Lights Out

It is later than you think.

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

What was it again? Oh, yes, Mussolini is remembering that.

And now, Frank, after you've had a few words, I want to come back and tell our audience about a play which we're going to do next week.

May I go on record right now as saying that I am looking forward to next week's Lights Out with a... well, with more eagerness than I have to any play of this series.

I'll tell all of you about that as soon as Frank Martin says a few words for Iron Eyes Yeast.

Arch Oboler wrote, directed, and produced the drama heard tonight with Bea Benaderet and Jane Morgan in the cast.

On February 4th, 1972, The Devil and Mr. O presented episode 21, Paris Macabre, a retitled rebroadcast of Oboler's 1943 Lights Out play, The Ball.

In Paris, two young American visitors seeking adventure gain admission to an artist's masquerade ball where masked guests and unfamiliar customs alter the course of their evening.

Ladies and gentlemen, from The Devil and Mr. O, here is the original broadcast.

Lights out for The Devil and Mr. O.

[bell ringing] It is later than you think.

Turn out your lights now.

We now take you back to the original broadcast.

Lights out for the devil.

And Mr. O.

It is later than you think.

The visions return at a fixed hour, bringing pale faces and an uncanny woman's command into his waking days, while Hall's grasp on reason and the people close to him begins to strain.

Tonight's Lights Out, The Dream, is episode 83, heard on NBC on March 23rd, 1938, with Boris Karloff as Daryl Hall and Templeton Fox as the apparition.

Written by Arch Oberler, it marked the series' fourth anniversary and opened Karloff's run of five consecutive spring appearances.

And now, we return to the original broadcast.

Tonight is the fourth anniversary of Lights Out.

After four years of fantasy and imagination, chills and thrills, Lights Out celebrates by bringing to the microphone the internationally known actor whose name has become synonymous with the unusual and fantastic.

The National Broadcasting Company takes pleasure in presenting Boris Karloff in the first of a special series of Lights Out broadcasts.

Lights Out.