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Lights Out (radio show), the Glossary

Lights Out is an American old-time radio program devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural.^[1]

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Admiral (electrical appliances)

Admiral is an American appliance brand that is currently marketed by Whirlpool Corporation and sold exclusively at The Home Depot.

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Afterlife

The afterlife or life after death is a purported existence in which the essential part of an individual's stream of consciousness or identity continues to exist after the death of their physical body.

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Amoeba

An amoeba (less commonly spelled ameba or amœba;: amoebas (less commonly, amebas) or amoebae (amebae)), often called an amoeboid, is a type of cell or unicellular organism with the ability to alter its shape, primarily by extending and retracting pseudopods.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Anne Bancroft

Anne Bancroft (born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano; September 17, 1931 – June 6, 2005) was an American actress and director.

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Anthony Quinn

Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001), better known by his stage name Anthony Quinn, was an American actor.

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Arachnid

Arachnids are arthropods in the class Arachnida of the subphylum Chelicerata.

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Arch Oboler

Arch Oboler (December 7, 1907 – March 19, 1987) was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, and director who was active in radio, films, theater, and television.

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Arch Oboler's Plays

Arch Oboler's Plays is a radio anthology series written, produced and directed by Arch Oboler. Lights Out (radio show) and Arch Oboler's Plays are 1930s American radio programs, 1940s American radio programs, American radio dramas, anthology radio series and NBC radio programs.

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Arnold Moss

Arnold Moss (January 28, 1910 – December 15, 1989) was an American character actor.

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Aviation

Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry.

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Basil Rathbone

Philip St.

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Beatrice Straight

Beatrice Whitney Straight (August 2, 1914 – April 7, 2001) was an American theatre, film and television actress and a member of the prominent Whitney family.

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Bette Davis

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television, and theater.

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Betty and Bob

Betty and Bob is a 1932-1940 radio soap opera. Lights Out (radio show) and Betty and Bob are 1930s American radio programs, 1940s American radio programs, CBS Radio programs and NBC radio programs.

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Biblical Magi

In Christianity, the Biblical Magi (or; singular), also known as the Three Wise Men, Three Kings, and Three Magi, are distinguished foreigners who visit Jesus after his birth, bearing gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh in homage to him.

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Bill Cosby

William Henry Cosby Jr. (born July 12, 1937) is an American former comedian, actor, spokesman, and media personality.

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Billie Burke

Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke(August 7, 1884 – May 14, 1970), better known as Billie Burke, was an American actress who was famous on Broadway and radio, and in silent and sound films.

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Boris Karloff

William Henry Pratt (23 November 1887 – 2 February 1969), known professionally as Boris Karloff and occasionally billed as Karloff the Uncanny, was an English actor.

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Bwana Devil

Bwana Devil is a 1952 American adventure B movie written, directed, and produced by Arch Oboler, and starring Robert Stack, Barbara Britton, and Nigel Bruce.

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Caligula

Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (31 August 12 – 24 January 41), better known by his nickname Caligula, was Roman emperor from AD 37 until his assassination in AD 41.

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Capitol Records

Capitol Records, LLC (known legally as Capitol Records, Inc. until 2007), and simply known as Capitol, is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.

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Catacombs

Catacombs are human-made underground passages primarily used for religious purposes, particularly for burial.

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CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.

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Chicago Tunnel Company

The Chicago Tunnel Company was the builder and operator of a narrow-gauge railway freight tunnel network under downtown Chicago, Illinois.

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Cinema of the United States

The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known metonymously as Hollywood) along with some independent films, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century.

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Delbert Mann

Delbert Martin Mann Jr. (January 30, 1920 – November 11, 2007) was an American television and film director.

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Dictaphone

Dictaphone was an American company founded by Alexander Graham Bell that produced dictation machines.

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Dr. Heidegger's Experiment

"Dr.

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Duel (1971 film)

Duel is a 1971 American road action-thriller television film directed by Steven Spielberg.

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DVD

The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Eli Wallach

Eli Herschel Wallach (December 7, 1915 – June 24, 2014) was an American film, television, and stage actor from New York City.

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Ernest Kinoy

Ernest Kinoy (April 1, 1925 – November 10, 2014) was an American writer, screenwriter and playwright.

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Eva Marie Saint

Eva Marie Saint (born July 4, 1924) is an American retired actress of film, theatre, radio and television.

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Everyman's Theater

Everyman's Theater was a 30-minute old-time radio dramatic series. Lights Out (radio show) and Everyman's Theater are 1940s American radio programs, American radio dramas and NBC radio programs.

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Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids

Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (often referred to simply as Fat Albert) is an American animated television series created, produced, and hosted (in live action bookends) by comedian Bill Cosby, who also lent his voice to a number of characters, including Fat Albert himself.

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Felicia Montealegre Bernstein

Felicia Montealegre Bernstein (Felicia María Cohn Montealegre; February 6, 1922 – June 16, 1978) was an American actress born in Costa Rica.

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Ferrin Fraser

Ferrin Fraser (May 11, 1903 – April 1, 1969) was an American radio scriptwriter and short story author who collaborated with Frank Buck on radio scripts and five books.

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Five (1951 film)

Five is a 1951 American independent horror science fiction film that was produced, written, and directed by Arch Oboler.

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Frank Gallop

Frank Gallop (June 30, 1900 in Boston, Massachusetts – May 17, 1988 in Palm Beach, Florida) was an American radio and television personality.

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Frankincense

Frankincense, also known as olibanum, is an aromatic resin used in incense and perfumes, obtained from trees of the genus Boswellia in the family Burseraceae.

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Fred Coe

Frederick Hayden Hughs Coe (December 23, 1914 – April 29, 1979) was an American television producer and director most famous for The Goodyear Television Playhouse/The Philco Television Playhouse in 1948-1955 and Playhouse 90 from 1957 to 1959.

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Golden Age of Radio

The Golden Age of Radio, also known as the old-time radio (OTR) era, was an era of radio in the United States where it was the dominant electronic home entertainment medium.

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Grace Kelly

Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982), also known as Grace of Monaco, was an American actress and Princess of Monaco as the wife of Prince Rainier III from their marriage on April 18, 1956, until her death in 1982.

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Grand Guignol

Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol ("The Theatre of the Great Puppet")—known as the Grand Guignol–was a theatre in the Pigalle district of Paris (7, cité Chaptal).

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H. H. Holmes

Herman Webster Mudgett (May 16, 1861 – May 7, 1896), better known as Dr.

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Horror fiction

Horror is a genre of fiction that is intended to disturb, frighten, or scare.

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I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom that originally aired on CBS from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, with a total of 180 half-hour episodes spanning six seasons. Lights Out (radio show) and i Love Lucy are black-and-white American television shows.

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Inner Sanctum Mystery

Inner Sanctum Mystery, also known as Inner Sanctum, is a popular old-time radio program that aired from January 7, 1941, to October 5, 1952. Lights Out (radio show) and Inner Sanctum Mystery are 1940s American radio programs, ABC radio programs, American radio dramas, anthology radio series, CBS Radio programs and fantasy radio programs.

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Ira Levin

Ira Marvin Levin (August 27, 1929 – November 12, 2007) was an American novelist, playwright, and songwriter.

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Irene Rich

Irene Frances Rich (Luther; October 13, 1891 – April 22, 1988) was an American actress who worked in both silent films, talkies, and radio.

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Jack Palance

Walter Jack Palance (born Volodymyr Ivanovich Palahniuk (Володимир Іванович Палагню́к); February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006) was an American screen and stage actor, known to film audiences for playing tough guys and villains.

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Jane Wyatt

Jane Waddington Wyatt (August 12, 1910 – October 20, 2006) was an American actress.

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Jessica Tandy

Jessie Alice Tandy (7 June 1909 – 11 September 1994) was an English-American actress.

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John Forsythe

John Forsythe (January 29, 1918 – April 1, 2010) was an American stage, film/television actor, producer, narrator, drama teacher and philanthropist whose career spanned six decades.

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Jonathan Harris

Jonathan Harris (born Jonathan Daniel Charasuchin; November 6, 1914 – November 3, 2002) was an American character actor whose career included more than 500 television and film appearances, as well as voiceovers.

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Kent Smith

Frank Kent Smith (March 19, 1907 – April 23, 1985) was an American actor who had a lengthy career in film, theatre and television.

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Lee J. Cobb

Lee J. Cobb (born Leo Jacoby; December 8, 1911February 11, 1976) was an American actor, known both for film roles and his work on the Broadway stage, as well as for his television role in the series, The Virginian.

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Leslie Nielsen

Leslie William Nielsen (February 11, 1926November 28, 2010) was a Canadian-American actor and comedian.

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Lights Out (1949 TV series)

Lights Out is an American television anthology series that featured dramas of thrills and suspense. Lights Out (radio show) and Lights Out (1949 TV series) are 1949 American television series debuts, 1950s American anthology television series, 1952 American television series endings and NBC original programming.

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List of Lights Out episodes

Lights Out is an American horror radio program, which ran on various networks from January 1934 to the summer of 1947.

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Locked-room mystery

The "locked-room" or "impossible crime" mystery is a type of crime seen in crime and detective fiction.

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Love triangle

A love triangle is a scenario or circumstance, usually depicted as a rivalry, in which two people are pursuing or involved in a romantic relationship with one person, or in which one person in a romantic relationship with someone is simultaneously pursuing or involved in a romantic relationship with someone else.

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Lurene Tuttle

Lurene Tuttle (August 29, 1907 – May 28, 1986) was an American actress and acting coach, who made the transition from vaudeville to radio, and later to films and television.

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M. R. James

Montague Rhodes James (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936) was an English medievalist scholar and author who served as provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918), and of Eton College (1918–1936) as well as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1913–1915).

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Metafiction is a form of fiction that emphasizes its own narrative structure in a way that inherently reminds the audience that they are reading or viewing a fictional work.

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Mr. Moto

Mr. Lights Out (radio show) and Mr. Moto are NBC radio programs.

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Myrrh

Myrrh (from an unidentified ancient Semitic language, see § Etymology) is a gum-resin extracted from a few small, thorny tree species of the Commiphora genus, belonging to the Burseraceae family.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Night of the Auk

Night of the Auk is a 1956 Broadway drama in three acts written by Arch Oboler.

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Norman Corwin

Norman Lewis Corwin (May 3, 1910 – October 18, 2011) was an American writer, screenwriter, producer, essayist and teacher of journalism and writing.

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Numerology

Numerology (known before the 20th century as arithmancy) is the belief in an occult, divine or mystical relationship between a number and one or more coinciding events.

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Olivia de Havilland

Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland (July 1, 1916July 26, 2020) was a British and American actress.

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Orson Welles

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American director, actor, writer, producer, and magician who is remembered for his innovative work in film, radio, and theatre.

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Peter Lorre

Peter Lorre (born László Löwenstein,; June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964) was a Hungarian and American actor, active first in Europe and later in the United States.

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Pyromania

Pyromania is an impulse control disorder in which individuals repeatedly fail to resist impulses to deliberately start fires, to relieve some tension or for instant gratification.

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Quiet, Please

Quiet, Please! was a radio fantasy and horror program created by Wyllis Cooper, also known for creating Lights Out. Lights Out (radio show) and Quiet, Please are 1940s American radio programs, ABC radio programs, American radio dramas, anthology radio series, fantasy radio programs and horror fiction radio programmes.

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Richard Matheson

Richard Burton Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres.

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Royal Dano

Royal Edward Dano Sr. (November 16, 1922 - May 15, 1994) was an American actor.

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Rudy Vallée

Hubert Prior Vallée (July 28, 1901 – July 3, 1986), known professionally as Rudy Vallée, was an American singer, saxophonist, bandleader, actor, and entertainer.

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Serial (radio and television)

In television and radio programming, a serial is a show that has a continuing plot that unfolds in a sequential episode-by-episode fashion.

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Son of Frankenstein

Son of Frankenstein is a 1939 American horror film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.

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Sound effect

A sound effect (or audio effect) is an artificially created or enhanced sound, or sound process used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media.

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Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.

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Stream of consciousness

In literary criticism, stream of consciousness is a narrative mode or method that attempts "to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind" of a narrator.

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Suspense (radio drama)

Suspense is a radio drama series broadcast on CBS Radio from 1940 through 1962. Lights Out (radio show) and Suspense (radio drama) are 1940s American radio programs, American radio dramas, anthology radio series, CBS Radio programs, fantasy radio programs and horror fiction radio programmes.

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Templeton Fox

Templeton Fox (born Esther Fox; July 24, 1913 – January 9, 1993) was an American actress best known for her work in old-time radio.

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The Chase and Sanborn Hour

The Chase and Sanborn Hour is the umbrella title for a series of American comedy and variety radio shows sponsored by Standard Brands' Chase and Sanborn Coffee, usually airing Sundays on NBC from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. during the years 1929 to 1948. Lights Out (radio show) and the Chase and Sanborn Hour are 1930s American radio programs, 1940s American radio programs and NBC radio programs.

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The First Nighter Program

The First Nighter Program was a long-running radio anthology comedy-drama series broadcast from November 27, 1930, to September 27, 1953. Lights Out (radio show) and The First Nighter Program are 1930s American radio programs, 1940s American radio programs, anthology radio series, CBS Radio programs and NBC radio programs.

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The Signal-Man

"The Signal-Man" is a horror mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round.

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The Tractate Middoth

“The Tractate Middoth” is a short ghost story by British author M. R. James.

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The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)

The Twilight Zone (marketed as Twilight Zone for its final two seasons) is an American fantasy science fiction horror anthology television series created and presented by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from October 2, 1959, to June 19, 1964. Lights Out (radio show) and The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) are 1950s American anthology television series and black-and-white American television shows.

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The Twonky

The Twonky is a 1953 independently made American black-and-white science fiction/comedy film, produced by A.D. Nast, Jr., Arch Oboler, and Sidney Pink, written and directed by Arch Oboler, and starring Hans Conried, Gloria Blondell, Billy Lynn, and Edwin Max.

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The Witch's Tale

The Witch's Tale is a horror-fantasy radio series which aired from May 21, 1931, to June 13, 1938, on WOR, the Mutual Radio Network, and in syndication. Lights Out (radio show) and the Witch's Tale are 1930s American radio programs, American radio dramas, anthology radio series, fantasy radio programs and horror fiction radio programmes.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_Out_(radio_show)

Also known as Lights Out (1946 TV series).

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See also

1934 radio programme debuts

1946 American television series debuts

1947 radio programme endings

Fantasy radio programs

Horror fiction radio programmes

References