| Nobody Died | | 1936-12-09 | An old woman is about to die. She calls for Dr. Miller, who really can help her. A hypodermic needle starts the cure. She becomes a young girl! This treatment has a military application as well. The sound effect of the woman's breathing adds to the genuine chills. A good story and Anne Seymour is great! |
| Organ | | 1937-05-12 | The story of a strange summer house and its even stranger secrets. The script was subsequently used on "Lights Out" on June 8, 1943 (see cat. #78084 and #11265). |
| Organ | | 1937-05-12 | A family with a young boy moves into an old Victorian mansion. The broker is acting strangely and the thunder rumbles. They soon meet the strange man who claims to be the caretaker. |
| Uninhabited | | 1937-12-22 | A Christmas story, set during the war in 1918. A French soldier, an Australian and an American Negro soldier find themselves aboard a railroad train. Have they met before? Are they wise men? Well-written. |
| The Dream | | 1938-03-23 | The series' fourth anniversary broadcast. An accused murderer has never dreamt in his entire life, until a beautifully shaped woman, with a face from hell, appears to him and says only one word..."kill"! The show features lots of screaming and mayhem. A script with the same title, but with a different story, was used subsequently on "Lights Out" on March 16, 1943 (see cat. #77937). |
| Cat Wife | | 1938-04-06 | The script was used on the program previously. The story was voted by listeners "the best" "Lights Out" story. A man's cat-like wife goes too far. The show features a fine performance by Karloff and an even better one by the "Cat Wife," who receives no billing. |
| It Happened | | 1938-05-11 | A young woman visiting Paris is kidnapped by a man claiming that her father owes him $150,000. Her adventures in the sewers of Paris include a madman who makes jewelry from the bones of the dead bodies floating past. |
| The Devil's Due | | 1939-04-26 | Mitchell Rozinsky and his henchmen use knives, needles and broken bones while committing murders. In need of a hideout, a new "partner" reviews their many accomplishments. |
| What the Devil | | 1942-10-06 | The first show of the series on CBS. A woman leaves her husband and child to find danger in Mexico, from a hostile truck driver. |
| Revolt of the Worms | | 1942-10-13 | A good horror thriller with excellent sound effects. Giant worms and a testy scientist. Pity the wife. Syndicated program name: "The Devil and Mr. O." A "Lights Out" opening has been added by a well-meaning fool. |
| Poltergeist | | 1942-10-20 | How'd you like to have your head squashed flat by a tombstone? The story is also known as, "Gravestone." The program closing has been deleted. |
| Mungarha | | 1942-10-27 | A man just back from Australia with a huge diamond has a murder on his conscience. The story is also known as, "The House Is Haunted." This is a network, sponsored version of cat. #11270. |
| Mungarha | | 1942-10-27 | A man just back from Australia with a huge diamond has a murder on his conscience. Syndicated program name: "The Devil and Mr. O." The story is also known as, "The House Is Haunted." See cat. #88290 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. |
| Across the Gap | | 1942-11-03 | A group of modern tourists find themselves fifty-thousand years in the past. Syndicated program name: "The Devil and Mr. O." The story is also known as, "Neanderthal," "Neanderthal Man," and "And Adam Begot." A "Lights Out" opening has been added. |
| Bon Voyage | | 1942-11-10 | Two old ladies with a hidden past board an ocean liner at midnight, along with a sense of guilt. A good story of the supernatural. |
| Come to the Bank | | 1942-11-17 | A great performance by Virginia Gregg. A man concentrates hard enough to walk through a wall, but not hard enough to walk out the other side! The program name is also known as, "Arch Oboler's Plays." The program was rebroadcast on, "Same Time, Same Station (cat. #18227). The program was rebroadcast on 10/31/1964 (see cat. #118247). |
| The Story of Mr. Maggs | | 1942-12-01 | A meek little man buys a locked trunk at an auction...and finds it filled with horror! All but one of the commercials have been deleted. Network, sponsored version of cat. #11274 ("The Devil and Mr. O") where this story has been re-named, "The Chest." |
| The Story of Mr. Maggs | | 1942-12-01 | A bargain at an auction is a trunk full of horror. Syndicated program name: "The Devil and Mr. O." The story is also known as, "The Chest." See cat. #47614 for a network version of this broadcast. |
| Scoop | | 1942-12-08 | A good tale of horror from the crypt. A visitor from beyond death. Syndicated program name: "The Devil and Mr. O." The story is also known as, "Cemetery." See cat. #43398 for a network recording of this broadcast. |
| Scoop | | 1942-12-08 | Ironized Yeast commercials deleted. A good story about a ruthless newspaper publisher who fires a columnist after forty-years on the paper. The writer jumps out of the window and kills himself, but manages to get a grisly revenge. Arch Oboler makes a strong anti-Jap/Nazi war bond appeal. This is a network broadcast of cat. #11278. |
| Knock at the Door | | 1942-12-15 | All commercials for Ironized Yeast deleted. A woman murders her impossible mother-in-law, but she refuses to stay dead! There's a good, grisly conclusion. |
| Meteor Man | | 1942-12-22 | An monster-from-outer-space story. This one has a sinister appetite. Syndicated program name: "The Devil and Mr. O." The story is also known as, "The Hungry One." See cat. #24421 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. |
| Meteor Man | | 1942-12-22 | The story of a creature from inside a meteorite and his sinister appetite. See cat #11272 for a re-issue version as "The Devil and Mr. O". |
| Valse Triste | | 1942-12-29 | A "gentle man" imprisons two women. One must marry him, the other must die! This story is definitely not for the squeamish! |
| The Fast One | | 1943-01-05 | A story about two men with a mighty power, the ability to move very, very rapidly. Excellent radio writing. The story is also known as, "Speed." This is a network, sponsored version of cat. #11279. |
| The Fast One | | 1943-01-05 | Excellent radio writing. A story about two men with a mighty power, the power to move very, very rapidly. Syndicated program name: "The Devil and Mr. O." The story is also known as, "Speed." See cat. #77941 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. |
| Cat Wife | | 1943-01-19 | The story of John and Linda. Syndicated program name: "The Devil and Mr. O." The story is also known as, "Alley Cat." |
| The Projective Mr. Drogan | | 1943-01-26 | A man finds that he can work miracles, and starts to plan world conquest. The story was re-issued as, "Big Mr. Little." This is a network, sponsored version of cat. #11263. |
| The Projective Mr. Drogan | | 1943-01-26 | A man finds he can work evil miracles, and starts to plan world conquest. See cat. #49020 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. Syndicated program name: "The Devil and Mr. O." The story is also known as, "Big Mister Little." |
| Until Dead | | 1943-02-02 | A man wants revenge so badly, he's willing to go beyond the grave to get it. See cat. #47309 for a network, sponsored version of the broadcast. Syndicated program name: "The Devil and Mr. O." The story is also known as, "No Escape" and "The Luck Of Mark Street." |
| Until Dead | | 1943-02-02 | A man about to be executed escapes from jail and swears revenge against the man who framed him...and not even death can stop him! It sounds like Frank Lovejoy in the lead and Mercedes McCambridge in a commercial. See cat. #11264 for a syndicated rebroadcast version, re-titled "No Escape." The story is also known as, "The Luck Of Mark Street." |
| He Dug It Up | | 1943-02-09 | An ancient stone coffin buried in the peaceful English countryside becomes an instrument of death. Inside the coffin is a woman with the head of a lion...and she's alive! |
| Oxychloride X | | 1943-02-16 | A young crackpot college student invents the universal solvent, with of course nothing to keep in it. Syndicated program name: "The Devil and Mr. O." The story is also known as, "The Hole." |
| They Met at Dorset | | 1943-02-23 | Two German soldiers parachute into England on a mission to rescue Rudolph Hess. Seeking shelter from the rain, they come upon a genuine haunted house. A good radio ghost story. |
| The Sea | | 1943-03-02 | A dying Irish woman makes her final confession. A tale of brotherly hate and a return from the dead. |
| The Ball | | 1943-03-09 | A ghastly story of the headless, walking dead. Syndicated program name: "The Devil and Mr. O." The story is also known as, "Paris Macabre." See cat. #77942 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. |
| The Ball | | 1943-03-09 | A ghastly story about the headless, walking dead. The story is also known as, "Paris Macbre." This is a network, sponsored version of cat. #11275. |
| The Dream | | 1943-03-16 | null |
| The Dream | | 1943-03-16 | A woman is afraid to sleep because each time that she does, she has a terrible dream. Little Jimmy keeps asking, "Where's my father?" The show manipulates sound in unique manner, mixing audio in a most creative way. Great radio! The last words of dialogue are, "I'm dead!" The "Lights Out" program of March 23, 1938 had the same title, but was a different story (see cat. #75952). |
| The Flame | | 1943-03-23 | A fire worshipper meets "The Flame," the female spirit of fire! A story told by a dead man! Excellent radio writing. Syndicated as, "The Devil and Mr. O." See cat. #88890 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. |
| The Flame | | 1943-03-23 | A fire worshipper meets "The Flame," the female spirit of fire! A story told by a dead man. Excellent radio writing. This is a network, sponsored version of cat. #77938. |
| Money, Money, Money | | 1943-03-30 | Tony the diver stops not at murder nor anything else for money. His last dive is most successful. Syndicated program name: "The Devil and Mr. O." The story is also known as, "Three-Thousand Dollars." See cat. #79072 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. |
| Money, Money, Money | | 1943-03-30 | Tony the diver doesn't stop at murder nor anything else for money. His last dive is most successful. This is a network, sponsored version of cat. #11273. The story is also known as, "Three-Thousand Dollars." |
| Superfeature | | 1943-04-06 | A monster steps out of a film and into the theatre! The story is also known as, "Familiar, Suddenly Unfamiliar" and "The Ghost On The Newsreel Negative." The script was subsequently used on "Lights Out" on August 10, 1946 (see cat. #11292). |
| The Archer | | 1943-04-13 | A genuine ghost story about a woman waiting to be killed who has a strange visitor. See cat. #11291 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. Syndicated program name: "The Devil and Mr. O." The story is also known as, "Ancestor." |
| The Archer | | 1943-04-13 | A woman held prisoner by three gangsters is rescued by a strange hero. The program includes a war bond appeal by Claudette Colbert. See cat. #11261 for a syndicated re-issue of this broadcast in better audio. The story is also known as, "Ancestor." |
| Kill | | 1943-04-20 | A story told through the thoughts of the principal character, an accused murderer. |
| Execution | | 1943-04-27 | A well-written drama about a Nazi officer who hangs a woman in revenge for wounding a German soldier. He then hangs the same woman over and over again. A well-written story with excellent sound effects. The program is "dedicated to the Second War Loan." |
| The Heavenly Jeep | | 1943-05-04 | A story that's "literally out of this world." |
| Murder in the Script Department | | 1943-05-11 | Two typists are haunted at a radio network. Don't ever complain about Mr. Oboler's scripts! Great radio writing! Oboler tells about next week's program as set in the jungle, "when there were people with monkeys, not Japanese snipers." |
| The Spider | | 1943-05-18 | Mr. Oboler mentions that this story is set in the jungles that today are, "filled with monkey-men with .25 calibre automatic rifles." |
| Little Old Lady | | 1943-05-25 | Aunt Harriet, living alone in a dark wood, has some very strange feline companions! A good story! The story is also known as, "Mrs. Kingsley's Report." |
| The Ugliest Man in the World | | 1943-06-01 | The story of the ugliest man in the world...and his girlfriend. Syndicated program name: "The Devil and Mr. O." The story is also known as, "Mr. Freak." The program was rebroadcast on, "Same Time, Same Station" (cat. #18227). See cat. #88895 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. |
| Organ | | 1943-06-08 | The story of a strange summer house and its even stranger secrets. Syndicated program name: "The Devil and Mr. O." The story is also known as, "Vacation With Death." See cat. #78084 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. The script was previously used on "Lights Out" on May 12, 1937 (see cat. #79068). |
| Organ | | 1943-06-08 | The story of a strange summer house and its even stranger secrets. This is a network, sponsored version of cat. #11265. The story is also known as, "Vacation With Death." The script was used previously on "Lights Out" on May 12, 1937 (see cat. #79068). |
| Prelude to Murder | | 1943-06-15 | An insanely jealous orchestra conductor is convinced that his wife is seeing a young artist. The husband's thoughts are heard, as well as his words...an interesting technique. |
| Nature Study | | 1943-06-22 | A walk in the woods, along with death and confession. Syndicated program name: "The Devil and Mr. O." |
| The Visitor From Hades | | 1943-07-13 | One day, the devil calmly walks in and sits down in the living room...to watch. The program name is also known as, "Arch Oboler's Plays." |
| Profits Unlimited | | 1943-07-20 | A fascinating story about an island filled with zombie-like workers and a strange inheritance. See cat. #47308 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. Syndicated program title: "The Devil and Mr. O." The story is also known as, "Balance Sheet" and "Efficiency Island." |
| Profits Unlimited | | 1943-07-20 | A woman inherits the ideal factory, filled with workers who want nothing more out of life, except to labor. See cat. #11269 for a syndicated rebroadcast of this program. The story is also known as, "Balance Sheet" and "Efficiency Island." |
| The Little People | | 1943-07-27 | The eternal triangle seems a bit lopsided when two of the angles are shrunken to doll size. Syndicated program name: "The Devil and Mr. O." The story is also known as, "The Shrinking People." See cat. #79074 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. The lead character uses what sounds like a Bela Lugosi accent. |
| The Little People | | 1943-07-27 | The eternal triangle seems a bit lopsided when two of the angles are shrunken to doll size. The lead character uses what sounds like a Bela Lugosi accent. This is a network, sponsored version of cat. #11280. |
| Murder Castle | | 1943-08-03 | A kindly gentleman murders young ladies for a living. Grisly. |
| Sakhalin | | 1943-08-10 | Political intrigue and man's inhumanity to his fellow man on a frozen Siberian island. |
| State Executioner | | 1943-08-17 | The hangman's last client. Syndicated program name: "The Devil and Mr. O." The story is also known as, "Official Killer." See cat. #13246 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. |
| State Executioner | | 1943-08-17 | The hangman hangs the wrong man. The story is also known as, "Official Killer." See cat. #11271 for a syndicated version of this broadcast. |
| Sub-Basement | | 1943-08-24 | A good story about the basement of a department store infested with dinosaurs. The story is also known as, "Going Down." This is a network, sponsored version of cat. # 11268. |
| Sub-Basement | | 1943-08-24 | A good story about the basement of a department store infested with dinosaurs. Syndicated program name: "The Devil and Mr. O." The story is also known as, "Going Down." See cat. #13247 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. |
| The Immortal Gentleman | | 1943-08-31 | A man finds himself in the far future, where eternal life is commonplace and not very much appreciated. Syndicated program name: "The Devil and Mr. O." The story is also known as, "Live Forever." The program may be dated June 14, 1939. |
| Lord Marley's Guest | | 1943-09-07 | The story about the "Devil Fish" in the harbor. See cat. #11277 for a syndicated version of this broadcast. |
| Lord Marley's Guest | | 1943-09-07 | An unheeded warning and a sail on a bay of terror off the coast of England. See cat. #13248 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. Syndicated program name: "The Devil and Mr. O." The story is also known as, "Hollywood Visitor." |
| The Word | | 1943-09-14 | A descent from the Empire State Building to nothingness. Syndicated program name: "The Devil and Mr. O." The story is also known as, "Where Are You?" See cat. #77943 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. |
| The Word | | 1943-09-14 | A decent from the Empire State Building to nothingness. The story is also known as, "Where Are You?" This is a network, sponsored version of cat. #11258. |
| Mirage | | 1943-09-21 | A good story about an old man who writes in the sand at night the date people are ging to die. Kate Smith makes an appeal for the Third War Loan (she's been on the air all day). Arch Oboler announces that next week's show will be the last of the series and that he plans to kill himself off! The script was used previously on "Arch Oboler Presents" on April 13, 1939, November 25, 1939 (see cat. #104505) and subsequently on September 5, 1945 (cat. #65739) and December 19, 1964 (cat. #16887). |
| The Author and the Thing | | 1943-09-28 | Arch Oboler hosts the program and stars in it as, "Arch Oboler!" Mr. Oboler has created a monster for his radio show, whereupon it promptly comes to life and kills his brother! The last show of the season. |
| The Coffin in Studio B | | 1946-07-13 | Two actors rehearsing for a radio show called "Lights Out" come upon a mysterious little man selling coffins. One of the actors has a sudden need for a coffin, while he's on the air! The script is similar to the "Quiet Please" story of March 22, 1948 (also written by Wyllis Cooper) titled, "A Night To Forget" (see cat. #47144). |
| Haunted Cell | | 1946-07-20 | null |
| The Battle of the Magicians | | 1946-07-27 | Mr. Saladin says that he can bring back the dead. |
| The Revenge of India | | 1946-08-03 | An Englishman in the East returns to Chicago to revenge the death of his brother. The program opening is very slightly upcut. The story is also known as, "Hindu Revenge." |
| The Ghost on the Newsreel Negative | | 1946-08-10 | Two newsreel cameramen on an assignment to film a haunted house..succeed. The story is also known as, "The Ghost In The Newsreels." The script was previously used on April 6, 1943 as, "Superfeature" (see cat. #13244). |
| The Signal Man | | 1946-08-24 | The last of an eight program "revival" series. |
| Death Robbery | | 1947-07-16 | The opening words of the program ("Lights Out") are off-mike. A scientist brings his wife back from the dead...with pretty gruesome results. Lurene Tuttle romps through her part, leaving Boris in the dust. |
| The Ring | | 1947-07-30 | The first 15:28 of the program only. |
| How Love Came to Professor Guildea | | 1950-05-29 | The story of an invisible creature...that can kiss from the inside. See cat. #65847 for the script produced on radio on "Escape" on February 22, 1948 (east coast). See cat. #24279 for the February 28, 1948 west coast version. On radio, the writing credit is given to Robert Hichens. |
| Just What Happened | | 1950-10-09 | "Tonight you shall enter a realm of the supernatural seldom visited by mere mortals. Yes, tonight with your very own eyes, you will witness the power of infinite wisdom...Ready to restrain yourself from the touches of fear, as we begin tonight's strange story." Who threw Carlo Melius out of the window? A strange case that involves teleportation...and it's done on live television! Very good to excellent kinescope video. See cat. #59925 for an audio only recording of this program. |
| Just What Happened | | 1950-10-09 | On all the "Lights Out" television programs, the "host" at the start and conclusion of each story is Frank Gallop. His face is always shown in tight close-up against a black background. Fitting for a program such as "Lights Out," Mr. Gallop never blinks, no matter how long he's on camera. "Tonight you shall enter a realm of the supernatural seldom visited by mere mortals. Yes, tonight with your very own eyes, you will witness the power of infinite wisdom...Ready to restrain yourself from the touches of fear, as we begin tonight's strange story." Who threw Carlo Melius out of the window? A strange case that involves teleportation...and it's done on live television! See cat. #108363 for an audio + video recording of this program. |
| Beware This Woman | | 1950-12-04 | "You're going to meet a girl named, "Murphy," but don't be misled by her name. After you meet her, you may think you know what she is. But don't be too sure. Even she doesn't know!" Excellent kinescope video. |
| For Release Today | | 1951-01-22 | "Suppose you were in perfect health in every respect. And yet, if someone were to tell you (that) you had exactly one year to live, what would you do? Would you treat it lightly? Perhaps you should consider what happened to a certain Mr. Henry Crawford, who was told just that. He tried to laugh it off." Excellent kinescope video. |
| The Curtain Call | | 1951-02-12 | A great actor attempts a comeback, but is haunted by the ghost of his wife. His daughter is then killed right after her own triumph on the stage! |
| Strange Legacy | | 1951-02-19 | "Did you ever inherit anything? It is a bit of a nuisance, isn't it? Sitting around a stuffy old lawyer's office, while the attorney reads you old Uncle Ezra's last will and testament. But sometimes, it's quite different. You inherit things you can't even see from people you don't even know. So beware the strange legacy!" Excellent kinescope video. |
| The Mad Dullaghan | | 1951-04-02 | "Maybe you have never heard of a Dullaghan? Some people hear practically nothing else. People like Steve Delham, for example. Now a Dullaghan is a sort of a thing, not precisely human. Not elfin exactly. But if you get a Dullaghan mad, you're apt to remember it for the rest of your days." Excellent kinescope video. |
| The Fonceville Curse | | 1951-04-23 | "Peculiar, isn't it, how some people who should know better will persist in clinging to something which can only lead to evil for those who handle it. This trinket, for example, can lead to extraordinary happenings under the spell of, "The Fonceville Curse." What is the strange spell that makes a man want to kill his wife while he wears the medallion of the evil Baron Fonceville? See cat. #59897 for a more complete, audio only version of this program. Excellent kinescope video. |
| The Fonceville Curse | | 1951-04-23 | "Peculiar, isn't it, how some people who should know better will persist in clinging to something which can only lead to evil for those who handle it. This trinket, for example, can lead to extraordinary happenings under the spell of, "The Fonceville Curse." What is the strange spell that makes a man want to kill his wife while he wears the medallion of the evil Baron Fonceville? See cat. #108357 for an audio + video recording of this program. |
| Grey Reminder | | 1951-04-30 | "You know, the trouble with some people is they never know when to leave off. They go out of your life, presumably, and yet in one way or another, they keep coming back again. You know the type, but if you don't, you certainly will before this night is through!" An attorney continuously receives mysterious letters at his home. His wife wonders who they're from and what they say. The letters are from his first wife (now dead), they say she's coming back! Excellent kinescope video. |
| The Last Will of Dr. Rant | | 1951-05-07 | "Looking for a good book to relax with tonight? Well, you've come to the right place. We have thousands of them. There's one in particular; an old and strangely curious one. Come, I'll get it for you!" Excellent kinescope video. |
| Dead Man's Coat | | 1951-05-12 | "If a man would be invisible, let him go into a graveyard at the quarter-hour before midnight and dig up from a grave a newly buried corpse. Then, let him remove the coat from the corpse and put it on. And, if he should finish his dreadful work ere the hour of midnight striketh, then he has gained the power to be invisible!" Excellent kinescope video. |
| Cat's Cradle | | 1951-05-19 | "Do you know what this is? That's right...(a) piece of string. You can tie a package with it or you can knot it around your finger to remind you to remember things. But if you know what some people know, there's a great deal more that you can do with a piece of string." Excellent kinescope video. |
| The Pattern | | 1951-05-26 | "That's life for you...just a pattern. Maybe we can break the pattern and maybe we can't...but one can't be blamed for trying." Excellent kinescope video. |
| The Martian Eyes | | 1951-06-04 | "Tonight, we issue fair warning to those of you who are foolish enough to believe that old mother Earth is the only planet in the endless universe of ours inhabited by human creatures. But, you'll see what we mean, just as tonight the "Martian Eyes" will see you!" Don't blink during the last visual image before the closing credits! Excellent kinescope video. |
| The Passage Beyond | | 1951-06-25 | "Many things in this world do not last very long. But the laugh of a woman scorned lasts a long, long time. Even eternally?" |
| And Adam Begot | | 1951-07-02 | "Have you ever considered time and space; how indefinite each is? For example, what is a minute? Or a month or a million miles? (They are) just terms than men have manufactured. Is there actually that much difference between a split second and 10,000 year? I wonder!" Excellent kinescope video. |
| The Devil in Glencairn | | 1951-07-16 | To many people, the bagpipe gives forth strange, sometimes eerie sounds. But to Steenie Stenson, the best piper in Scotland back in 1552, the music of the pipes was sweet because that was all that stood between himself and the Devil! Excellent kinescope video. |
| The Faceless Man | | 1951-08-07 | "Have you ever longed to have a different face? Another name? A new life? Well, if you have, remember that there are some things you can never leave behind." A good story on live television. Excellent kinescope video. |
| The Man With the Watch | | 1951-08-14 | "If you're one of those individuals who doesn't carry a watch (and) makes a habit of asking someone else for the time, pay particular attention if the timepiece happens to be on his wrist. And, if he starts to tap that watch slowly, don't wait around. Excellent kinescope video. |
| Mrs. Manifold | | 1951-08-28 | "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to sweet revenge. And Ambrose was a man who knew a tide when he saw one!" Excellent kinescope video. |
| The Meddlers | | 1951-09-09 | "Have you ever had the urge to search for lost treasure? Such as the fortunes of Captain Kidd or the ancient Incas or others closer to home? If you have, let me remind you of an old saying, 'Laddows Catch Meddlers.' What are laddows? We shall see!" Excellent kinescope video. |
| Will-O'-The Wisp | | 1951-10-01 | "Have you ever heard of a strange, brooding , wildly beautiful island, which few have visited and fewer left alive? It's called, "Beware Island." There's a cliff on it, high over the water. And there's also...but let's see, shall we?" Excellent kinescope video. |
| Dark Image | | 1951-10-08 | "It is said that we can see our true selves only in the mirror of life." Once I looked into it. 'Can this,' I said, 'be me?' Why don't you try it sometime...if you dare!" Excellent kinescope video. |
| I, Spy | | 1951-10-15 | "Many people make a hobby of collecting things...stamps, antiques or rare books. A few, however, a very few, collect anything. They even collect people." Excellent kinescope video. |
| The Deal | | 1951-10-22 | A live TV moment to remember: When Frank Gallop lights a match to conclude the program with a few sardonic words, the match fails to stay lit and Mr. Gallop (and the viewers) spend a few moments in the dark. "Are you one of those fellows whose wife spends a little more than you earn? Charlie's Drome's wife was, but Charlie loved his wife. And so he made a deal." Excellent kinescope video. |
| The Veil | | 1951-10-29 | "The 'Scales of Justice' are a magnificent instrument. They can be tipped in either direction at the slightest touch. David Stevenson is a man with a most delicate touch. He doesn't care if they go this way or that." Excellent kinescope video. |
| The Silent Supper | | 1951-12-02 | "Come with me! Tonight we go beyond the civilized niceties that you know as "home" to a strange land...the Bayou country...where it's dreary and damp and sometimes deadly." Frank Gallop, who opens and closes the program with a tight close-up of his face (as usual), does not blink his eyes (a total of 44 seconds)! Excellent kinescope video. |
| The Angry Birds | | 1951-12-10 | "The are some who might laugh at Waldo Bryan. He feels that some day the wrath of the meek will conquer the strength of the mighty. Does that amuse you? Well, I wouldn't laugh just yet!" Excellent kinescope video. |
| Perchance to Dream | | 1951-12-17 | "Dreams they say are the figments of our subculture's imagination. But sometimes, they seem so real. We wonder about the strange machinations of the mind. Are they just dreams?" Excellent kinescope video. |
| The Upstairs Floor | | 1952-03-10 | "I'm sure that all of you have asked at some time for peace and quiet. But there are times when a little noise, a sound of some kind, is shall we say, "reassuring?" Especially when that sound comes from, "The Upstairs Floor." Excellent kinescope video. |
| Another Country | | 1952-03-24 | "Do you hear that haunting strain? It's by Beethoven; Opus 70, #1. But it has another name; a strange name. Tonight, we'll tell you that name...and the evn stranger story connected with the music." Excellent kinescope video. |
