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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

Description : An audition and sales presentation by “Mr. O” (Arch Oboler)and
excerpts from the syndicated series of “Lights Out” re-runs.
Notes : Arch
Oboler (writer,host).
First Line : ‘Friends this is Arch Oboler, permit me
to tell you what we intend to do in the series, The Devil and Mr. O …’

Date Aired : 71/09/17
Episode Number : 1

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

Date Aired : 71/09/24
Episode Number : 2

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

Date Aired : 71/10/01
Episode Number : 3

Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Revolt of the Worms
Description :
Giant worms and a testy scientist. Pity the wife. Arch Oboler (writer, host).

Notes : Syndicated rebroadcast of Lights Out “Revolt Of The Worms”.

First Line : “This is Mr. O, Arch Oboler. Now tell me, what is your attitude
about worms?”

Date Aired : 71/10/08
Episode Number : 4

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

Date Aired : 71/10/15
Episode Number : 5

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

Date Aired : 71/10/22
Episode Number : 6

Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Gravestone
Description : How’d you
like to have your head squashed flat by a tombstone? Arch Oboler (writer, host).

Notes : Syndicated rebroadcast of Lights Out “Poltergeist”.
First Line :
“This is Mr. O, Arch Oboler. Our play today is titled Gravestone. Need I say
more?”

Date Aired : 71/10/29
Episode Number : 7

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

Date Aired : 71/11/05
Episode Number : 8

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

Date Aired : 71/11/12
Episode Number : 9

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

Date Aired : 71/11/19
Episode Number : 10

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

Date Aired : 71/11/26
Episode Number : 11

Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Vacation with Death
Description :
The story of a strange summer house and its even stranger secrets. Arch Oboler
(writer, host).
Notes : Syndicated rebroadcast of Lights Out “Organ”.

First Line : ‘This is Mr O, Arch Oboler. Vacations is our grizzly subject
for today. Vacations can’be be grizzly you say? Well hold off your judgement
until after you hear ‘Vacation With Death.’

Date Aired : 71/12/03
Episode Number : 12

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

Date Aired : 71/12/10
Episode Number : 13

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

Date Aired : 71/12/17
Episode Number : 14

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

Date Aired : 71/12/24
Episode Number : 15

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

Date Aired : 71/12/31
Episode Number : 16

Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: House Is Haunted
Description : A
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
- Arch Oboler. Now, completely for amusement, I give you a rather old-fashioned
ghost story entitled ‘House is Haunted’.’

Date Aired : 72/01/07
Episode Number : 17

Available : YES
Title/Plot/Host: Official Killer
Description : The
hangman’s last client. Arch Oboler (writer, host), Mercedes McCambridge, Byron
Kane.
Notes : Syndicated rebroadcast of Lights Out “State Executioner”.

First Line : “This is Mr. O, Arch Oboler. Lets go back today to another
time. The time of King George the third of England.”

Date Aired : 72/01/14
Episode Number : 18

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

Date Aired : 72/01/21
Episode Number : 19

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

Date Aired : 72/01/28
Episode Number : 20

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

Date Aired : 72/02/04
Episode Number : 21

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

Date Aired : 72/02/11
Episode Number : 22

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

Date Aired : 72/02/18
Episode Number : 23

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

Date Aired : 72/02/25
Episode Number : 24

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

Date Aired : 72/03/03
Episode Number : 25

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

Date Aired : 72/03/10
Episode Number : 26

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

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Page last modified on January 22, 2006, at 01:18
AM

Last edited by Roger
Hohenbrink.
Based on work by Roger
Hohenbrink, menachem,
Revgen,
and Jim
B.
Originally by menachem.