The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1936–1947
- Surviving broadcasts
- 86
- Genre
- horror
Old Time Radio Program "Lights Out." Enjoy.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
14 dated broadcasts across 12 years on the air, with 8 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1943, in original transmission order.
- 1. They Met at Dorset · 23 Feb 1943
- 2. Ball Paris Macabre · 9 Mar 1943
- 3. The Dream · 16 Mar 1943
Death Robbery
16 Jul 1947 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 16 July 1947. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Signal Man
24 Aug 1946 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 24 August 1946. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Ghost on the Newsreel Negative
10 Aug 1946 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 10 August 1946. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Revenge of India
3 Aug 1946 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 3 August 1946. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Battle of the Magicians
27 Jul 1946 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 27 July 1946. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Haunted Cell
20 Jul 1946 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 20 July 1946. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Coffin In Studio B
13 Jul 1946 · 27 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 13 July 1946. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Day The Sun Exploded
1 Sep 1945 · 13 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 1 September 1945. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1936–1947
Other series the network carried while Lights Out was on the air.
Same seasons
horror on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The anthology of dread
A voice, a creaking door, and a self-contained story designed to frighten you in half an hour. Suspense and Lights Out built the grammar every horror anthology still uses.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Lights Out
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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