Arch Oboler hosted a radio show called Lights Out that dealt with horror and the macabre(1939-196?)

Arch Oboler Plays: Crazytown – ComicWeb Old Time Radio. Light's Out! Everybody - "Kill" 04-20-43 Old Time Radio Horror (HQ). Lights Out "Devil's Due" (04-26-39) (HQ) Old Time Radio Horror. Lights Out - Chicken Heart. 2 Early radio career. 3 Lights Out, Part I. 4 Your Hollywood Parade and The Mae West Incident. 5 Arch Oboler's Plays, Part I. 6 Plays For Americans. 7 Lights Out, Part II. 8 To the President. 9 Free World Theatre. 10 Everything For the Boys. 11 Arch Oboler's Plays, Part II. 12 Films.

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Other Lights Out plays that turned up on various late 1930s variety programs included "Danse Macabre" (with Boris Karloff), "Alter Ego" (with Bette Davis) and "The Harp. After the 1942-43 Lights Out, Oboler continued to work in radio (Everything for the Boys and revivals of Arch Oboler's Plays) and pursued a second career in filmmaking, first in the Hollywood mainstream and then as an independent producer, writing and directing a number of offbeat, low-budget films, including Five, about survivors of a nuclear war, The Twonky, a satire. In 1962, he produced an album entitled Drop Dead! which recreated abbreviated versions of his Lights Out thrillers, including "Chicken Heart" and "The Dark," about a mysterious creeping mist that turns people inside-out.

Lights Out, Everybody! By: Arch Oboler. Narrated by: Boris Karloff. Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins. Lights Out: Later than You Think. Narrated by: Boris Karloff, Mercedes McCambridge, Willard Waterman. Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins. X Minus One. Old Time Radio Shows, Volume 1. By: Ray Bradbury, Clifford Simak, Isaac Asimov, and others. Narrated by: full cast.

Lights out, everybody!'' 'I Wrote About Human Beings'. The rights to rebroadcast and distribute many of the ''Lights Out'' thrillers were acquired from Mr. Oboler late last year by Metacom, a Minneapolis-based concern that specializes in the distribution of old radio shows. Continue reading the main story. In an interview with The New York Times in October, Mr. Oboler said he had turned down offers to sell his radio stories to television in the 1950's because ''basically, I think TV talks too much and shows too much.

Light out everybody it is later you lights out bring you stories of the supernatural and the supernormal dramatizing the fantasies and the mysteries of the unknown we tell you this frankly so if you wish to avoid the excitement and tension of these imaginative plays we urge you calmly but sincerely to turn off your radio now. This is our Cho blur with quite a cold the idea for tonight's story the strange story of he dug it up came to me a few years ago when I was in England pre-war England I lived in the hotel overlooking a peaceful garden looking down to that bit of quiet I I strangely . .