Lights Out "Devil's Due" (04-26-39) (HQ) Old Time Radio Horror
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Lights Out debuted in 1934 and was radio's premier horror series created by writer/director Wyllis Cooper, who later scripted Boris Karloff's 1939 classic Son of Frankenstein. Wyllis Cooper was a innovative radio writer and worked on other notable shows such as The Empire Builders, Quiet Please, Campbell's Playhouse, The Army Hour, and Whitehall 1212. Lights Out truly set the bar high for other radio dramas in the 1930's due to its gore and strangeness. It was one of the first old time radio shows that developed the medium of radio with distinct sound effects and dramas intended to be heard.
Adhesive tape, stuck together and pulled apart, simulated the sound of a man's or woman's skin being ripped off. Pulling the leg off a frozen chicken gave the illusion of an arm being torn out of its socket. A raw egg dropped on a plate stood in for an eye being gouged; poured corn syrup for flowing blood; cleavered cabbages and cantalopes for beheadings; snapped pencils and spareribs for broken fingers and bones. The sound of a hand crushed? A lemon, laid on an anvil, smashed with a hammer.
Cooper was succeeded by Arch Oboler, one of radio's greatest dramatic talents. Oboler had scripted the Mae West's infamous "Garden of Eden" sketch and brought a new level of psychological horror to radio in scripts like "Cat Wife," "Sub-Basement," and "Chicken Heart." Though most famous for his film roles, Karloff was an accomplished radio performer who hosted his own series Boris Karloff's Treasure Chest and narrated Radio Reader's Digest broadcasts during the final two decades of his life.
Program: Lights Out
Title: Devil's Due
Air Date: April 26, 1939
Network: NBC
Пікірлер: 65
I would give anything to experience crowding around the radio and fireplace as a child, anticipating the next broadcast!
Amazing to think people this show is 80 that's 80yrs old and still sounds great!!
@hudsony777
5 жыл бұрын
I love these classic radio thrillers! You might be interested in this one, “The Gables” and three others listed under “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT. Just follow the link here and enjoy! kzread.info/dash/bejne/gahl1ahwls7Ofdo.html--Claud. Also, The latest production is now premiered, online and ready to view. "They Never Found a Body": kzread.info/dash/bejne/aaSauq6ycdm5YJs.html/ ! Claud.
I absolutely love Lights out...was just awesome. I get sad because I wish more of the episodes from this past gem survived to this day. I wish there were more Lights out episodes available today. This was so entertaining...1000 billion times better than anything on TV today. This was truly a great program.
Have for years listened to lights out going to sleep. Somebody somewhere at some radio station should bring back a couple hours of horror radio
@gummboote
Жыл бұрын
There are internet radio channels that play all kinds of old shows by genre. Look for Horror Theatre.
Devil's due listen to this one regularly. Love this one
Wow what a gory episode. Loved it! Thx for sharing.
Its strange for us to think back to 1939 when people only had radios to entertain themselves and stare at the wall and by using their imagination for the faces of the characters they are listening to as they had only the fireplace as light would really make these shows creepy . Though its strange for kids today to not have a computer and smart phone . How times have changed in 70 years .
@hudsony777
5 жыл бұрын
I love these classic radio thrillers! You might be interested in this one, “The Gables” and three others listed under “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT. Just follow the link here and enjoy! kzread.info/dash/bejne/gahl1ahwls7Ofdo.html--Claud. Also, The latest production is now premiered, online and ready to view. "They Never Found a Body": kzread.info/dash/bejne/aaSauq6ycdm5YJs.html/ ! Claud.
@daniellechaput2566
2 жыл бұрын
Was-(, lol dlqo
Arch Oboler proves radio was theater of the mind....
The sheer sadisticness of the two gangsters makes this a gem in the series.
@gracestenberg4188
8 жыл бұрын
Bad deeds come back to haunt you...except I think the cooky guy was the only one having second thoughts about his past actions
@filmnoir50
8 жыл бұрын
+TheReivenlocke There's no such word as sadisticness. It's sadism.
@FingerBreakerWu
8 жыл бұрын
filmnoir50 That's the action. The behavior is "sadistic" The level of the behavior is accentuated by the -ness adverb suffix. Nice - niceness Mean - meanness Sadistc - sadisticness
@jeanbrook7229
4 жыл бұрын
sadisticness sums it up perfect !
@ronaldshank7589
11 ай бұрын
They're no-good, murderous robbers, who get rich from their victims, and these two leave a path of death in their wake... while they make off with their ill-gotten gains. Until...one night...when they have an encounter with what appears to be someone... someone that, at first, appears to be one that only wants to help them. Then, to their shock...he not only tells them that he knows them, but proves it, by revealing what happened on three of their most notorious escapades...and telling them, that he was always watching. Then, to their fatal surprise, he reveals who he really is:He is Lucifer, also known as Satan, The Devil, Beelzebub, and The Infernal One! Mitts and Cookie find themselves burning in Hell...and the tragedy is, that they can never get out!
The show was heard Wednesdays at 12:30am(et), 11:30pm Chicago time.
@hudsony777
3 жыл бұрын
The air is suddenly crisply cool with dramatic sunsets…now is the time for ghost stores and fantasy! Perhaps two radio play ghost stories I’ve produced AND a brand new mystery listed on my channel “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT AND a radio fantasy comedy, “A Trip to the Moon” starring Joyce Randolph of The Honeymooners, which features Larry Robinson, who, as a child actor, actually worked with Orson Welles. Here’s the link: kzread.info/dash/bejne/epmslM6tqc60hLA.html--Claud. If you don’t want to click the link just search “Claude Chabot presents” on KZread.
Too I'm listening to your site all Cozy by the fire THANK you for your work
That was pretty scarry, even by today's standards.
This is a great story! I had no idea that old time radio was this good. Really scary and violent. The only thing that could have improved this story a bit more if we would have heard more blood curdling screams of pain from his victims.
@sadlobster1
8 жыл бұрын
The power of the imagination makes radio plays like this all the more terrifying
So scary to know there are people out THERE, like those two!
@chinabluewho
2 жыл бұрын
Today we call them serial killers, at any given time there are at least two "working" in America they are far more scarier than the guys in this as they simply had no mercy for anyone , a serial killer delights in the suffering and pain inflicted upon his victims. If you ever see a little boy pulling the wings off a fly or worse yet see an young adult male who delights in the suffering of small animals then they have a very good chance of becoming one. The only real difference between a sadist and a serial killer is a serial killer lacks the understanding that they are not as smart as they think they are and thinks they will never be caught.
@ronaldshank7589
Жыл бұрын
@@chinabluewhoThese two Robbers/Killers ran into the very one that Mitts Rozinsky said didn't scare him. What an irony! He said that neither Man, nor the Devil, scared him. How wrong he was! The character that was known as Beelzebub, Abaddon, and Lucifer, scared him, though. This character was, indeed, Satan himself! Mitts Rozinsky had misspoken, big time, and didn't even realize it, until he and his erstwhile "Partner, "Cookie", had their lives revealed to them, and then found out, that Lucifer was there to collect their souls! They wanted to leave, to run, to hide...but it was eternally too late! They were damned forever! Satan, after all, had been their "Silent Partner ", and had used his powers to help these two to get what they wanted in this lifetime. Why did he do this for them? So that they would be so ensconced in gaining Money through illegal and murderous means, that they would never even once think about turning to God, and asking forgiveness for their crookery and sins. That's the Devil's job:To distract people, so that they reject Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord of their souls. Then, when it's too late..... they'll have all eternity to think about what they've done in this lifetime.. and to also think, that they had a chance to turn their backs on sin, and to turn to Jesus Christ, the Savior of the souls of humanity.
Excellent upload
Love these
@hudsony777
3 жыл бұрын
The air is suddenly crisply cool with dramatic sunsets…now is the time for ghost stores and fantasy! Perhaps two radio play ghost stories I’ve produced AND a brand new mystery listed on my channel “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT AND a radio fantasy comedy, “A Trip to the Moon” starring Joyce Randolph of The Honeymooners, which features Larry Robinson, who, as a child actor, actually worked with Orson Welles. Here’s the link: kzread.info/dash/bejne/epmslM6tqc60hLA.html--Claud. If you don’t want to click the link just search “Claude Chabot presents” on KZread.
Aw, little hoofs shouldn't go runnin past a guy!
@trippcory
5 жыл бұрын
Except when he's a cold blooded gangster.
Thanks man.
Brrrr 0_0 This makes for great listening at work with Halloween so close.
@hudsony777
3 жыл бұрын
The air is suddenly crisply cool with dramatic sunsets…now is the time for ghost stores and fantasy! Perhaps two radio play ghost stories I’ve produced AND a brand new mystery listed on my channel “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT AND a radio fantasy comedy, “A Trip to the Moon” starring Joyce Randolph of The Honeymooners, which features Larry Robinson, who, as a child actor, actually worked with Orson Welles. Here’s the link: kzread.info/dash/bejne/epmslM6tqc60hLA.html--Claud. If you don’t want to click the link just search “Claude Chabot presents” on KZread.
No they just don't make em this good any more.
@hudsony777
3 жыл бұрын
The air is suddenly crisply cool with dramatic sunsets…now is the time for ghost stores and fantasy! Perhaps two radio play ghost stories I’ve produced AND a brand new mystery listed on my channel “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT AND a radio fantasy comedy, “A Trip to the Moon” starring Joyce Randolph of The Honeymooners, which features Larry Robinson, who, as a child actor, actually worked with Orson Welles. Here’s the link: kzread.info/dash/bejne/epmslM6tqc60hLA.html--Claud. If you don’t want to click the link just search “Claude Chabot presents” on KZread.
LOL such a good time ,thank you!
@hudsony777
3 жыл бұрын
The air is suddenly crisply cool with dramatic sunsets…now is the time for ghost stores and fantasy! Perhaps two radio play ghost stories I’ve produced AND a brand new mystery listed on my channel “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT AND a radio fantasy comedy, “A Trip to the Moon” starring Joyce Randolph of The Honeymooners, which features Larry Robinson, who, as a child actor, actually worked with Orson Welles. Here’s the link: kzread.info/dash/bejne/epmslM6tqc60hLA.html--Claud. If you don’t want to click the link just search “Claude Chabot presents” on KZread.
...Have a donut, Cookie.
@ronaldshank7589
3 жыл бұрын
That line made me laugh!
who's the jerk responsible for removing the public domain show "quiet please"
@FingerBreakerWu
7 жыл бұрын
Probably someone from "The Digital Deli". They want you to buy OTR off their servers and go after anyone that gives it away.
@charliestuckey-outtamymind4279
7 жыл бұрын
TheReivenlocke I thought the digital deli wasn't being maintained by anyone anymore . . I found 92 episodes of 'Quiet Please' posted by an obscure company that had been posted for two years, all had NO VIEWS. I compiled them into a playlist (the ONLY complete list on youtube) and they were JUST being discovered by viewers, with 300 - 400 views each. That's when some selfish jerk decided to yank them. It's not as if I was violating any copyrights or breaking any rules. Even though many episodes are really scratched up, it's a GREAT series. I DID, however, find 15 episodes, and will upload my own when I get a new desktop (IF I can ever afford another one) My tablet's just too limited to upload and create stuff on youtube. I thought one of the great things about youtube was to "share and share alike" ESPECIALLY public domain stuff. As you can tell, it really bothers me. Thanks for noticing my comment. I'm gonna see if digital deli still has "Dec. 2014" as the current month on their site. I'll subscribe to your channel - when you have a chance, please take a look at my playlist compilations of Suspense episodes and other OTR programs. Search The best of Classic Radio Suspense Charlie Stuckey . . . let me know if I've missed any episodes that should be included ( please subscribe too, would you? I REALLY NEED subscribers, so I can get my desktop and upload my own OTR collections )
@FingerBreakerWu
7 жыл бұрын
CHARLIE STUCKEY I just checked out their site and it looks like it's still going strong and charging for free stuff. They even updated for Christmas.
@Memnoch67
6 жыл бұрын
quiet plz is my fav to bad most are poor quality on sound
@FingerBreakerWu
5 жыл бұрын
Was never a big fan of “Quiet Please”. Just a guy reading a script in a quiet room with a monotonous voice. Very few people can pull off that kind of storytelling.
In this episode, the cast is never mentioned. I have been seaarching all over the internet, but cannot find who the voice actors were. Do you know?
@hudsony777
5 жыл бұрын
I love these classic radio thrillers! You might be interested in this one, “The Gables” and three others listed under “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT. Just follow the link here and enjoy! kzread.info/dash/bejne/gahl1ahwls7Ofdo.html--Claud. Also, The latest production is now premiered, online and ready to view. "They Never Found a Body": kzread.info/dash/bejne/aaSauq6ycdm5YJs.html/ ! Claud.
@OofusTwillip
4 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, cast members arent even listed in RadioGoldIndex, which is one of the ultimate Radio databases. The episode was done in Chicago, so you'd have to listen to other Chicago-based shows of that year, and compare voices, to try to identify them. Things are trickier, because the episode wasn't overseen by Arch Oboler. Oboler kept extensive archives, which are now in the Library of Congress.
@luigivillani6411
4 жыл бұрын
Is one of those actors a young Don Knotts
I think the one voice is James Cagney. ..
@hudsony777
6 жыл бұрын
There’s nothing like a good, suspenseful story! You might be interested in this one, “The Odd Lot” and two others listed under “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT. Just follow the link here and enjoy! kzread.info/dash/bejne/pp6BrdqhdZDLnNo.html--Claud.
Perfectly HORRID. In modern time the Devil has residue of the cast down he took from God and is left with a-moral, depraved types that maggot on the food chain in actual lesser ways, but still deadly. This was, fiend-fest.
@hudsony777
5 жыл бұрын
I love these classic radio thrillers! You might be interested in this one, “The Gables” and three others listed under “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT. Just follow the link here and enjoy! kzread.info/dash/bejne/gahl1ahwls7Ofdo.html--Claud. Also, The latest production is now premiered, online and ready to view. "They Never Found a Body": kzread.info/dash/bejne/aaSauq6ycdm5YJs.html/ ! Claud.
@ronaldshank7589
11 ай бұрын
What I found to be totally strange, is that Mitts Rosinsky, and Cookie, never even guessed who their new "Friend" was. He literally had to tell these two, that he was Lucifer, and that he was there for their Eternal Souls!
This was the Wyllis Cooper Lights Out. This was some white knuckle stuff and the production values took it a couple of notches up from "Quiet Please". The Arch Oboler stuff always had stupid people making the most stupid decisions ever and allowing horror to happen when if they made one routine Everyman thought, none of it happens. And his patriotic stuff was just excruciatingly bad...
Love the story! (But HATE that gong-it sounds almost...goofy)!!!
@FingerBreakerWu
9 жыл бұрын
The gong is what MAKES the Lights Out episodes!
@billanthony7896
8 жыл бұрын
My Dad and his friends used to make fun of the gong, and they listened to this show in primetime. Radio comedians used to make fun of it too. So even back then, there were those who thought along similar lines.