31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN DAY 5: MAN WITH A WATCH 1951 (MILL CREEK)

Another interesting TV episode from the early days of TV.

This is an episode of "Lights Out" and it stars Francis Sullivan as a strange man named Ludovic Altimus who has a strange watch with him and is suspected by a police officer in the disappearance of many people in New York over the last few months.

The detective, Mike Wilson (Peter Capell) attempts to stop Altimus, but fails at every turn. He finally comes face to face with the man and discovers that he is an alien who is sending people to his home planet, and once there the people never want to come back.

This is a very odd and well done episode and if you watch and pay attention you'll notice how Sullivan forgets his lines at one point, but keeps on talking and then he makes a major mistake in his dialogue. Hey, this was live TV and you had to keep moving no matter what.

Lights Out ran from 1946 to 1952 and sadly a lot of the episodes are lost forever.