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In Popular Culture

I understand that a popular culture section needs more than one example, so I'm putting this here until and unless there's enough more to justify adding it to the article. "The murder mystery Witness in Death, the tenth volume in the long running In Death series by JD Robb starts during the opening night of a new Broadway production of Witness for the Prosecution, but the performance takes a sudden, unexpected turn when the knife used at the climax is a real knife, not a prop and the leading man is killed in front of over 3,000 witnesses, including the series' protagonist, Dallas, Lieutenant Eve, a prominent homicide cop, who quickly takes charge of the scene and investigation." If needed, it can be added that JD Robb is a pen name for Nora Roberts, used to prevent having too many books by the same author on the shelves at the same time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JDZeff (talk • contribs) 22:03, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

First performance

In the section "Publication and further adaptations", the article says, "The very first performance of the story, just pre-dating the debut of Christie's play, was in the form of a live telecast which aired on CBS Television's Lux Video Theatre on 17 September 1953 . . ." The source cited is The Official Andrea King Website. Several other sources, however, tell of the play's adaptation on The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre before that Lux broadcast.

Agatha Christie: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction (pp. 298-299) says that was "the first Christie television adaptation in the United States in 1949".
Live Television Drama, 1946-1951 (p. 263) gives the date of the broadcast as October 31, 1949, and gives names of the people involved.
An item in The Buffalo News on October 31, 1949, previews the "Witness" episode on the Chevrolet program that night.

I don't want to change the current wording of the article on my own because it has an apparently valid source. The sources that I listed, however, raise a question about the accuracy of the "very first performance" statement in the article. Eddie Blick (talk) 00:14, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]