First published at 20:58 UTC on November 26th, 2019.
1950s television was a carefully set trap. To lure a mouse into the trap, you’ve got to insert some cheese. America society was prevailingly Christian then. To get television into those households required presenting it as a purveyor of Christian mo…
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1950s television was a carefully set trap. To lure a mouse into the trap, you’ve got to insert some cheese. America society was prevailingly Christian then. To get television into those households required presenting it as a purveyor of Christian morals, however repugnant that may have been to studio heads’ true feelings.
An episode of the 1950s anthology series "Telephone Time".
In this episode, set shortly after WW2, a Polish man who fought against the nazis finds himself arrested by the Soviets. Zbigniew Stypułkowski (March 26, 1904 – March 30, 1979) was a Polish lawyer and politician, Member of the Council of National Unity. In 1944 he took part in the Warsaw Uprising. In March 1945 he was arrested by the NKVD and brought to Moscow. After 3 months of interrogations the Soviets fail to get a confession due to Stypułkowski's faith in God.
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