Lights Out - Mrs. Manifold (Leslie Nielson, Adelaide Klein)
In 1946,
NBC Television brought
Lights Out to TV in a series of four specials, broadcast live and produced by
Fred Coe, who also contributed three of the scripts.
NBC asked
Cooper to write the script for the premiere, "
First Person Singular", which is told entirely from the
point of view of an unseen murderer who kills his obnoxious wife and winds up being executed.
Variety gave this first episode a rave review ("undoubtedly one of the best dramatic shows yet seen on a television screen"), but Lights Out did not become a regular
NBC-TV series until 1949. Coe initially produced this second series but, for much of its run, the live 1949-1952 program was sponsored by appliance maker
Admiral, produced by
Herbert Bayard Swope, Jr., directed by Laurence Schwab, Jr., and hosted by
Frank Gallop. C
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