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Lights Out | Old Time Radio

by Old Time Retro Radio

Lights Out | Old Time Radio brings you chilling horror, supernatural mystery, and psychological suspense from the golden age of radio. Enter strange worlds filled with ghosts, monsters, nightmares, dark experiments, unexplained forces, and stories designed to unsettle the imagination. Each episode is an Old Time Retro Radio production, presenting the original broadcast with gently cleaned and mastered audio, a newly produced introduction and closing, and custom episode artwork. Created by Wyllis Cooper and later famously associated with Arch Oboler, Lights Out became one of radio’s most influential horror series, known for daring stories, eerie sound design, and unforgettable atmosphere. Rediscover classic old time radio horror, supernatural stories, suspense, psychological thrillers, dark fantasy, and vintage radio. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/lights-out-old-time-radio--7222656/support.

Latest episodes

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Lights Out - "Rocket Ship" (Old Time Radio, 1945)

Lights Out presents “Rocket Ship,” originally broadcast July 28, 1945. This archival NBC summer-revival episode is a Wyllis Cooper science-fiction fantasy. Set against t

Oct 31
29 min

Lights Out - "Murder Castle" (Old Time Radio, 1938)

Lights Out presents “Murder Castle,” originally broadcast February 16, 1938. Written especially for radio by Arch Oboler, this NBC Red Network drama was inspired by Chica

Oct 30
27 min

Lights Out - "Protective Mr.Drogen" (Old Time Radio, 1943)

Lights Out presents “Protective Mr.Drogen,” a circulating title variant for “The Projective Mr. Drogan,” originally broadcast on CBS on January 26, 1943. This Arch Oboler

Oct 29
29 min

Lights Out - "Sakhalin" (Old Time Radio, 1943)

Lights Out presents “Sakhalin,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 10, 1943. Episode 45 of the 1942–43 revival was written, directed, and produced by Arch Oboler, who

Oct 28
31 min

Lights Out - "Flame" (Old Time Radio, 1943)

Lights Out presents “Flame,” episode 25 of Arch Oboler’s 1942–43 revival, originally broadcast on March 23, 1943. Written and produced by Oboler for CBS and sponsored by

Oct 27
24 min

Lights Out - "Immortal Gentleman" (Old Time Radio, 1943)

Lights Out presents “Immortal Gentleman,” originally broadcast on August 31, 1943. This Arch Oboler drama, starring Franchot Tone, is episode 48 of the 1942–43 season. A

Oct 26
24 min

Lights Out - "Bathysphere" (Old Time Radio, 1943)

Lights Out presents “Bathysphere,” originally broadcast June 29, 1943. In this Arch Oboler political suspense drama, a scientist known as the Doctor and an unnamed dictat

Oct 25
30 min

Lights Out - "The Dream" (Old Time Radio, 1938)

Lights Out presents “The Dream,” episode 83, originally broadcast on March 23, 1938. Written by Arch Oboler and starring Boris Karloff, this NBC drama marked the series’

Oct 24
30 min

Lights Out - "The Signal Man" (Old Time Radio, 1946)

Lights Out presents “The Signal Man,” originally broadcast on August 24, 1946. This eighth and final installment of NBC’s 1946 summer revival adapts Charles Dickens’s cla

Oct 23
29 min

Lights Out - "Fast One" (Old Time Radio, 1943)

Lights Out presents “Fast One,” originally broadcast January 5, 1943. Written, directed, and produced by Arch Oboler, this CBS revival episode is also known as “The Fast

Oct 22
23 min

Lights Out - "Scoop" (Old Time Radio, 1942)

Lights Out presents “Scoop,” originally broadcast on December 8, 1942. Also known as “Cemetery,” this is episode 10 of the 1942–43 season, written and produced by Arch Ob

Oct 21
27 min

Lights Out - "Spider" (Old Time Radio, 1938)

Lights Out presents “Spider,” originally broadcast June 8, 1938. This Arch Oboler jungle-horror drama is identified as episode 94. In the upper Amazon, two American butt

Oct 20
23 min

Lights Out - "Author and the Thing" (Old Time Radio, 1943)

Lights Out presents “Author and the Thing,” originally broadcast September 28, 1943. This is episode 323 of the overall series numbering, and the final broadcast of Arch

Oct 19
24 min

Lights Out - "Super Feature" (Old Time Radio, 1938)

Lights Out presents “Super Feature,” episode 82, originally broadcast on NBC Red on March 16, 1938. Written by Arch Oboler, this installment of the pioneering experimenta

Oct 18
27 min

Lights Out - "Ball Paris Macabre" (Old Time Radio, 1943)

Lights Out presents “Ball Paris Macabre,” originally broadcast March 9, 1943. Also catalogued as “The Ball (Paris Macabre),” this 1942–43 season episode was written, dire

Oct 17
27 min

Lights Out - "State Executioner" (Old Time Radio, 1937)

Lights Out presents “State Executioner,” originally broadcast on March 17, 1937. Episode 41 of the NBC series, this Arch Oboler psychological drama survives as a local ar

Oct 16
22 min

Lights Out - "The Meteor Man" (Old Time Radio, 1942)

Lights Out presents “The Meteor Man,” originally broadcast on CBS on December 22, 1942. This is episode 12 of the 1942–43 season, written by Arch Oboler and featuring Bre

Oct 15
24 min

Lights Out - "The Little People" (Old Time Radio, 1937)

Lights Out presents “The Little People,” originally broadcast April 14, 1937. Script inventories identify it as episode 45 of the 1937 NBC run, written by Arch Oboler. E

Oct 14
31 min

Lights Out - "Heavenly Jeep" (Old Time Radio, 1943)

Lights Out presents “Heavenly Jeep,” originally broadcast on CBS on May 4, 1943. Common episode listings identify it as episode 31 of Arch Oboler’s 1942–43 revival, thoug

Oct 13
29 min

Lights Out - "The Dark" (Old Time Radio, 1937)

Lights Out presents “The Dark,” originally broadcast on NBC on December 29, 1937. This Arch Oboler radio play is identified as episode 199 of the original run. A doctor

Oct 12
8 min

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