Lights Out presents “The Fast One,” originally broadcast on October 14, 1936. This early NBC episode, identified as episode 19, was written and directed by Arch Oboler.

A baffling rash of robberies and violent accidents draws investigators toward a scientific experiment with terrifying implications. Blending detective suspense with speculative horror, Oboler’s story explores what can happen when extraordinary speed falls into dangerous hands.

Old Time Retro Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:52 Original Broadcast
23:10 Closing

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Lights Out presents “Organ,” originally broadcast on May 12, 1937. Episode 49 was written by Arch Oboler and aired on NBC.

A family renting an old summer house finds its caretaker unsettling from the start. As night falls, mysterious organ music seems to echo through the rooms, and their young son speaks of an elderly woman no one else can see. This atmospheric chiller builds unease around the house’s hidden past.

Old Time Retro Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:45 Original Broadcast
31:11 Closing

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Old Time Retro Radio presents Lights Out, “Revolt of the Worms,” originally broadcast October 13, 1942. This was episode 2 of Arch Oboler’s 1942 CBS revival of the classic horror anthology.

Chemist and devoted rose grower Charles Prentice retreats with his wife and an assistant to a remote hilltop laboratory, where an experimental treatment involving hormones and earthworms begins to produce deeply unsettling results. Written, directed, and produced by Arch Oboler, the broadcast features Elliott Lewis and Cathy Lewis.

Old Time Retro Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:45 Original Broadcast
22:45 Closing

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Lights Out presents “Battle of the Magicians,” originally broadcast on NBC on July 27, 1946. Episode 4 of the series’ 1946 summer revival, this 30-minute thriller was written by Wyllis Cooper and directed and produced by Albert Crews.

Occult investigator Mr. Saladin is called into an unsettling airline crisis marked by disasters and threats beyond ordinary explanation. As danger closes in around an aircraft and its passengers, Saladin faces the sinister Dr. Ehrlich in a tense blend of aviation suspense and supernatural horror. The cast includes Everett Clarke, Tony Parrish, Meg Hahn, Duke Watson, Boris Aplon, and Nathan Davis.

Old Time Retro Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:50 Original Broadcast
30:26 Closing

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Lights Out presents “Author and the Thing,” cataloged with an original broadcast date of September 9, 1936. Surviving-recording research, however, identifies this production as the September 28, 1943 CBS broadcast, the final episode of the 1942–43 run.

Written, directed, and performed by Arch Oboler, with Mercedes McCambridge, this self-referential horror drama follows a radio writer working late to complete a frightening Lights Out script. As pressure and imagination mount in his office, the line between the story on the page and the world around him begins to feel perilously thin.

Old Time Retro Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:48 Original Broadcast
23:59 Closing

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Lights Out presents “Poltergeist,” originally broadcast on October 20, 1942. Written, directed, and produced by Arch Oboler, this NBC broadcast is identified as episode 3 of the 1942–43 run and is also known as “Gravestone.”

Three city roommates take a horse-drawn sleigh ride through deep country snow and find themselves near an old, nearly buried graveyard. As darkness settles over the isolated countryside, a local superstition and their own uneasy discovery turn a winter outing into a chilling night of uncertainty.

Old Time Retro Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:42 Original Broadcast
26:44 Closing

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Lights Out presents “Cat Wife,” originally broadcast April 6, 1938. Commonly listed as episode 85, this Arch Oboler thriller stars Boris Karloff as John and Betty Winkler as his wife, Linda, on the NBC Red Network.

A bitter domestic quarrel takes an uncanny turn when John’s repeated comparison of Linda to a cat begins to feel far more than figurative. Set in their 1930s home, this tense supernatural drama turns an unhappy marriage into a chilling late-night ordeal.

Old Time Retro Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:50 Original Broadcast
27:38 Closing

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Lights Out presents “Sakhalin,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 10, 1943. Episode 45 was written by Arch Oboler, who is also featured in the cast.

On a remote Russian prison island during the era of the czars, a visiting inspector investigates a penal colony ruled by a ruthless commandant. This tense suspense drama explores the dangerous struggle for authority within an isolated and forbidding outpost.

Old Time Retro Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:41 Original Broadcast
30:59 Closing

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Lights Out presents “Christmas Story,” originally broadcast December 22, 1937, as episode 71 on NBC. Written by Wyllis Cooper, this surviving archival broadcast is a repeat of his earlier Christmas play, “Three Men.”

On Christmas night in 1918, three Allied officers—an Australian, a Frenchman, and an American—share a crowded train compartment in France while traveling on leave after the Great War. A bright star and an uncanny sense of familiarity lead their journey into a gentle, spiritual fantasy shaped by the Nativity tradition. The cast includes Harold Peary and Willard Waterman.

Old Time Retro Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:37 Original Broadcast
30:37 Closing

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Lights Out, “Happy Ending,” originally broadcast June 23, 1937. Cataloged as episode 55, this NBC sustaining-program installment was written by Arch Oboler.

A young wife receives unexpected news from her doctor and faces the walk home with thoughts of money, marriage, family expectations, and an uncertain future. An unusually intimate domestic drama for Lights Out, it finds suspense in private hopes and anxieties rather than the series’ more familiar supernatural territory.

Old Time Retro Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:44 Original Broadcast
25:37 Closing

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