Lights Out is an American horror radio program, which ran on various networks from January 1934 to the summer of 1947. Due to a number of recordings being lost, along with syndication having re-edited intros and the titles of broadcasts changing frequently, it may be impossible to ever compile a full list.
Please note that this does not include episodes for the television adaption, and only includes the radio show.
1936
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1. Burial Service
36/06/10
A paralyzed girl believed to be dead is buried alive.
2. Cat Wife
36/06/17
After a man calls his amoral wife a cat, an incredible transformation follows.
3. The Dictator
36/06/24
4. Midnight Flame
36/07/01
5.
36/07/08
6. The Flame
36/07/15
A man obsessed with fire uses an incantation to summon a she-demon.
7.
36/07/22
8. The Sea
36/07/29
A jealous Irish miscreant plots his brother's death.
9. Money, Money, Money
36/08/05
A sailor wins $3,000.
10. Across the Gap
36/08/12
A car crash sends a couple and their driver into the prehistoric past.
11. Invitation to a Fly
36/08/19
12. Danse Macabre
36/08/26
At his son's grave a famous composer meets a violinist who tries to persuade him to kill himself.
13. The Last War
36/09/02
14. The Author and the Thing
36/09/09
A writer believes that the horrors he writes about are being brought to life.
15. The Sea
36/09/16
16. Blue Beard and the Harp
36/09/23
17. Black Pirate
36/09/30
18. Eagle's Return
36/10/07
19. The Fast One
36/10/14
A murderer develops a serum that, in the end, produces horrific results.
20. The Thing That Crept
36/10/21
21. Halloween Horror
36/10/28
22. Death Prayer
36/11/04
23. Crime Clique of Croesus
36/11/11
24. Alter Ego
36/11/18
25. Tong
36/11/25
26. War Horse
36/12/02
27. Nobody Died
36/12/09
An old dying woman is given a rejuvenation potion, but the dictatorial government wants it.
28. Poltergeist
36/12/16
(The Gravestone)
A hike through a snow-covered graveyard leads to the rise of a poltergeist...and murder.
29. Afternoon of a Faun
36/12/23
30. Murder Below
36/12/30
1937
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31. Sir Rat
37/01/06
32. Devil in White
37/01/13
33. Beast of the Shamo
37/01/20
34. Big Sock
37/01/27
35. The Honeymoon
37/02/03
36. Acrophobia
37/02/10
37. Cat Wife (Repeat)
37/02/17
After a man calls his amoral wife a cat; an incredible transformation follows.
38. Buried in 1826
37/02/24
39. Sakhalin
37/03/03
The prison camp commandant on a remote Russian island has murderous plans for an inspector.
40. Chicken Heart
37/03/10
A chicken heart begins to grow, and there's no end in sight.
41. State Executioner
37/03/17
In Georgian England, a man is an executioner for the state, for which he feels no remorse.
42. The Thirteenth Corpse
37/03/24
43. Homus Primus
37/03/31
(Across the Gap)
A car crash sends a couple and their driver into the prehistoric past.
44. Ivan, the Terrible
37/04/07
45. The Little People
37/04/14
A disgruntled scientist enacts a horrific revenge against his ex-wife and her lover.
46. Ghost Party
37/04/21
A party where the hosts hold a seance in jest has a guest they never expected.
47. The Ninth Life
37/04/28
48. I, Madman
37/05/05
A man who'd give anything to know the future actually travels one year into the future...and learns more than he bargained for.
49. Organ
37/05/12
A family rents a creepy old house.
50. Mad World
37/05/19
In a totalitarian future, the dying Leader plans to use an elixir to make the entire world insane.
51. Until Dead
37/05/26
A man framed for a murder will stop at nothing for revenge - not even his enemy's already being dead.
52. Snake Woman
37/06/02
53. Forty Seventh Street Precinct
37/06/09
54. Meteor Man
37/06/16
A couple find a meteorite — and encounter the horror inside it.
55. Happy Ending
37/06/23
A young wife learns that she's pregnant...how's she going to tell her husband and how will he take it?
56. The Cave
37/06/30
Two girls visiting Carlsbad Caverns try playing a joke that doesn't prove very funny.
57. Brain Wave
37/07/07
58. Lord Marley's Guest
37/07/14
Lord Marley and his female "guest" have evil plans for the lord's wife.
59. Glacier Woman
37/09/29
60. Escape
37/10/06
61. Black Zombie
37/10/13
62. The Deep
37/10/20
63. Pyramid
37/10/27
64. Four Husbands
37/11/03
65. Compound Interest
37/11/10
66. Little Old Lady
37/11/17
A girl and her friend travel to visit her aunt, whom she's not seen for many years.
67. Tin Soldier
37/11/24
68. Death Pit
37/12/01
A man steps through a door and suddenly finds himself in a prehistoric world.
69. The Flame
37/12/08
A man obsessed with fire uses an incantation to summon a she-demon.
70. Studio Apartment
37/12/15
71. Uninhabited (Christmas Story - 1918)
37/12/22
Three soldiers during the Great War experience the same dream while on a train.
72. The Dark
37/12/29
A doctor and a police investigator are called to an abandoned house—with horrific results. (Note: Considered lost, it is primarily remembered for being the basis of a sketch in The Simpsons episode Treehouse of Horror V.)
1938
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73. Genghis Khan
38/01/05
74.
38/01/12
75. Seven Women
38/01/19
76. Oxychloride X
38/01/26
A rebuffed college student decides to create something entirely new—and unstoppable.
77. Death Letter
38/02/02
78. Screen Test
38/02/09
The story of one movie actor and seven mysterious old women in an out-of-the-way hotel.
79. Murder Castle
38/02/16
Women who enter this house never come out. One victim's sister learns the horrifying secret.
80. Chicken Heart
38/02/23
A chicken heart begins to grow, and there's no end in sight.
81. Mother-In-Law
38/03/02
(Knock at the Door)
A shrewish wife wants to be rid of her hateful mother-in-law, but will she ever really be?
82. The Ball
38/03/09
Two male students crash a masked ball in Paris.
83. Superfeature
38/03/16
A traveling shower of motion pictures who's also a crook shows a particular film once too often.
84. The Dream
38/03/23
(Darrell Hall's Thoughts) (Kill)
A professor keeps having a nightmare that urges him to kill.
85. Valse Triste
38/03/30
Two women canoeing in the woods come across a dark house with a sinister occupant.
86. Cat Wife
38/04/06
After a man calls his amoral wife a cat; an incredible transformation follows.
87. Three Matches
38/04/13
88. Night on the Mountain
38/04/20
89. They Died
38/04/27
90. Devil's Island
38/05/04
91. It Happened
38/05/11
(Her Name Was Jean) (Call Her Jean)
A young woman in Paris is kidnapped and taken into the sewers, where she escapes only to meet a worse fate.
92. Good, Bad, Indifferent
38/05/18
93. Mrs Crazy
38/05/25
94. Scoop
38/06/01
A new newspaper owner purges his staff, only to find out how bad an idea it was.
95. Spider
38/06/08
Two men in the jungle search for a giant spider.
96. The Thirteenth Corpse (Repeat)
38/06/15
97. Bon Voyage
38/06/22
Two sisters with an ugly secret take a cruise on an empty ship.
98. The Chest
38/06/29
A meek husband buys a supposedly empty chest at an auction.
99. Gevancenpoort
38/07/06
A husband and wife are trapped in an infamous Dutch prison and tortured by ghosts.
100. The Peacock Shrieks
38/07/13
101. The Hounds of War
38/07/20
102.
38/07/27
103. Homecoming (pre-empted)
38/10/12
104. Ghost Operator
38/10/26
105. The Living Death
38/11/02
106. Legion of the Dead
38/11/09
107. The Ring
38/11/16
A dead man haunts a former lover.
108. The Hand Of Eternity
38/11/23
109. The Bride of Madness
38/11/30
110. Battle Of The Magicians
38/12/07
An occult detective is hired to investigate a possibly supernatural plane crash.
111. Queen Cobra
38/12/14
A scientist may learn more than he expected on a trip to India.
112. Hindu Revenge
38/12/21
Do you believe in reincarnation? In wartime, anything is possible.
113. The Theater
38/12/28
1939
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114. Cat Pit
39/01/04
115. Reunion
39/01/11
116. The Stage Is Set for Murder
39/01/18
Life on the stage can be murder...especially for a magician.
117. Two Voices Has The Devil
39/01/25
118. Bark of a Dead Dog
39/02/01
119. The Living Dead
39/02/08
120. Jericho
39/02/15
121. The Survivor
39/02/22
A fire at sea leaves only one survivor...this is his story.
122. Satan's Orchid
39/03/01
123. One Day It Rained Blood
39/03/08
The last man on Earth tells his chilling tale.
124. Profits Unlimited
39/03/15
A young woman inherits an island with an unusual business located on it.
125. Dilu
39/03/22
Another tale of how it doesn't pay to mess with the spirit world.
126. Wandering Egyptian
39/03/29
127. The Blood of the Gorilla
39/04/05
128. Fear
39/04/12
129. The Phantom Meteor
39/04/19
130. The Devil's Due
39/04/26
Two killers on the run meet a mysterious man in a warehouse who knows all about them.
131. The Retribution of Edward Scurr
39/05/03
132. The Curse of the Kiba
39/05/10
133.
39/05/17
134. Beetles
39/05/24
Another tale of science gone wrong, this time with human-sized beetles.
135.
39/05/31
136. Vendetta
39/06/07
137. Alley Cat
39/06/14
138.
39/06/21
139. Macbeth
39/06/28
140. Through a Murderer's Eyes
39/07/05
141. The China Doll
39/07/12
142. Murder Mind
39/07/19
A college boy's prank doesn't go quite the way he planned.
143. The Giggler
39/07/26
An insane man uses surgery to change his victims' characteristics.
144.
39/08/02
145. Serenade of Death
39/08/09
146. The Day of the Four
39/08/16
1941
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147. Special to Hollywood
41/02/17
A party of film celebrities on board a plane are literally left hanging in mid-air because of their own callousness.
1942
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1. What the Devil
42/10/06
A dynamite truck keeps blocking the path of a couple's car.
2. Revolt of the Worms
42/10/13
A growth chemical is spilled on the ground, with monstrous results.
3. Poltergeist
42/10/20
(Gravestone)
A hike through a snow-covered graveyard leads to the rise of a poltergeist...and murder.
4. Mungahra
42/10/27
(The House Is Haunted)
A man in Australia kills a native, who curses him.
5. Across the Gap
42/11/03
(Neanderthal)
A car crash sends a couple and their driver into the prehistoric past.
6. Bon Voyage
42/11/10
Two sisters with an ugly secret take a cruise on an empty ship.
7. Come to the Bank
42/11/17
A man uses his mind to walk through a wall at the bank.
8. Chicken Heart
42/11/24
A chicken heart begins to grow, and there's no end in sight.
9. The Story of Mister Maggs
42/12/01
(The Chest)
A meek husband buys a supposedly empty chest at an auction.
10. Scoop
42/12/08
(Cemetery)
A new newspaper owner purges his staff, only to find out how bad an idea it was.
11. Knock at the Door
42/12/15
A shrewish wife wants to be rid of her hateful mother-in-law, but will she ever really be?
12. Meteor Man
42/12/22
(The Hungry Ones)
A couple find a meteorite - and encounter the horror inside it.
13. Valse Triste
42/12/29
Two women canoeing in the woods come across a dark house with a sinister occupant.
1943
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14. The Fast One
43/01/05
(Speed)
15. The Mirror
43/01/12
16. Cat Wife
43/01/19
After a man calls his amoral wife a cat, an incredible transformation follows.
17. The Projective Mr Drogen
43/01/26
(Big Mr Little)
After drinking a new cocktail, a man finds he has a new deadly power.
18. Until Dead
43/02/02
(The Luck of Mark Street)
A man framed for a murder will stop at nothing for revenge - not even his enemy's already being dead.
19. He Dug It Up
43/02/09
20. Oxychloride X
43/02/16
(Hole, The)
21. They Met at Dorset
43/02/23
During WW II, two German commandos parachute into England and end up in a mysterious house.
22. The Sea
43/03/02
23. The Ball
43/03/09
(Paris Macabre)
Two male students crash a masked ball in Paris.
24. The Dream
43/03/16
25. The Flame
43/03/23
26. Money, Money, Money
43/03/30
(Three Thousand Dollars)
A sailor wins $3,000.
27. Superfeature
43/04/06
(Familiar, Suddenly Unfamiliar)
A traveling shower of motion pictures who's also a crook shows a particular film once too often.
28. Archer
43/04/13
(Ancestor)
A young woman being held prisoner receives some unexpected help.
29. Kill
43/04/20
(The Dream)(Darrell Hall's Thoughts)
30. Execution
43/04/27
A Nazi execution squad keeps trying to execute the same woman over and over again.
31. Heavenly Jeep
43/05/04
The jeep two Allied soldiers are riding in hits a landmine, but they escape unhurt...or do they?
32. Murder in the Script Department
43/05/11
Two secretaries find writing a script for Lights Out more horrifying than they expected.
33. Spider
43/05/18
Two men search the jungle for a giant spider.
34. Little Old Lady
43/05/25
(Mrs Kingsley's Report)
A girl and her friend travel to visit her aunt, whom she's not seen for many years.
35. Ugliest Man in the World
43/06/01
(Mr Freak)
A man is so ugly that children scream in fright and even his mother's life is unbearable.
36. Organ
43/06/08
(Vacation with Death)
A family rents a creepy old house.
37. Prelude to Murder
43/06/15
38. Nature Study
43/06/22
Four tourists are trapped in a canyon by a rockslide.
39. Bathysphere
43/06/29
(The Dictator)
A dictator and a scientist travel to the bottom of the sea in a diving bell.
40. The Cliff
43/07/06
A woman finally gets her chance for revenge on the gangster who killed the man she loved.
41. Visitor from Hades
43/07/13
A quarreling couple are trapped in their apartment with a hideous creature that only they can see.
42. Profits Unlimited
43/07/20
A young woman inherits an island with an unusual business located on it.
43. Little People
43/07/27
(Shrinking People)
A disgruntled scientist enacts horrific revenge on his ex-wife and her lover.
44. Murder Castle
43/08/03
Women who enter this house never come out. One victim's sister learns the horrifying secret.
45. Sakhalin
43/08/10
The prison camp commandant on a remote Russian island has murderous plans for an inspector.
46. State Executioner
43/08/17
(Official Killer)
In Georgian England, a man is an executioner for the state, for which he feels no remorse.
47. Sub-Basement
43/08/24
(Going Down)
A man and his wife find something unexpected deep below the department store where he works.
48. Immortal Gentleman
43/08/31
(Live Forever)
A man so obsessed with death that he never really lives travels to a future with no death.
49. Lord Marley's Guest
43/09/07
(Hollywood Visitor)
Lord Marley and his female "guest" have evil plans for the lord's wife.
50. The Word
43/09/14
A newlywed couple in New York City suddenly find themselves the last two people on Earth.
51. Mirage
43/09/21
A man and woman walking along a beach encounter a mysterious figure.
52. The Author and the Thing
43/09/28
A writer believes that the horrors he writes about are being brought to life.
1945
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The Truth
45/06/28
Story About Two Safe Crackers
45/07/14
Reunion After Death
45/07/21
The Rocket Ship
45/07/28
A show incorrectly circulating as Lights Out 45/7/28 The Rocket Ship is from a different series and date, Arch Oboler's Plays 45/09/20 Rocket from Manhattan. It has a Lights Out opening spliced onto it, but is not a Lights Out program.[1]Note: This episode mentions the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Lady From The Lake
45/08/04
Did The Murder Happen?
45/08/11
Pre-empted
45/08/18
Man In The Middle
45/08/25
A man finds himself emotionally trapped between his wife and the secretary he's having an affair with.
The Day the Sun Exploded
45/09/01
In a possible future, the entire Earth is about to declare world peace with the abandonment of all borders and the creation of a United NationsWorld Government. This episode is unique in that it is only 15 minutes long. It was released the day before the Allies declared victory in World War II. In it, delegations of all nations of the world including France, Japan, and Germany all surrender their own individual Sovereignty. Interestingly, the German Delegation exclaims that the nation has come to realize that the German Blood alone does not contain Leadership, but the human vein of the world does.
1946
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1. The Seven Plovers
46/07/06
A young Jew mocks Christ's crucifixion and is condemned to wander the world forever.
2. The Coffin in Studio B
46/07/13
A particularly difficult Lights Out rehearsal is interrupted.
3. Haunted Cell
46/07/20
A cop killer is forced to stay in a cell supposedly haunted by another cop killer who has already been executed.
4. Battle of the Magicians
46/07/27
An occult detective investigates a possibly supernatural plane crash.
5. The Revenge of India
46/08/03
A British officer avenges the murder of his brother.
6. Ghost on the Newsreel Negative
46/08/10
Two reporters visit a haunted farm to interview a ghost.