To make matters worse, Lights Out was followed by "The Cities Service Band of America" which was a series highlighting a 48 piece band, vocalists, glee clubs, and baton-twirling majorettes. Both of those were extremely popular shows. Lights Out had some stiff competition for viewers when it first went nationwide in July of 1949! CBS was airing " Candid Camera" in the same time slot followed by " The Goldbergs". This same technique of getting the audience worked up and ready to be scared to death was used later by Alfred Hitchcock (" Alfred Hitchcock Presents"), Rod Serling (" The Twilight Zone"), and Boris Karloff (" Thriller"), and others. Then there was an eerie laugh and the narrator said, "Lights out everybody" followed by a candle being blown out.
It was also used in the soundtracks of several other motion pictures.īefore each episode began, the audience saw a close up of a pair of eyes followed by a bloody hand that reached out to turn off the lights. It's "eerie" sound has made it the instrument of choice as the background music for many movies including "Spellbound", "The Spiral Staircase", "The Day the Earth Stood Still", "The Thing", and "The Ten Commandments". One of them varies the tone of the music and the other varies the volume. It has two antennae that sense the position of the musician's hands. The Theremin is one of the first electronic musical instruments. If you look at the cast list above, you'll notice that a musician named "Paul Lipman" is credited as a "Theremin Player". Marshall (" The Defenders"), Burgess Meredith (" Batman"), Leslie Nielsen (" Police Squad"), and Robert Stack (" The Untouchables"). To name just a few, there was John Forsythe (" Dynasty"), Jonathan Harris (" Lost in Space"), Steven Hill (" Law & Order"), Ross Martin (" The Wild Wild West"), E.G. There was a well known guest star or two nearly every week, however. Since Lights Out was an anthology series, there were no regular Cast from week-to-week. In 1949, the number of produced shows (needing actors, scripts, etc.) went way up and Lights Out was one of them! The shows were mostly simply entertainers (comics, singers, etc.) performing in front of a camera, talk shows, news shows, and a few that had to be produced. In 1948, ABC, CBS, and NBC expanded their programming from nearly nothing to several hours per day. Then, three years later, NBC decided to bring it back as a series that would be broadcast nationally.
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Ironically, the TV show also broadcast those first episodes on a local NBC station (WNBT-TV) in New York City as a four episode special. If you check out the episode list below, you'll see that only four episodes of Lights Out were broadcast in 1946 and then no more until 1949. It began on a local radio channel (WENR) in Chicago and then after a few months, it moved to the NBC Radio Network. It was broadcast from Januto August 6, 1947. The Lights Out TV show was inspired by the "Lights Out Radio Show".
Theremin Player (1949) (See Trivia Below) Each week audiences were treated to tales of terror, mystery, and suspense, often involving the supernatural. The Lights Out TV show was a 30 minute anthology, horror series on NBC.
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