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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 Introduction00:42 Original Broadcast29:02 ClosingBecome 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

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 Introduction00:45 Original Broadcast26:54 ClosingBecome 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

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 Introduction00:53 Original Broadcast29:34 ClosingBecome 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

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 Introduction00:47 Original Broadcast31:05 ClosingBecome 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

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 Introduction00:47 Original Broadcast24:07 ClosingBecome 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