List of Lights Out episodes
# List of Lights Out episodes

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

| Title | Air Date | Alternate Title | Summary |
| - | - | - | - |
| 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 | | A scientist attempts to murder a dictator in a diving bell down in the deep dark sea. |
| 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 | | The story of a human spider set in a lonely Scottish inn. |
| 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 | | A world war of the future brings devastating destruction with gas bombs. Those who have died return to take revenge upon the man responsible. |
| 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 | | A modern day luxury yacht cruise is interrupted when pirates suddenly board the ship. Although the year is in the 1930s, the pirates act as if they came from another century. |
| 18. Eagle's Return | 36/10/07 | | An aviator attempts to fly around the world with his sponsor. |
| 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 | | A synthetic monster created by gem thieves climbs up a 45 story building with its vacuum-cup feet into a penthouse. |
| 21. Halloween Horror | 36/10/28 | | A gang of small boys go out on Halloween night to create mischief and encounter something they didn't expect. |
| 22. Death Prayer | 36/11/04 | | Bushmen in Australia carry out a "prayer ceremony" with results that follow a cruel scientist back to England. |
| 23. Crime Clique of Croesus | 36/11/11 | | A group of men join together to commit perfect crimes for the thrill of it. |
| 24. Alter Ego | 36/11/18 | | A woman with a split personality battles her inner negative self as she waits on death row. |
| 25. Tong | 36/11/25 | | A big city rackateer decides to organize the laundries of his bailiwick into a "protective association". He also decides to include Chinese hand laundries in his organization. |
| 26. War Horse | 36/12/02 | | An old war horse who saw service in the World War seeks revenge. |
| 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 | | A story inspired by Debussy's music of the same name. |
| 30. Murder Below | 36/12/30 | | |

## 1937

| Title | Air Date | Alternate Title | Summary |
| - | - | - | - |
| 31. Sir Rat | 37/01/06 | | A mad nobleman entombs women of his court in the middle ages. |
| 32. Devil in White | 37/01/13 | | A doctor discovers a method for grafting human limbs from one body to another. |
| 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 | | The story of a young girl whose body, buried in 1826 through a chemical freak, has become a sideshow exhibit at a traveling carnival. |
| 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

| Title | Air Date | Alternate Title | Summary |
| - | - | - | - |
| 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 | | A man is forced to listen, through his coffin, to his own funeral service. |
| 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

| Title | Air Date | Summary |
| - | - | - |
| 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

| Title | Air Date | Alternate Title | Listen | Summary |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 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

| Title | Air Date | Alternate Title | Summary |
| - | - | - | - |
| 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

| Title | Air Date | Alternate Title | Summary |
| - | - | - | - |
| 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) | A college professor is driven to murder by a recurring hallucination. |
| 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

| Title | Air Date | Summary |
| - | - | - |
| 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. 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 | The midnight adventures of a newlywed couple stalled on a lonely road. |
| 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 Nations World 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

| Title | Air Date | Alternate Title | Summary |
| - | - | - | - |
| 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. |
| 7. A Case of Self-Conviction | 46/08/17 | (The Dillinger Complex) | |
| 8. The Signal Man | 46/08/24 | | A railway employee thinks he's being haunted. |

## 1947

| Title | Air Date |
| - | - |
| 1. | 47/07/09 |
| 2. Death Robbery | 47/07/16 |
| 3. The Undead | 47/07/23 |
| 4. The Ring | 47/07/30 |
| 5. | 47/08/06 |
