Harris .... The Stranger
J. Pat O'Malley .... Sir Robert
Tom Poston ......... Sir John
Thelma Schnee ...... Tibbie
Halliwell Hobbs .... O'Haggis
Arthur Keegan, Addison Powell, Mark Manson, John Gerstad (players)
Synopsis:
Unable to pay his rent a bagpiper sells his pipes,

when a stranger arrives and makes a deal with him.

2.48 [--]Lights Out: ZERO HOUR

Written by George Lefferts

2.49 Lights Out: THE FINGERS
30Jul1951