Today we’ve got a mystery for you, and we’re asking help from all amateur and professional researchers in our audience: help us figure out this episode of Lights Out! We know it’s an early one, and that’s about it. It comes with no confirmed title or air date. Instead of the usual supernatural chills, this one leans hard into gritty crime drama. It follows a gang of bank robbers whose plan unravels into a chain of double-crosses, jealousy, and murder, as each one tries to come out on top. As you’d expect from Lights Out, it all builds to a dark ending, with the final moments centered on a condemned man facing his fate.
UPDATE: A quick follow-up on this mystery show. Much of it remains unconfirmed, however we have been able to put together a series of educated guesses thanks to our friends Researcher Karl Schadow and Dr. Joe Webb. The first half-hour Lights Out show was broadcast on April 18, 1934. That places this one between that date and April 10, 1935. No titles are listed in any newspaper listings of that time, so we're no closer to a title. However, the introduction to the episode points strongly to it being an audition or the first episode of a new season. During the opening intro, the announcer states the program is broadcast Wednesday at Midnight. That day and time matches many newspaper log entries from 1934. That means the script would have been written by Wyllis Cooper. At the moment, that's what we are able to infer from the clues we have.
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