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Taboo Or Not Taboo Los Angeles Program Puts Everything On The Air Ready, set—and Paul Coates begins film sequence. Southern California’s most popular local TV show is a half hour of hot potatoes dished up Simday nights by- Paul Coates, Los Angeles columnist. American Research Bureau estimated that 30 percent of all TV sets in the area time in his Confidential File, now being readied for national syndication. Half documentary films, half live interviews. Confidential File is the brainchild of 34-year-old Coates and producer-writer Jim Peck, 29. Al¬ though Peck had collaborated with Coates in writing and selling three Dragnet scripts, his experience in TV was so limited that he accepted when KTTV offered him a spot opposite laurel-laden Philco-Goodyear Play¬ house. However, a sound newspaper prin¬ ciple came to the rescue. The prin¬ ciple says that nothing is as interest¬ ing as people. Elspecially if they hap¬ pen to be law-breakers, psychotics, spiritualists, flying saucer experts, lady bouncers, dope addicts, alcoholics or citizens dying of a rare disease. Since the first airing on Aug. 27, 1953, these have been the members of Con¬ fidential File’s week-to-week cast. Coates denies, however, that Confi¬ dential File aixns at sensationalism. “If we treated our subjects sensa¬ tionally,” he says, “the engineer would flip a switch and cut us off the air.” This flipping has never yet occurred, although the unreliable character of some of the program’s guest artists, drafted from Skid Row or the under¬ world, has caused narrow squeaks. A medical film showing the writh- ings of a child dying from the bite of a rabid dog brought Coates 10,000 letters urging adoption' of an anti¬ rabies inoculation law. Other pro¬ grams have featured a film of a dentist hypnotizing a patient before drilling, a lie detector test of a flying saucer expert and views of mentally retarded children. Sensational as its subjects have been. Confidential File has been in trouble with viewers only once. A barrage of protests resulted when Coates chose Easter Sunday to unfold the mysteries of Buddhism. “You’d have thought I was endorsing that belief,” he says, ruefully. 11