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Lights Out | Old Time Radio

Lights Out | Old Time Radio

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Lights Out | Old Time Radio brings you chilling horror, supernatural mystery, and psychological suspense from the golden age of radio. Enter strange worlds filled with ghosts, monsters, nightmares, dark experiments, unexplained forces, and stories designed to unsettle the imagination. Each episode is an Old Time Retro Radio production, presenting the original broadcast with gently cleaned and mastered audio, a newly produced introduction and closing, and custom episode artwork. Created by Wyllis Cooper and later famously associated with Arch Oboler, Lights Out became one of radio’s most influential horror series, known for daring stories, eerie sound design, and unforgettable atmosphere. Rediscover classic old time radio horror, supernatural stories, suspense, psychological thrillers, dark fantasy, and vintage radio.

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Episodes
  • Lights Out - "Protective Mr.Drogen" (Old Time Radio, 1943)

    Lights Out - "Protective Mr.Drogen" (Old Time Radio, 1943)
    Oct 29 2026
    Lights Out presents “Protective Mr.Drogen,” a circulating title variant for “The Projective Mr. Drogan,” originally broadcast on CBS on January 26, 1943. This Arch Oboler fantasy-horror drama is identified as episode 17 and features Edgar Barrier as Mr. Drogan.

    Mr. Drogan discovers he can bring extraordinary—and dangerous—things about through thought or spoken wishes. As the possibilities of his new power expand, the story becomes an unsettling examination of ambition, impulse, and responsibility. The broadcast was later reissued as “Big Mr. Little.”

    Old Time Retro Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

    Chapters:
    00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
    00:53 Original Broadcast
    29:34 Closing

    Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/lights-out-old-time-radio--7222656/support.

    Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio
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    30 mins
  • Lights Out - "Sakhalin" (Old Time Radio, 1943)

    Lights Out - "Sakhalin" (Old Time Radio, 1943)
    Oct 28 2026
    Lights Out presents “Sakhalin,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 10, 1943. Episode 45 of the 1942–43 revival was written, directed, and produced by Arch Oboler, who is also featured in the cast.

    At a remote penal colony on Russia’s Sakhalin Island during the czarist era, a visiting inspector confronts Commandant Renikoff, whose ruthless control of the isolated outpost is threatened by official scrutiny. The setting’s harsh confinement and mounting tension drive this ominous drama.

    Old Time Retro Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

    Chapters:
    00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
    00:47 Original Broadcast
    31:05 Closing

    Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/lights-out-old-time-radio--7222656/support.

    Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio
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    31 mins
  • Lights Out - "Flame" (Old Time Radio, 1943)

    Lights Out - "Flame" (Old Time Radio, 1943)
    Oct 27 2026
    Lights Out presents “Flame,” episode 25 of Arch Oboler’s 1942–43 revival, originally broadcast on March 23, 1943. Written and produced by Oboler for CBS and sponsored by Ironized Yeast, this surviving archival recording runs approximately 23 minutes.

    Arnie Douglas has long been fascinated by fire, but his interest deepens into a dangerous obsession when old fire-worship lore suggests that flame may possess a will—and a presence—of its own. A chilling supernatural drama of ritual, fixation, and destructive allure.

    Old Time Retro Radio presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

    Chapters:
    00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
    00:47 Original Broadcast
    24:07 Closing

    Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/lights-out-old-time-radio--7222656/support.

    Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio
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    24 mins
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