Lights Out was an incredibly popular American old-time radio program that predated Suspense and Inner Sanctum. From January 1934 to the summer of 1947, numerous versions of Lights Out aired on various networks at different periods, and the series eventually made the transfer to television. Lights Out premiered on NBC Television in 1946 as a series of four live specials produced by Fred Coe, who also provided three of the scripts. NBC commissioned Cooper to write the premiere script, "First Person Singular," which is narrated solely from the perspective of an unseen murderer who murders his irritating wife and is sentenced to death. Although Variety praised the debut episode as "unquestionably one of the most dramatic shows ever seen on a television screen," Lights Out did not become a regular NBC-TV series until 1949.
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Lights Out was an incredibly popular American old-time radio program that predated Suspense and Inner Sanctum. From January 1934 to the summer of 1947, numerous versions of Lights Out aired on various networks at different periods, and the series eventually made the transfer to television. Lights Out premiered on NBC Television in 1946 as a series of four live specials produced by Fred Coe, who also provided three of the scripts. NBC commissioned Cooper to write the premiere script, "First Person Singular," which is narrated solely from the perspective of an unseen murderer who murders his irritating wife and is sentenced to death. Although Variety praised the debut episode as "unquestionably one of the most dramatic shows ever seen on a television screen," Lights Out did not become a regular NBC-TV series until 1949.
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