 The playwright was Henry Denker.The play was first televised on commercial television, but a new production shown on cable television in the 1980s, and later PBS, starred Edward Asner as Sloane and Daniel J. Travanti as Boyd Bendix, who was based on conservative columnist Westbrook Pegler.Nizer was married to his wife Mildred for over 50 years until her death in 1993.