#Mcintosh compendium series#
#Mcintosh compendium tv#

There have been occasional attempts to revive the series that never had any notable success.

#Mcintosh compendium tv#

Lights Out would turn up as a TV series from 1949 to 1952. The franchise did not end with the demise of the radio show. Lights Out as a radio series would finally succumb to its own mortality in 1947. Although, I admit sometimes this awareness is limited to Bill Cosby’s Chicken Heart routine.Ĭreated by Willis Cooper in 1934, and passed on to Arch Oboler in 1936. Light’s Out, is one of the most famous radio shows of all time. Segment two is from Lights Out for December 15th of 1942, “ Knock at the Door”. If you’re interested in knowing more about this case I ran into a pretty good, not overly verbose discussion: But, in several of the details should not be trusted. The story is based on something that actually did happen and it happened to the people named in the location given. I Have to say that the series, in this case, exhibits a somewhat loose connection to the facts. “The Boorn Brothers and the Hangman–A study in Nip and Tuck” which takes place in early 19th-century New England presents itself as the true tale of a wife who, with her two brothers, plot to dispose of her rather lack-wit husband. In this they succeeded, for entertaining they were and are. I don’t think the producers were attempting to create an historically accurate account but entertainment. The fact is Crime Classics freely mixes fact and fiction and tosses in apocryphal and anecdotal details as garnishments. He was, after-all, a producer of popular entertainment using the vehicle of tongue-in-cheek re-creations of some of history’s more interesting crimes. I do not think that producer/writer Elliott Lewis intended for these shows to be taken as historical documents. Nonetheless, I will rise in defense of the program (of which I am very fond), to remind you that the entertainment industry of the 1950s was not different from that of our own time when inconvenient facts are simply not allowed to interfere with a good story. Also, I have found while researching backgrounds of individual programs the historical content to be a bit dodgy with the show willingly repeating legends and interesting anecdotes as well-established facts. There is not now nor was there ever a ,”Thomas Hyland” (played by Lou Merrill ). To start off with you have, in the person of the host, a completely fictional “expert”. But I have come to think that this is a bit too grand a claim. Is Crime Crime Classics – “ The Boorn Brothers & The Hangman – A study in Nip and Tuck” which originally aired on January 27, 1954.Ĭrime Classics is sometimes called a, “ Docudrama “( I know I’ve been guilty of that myself). *** Arch Obolers Plays: The Ways of Men Past, Present and Future (04/15/39). Crime Crime Classics: The Boorn Brothers & The Hangman – A study in Nip and Tuck(01/27/54).