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Lights Out is an American old-time radio program devoted mostly to #horror and the #supernatural.
Created by Wyllis Cooper and then eventually taken over by Arch Oboler, versions of Lights Out aired on different networks, at various times, from January 3, 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television. Lights Out was one of the earliest radio horror programs, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum, and was the first to gain a large following.
Created by Wyllis Cooper and then eventually taken over by Arch Oboler, versions of Lights Out aired on different networks, at various times, from January 3, 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television. Lights Out was one of the earliest radio horror programs, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum, and was the first to gain a large following.
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00:00Lights out, everybody.
00:08It is later than you think.
00:21This is Arch Obler bringing you another in our series of Stories of the Unusual.
00:34Our scene, a doctor's office.
00:37The doctor, a genial middle-aged man, is smiling across his desk at young Mrs. Peggy Connan.
00:43And he's saying...
00:45Well, Mrs. Connan, I don't think there is much more I can say other than this.
00:51Don't be too afraid.
00:53This sort of thing has been going on since the beginning of time.
00:56Millions of women.
00:58So don't be frightened.
01:00Go home.
01:01Tell your husband.
01:02Be happy.
01:03Thank you, doctor.
01:05Goodbye.
01:06Goodbye.
01:07Goodbye.
01:13Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby.
01:21Just a cab, Miss?
01:21No, thank you.
01:22I'll walk.
01:23Okay, Miss.
01:36Walk.
01:37Yes, I'll walk.
01:39It takes longer when you walk.
01:41No longer to get home.
01:42Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby.
01:50Home.
01:52What will he say?
01:54What will he say?
01:55Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby.
02:00What will Bill say?
02:02What?
02:03What?
02:04Oh, it's out of the question, Peg.
02:06Out of the question on the money I make.
02:08Now, look, this isn't confetti.
02:10It's bills for groceries, bills for laundry, bills for gas.
02:12I tell you, Peg, it's out of the question.
02:14Out of the question.
02:17Out of the question.
02:18Out of the question.
02:20He'll say out of the question.
02:22Baby, baby, baby.
02:26What will he say?
02:28Oh, Bill, what will you say?
02:31Hey, hey.
02:32Watch the lights, lady.
02:33Oh.
02:34There.
02:35Watch where you're going, little lady.
02:37Them lights are for you as well as for the car.
02:39Well, what will Bill say?
02:41What?
02:41What did you say?
02:43Say you don't feel well or something.
02:45Your face, I mean.
02:47I'm all right, officer.
02:48Sure you don't want a cab?
02:50No, I'm...
02:51I'm walking home.
02:53Okay.
02:54But watch the traffic at the crossings.
03:00If I take shorter steps, it'll take longer.
03:03Yes, shorter steps.
03:06Do you realize it'll set us back for the next five years?
03:09We won't be living.
03:10We'll always be paying bills for doctors, for hospitals, for nurses, for this and for that.
03:13Hey, hey.
03:14Will he say that?
03:15Well, he's been going on since the beginning of time.
03:18Millions of women.
03:19So don't be afraid.
03:20Go home.
03:21Tell your husband.
03:22Be happy.
03:23Be happy.
03:24Happy.
03:24Happy?
03:25Doctor said that, didn't he?
03:28Happy.
03:29Bill, we have been happy.
03:32Rowing, rowing, rowing, rowing, rowing, rowing, rowing, rowing, rowing.
03:37I don't think I'm going to row anymore.
03:39It's too hot.
03:40Uh-huh.
03:41Just drift.
03:45Now, what was I talking about?
03:46Happiness.
03:47Oh, yeah, yeah, happiness.
03:49Now, you know, I think that the most important thing in life is to be happy.
03:52Don't you?
03:53Oh, yes, Bill.
03:54Now, you take ordinary people.
03:56On a day like this, what are they doing?
03:58Working in factories, working in offices, working, working.
04:02Isn't that right?
04:02Yes.
04:03But the park is here, the lagoon is here, the boats are here.
04:07And if they just had a little common sense, they'd say, the devil will work, we're going
04:10to be happy.
04:11And they'd come out here and they'd go boat riding.
04:14Four million people.
04:16The lagoon would be awfully crowded, wouldn't it, Bill?
04:19No, I'm serious.
04:20All right, so I'm not working today, so I'll have five bucks less.
04:23But I'm doing what I want, and I'm happy.
04:26I'm happy, too, Bill.
04:28Oh, yeah.
04:29Honest, Pig.
04:30Uh-huh.
04:31Oh, gee.
04:33When I think that only two days ago...
04:35And I wasn't even going to the dance.
04:36I took one look at it.
04:37But that's a song, Bill.
04:38Oh, it's the truth.
04:40Oh, gosh, I'm happy about you, Pig.
04:43I'm happier than I've ever been in my whole life.
04:50Happy.
04:51We have been happy.
04:53Taxes make perfect.
04:57Let's try that kiss again.
04:59Ta-da-da-dee-dee-dee.
05:00We're not doing that.
05:01Oh, Bill.
05:03We're good.
05:04You mean we're loud.
05:05I mean, loud.
05:06Those drives are fast.
05:07I'm in a hurry.
05:08Why, Mr. Boat?
05:09I'm on my way to get married, married, married.
05:11I'm on my way to get married.
05:13Oh, Bill.
05:14Bill, think you've been drinking.
05:15I have.
05:16Four cokes, a double-mortar, two kisses, and a marriage license.
05:18Yee-hee.
05:19Bill, behave yourself.
05:20Oh, I know.
05:21The bride in the bridegroom's been a happy night in jail.
05:24Hey.
05:25Huh?
05:25It's starting to rain.
05:27Shall I put the top up?
05:28Oh, no, no, please.
05:29Huh?
05:30I want the rain in the face.
05:32Oh, it's wonderful, Bill.
05:33The wind and the rain.
05:36I feel as if I were flying.
05:38Oh, this is Angel.
05:39You know, all my life I thought that if I ran away to get married, I'd be so frightened.
05:44But I'm not afraid the least little bit.
05:46I love you, Bill.
05:48And everything's wonderful.
05:50And I'm so happy.
05:52So happy.
05:57We've been so happy.
05:58Should I beg, should I?
06:03Well, I don't know, Bill.
06:04Well, speak up, Mrs. Conner, if I ever have to hold your feet.
06:06You've spent 30 cents already.
06:08Oh, I was only warming up.
06:09One more time and I know I can hit it.
06:11All right.
06:11Go ahead.
06:13Okay, mister.
06:13I'll try her again.
06:14Yes, sir.
06:14Here you are, son.
06:15Once for a dime.
06:16Knock down the top bottle and win the little lady's great, big, beautiful doll.
06:19Okay, please.
06:20Here I go.
06:22Oh, you hit it, Bill.
06:23You hit it.
06:24I tell you I would.
06:25Okay, mister.
06:26Play off.
06:26What'll it be, little lady, a cutie or a pop-eye?
06:29Popeye.
06:29Here you go.
06:32Yes, sir.
06:33You can do the same.
06:33Let's tell me when it's great, big, beautiful doll.
06:35Oh, Bill, isn't it cute?
06:37Yeah.
06:38Hey, let's sit down over here.
06:40All right.
06:42Oh.
06:44Darling, you're wonderful.
06:45Wonderful and hungry.
06:47Oh, Bill.
06:48After four hot dogs, three sodas, and all those peanuts, you ought to be sick.
06:52I am.
06:53But I'm hungry.
06:54Bill.
06:55Bottomless Bill from the Ozarks, that's me.
06:57Bill, you're so crazy, and I love you so much.
07:00You talk like that, and I'll kiss you right in the middle of the midway.
07:03Devil dare you.
07:04Oh.
07:04Hey, maybe there's a law against kissing your own bride.
07:07Maybe there's a law against being so happy.
07:09Oh.
07:10You got the prettiest little funny face.
07:13You know, I used to think that when I got married, I'd be going to the French Riviera,
07:18Honolulu, and we know places like that, and here I am, Luna Park.
07:21Oh, Peg.
07:22No, darling, you don't understand.
07:23I like it.
07:24I'm happy about it.
07:26Why, I'll bet there are thousands of women who've been to all those famous places who'd
07:31give every minute of it to be in my place with someone she loves and who loves her.
07:37Women are really awfully simple people, darling.
07:39They, they want love, and I've you, and I'm happy.
07:46Terribly happy.
07:50Go home.
07:51Tell your husband, be happy.
07:54Be happy.
07:55Be happy.
07:56I could be happy.
07:58Mother.
07:58Peggy Connan.
08:00Mother.
08:01Mother.
08:02Mother.
08:03Mother.
08:04You mark my words.
08:10You'll never make a good living for you.
08:12Never.
08:12No drive.
08:13No ambition.
08:14A worthless young man.
08:16Never make a good living for you, Peggy.
08:18You'll never have anything.
08:19You mark my words.
08:20Just mark my words.
08:22For the last time, listen to me, daughter.
08:25Now, if you marry that boy, you'll cry a great deal more.
08:28Believe me.
08:29Oh, stop crying, Peggy, and listen to me.
08:33Someday you'll be a mother, and you'll understand that I'm telling you these things for your own sake.
08:38When you have children of your own, you'll understand.
08:45Understand what, Mother?
08:47Understand what?
08:49Should I understand now?
08:51If you were alive, could you make me understand now?
08:53Well, Bill's all right.
08:55He's all right, I tell you.
08:56It's just that he used to laugh.
08:58He laughed all the time.
09:02But how can he laugh now?
09:03Rent.
09:04Gas.
09:04Tenters.
09:05Light.
09:05Coffee.
09:06Rent.
09:06Gas.
09:06Tenters.
09:07Light.
09:07Coffee.
09:08Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill.
09:12That's what I don't understand, Mother.
09:14Doesn't the world want people like Bill who can laugh?
09:17Must everyone be wonderful at making money?
09:20Isn't there a place for people like Bill who don't want a great deal?
09:23Can't things be so that they can make the little they need without growing so old and
09:28tired they forget what it is to laugh and be happy at just being alive?
09:34Fine mess.
09:35We're in a fine mess.
09:36Where will we get the money?
09:37Where will we get the money, Peggy?
09:38Where will we get the money?
09:39No.
09:40Got to stop thinking things like that.
09:43Got to.
09:45Think about him.
09:47Him.
09:50Shine.
09:50Shine, lady.
09:51Shine.
09:52Shine, mister.
09:53Shine.
09:54Shine.
09:55What will he be?
09:56Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, creeps dimmish petty pace from day to day to
10:10the last syllable of recorded time.
10:14And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.
10:18Out, out, creeps candlelight but a walking shadow.
10:23Of course.
10:24Oh, no.
10:26No.
10:30And so, my fellow citizens, standing here in profound humility, where so many of our truly
10:39great have stood, all there is left to say is this.
10:44In accepting this high office, and in assuming the leadership of our great nation in these
10:51troubled times, I pledge myself...
10:54No.
10:54In that moment, he realized he no longer loves Semicolon.
11:00In that moment, the past with her, comma, last year, hyphen, French moment, comma...
11:08Maybe.
11:09And so, it is with a great deal of pride that this network brings to you the premier radio
11:14performance of the world's premier violinist...
11:16David?
11:16David Connors.
11:31Maybe.
11:32Maybe.
11:33And my diagnosis of the patient only confirms my profound belief that such diseases can be
11:38cured.
11:38Maybe.
11:39So, an investment of these issues, with my concern, will net you a profit of not less
11:44than the sum of twice your investment.
11:45Oh, no.
11:47Oh.
11:48Silly Peggy.
11:51You used to say that, didn't you, Mother?
11:54Silly Peggy.
11:55Because I laughed at the wrong time.
11:59Maybe I laughed then.
12:00Maybe I'm laughing now, because I'm afraid.
12:04It's happened to women for millions of years.
12:06No, no, not that.
12:07The pain goes quickly.
12:08I know it.
12:09But, Bill.
12:11What'll Bill say?
12:13No, no.
12:13Stop thinking.
12:15Stop thinking.
12:15Stop thinking.
12:34Walk slowly.
12:46Very slowly.
12:48What was I thinking?
12:49Oh, yes.
12:49My boy.
12:51I'll be so much wiser by the time he grows up.
12:53Give him advice.
12:55Yes, Mother.
12:56Of course, Mother.
12:58Yes, I'm listening.
13:00You're wonderful, Mother.
13:01Oh, you're right, Mother.
13:02Mother, just as you say, Mother.
13:04No, no, not like that.
13:05You're wrong, Mother.
13:06I will not, Mother.
13:07I won't do it, Mother.
13:08No, Mother.
13:09No, no, not that way.
13:10Why, Mother?
13:11Explain, Mother.
13:13Tell me if you know Mother.
13:14Why is it like that, Mother?
13:16Yes.
13:18Look like.
13:20What will he look like?
13:22Lovely child.
13:24May I hold him?
13:24Looks like you.
13:25His father's hair.
13:27Beautiful child.
13:28Beautiful child.
13:30Beautiful child.
13:31Yes, why not?
13:33Why not?
13:35David Connan.
13:38Beautiful child.
13:39Paper.
13:40Read all about it.
13:41War, crisis.
13:42War, crisis.
13:43War in Europe.
13:44Read all about it.
13:45War, war.
13:46War.
13:48Baby.
13:50Baby.
13:51Baby.
13:53Baby.
13:53Bill.
13:54What if he says it?
13:55Read the newspapers, I tell you.
13:57Read the newspapers.
13:58There's your answer.
13:59Raise them up so they can blow them up.
14:00The answer's in your newspapers, I tell you, Peg.
14:02Raise them up so blow them up.
14:03What can I answer him?
14:05I'm not good at answers.
14:07If Bill says that, what'll I say?
14:09So I said to him, I said, Joe, I will not go for a ride.
14:13And he said, why not?
14:15And I said, why should I?
14:16And he said, well, you, sir, if you don't, when will you?
14:19So I give him a smile, you know.
14:21And he said, you look here, Helen, you're beautiful.
14:25Girl.
14:27Maybe it'll be a girl.
14:29Yes, why not?
14:31Girl.
14:31Mother.
14:32A lovely girl.
14:33Mother, you think my dress hangs right?
14:35Isn't it too long?
14:37Or is it too short?
14:38Don't you think I ought to have it made a little frail here?
14:41No wars.
14:42Killing, dying, just...
14:43Mother, do you think I ought to go out with him after what he said to me?
14:47Mother, I don't think that's a good school.
14:50Really, I don't.
14:50Cannon, father.
14:51Bomb, father.
14:52Raise them strong and blow them up.
14:53What's the good of it, Peg?
14:54What's the good of it?
14:55No, it can't be like that.
14:57Not with a girl.
14:59Ruth.
15:00No.
15:01Anna.
15:02No.
15:03Nina.
15:04No.
15:06Elizabeth.
15:07No.
15:08Carol.
15:10Yes.
15:12Carol Connan.
15:13Carol Connan, the season's prettiest thing you've done.
15:15Carol Connan.
15:16Carol Connan.
15:16Beautiful young girl.
15:17Carol Connan is nationally known.
15:18What could she be?
15:19Mother, you know all about babies.
15:21You do, you know.
15:23After all, look at me.
15:24Well, I was wondering about Junior.
15:26He won't eat his cereal.
15:27He won't touch his bottle.
15:29I don't know what to do.
15:30I simply don't know what to do.
15:32Maybe.
15:33Carol Connan.
15:34Opera.
15:35Tonight.
15:36Curtain, 830.
15:37Yes.
15:37Yes.
15:37Yes.
15:37Yes.
15:37Yes.
15:37Yes.
15:37Yes.
15:39Yes.
15:41Yes.
15:47Yes.
15:55Isn't it wonderful, Bill?
16:10My daughter.
16:11And you didn't want...
16:12My daughter.
16:18Oh, you'd be so proud of her, Bill.
16:20You would.
16:22Almost there.
16:24Walk slower.
16:26Oh, Bill, don't get angry when I tell you.
16:28God, don't let it be angry.
16:31I couldn't stand it if he yelled at me.
16:32I couldn't.
16:34I'm afraid.
16:36Bill, if you knew I was afraid, you'd help me, wouldn't you?
16:41Afraid of you?
16:43That's not right, is it?
16:45Walk slower.
16:47Walk slower.
16:49If when I get there, Bill, and you look at me,
16:52if then, for the first time in my life,
16:55I can say everything I've been thinking
16:57before you have a chance to say anything,
16:59then you'll understand how I feel,
17:01and because you love me, you won't say anything that'll hurt me,
17:04and you'll take me in your arms.
17:06Oh, Bill, but I...
17:09I can only think things.
17:13I can never say them clearly when they should be said.
17:18Maybe everybody, like I am, talk when it's too late.
17:22This time I've got to talk now, right away.
17:25The minute I get in the house, because if you talk first
17:28and say things that hurt me, you and I will never...
17:33Oh, Bill, all I want is to be happy, just a little.
17:38Everything's so mixed up all over the world that...
17:41Bill, all I know, all I want is...
17:43You say something, Mrs. Cullen?
17:45Oh.
17:46Oh, Mr. Tomasi.
17:47What's the matter?
17:48You walk right past the house, huh?
17:51Yeah, maybe you're thinking you're no living no more, huh?
17:53I...
17:54I was so preoccupied, I didn't notice.
17:57Oh, sure, it was a hot day, huh, Mrs. Cullen?
17:59Yes, it was.
18:01I don't like to go in.
18:03Oh, but your husband, he's home, huh?
18:05Home?
18:06Sure, he come about ten minutes ago.
18:08I'm going to see him go upstairs.
18:10It is late, isn't it?
18:11Sure.
18:12You put it in the garden, but when a husband come home from work
18:15and a wife in that home,
18:17sometimes he get plenty mad, huh?
18:20I bet you're scared, huh?
18:21I, uh...
18:22I'd better go up.
18:24Hey, I'm going to come up and put his turn
18:25and fix that water faucet.
18:26Oh, all right.
18:40Baby, baby, baby.
18:42You can't talk about my family that way.
18:44Yeah?
18:45Who's going to stop?
18:46You think I'm afraid of you?
18:47Go on and hit me.
18:48Hit me!
18:49Will you shut up?
18:49I'll talk while I want to talk.
18:50Oh, yeah?
18:51What else have I got to do in this stuff but talk?
18:53I'm sick of this, don't hear me.
18:54I'm sick of it.
18:55I'm sick of it.
18:57Baby, baby, baby.
19:01Baby, baby.
19:02Uh, good evening, Mrs. Cullen.
19:13Good evening, Mr. Gold.
19:16You're, you're playing very well tonight.
19:19Yeah, yeah.
19:20In 60 years, even a fool learns to do something.
19:24Oh.
19:24Oh.
19:24Oh.
19:24It's hard to go to sleep.
19:39Just a little bit.
19:41Oh, good evening, Miss Cullen.
19:44Hot tonight, yeah?
19:47Yes.
19:48The, the baby all right?
19:51Oh, yeah, yeah, a lot's better.
19:53You see?
19:55It's so tiny, isn't it?
19:56You like the baby, yeah, Miss Cullen?
19:59Well, I...
20:00Yeah, I know, I know.
20:02They look like lots of trouble, but you bet you for people who have got little babies the
20:10whole world.
20:11Yes.
20:11Believe me, baby, it's good.
20:15It's good.
20:16Good night.
20:18Good night, Mrs. Maslow.
20:19Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby.
20:36Peggy, that's Peg.
20:38Bill.
20:39Gosh, Peg, where have you been?
20:41I've been word stiff.
20:42Was it just walking?
20:44I got home.
20:45There was nobody here.
20:46I was ready to do a calling all cars, so help me.
20:49What, are you going to stand here by the door all night?
20:54What's the matter, Peg?
20:56Oh, Honest, I don't care if there isn't any dinner.
20:59See, I'm so full of love for you tonight, one potato in me and I'd pop like a kid's balloon.
21:02Bill, I want to tell you.
21:03No, no, no, wait, I'm going to tell you.
21:04Me?
21:05Yeah, come on over by the window.
21:07Phew, it's hot.
21:10Yeah, that's better.
21:11Nice breeze to keep you cool while I burn you up with the news right off the press.
21:16News.
21:17Bill, I...
21:17Flash.
21:18Ambition comes to Billy Connan.
21:20Bill, if you'd let me tell you...
21:20Oh, how can you tell me when I'm trying to tell you?
21:23Now, listen, sweet funny face.
21:25Today, the great lords of industry unlocked the octopus long enough to hand Billy Connan,
21:29now hold your breath, five bucks more a week.
21:32Bill, I've got...
21:32Yes, oh, help me, five dollars.
21:34Oh, is that terrific, Peg?
21:36We move right into the upper bracket, got everything we want.
21:38Bill, please, listen to me.
21:39Now, I'm not sure as soon as I finish my say.
21:42Now, I've got to say it, Peg, because I've been kind of getting up steam to say it all
21:46the way home from the office.
21:47Now, all this may sound a little screwy to you, but here goes.
21:51Bill, I want to tell you today...
21:52Oh, please, funny face, don't interrupt to tell me about the bargain you saw today,
21:56because, well, if I stop talking, I'll lose my nerve, and then maybe I won't ever say it again.
22:02Peg, this five dollars a week, now that's over two hundred and fifty dollars a year.
22:06And I began thinking right away how we could spend it.
22:09Spend?
22:10Yeah, you know me.
22:12So, I got thinking about maybe we get another car.
22:16But the old jalopy's pretty good yet, and then I thought maybe we could take a cottage someplace.
22:22But then I don't get a vacation until next year.
22:25So, uh, then I got thinking...
22:29My heck, what's the matter with me?
22:31Why should I be afraid to talk to you?
22:32There's... there's no reason to be afraid.
22:36Is there, Bill?
22:37Of course not.
22:38See, what I'm trying to say is that...
22:41Well, look at the newspaper headlines.
22:42The war, yes, I thought it was...
22:43The war going to smash, maybe.
22:45So, I got thinking the heck with it.
22:46There isn't time enough to go anywhere or plan anything, and who wants money anyway?
22:51So, how can we spend it to make both of us really happy?
22:56You know, to make our lives...
22:59I mean, if one of us should die before the other, make our lives mean something.
23:06Mean something.
23:07Oh, Peg, I've got to say it faster.
23:09I won't be able to say it at all.
23:10Peg, let's spend the money for a kid.
23:11Well, Peg, what do you look at me like that for?
23:20Oh, I know we never talked about it, but...
23:24Well, I was kind of scared of the idea, and I didn't know if you'd want one.
23:29Well, Peg, for Pete's sake, say something.
23:32Looking at me.
23:35Well, what did you want to tell me before?
23:36Say that at least.
23:37Oh, Bill.
23:41Bill.
23:44Wait till you hear.
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