Lights Out

Season 2

Season • Aug 28, 1950–Aug 20, 1951

An anthology series that featured dramas of thrills and suspense, based on the popular radio series of the same name
  1. S2E1 - IDES OF APRIL

    30 min • Aug 28, 1950 (76 years ago)

  2. S2E2 - Benuili Chant

    30 min • Sep 4, 1950 (76 years ago)

  3. S2E3 - The Dark Corner

    30 min • Sep 11, 1950 (76 years ago)

  4. S2E4 - The Leopard Lady

    30 min • Sep 18, 1950 (76 years ago)

  5. S2E5 - SISTER OF SHADOW

    30 min • Sep 25, 1950 (76 years ago)

  6. S2E6 - The Posthumous Dead

    30 min • Oct 2, 1950 (76 years ago)

  7. S2E7 - Just What Happened

    30 min • Oct 9, 1950 (76 years ago)

    A man stands trial for murdering another man by throwing him out a window.

  8. S2E8 - The Thing Upstairs

    30 min • Oct 16, 1950 (76 years ago)

  9. S2E9 - The Skeptics

    30 min • Oct 16, 1950 (76 years ago)

  10. S2E10 - The Martian Eyes

    30 min • Oct 30, 1950 (75 years ago)

    An odd professor claims he can spot Martians, who masquerade as humans, using a pair of infrared glasses he wears. Only then can you see the third eyeball in the middle of their forehead. He relates his wild theory to a photographer sitting by him in a bar--and the man believes him. While playing around with infrared film, the photographer says he's snapped a shot of a man with three eyes. The two team up to convince authorities of their find.

  11. S2E11 - The Half Pint Flask

    30 min • Nov 6, 1950 (75 years ago)

  12. S2E12 - The Waxwork

    30 min • Nov 13, 1950 (75 years ago)

  13. S2E13 - THE EXPERIMENT

    30 min • Nov 20, 1950 (75 years ago)

  14. S2E14 - THE MULE MEN

    30 min • Nov 27, 1950 (75 years ago)

  15. S2E15 - Beware This Woman

    30 min • Dec 4, 1950 (75 years ago)

    A woman experiencing poltergeist activity in her home secures the services of a reluctant, non-believer in the supernatural, scientist to resolve her problem.

  16. S2E16 - THE MASQUE

    30 min • Dec 11, 1950 (75 years ago)

  17. S2E17 - The Men on the Mountain

    30 min • Dec 18, 1950 (75 years ago)

  18. S2E18 - Jasper

    30 min • Dec 25, 1950 (75 years ago)

    Songwriter Charlie has suffered with writer's block" since he and his wife moved to the country. Betty wants them to sell the house to pay the bills, but Charlie doesn't want to part with the family estate. His late ancestor, Jasper, isn't thrilled with the idea either.

  19. S2E19 - The Haunted Skyscraper

    30 min • Jan 1, 1951 (75 years ago)

  20. S2E20 - Bird of Time

    30 min • Jan 8, 1951 (75 years ago)

  21. S2E21 - The Bottle Imp

    30 min • Jan 15, 1951 (75 years ago)

  22. S2E22 - For Release Today

    30 min • Jan 22, 1951 (75 years ago)

    Maggie, the press agent for actor Henry Crawford, is horrified by his lifeless performances during dress rehearsals for his new play. She comments that he seems dead, to which his wife, Elaine, declares that he is. A year earlier, Elaine's ex-fiancé Balsamo had cursed Henry when he stole her away, promising Henry that he'd be through in one year.

  23. S2E23 - The Masque of the Red Death

    30 min • Jan 29, 1951 (75 years ago)

  24. S2E24 - THE HOUSE OF DUST (AKA) 1962

    30 min • Feb 5, 1951 (75 years ago)

  25. S2E25 - Curtain Call

    30 min • Feb 12, 1951 (75 years ago)

    Off-his-rocker Kruger, a famous actor coming out of retirement for a new play with his daughter (Randel), suddenly is tormented by the ghost of his late, thought-to-be-a-suicide wife. His daughter is a triumph in her first big stage role, but ... can Kruger take the adulation she receives ...

  26. S2E26 - Strange Legacy

    30 min • Feb 19, 1951 (75 years ago)

    After suffering a concussion in a car accident on the Oregon coast, Stephen Elliott is carried to the home of an old man and his beautiful daughter-in-law to recover. The young woman tells Stephen that her husband, a World War II pilot, had died the year before and left an uncompleted musical composition, a model airplane and a piece of sculpture, as well as a strange will.

  27. S2E27 - The Dispossessed

    30 min • Feb 26, 1951 (75 years ago)

  28. S2E28 - THE MAN WITH ASTRAKHAN HAT

    30 min • Mar 5, 1951 (75 years ago)

  29. S2E29 - Leda's Portrait

    30 min • Mar 12, 1951 (75 years ago)

  30. S2E30 - Western Night

    30 min • Mar 19, 1951 (75 years ago)

  31. S2E31 - THE POWER OF BRUTE

    30 min • Mar 26, 1951 (75 years ago)

  32. S2E32 - The Mad Dullaghan

    30 min • Apr 2, 1951 (75 years ago)

    A man finds his missing fiancé in a mental hospital. She believes she's possessed a Dullaghan, a spirit of Irish folklore that jumped to her from her late father when she kissed him farewell at his funeral. The finance investigates and learns that her parent had been a famous ventriloquist and his dummy was named Mr. Dullagham.

  33. S2E33 - The Crushed Rose

    30 min • Apr 9, 1951 (75 years ago)

  34. S2E34 - The Witness

    30 min • Apr 16, 1951 (75 years ago)

  35. S2E35 - THE FONCECILLE CURSE

    30 min • Apr 23, 1951 (75 years ago)

    The heir of the old aristocratic Fonceville family takes his bride to the ancestral castle, where a hereditary madness takes over his dreams, one that tries to induce the murder of his new wife.

  36. S2E36 - Grey Reminder

    30 min • Apr 30, 1951 (75 years ago)

    Charlotte is distressed by the letters addressed tor her new husband that mysteriously appear at their door. Kenneth refuses to discuss their contents, but they clearly disturb him. Fearing he's seeing another woman, Charlotte demands to know who's writing them. She's shocked to find they're from his domineering first wife who seems intent on controlling him even in death.

  37. S2E37 - The Lost Will of Dr. Rant

    30 min • May 7, 1951 (75 years ago)

    A Boston librarian is drawn into a ghostly web of deceit as he helps a beautiful heiress recover her stolen fortune by finding a missing will written in a rare version of the Talmud.

  38. S2E38 - Dead Man's Coat

    30 min • May 14, 1951 (75 years ago)

    By opening the grave of a recently deceased man and putting on his coat, a person will supposedly be granted invisibility. A bitter man with scores to settle decides to put the superstition to the test. He forces his reluctant butler to join him in his scheme of grave-robbing and murder.

  39. S2E39 - Cat's Cradle

    30 min • May 21, 1951 (75 years ago)

    Former hometown football star George Logan pays an unexpected late night visit on Phyllis and Bob at their country home. Down on his luck, he's obsessed with having never fit in, and holds a grudge against the world. His one talent is weaving a string into a cat's cradle and, he claims, using it to cast spells and murder people who get in his way. A skeptical Bob call it nonsense so an irate George is determined to prove him wrong.

  40. S2E40 - The Pattern

    30 min • May 28, 1951 (75 years ago)

    Al March is tortured by his failure to have stopped the bombing of an Army barracks in 1945 Germany. Awaiting surgery, he tells his sister that the two men and a woman he killed the night before were the same ones who had planted the explosives. Even though they had died in the blast, they had been chasing him for the past six years because he lived and they didn't.

  41. S2E41 - THE MARTIAN EYES

    30 min • Jun 4, 1951 (75 years ago)

  42. S2E42 - Pit of the Dead

    30 min • Jun 11, 1951 (75 years ago)

  43. S2E43 - Dead Freight

    30 min • Jun 18, 1951 (75 years ago)

  44. S2E44 - The Passage Beyond

    30 min • Jun 25, 1951 (75 years ago)

    The ghost of Lady Anne continues to walk down the stairs, knife in hand, and into the secret passage where she murdered her domineering husband. She vividly demonstrates her disapproval of Rodney's attempt to conduct an affair with a visiting friend of his wife.

  45. S2E45 - THE ADAM BEGOT

    30 min • Jul 2, 1951 (75 years ago)

    The car carrying cultured Geoffrey, brutish Claude and eligible Kay swerves off a cliff and into a mysterious valley. Surprised by the weird vegetation and climate, they come to believe they've traveled back in time 50,000 years. An encounter with an unfriendly caveman results in all three being held captive in the wild man's cave.

  46. S2E46 - The Meddlers

    30 min • Jul 9, 1951 (75 years ago)

    Cecil Crofton shows up at the backwoods, hillbilly shack of Purdy with a wild proposition on how the two can split a million dollars. Crofton as figured out that a ton gold that once belonged to the Confederacy is buried locally, in the cellar of a house that had burned down and was rebuilt. Purdy figures rightly that it's the old Larro place, but the abandoned house is cursed by the ghosts of Larro ancestors from the Civil War.

  47. S2E47 - THE DEVIL IN GLENCAIRE

    30 min • Jul 16, 1951 (75 years ago)

    Steenie, the best piper in all of Scotland, is about to be evicted if he doesn't pay his owed rent. After selling his pipes to raise the money, a mysterious stranger appears, ready with a deal: it involves Steenie's money, bagpipes--and his immortal soul.

  48. S2E48 - Zero Hour

    30 min • Jul 23, 1951 (75 years ago)

  49. S2E49 - The Fingers

    30 min • Jul 30, 1951 (75 years ago)

  50. S2E50 - The Faceless Man

    30 min • Aug 6, 1951 (75 years ago)

    Francis Carvel visits a plastic surgeon to erase a lifetime of ugliness from his face. Now handsome, he returns to the French inn where, a year earlier, an lovely woman had spurned his affection. Complicating Carvel's plans is a new traveling companion, a disfigured man in bandages who knows everything about him.

  51. S2E51 - The Man With the Watch

    30 min • Aug 13, 1951 (75 years ago)

    A New York City detective is investigating the disappearance of over 200 people. Before vanishing into thin air, each person has reported a dream involving a fat man with a bizarre watch who convinces them to join him on his planet of Aleria.

  52. S2E52 - Follow Me

    30 min • Aug 20, 1951 (75 years ago)