TURN OUT THE LIGHTS

Was Arthur Lowe a nascent Fox Mulder? ANDREW T SMITH dons his television archæologist hat and goes in search of a long-lost ITV series that saw Coronation Street character Leonard Swindley opening his very own X-Files in 1960s Britain…

CAPTAIN MAINWARING, PARANORMAL INVESTIGATOR Winter, 1967. A dark and windswept evening envelops a farmhouse on the Yorkshire Moors. Inside, a hushed silence descends upon a circle of table-tilters keen to contact the beyond. Asked to knock once for ‘yes’ and twice for ‘no’, a restless spirit is able to communicate a warning: someone in this room is destined to die. One man at the table has his doubts… a brave and stoic investigator… a figure determined to get to the bottom of a seemingly paranormal mystery… and that man is… Captain Mainwaring? Well, Arthur Lowe, anyway. On Friday 6 February 1967, television viewers tuned in to ITV for the final episode of Turn Out The Lights, a six-part comedy drama series that featured the actor as an investigator of the…

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