Arch Oboler

Betty was played by Karen Archer, and Mrs. Phelps by Joan Matherson.

A Day at the Dentist's was written by James Saunders, based on an idea by Arch Oboler.

The director was Martin Jenkins.

My name is Edward de Souza, the man in black, and I hope you'll join me next week when I tell you a story that goes into the mouth in quite a different way.

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On May 12th, 1937, NBC broadcast episode 49 of Lights Out, Organ, written by Arch Oboler.

Chuck and Ann, with their young son Billy, take an unusually inexpensive summer rental in an old furnished country mansion.

Their arrival comes in stormy weather under the watch of the caretaker, whose connection to the house's long-abandoned past soon becomes part of the family's stay.

Now they can have peace.

[organ playing]

Lights Out, written especially for radio by Arch Oboler, comes to you each Wednesday from our Chicago studio.

This is the National Broadcasting Company.

Originally heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System on October 11th, 1949, it is episode 225, The Last Survivor.

The story adapts Arch Oboler's Rocket from Manhattan, with Robert A. Arthur and David Cogan preparing the radio version.

Engineer and mission commander Richard Dick Werbe joins Professor Murray and a full crew aboard the XIP-1, an experimental atomic-powered rocket leaving San Augustine, New Mexico for Mars.

Once the expedition has reached its destination, the homeward journey brings disturbing evidence from Earth to the attention of Werbe, Murray, and radio operator Connors.

Written by Arch Oboler, Lights Out's 41st episode, State Executioner, was heard on NBC March 17th, 1937.

It is set in England during the reign of King George III, where Samuel Jones serves as the state executioner.

The drama follows Jones alone with his thoughts, recalling the career that made him feared and prosperous until a recently condemned prisoner and evidence Jones has chosen to suppress begin to disturb his certainty.

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.

My name, Arch Oboler.

Tonight, another in our series of tales of the weird and the unusual, and this one is really unusual.

It's about that little god of chance, the one who flips a coin and makes us rich men or beggar men.

On February 16th, 1943, CBS aired the 20th episode of its Lights Out revival.

Written and hosted by Arch Oboler, Oxychloride X centers on Ray Stewart, a college science student whose rejection by a fraternity sends him to the chemistry bench determined to prove himself.

There, he develops what he calls a universal solvent, a miracle invention whose experiment carries consequences beyond his original purpose.

Frank Martin is the announcer for this broadcast sponsored by Ionized Yeast and Moll Shaving Cream.

Lights Out brings 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 Arch Oboler.

Someone has said that the two main springs which drive the world are hunger and the will to power.

George Stewart uses help wanted advertisements to bring isolated young women to his large, self-designed house.

On August 3rd, 1943, CBS presented episode 44 of Lights Out, Murder Castle, written and directed by Arch Oboler.

Ella Malone arrives to apply for a secretarial post.

When she does not return, her sister Betty follows the address under an assumed name.