Otter Project Wiki | Cert First Lines / Devil and Mr = O

Based on Otter Log dated Jul 12, 2005

Date Aired : 71/09/10
Episode Number : ---- =
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Preview of the New Series=20
Description : An audition and sales presentation by “Mr. = O” (Arch Oboler)and=20 excerpts from the syndicated series of “Lights Out” re-runs. =
Notes : Arch=20 Oboler (writer,host).
First Line : ‘Friends this is Arch = Oboler, permit me=20 to tell you what we intend to do in the series, The Devil and Mr. O = …’

Date Aired : 71/09/17
Episode Number : 1=20
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Alley Cat
Description : The = story=20 of John and Linda. Arch Oboler (writer, host).
Notes : Syndicated=20 rebroadcast of Lights Out “Cat Wife”.
First Line : = ‘ This is Mr O - Arch=20 Oboler. We bring you a play titled ‘Alley Cat’ with = apologies to all cats, large=20 and small, particularly large.’

Date Aired : 71/09/24
Episode Number : 2=20
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Neanderthal
Description : A = group=20 of modern tourists find themselves fifty-thousand years in the past. = Arch Oboler=20 (writer, host).
Notes : Syndicated rebroadcast of Lights Out = “Across The=20 Gap”.
First Line : ‘This is Mr O - Arch Oboler. Have you = ever wanted to turn=20 time backwards to a pleasanter era,long before ticking atom bombs, air=20 pollution, the inbred madness of our inner cities.’

Date Aired : 71/10/01
Episode Number : 3=20
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Revolt of the Worms =
Description :=20 Giant worms and a testy scientist. Pity the wife. Arch Oboler (writer, = host).=20
Notes : Syndicated rebroadcast of Lights Out “Revolt Of The = Worms”.=20
First Line : “This is Mr. O, Arch Oboler. Now tell me, what is = your attitude=20 about worms?”

Date Aired : 71/10/08
Episode Number : 4=20
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Where Are You?
Description = : A=20 descent from the Empire State Building to nothingness. Arch Oboler = (writer,=20 host), Mercedes McCambridge, and Byron Kane.
Notes : Syndicated = rebroadcast=20 of Lights Out “The Word”.
First Line : “This is = Mr. O, Arch Oboler. Once=20 upon a long time ago in New York City on top of the Empire State = building, I met=20 a pair of very young and very much in love honeymooners.”

Date Aired : 71/10/15
Episode Number : 5=20
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Mr Freak
Description : The = story of=20 the ugliest man in the world…and his girlfriend. Arch Oboler = (writer, host),=20 Raymond Edward Johnson.
Notes : Syndicated rebroadcast of Lights Out = “The=20 Ugliest Man In The World”.
First Line : “This is Mr. O, = Arch Oboler. What’s=20 Ugly? What’s Beautiful? A red wrinkled newborn child to its mother = is the most=20 beautiful object in the world.”

Date Aired : 71/10/22
Episode Number : 6=20
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Gravestone
Description : = How’d you=20 like to have your head squashed flat by a tombstone? Arch Oboler = (writer, host).=20
Notes : Syndicated rebroadcast of Lights Out = “Poltergeist”.
First Line :=20 “This is Mr. O, Arch Oboler. Our play today is titled Gravestone. = Need I say=20 more?”

Date Aired : 71/10/29
Episode Number : 7=20
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Ancestor
Description : A = genuine=20 ghost story about a woman waiting to be killed who has a strange = visitor. Arch=20 Oboler (writer, host), Mercedes McCambridge.
Notes : Syndicated = rebroadcast=20 of Lights Out “The Archer”.
First Line : “This is = Mr. O, Arch Oboler. The=20 story you’re about to hear is a ghost story. Pure and = Simple.”

Date Aired : 71/11/05
Episode Number : 8=20
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Nature Study
Description : = A walk=20 in the woods, along with death and confession. Arch Oboler (writer, = host), Cathy=20 Lewis, Mary Jane Croft.
Notes : “ Syndicated rebroadcast of = Lights Out=20 “Nature Study”.
First Line : “This is Mr. O, Arch = Oboler. Nature Study is=20 the title of our story. Nature Study, thats a charming pastime. The = wonders of=20 nature in all its infinite variety.”

Date Aired : 71/11/12
Episode Number : 9=20
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Big Mr Little
Description : = A man=20 finds he can work evil miracles, and starts to plan world conquest. Arch = Oboler=20 (writer, host), Edgar Barrier.
Notes : Syndicated rebroadcast of = Lights Out=20 “The Projective Mr. Drogan”.
First Line : “This is = Mr. O, Arch Oboler. The=20 world as you know is full of small people trying to be large and large = people=20 trying to be humble.”

Date Aired : 71/11/19
Episode Number : 10=20
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: No Escape
Description : A = man wants=20 revenge so badly, he’s willing to go beyond the grave to get it. = Arch Oboler=20 (writer, host), Frank Lovejoy, Paul Stewart.
Notes : Syndicated = rebroadcast=20 of Lights Out “Until Dead”.
First Line : ‘This is = Mr. O - Arch Oboler. Have=20 you ever feel the fury of inner revenge, the need to get back at = someone?’

Date Aired : 71/11/26
Episode Number : 11=20
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Vacation with Death =
Description :=20 The story of a strange summer house and its even stranger secrets. Arch = Oboler=20 (writer, host).
Notes : Syndicated rebroadcast of Lights Out = “Organ”.=20
First Line : ‘This is Mr O, Arch Oboler. Vacations is our = grizzly subject=20 for today. Vacations can’be be grizzly you say? Well hold off your = judgement=20 until after you hear ‘Vacation With Death.’

Date Aired : 71/12/03
Episode Number : 12=20
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: The Hole
Description : A = young=20 crackpot college student invents the universal solvent, with of course = nothing=20 to keep in it. Arch Oboler (writer,host).
Notes : Syndicated = rebroadcast of=20 Lights Out “Oxychloride X”.
First Line : ‘This is = Mr O, Arch Oboler. We=20 humans always think of the ultimate, the ultimate love, the ultimate = happiness,=20 the ultimate security, the ultimate peace. Just to be fashionable, or = perhaps=20 with tongue in cheek, I bring you another ultimate - The Hole.’ =

Date Aired : 71/12/10
Episode Number : 13=20
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Live Forever
Description : = A man=20 finds himself in the far future, where eternal life is commonplace and = not very=20 much appreciated. Arch Oboler (writer, host), Franchot Tone, Mercedes=20 McCambridge.
Notes : Syndicated rebroadcast of Lights Out “The = Immortal=20 Gentleman”.
First Line : ‘This is Mr O - Arch Oboler. = Who among us, you, I,=20 have not said at some time or another, If I wouldn’t die, if I = could live=20 forever. Well that’s the play I’ve written for you - Live = Forever.’

Date Aired : 71/12/17
Episode Number : 14=20
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Going Down
Description : A = good=20 story about the basement of a department store infested with dinosaurs. = Arch=20 Oboler (writer, producer, director, host), Frank Martin (announcer), = Joseph=20 Kearns, Bea Benaderet, Lou Merrill (doubles).
Notes : Syndicated = rebroadcast=20 of Lights Out “Sub-Basement”.
First Line : ‘This = is Mr O - Arch Oboler. Some=20 of you may not know this, but beneath many of our cities there’s a = sub-world.=20 Not only of subways, but sub-sub basements, man-made caverns where = little trains=20 run and deliver the goods to the department stores and factories of our=20 industrail complex. Today we’re going to some of those = sub-basements in a story=20 I’ve entitled Going Down.’

Date Aired : 71/12/24
Episode Number : 15=20
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Balance Sheet
Description : = A=20 fascinating story about an island filled with zombie-like workers and a = strange=20 inheritance. Arch Oboler (writer, host), Mercedes McCambridge.
Notes = :=20 Syndicated rebroadcast of Lights Out “Profits Unlimited”. =
First Line : ‘This=20 is Mr O - Arch Oboler. The play tonight is about the almight (almighty?) dollar, the=20 bucks, deniro, filthy lucre, gelt, mammon. mazzoma. In plain English, = the=20 were-withal, the stuff on the barrel head. And it begins with somewhere = you and=20 I will never go.’

Date Aired : 71/12/31
Episode Number : 16=20
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: House Is Haunted =
Description : A=20 man just back from Australia has a murder on his conscience. Arch Oboler = (writer, host), Elliott Lewis, Hans Conried, Cathy Lewis(?).
Notes : = Syndicated rebroadcast of Lights Out “Mungarha”.
First = Line : ‘This is Mr O=20 - Arch Oboler. Now, completely for amusement, I give you a rather = old-fashioned=20 ghost story entitled ‘House is Haunted’.’

Date Aired : 72/01/07
Episode Number : 17=20
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Official Killer
Description = : The=20 hangman’s last client. Arch Oboler (writer, host), Mercedes = McCambridge, Byron=20 Kane.
Notes : Syndicated rebroadcast of Lights Out “State = Executioner”.=20
First Line : “This is Mr. O, Arch Oboler. Lets go back today = to another=20 time. The time of King George the third of England.”

Date Aired : 72/01/14
Episode Number : 18=20
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: The Hungry One
Description = : An=20 early monster-from-outer-space story. This one has a sinister appetite. = Arch=20 Oboler (writer,host).
Notes : “ Syndicated rebroadcast of = Lights Out “Meteor=20 Man”.
First Line : “This is Mr. O, Arch Oboler. = I’ve got a favor to ask of=20 you. Listen to the story that I’m about to tell you = historically.”

Date Aired : 72/01/21
Episode Number : 19=20
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Three Thousand Dollars =
Description=20 : Tony the diver stops not at murder nor anything else for money. His = last dive=20 is most successful. Arch Oboler (writer, host).
Notes : Syndicated=20 rebroadcast of Lights Out “Money, Money, Money”.
First = Line : “This is Mr.=20 O, Arch Oboler. Some call it the root of all evil and some call it the = flower of=20 all good.”

Date Aired : 72/01/28
Episode Number : 20=20
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: The Chest
Description : A = bargain=20 at an auction is a trunk full of horror. Arch Oboler (writer, host), = Jane=20 Morgan, Joseph Kearns.
Notes : Syndicated rebroadcast of Lights Out = “The=20 Story Of Mr. Maggs”.
First Line : “This is Mr. O, Arch = Oboler. Do you enjoy=20 going to auctions? Do you get excitement out of opening old = boxes?”

Date Aired : 72/02/04
Episode Number : 21=20
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Paris Macabre
Description : = A=20 ghastly story of the headless walking dead.
Arch Oboler (writer, = host), Bea=20 Benaderet, Jane Morgan.
Notes : Syndicated rebroadcast of Lights Out = “The=20 Ball”.
First Line : “This is Mr. O, Arch Oboler. Do you = ever go to a party=20 or a dance and look at the people with the same old faces and wish = that…well=20 suddenly it could all be changed into a magic ball where everyone was=20 beautiful?”

Date Aired : 72/02/11
Episode Number : 22=20
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Rocket from Manhattan =
Description :=20 The first manned mission to the Moon is returning to Earth in triumph, = but the=20 home world is not the same place as when they left it. Arch Oboler = (writer,=20 host).
Notes : Syndicated rebroadcast of a Lights Out episode. This = story=20 appeared as ‘The Last Survivor’ on The Mysterious Traveler. =
First Line :=20 “This is Mr. O, Arch Oboler. In a few moments you’re going = to hear what you=20 might call a ‘happening.’”

Date Aired : 72/02/18
Episode Number : 23=20
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Hollywood Visitor =
Description :=20 Devil Fish in the harbor - an unheeded warning and a sail on a bay of = terror off=20 the coast of England. Arch Oboler (writer, host), Mary Jane Croft. =
Notes :=20 Syndicated rebroadcast of Lights Out “Lord Marley’s = Guest”.
First Line :=20 ‘This is Mr O - Arch Oboler. You know there is an old saying = ‘the gods grind=20 small’. Don’t think you can get away with anything. In the = dark shadows=20 retribution is waiting to even the score.’

Date Aired : 72/02/25
Episode Number : 24=20
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Cemetery
Description : A = good tale=20 of horror from the crypt. A visitor from beyond death. Arch Oboler = (writer,=20 host).
Notes : Syndicated rebroadcast of Lights Out = “Scoop”. - Title is=20 mentioned by the announcer after the first commercial.
First Line : = ‘This is=20 Mr O - Arch Oboler. A writer gets his material, you know, where he can. = What he=20 sees, what he reads, what he thinks about, the people he sees.’ =

Date Aired : 72/03/03
Episode Number : 25=20
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Speed
Description : A story = about=20 two men with a mighty power, the power to move very, very rapidly. Arch = Oboler=20 (writer, host).
Notes : Syndicated rebroadcast of Lights Out = “The Fast One”.=20 Title is mentioned by the announcer after a brief chat between the child = and the=20 man.
First Line : “This is Mr. O, Arch Oboler. Who among = us…and you’re=20 included…has not had the dream at one time or another…of = being superior than his=20 or her fellow beings?”

Date Aired : 72/03/10
Episode Number : 26=20
Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Shrinking People =
Description : The=20 eternal triangle seems a bit lopsided when two of the angles are = shrunken to=20 doll size. known. The lead character uses what sounds like a Bela Lugosi = accent.=20 Arch Oboler (writer, host).
Notes : Syndicated rebroadcast of Lights = Out=20 “The Little People”. Title is mentioned by the announcer = after the first=20 commercial.
First Line : “This is Mr. O, Arch Oboler. Have you = ever stopped=20 to consider that the plot of the husband, the wife, and the lover has = been with=20 us longer than most of us care to think?”

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Based on Otter Log dated Jul 12, 2005