In that story, the tiny heart of a chicken, kept alive in a Petri dish in a lab, grows exponentially until it covers the entire earth.
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Perhaps the best remembered story from this series of Lights Out is Chicken Heart. After this incident, Oboler toned down the realistic terror in his horror plays in favor of the fantastic. The ending of the play, in which a young girl is buried alive with no hope of rescue, was too much for audiences. Oboler caused controversy with his very first play for the series, Burial Services. Additionally, he used stream-of-consciousness techniques that were often deemed too esoteric for commercial audiences. Although NBC maintained strict neutrality regarding Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, Oboler smuggled anti-fascist messages onto the program. But Oboler soon realized that the midnight time slot and the lack of a sponsor gave him the freedom to experiment with both story content and style. He was unenthusiastic at first, "a weekly horror play that went on at Tuesday midnight to the somber introduction of 12 doleful chimes, was not exactly my idea of a writing Shangri-La.". NBC gave Oboler the opportunity to take over the series and make it his own. In 1936, Cooper left the program for Hollywood.
The program aired at midnight and was notorious for its extreme (for the time) violence.
Wyllis Cooper created Lights Out in 1934. During this time, Oboler wrote a number of idea plays and some were aired, in shortened form, on The Rudy Vallée Show and The Magic Key of RCA. The success of Rich Kid landed Oboler a lucrative 52-week stint writing plays for Don Ameche for The Chase and Sanborn Hour. Things changed in 1936, when radio's leading impresario Rudy Vallée used a short radio playlet of Oboler's titled Rich Kid. įrom 1933 to 1936, Oboler wrote potboilers for programs such as Grand Hotel and Welch's Presents Irene Rich. At that time in broadcasting history, making fun of commercials was still taboo.
In the play, one of Oboler's characters lampoons the slogan of American Tobacco. The broadcast was a success, but it set the stage for Oboler's future run-ins with broadcasters. NBC bought Oboler's script and broadcast it as part of a dedicatory program to NBC's new futuristic headquarters in New York City, Radio City. In 1933, he wrote a spec script called Futuristics, which satirized the world of the present in light of the future. He thought that the medium was being wasted on soap operas. Oboler entered radio because he believed it had great unrealized potential for telling stories with ideas. He grew up a voracious reader and discerning music appreciator, listening to the likes of violinist Fritz Kreisler and the great soprano Amelita Galli-Curci. Oboler was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Leon and Clara Oboler, Jewish immigrants from Riga, Latvia.
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