Cavalcade of America
Broadcast 11 May 1938. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1935–1947
- Surviving broadcasts
- 151
- Genre
- horror
Old Time Radio Program "Lights Out." Enjoy.
1945 · 11943 · 51942 · 21938 · 11937 · 21935 · 1
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Rough but complete · 40 of 40
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: LightsOutoldTimeRadio
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 13 years on the air, with 7 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1935, in original transmission order.
- 1. Lights Out 1935-xx-xx (xx) Strange Couple Stays Overnight · 1 Jan 1935
- 2. Lights Out 1937-03-10 (40) Chicken Heart · 10 Mar 1937
- 3. Lights Out - 1937-12-29 The Dark · 29 Dec 1937
- 01
Lights Out 1935-xx-xx (xx) Strange Couple Stays Overnight
1 Jan 1935 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 1 January 1935. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Lights Out 1937-03-10 (40) Chicken Heart
10 Mar 1937 · 19 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 10 March 1937. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Lights Out - 1937-12-29 The Dark
29 Dec 1937 · 7 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “LightsOutoldTimeRadio”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 04
Lights Out 1938-05-11 (90) It Happened
11 May 1938 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 11 May 1938. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Lights Out - 1942-11-03 Across The Gap
3 Nov 1942 · 24 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “LightsOutoldTimeRadio”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 06
Lights Out - 1942-12-22 The Meteor Man
22 Dec 1942 · 23 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “LightsOutoldTimeRadio”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 07
Lights Out - 1943-02-09 We Dug It Up
9 Feb 1943 · 23 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “LightsOutoldTimeRadio”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 08
Money Money Money
30 Mar 1943 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 30 March 1943. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
11 May 1938
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 11 May 1938.
The Lone Ranger
Broadcast 11 May 1938. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1935–1947
Other series the network carried while Lights Out was on the air.
Same seasons
horror on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The anthology of dread
A voice, a creaking door, and a self-contained story designed to frighten you in half an hour. Suspense and Lights Out built the grammar every horror anthology still uses.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Lights Out
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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