Lights Out 75 years old
Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. Versions of Lights Out aired on different networks, at various times, from January 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television. In 1946, NBC Television brought Lights Out to TV in a series of four specials, broadcast live and produced by Fred Coe, who also contributed three of the scripts. NBC asked Cooper to write the script for the premiere, "First Person Singular", which is told entirely from the point of view of an unseen murderer who kills his obnoxious wife and winds up being executed. Variety gave this first episode a rave review ("undoubtedly one of the best dramatic shows yet seen on a television screen"), but Lights Out did not become a regular NBC-TV series until 1949.
Credits
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| K. T. Stevens She was 29 , 74 years old when she died | |
| Tom Poston He was 27 , 85 years old when he died | |
| Joe De Santis He was 40 , 80 years old when he died | |
| Arlene Francis She was 41 , 93 years old when she died | |
| Lee J. Cobb He was 37 , 64 years old when he died | |
| Anthony Quinn He was 34 , 86 years old when he died | |
| Beatrice Straight She was 34 , 86 years old when she died | |
| Janis Carter She was 35 , 80 years old when she died | |
| Vincent Price He was 38 , 82 years old when he died | |
| Richard Carlson He was 37 , 65 years old when he died | |
| John Carradine He was 43 , 82 years old when he died | |
| Eli Wallach He was 33 , 98 years old when he died | |
| Sidney Blackmer He was 54 , 78 years old when he died | |
| Leslie Nielsen He was 23 , 84 years old when he died | |
| J. Pat O'Malley He was 45 , 80 years old when he died | |
| Nina Foch She was 25 , 84 years old when she died | |
| Paul Stewart He was 9 , 26 years old when he died | |
| Jack La Rue He was 47 , 81 years old when he died | as Narrator |
| Paul Winchell He was 26 , 82 years old when he died | |
| Vanessa Brown She was 21 , 71 years old when she died | |
| William Windom He was 25 , 32 years old when he died | |
| Josephine Hull She was 72 , 80 years old when she died | |
| Martha Scott She was 36 , 90 years old when she died | |
| Jessica Tandy She was 40 , 85 years old when she died | |
| Freddie Bartholomew He was 25 , 67 years old when he died | |
| Grace Kelly She was 19 , 52 years old when she died | |
| David Lewis He was 27 , 10 years old when he died | |
| David Lewis He was 27 , 10 years old when he died | |
| Hugh Griffith He was 37 , 67 years old when he died | |
| Murvyn Vye He was 36 , 63 years old when he died | |
| Henry Jones He was 36 , 86 years old when he died | |
| Robert Sterling He was 31 , 88 years old when he died | |
| Tom Drake He was 30 , 64 years old when he died | |
| Steven Hill He was 27 , 94 years old when he died | |
| Eva Marie Saint She was 25 , now 100 years old | |
| Ed Begley He was 48 , 69 years old when he died | |
| Patric Knowles He was 37 , 84 years old when he died | |
| Everett Sloane He was 39 , 55 years old when he died | |
| Dorothy Stickney She was 53 , 101 years old when she died | |
| Boris Karloff He was 61 , 81 years old when he died | |
| John Forsythe He was 31 , 92 years old when he died | |
| Geraldine Brooks She was 6 , 21 years old when she died | |
| William Bendix He was 43 , 58 years old when he died | |
| Doris Dowling She was 26 , 81 years old when she died | |
| Richard Greene He was 30 , 66 years old when he died | |
| Gene Lockhart He was 58 , 65 years old when he died | |
| Cathy O'Donnell She was 26 , 46 years old when she died | |
| Liam Sullivan He was 26 , 74 years old when he died | |
| Florence Stanley She was 25 , 79 years old when she died | |
| Hurd Hatfield He was 31 , 81 years old when he died |
Crew
| Name | Job title |
|---|---|
| Fred Coe Production He was 34 , 64 years old when he died | Producer |
| Delbert Mann Directing He was 29 , 87 years old when he died | Director |
Lights Out (75 years)
Ended
- First Air Date: 1949-07-19
- Runtime: [30] minutes
- Number of Episodes: 161