THE DARK
[RADIO-SCRIPT]
One of the most famous of Arch Oboler’s Lights Out scripts…
[NOTE: There’s an eight-minute abridgement of the script on Oboler’s 196? Capitol LP Drop
Dead.]
PERSONNEL: Arch Oboler (scriptwriter—1937, Lights Out; scriptwriter, director, host—1943,
Lights Out).
[CHRONOLOGY]
LIGHTS OUT (WMAQ, CHICAGO—NBC-RED)
[Wednesday—11:30 PM-12:00 MIDNIGHT]
December29, 1937 “The Dark”
[“…Weird customs of creatures of the beyond is the theme…”]
LIGHTS OUT (KNX, HOLLYWOOD—CBS)
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??? ??, 1943 “The Dark”