This secondLights Outrevival series reverted back to two of the original people who were
involved with the show during its early Windy City days, scripter Willis Cooper and director
Howard Keegan. Keegan had been for many years one of the most prominent figures in Chicago
radio production, was manager of indie station WCFL (where Bret Morrison broadcastDracula
back in 1931), and had just recently produced for Neblett Productions the Robert Bloch-scripted
transcription seriesStay Tuned for Terror. In July 1945 he accepted a position as a staff producer
at NBC in New York. “Keegan will report to New York August 6,” reportedThe Billboard. “After
that date he will take over production of NBC’sLights Outseries, which starts today [JULY
21??????] as the eight-week summer replacement forTruth or Consequences.”
The series is often cited in reference works under the titleFantasies from ‘Lights Out’. And, in
fact, that was genuinely the emphasis of the series. “In the revival,” reported columnist C. E.
Butterfield, “only those Cooper scripts which stressed fantasy rather than horror will be used.
Because of the earlier time it was thought best not to stir things up too much.”
WEAF, New York City, New York (NBC).
July 14-September 1, 1945.
Wyllis Cooper (scriptwriter), Howard Keegan (producer).
CASTS: Mason Adams, Lon Clark, Will Geer, Vinton Hayworth, Arthur Kohl, Julian Noa,
Alexander Scourby, Edgar Stehli, Betty Winkler.
“Reunion After Death” (7/21/45), “The Man in the Middle”
(8/25/45).
July 14, 1945
July 21, 1945“Reunion After Death”
July 28, 1945“The Rocket Ship”
Aug. 4, 1945“Lady from the Lake”
Aug. 11, 1945“Did That Murder Happen?”
Aug. 25, 1945“Man in the Middle”
Sep. 1, 1945“Lights Out”
A second summer revival the following year, again based on scripts by Willis Cooper.
WEAF, New York City, New York (NBC).
July 6-August 24, 1946.
Boris Aplon (narrator), Wyllis Cooper (scriptwriter), Albert Crews (director),
Frederick J. Lipp (scriptwriter), George Stone (announcer).
CASTS: Boris Aplon, John Barclay, Wilms Herbert, Ken Nordine, Nelson Olmsted.
“The Coffin in Studio B” (7/13/46), “The Haunted Cell” (7/20/46),
“The Battle of the Magicians” (7/27/46), “The Revenge of India” (8/3/46), “The Ghost on the
Newsreel Negative” (8/10/46), “The Signal Man” (8/24/46).
July 6, 1946“The Seven Plovers”
around the legendary superstition that
the young Jew who jeered at Christ at
the crucifixion was doomed to wander
the world forever…”]
July 13, 1946“The Coffin in Studio B”
July 20, 1946“The Haunted Cell”
July 27, 1946“The Battle of the Magicians”
Aug. 3, 1946“The Revenge of India”
Aug. 10, 1946“The Ghost on the Newsreel
Negative”
Aug. 17, 1946“The Dillinger Complex”
Aug. 24, 1946“The Signal Man”
“Boris Karloff plus the heat plus the characters who put togetherLights Outare guaranteed to
disrupt any listener’s blood chemistry and endocrinology.”
KECA, Hollywood, California (ABC).
July 16-30, 1947.
Willis Cooper (scriptwriter), Boris Karloff (series star), Bill Lawrence (director),
Ken Niles (announcer), Paul Pierce (scriptwriter), Larry Robertson (producer), Leith Stevens
(music director).
CASTS: Tom Collins, Boris Karloff, Lurene Tuttle.
Eversharp, Inc. (Schick Injector Razors and Blades).
“The Death Robbers” (7/16/47), “The Ring” (7/30/47; first half
only).
July 16, 1947“The Death Robbers”
knack of restoring dead persons to
life—including his wife who had
been killed in an automobile
accident…”]
July 23, 1947“The Undead”
strictly non-mercy type of killing,
that of a wife of a distinguished
doctor. The assailant, a vampire, is
kept as a pet in the refrigerator of a
practicing ghoul…”]
July 30, 1947“The Ring”
returns from the grave to retrieve the
engagement ring he gave the girl he
loved…”]
LIGHTS OUT
May 26, 1935“Lights Out”
[
“…CKY will carry the Commission’s Radio
Theatre Guild offering, ‘Lights Out.’ Don’t confuse this with Willis
Cooper’s Wednesday night hair-raisers on the NBC. Future Guild
productions include ‘The Last Mile,’ ‘Dear Brutus,’ ‘By Candlelight,’
‘Quality Street,’ ‘Topaze,’ and ‘The Late Christopher Bean.’ Look
interesting, don’t they? The time is 7 p.m. ‘Lights Out’ is billed as a
‘mystery play of the better kind, dealing in an original fashion with the
affairs of spiritualism.’”
“Studies in behaviorism are the focal point of a new series of programs based on the
pathological… While not shying away from horror, it will run the whole gamut of the strange
and unusual.”
“Marjorie Haye Camp, free-lance radio writer and formerly on the editorial staff of Time and Life
Magazines, has joined WMCA, New York, as a continuity writer.”
“This series constitutes a major effort for this station,” noted Joe Cohen inThe Billboard.
“Sample heard indicates that stories are fraught with interest, imagination and good writing…
Marjorie Hayes Camp deserves a nod for the script and Walter Craig did well with the pacing and
design of the production.”
WMCA, New York City, New York.
October 9, 1941-
Marjorie Hayes Camp (scriptwriter), Walter Craig (producer).
CASTS: Horace Braham, Paul Clarke, Jean Colbert, John Forster, Sylvia Leigh, Julian Noa, Marie
Pichler, John Wheeler.
None.
Oct. 9, 1941
Oct. 16, 1941
Oct. 23, 1941
Oct. 30, 1941
Nov. 6, 1941
Nov. 13, 1941“Substitute for Murder”
spirits who decided to tamper with
man’s life down below…The powers
of the nether regions decree that,
because of the heavy traffic of
incoming souls, a 30-day respite in
death is necessary. The allegory
dwells upon the effect on a triangular
love situation on this planet. The
decree didn’t work out as hoped…”]
Nov. 20, 1941
Nov. 27, 1941
Chilean horror program that dramatized the traditional legends of the Chilean fields.
LA CUARTA: “’Lo que cuenta el viento’ y ‘El Doctor Mortis’, que dejaban albos a los
radioescuchas con sus terrorificos relatos.” (“’What the wind tells’ and ‘Doctor Mortis’, that left
radio listeners white with their terrorific stories.”)
Chile.
Unknown.
Unknown.
“El diablo en el idwes,” “El hombre condenado.”
LUCILE FLETCHER RADIO SCRIPTS
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