{
  "title": "THE DREAM",
  "category": "[RADIO-SCRIPT]",
  "article": "The first Boris Karloff guest appearance on Lights Out…\nKarloff plays a professor who has never experienced a dream in his entire life. When he finally\ndoes, it’s a doozy: the increasingly recurring appearance of a naked bestial demon-woman who\ndroningly incites him to “KILL…KILL….” Oboler pulls out all the stops for Karloff’s first guest\nappearance on Lights Out, fully exploiting the stream-of-consciousness narrative technique and\ndeveloping the nightmare-invades-reality concept to an appropriately grim conclusion.\nMcCambridge doubles as the dream-fatale and Karloff’s girlfriend-slash-victim. Could be\nregarded as an antecedent to L. Ron Hubbard’s novel Fear which debuted in the pages of\nUnknown the following year. Incorrectly listed in some catalogs as “Daryl Hall’s Thoughts.”",
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  "extant_recordings": "",
  "chronology": "LIGHTS OUT (WMAQ, CHICAGO—NBC-RED)\n[Wednesday—\nMarch 23, 1938\n“The Dream”\n[“…an original radio drama by Arch Oboler, embodying much of the\nunusual technique that has been developed in the Lights Out program,\nwill be the first starring vehicle for Boris Karloff…”]\nSCRIPT: Arch Oboler.\nPERSONNEL: Gordon Hughes (director).\nCAST: Templeton Fox, Bob Gilbert, Raymond Edward Johnson, Boris Karloff,\nMercedes McCambridge, Arthur Peterson.\nEXTANT RECORDING\nLIGHTS OUT (KNX, HOLLYWOOD—CBS)\n[\nApril 20, 1943\n“Kill”\n[“…Arch Oboler brings a real thriller to the air tonight in his play titled\n‘Kill’…centered around the thoughts of a man as he goes on trial for his\nlife, for murder. The question that arises in his mind is whether man is\nprompted to kill by a force within himself, or by evil in the world…”]\nSCRIPT: Arch Oboler.\nPERSONNEL: Arch Oboler (director).\nEXTANT RECORDING",
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}