Random Light Bulb inside Sylvania Superset?

[YamahaFreak]

A friend has found a 1983 model Sylvania Superset console television inside a basement and I'm trying to help him out with it. I had him take the back panel off for inspection before trying to plug it in, and inside, on the bottom of the case, he found an incandescent light bulb in a socket that is alligator clipped into the circuit somewhere. I have no idea what someone was doing here, but my gut feeling is either some sort of 'dim bulb' tester, or otherwise an improvised resistor for a kind of 'band-aid' fix. I have attached a photo of where the alligator leads are clipped on; this is all he has at the moment, but I will try to get some more. I tried to upload more images but can't resize to VK's liking from my phone. I have never encountered something like this inside a TV!