Meet Mr. Lucifer (also known as Let's Put out the Light) is a 1953 black-and-white British comedy satire film directed by Anthony Pelisser starring Stanley Holloway, Peggy Cummins and Jack Watling.
In the circumstances, Jack Watling's bad temper resulting from the disruption of his household is easily understood, and the fate of Joseph Tomelty's Mr. Pedelty would seem to be a warning against the dangers of excessive hospitality.
Kay Kendall's contribution, unfortunately, is limited to the dimensions of the ordinary television screen, and the inclusion of so many close-ups of Gordon Jackson's tortured face peering at her may appear a little excessive.
A few scenes, such as the dingy pantomime at the beginning, the square dance sequence, and Hector's despairing efforts to rid himself of his neighbours are pleasantly handled, but the general paucity of comic invention elsewhere makes the film's attempted debunking fall some distance short of its target.
This tepid assault on television has Stanley Holloway as a pantomime demon who is sent as an emissary from hell to ensure that TV sets throughout the nation bring nothing but misery.