Episodes

  • Lights Out - "Money Money Money" (Old Time Radio, 1943)

    Lights Out - "Money Money Money" (Old Time Radio, 1943)
    Nov 2 2026
    Lights Out presents “Money Money Money,” originally broadcast March 30, 1943. Also known as “Three Thousand Dollars,” this Arch Oboler-written and directed CBS drama is listed as episode 297 overall and episode 26 of the 1942–43 season.

    On a coastal waterfront, a sailor’s $3,000 sweepstakes win catches the attention of Tony, a deep-sea diver whose appetite for money threatens friendship and trust. Featuring Lou Merrill, Walter Soderling, and Gloria Blondell, the story follows greed and mounting danger from the docks to a deep-sea salvage expedition.

    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
    30:38 Closing

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    31 mins
  • Lights Out - "Nature Study" (Old Time Radio, 1943)

    Lights Out - "Nature Study" (Old Time Radio, 1943)
    Nov 1 2026
    Lights Out presents “Nature Study,” originally broadcast on June 22, 1943. Episode 38 of the CBS series was written and directed by Arch Oboler and features Cathy Lewis and Mary Jane Croft.

    Four tourists on a scenic canyon outing find themselves trapped after a rockslide seals off their route with massive boulders. As the canyon closes in around them, the ordeal tests their relationships and consciences. Ironized Yeast sponsored this 1943 broadcast.

    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
    00:40 Original Broadcast
    24:30 Closing

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    25 mins
  • Lights Out - "Rocket Ship" (Old Time Radio, 1945)

    Lights Out - "Rocket Ship" (Old Time Radio, 1945)
    Oct 31 2026
    Lights Out presents “Rocket Ship,” originally broadcast July 28, 1945. This archival NBC summer-revival episode is a Wyllis Cooper science-fiction fantasy.

    Set against the possibilities of interplanetary travel, “Rocket Ship” ventures beyond Earth in the imaginative style of the 1945 Lights Out revival. The program was sustaining and drew on an earlier Cooper Lights Out script.

    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
    00:42 Original Broadcast
    29:02 Closing

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    29 mins
  • Lights Out - "Murder Castle" (Old Time Radio, 1938)

    Lights Out - "Murder Castle" (Old Time Radio, 1938)
    Oct 30 2026
    Lights Out presents “Murder Castle,” originally broadcast February 16, 1938. Written especially for radio by Arch Oboler, this NBC Red Network drama was inspired by Chicago’s real-life H. H. Holmes “Murder Castle” case.

    A young woman answers a confidential employment advertisement and enters the imposing home of Mr. Stewart. As unsettling questions surround the house and the women who have sought work there, her sister begins searching for answers amid locked rooms, shadowed corridors, and a residence with deeply guarded secrets.

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

    Chapters:
    00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
    00:45 Original Broadcast
    26:54 Closing

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    27 mins
  • 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

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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

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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

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    24 mins
  • Lights Out - "Immortal Gentleman" (Old Time Radio, 1943)

    Lights Out - "Immortal Gentleman" (Old Time Radio, 1943)
    Oct 26 2026
    Lights Out presents “Immortal Gentleman,” originally broadcast on August 31, 1943. This Arch Oboler drama, starring Franchot Tone, is episode 48 of the 1942–43 season.

    A young man obsessed with death is unexpectedly thrust into a distant future where medical science has made eternal life commonplace. In a society transformed by immortality, he is forced to question what life—and death—truly mean.

    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
    00:42 Original Broadcast
    24:20 Closing

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    25 mins