[1] Denker was admitted to the New York Bar in 1935, at the height of the Depression, and he soon left law practice to earn his living by writing.
Despite its success, the series was discontinued when the nascent medium of television was converted into an instruction tool for the mass training of Air Raid Wardens in anticipation of the U.S. entry into World War II.
I Drive a Hack," starring Richard Widmark, "Emile, the Seal," a fantasy, and "Laughter for the Leader," a political drama in which CBS, without explanation, forbade the character of Hitler to be played with a German accent.
In 1945, Denker began his full-time writing career as the writer of the Radio Reader's Digest on CBS.
Denker recalls that CBS allowed only 30 seconds of the surgical film for fear that the audience would shrink from seeing a beating heart in an open chest cavity.
[citation needed] Six plays by Denker have been produced on Broadway, two in the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and two in other venues.