Stop in for a cup of coffee

Ok so I’m officially stumped. Hooked coil directly to the battery, put an inline spark light in between coil and dizzy, no spark out of any of the brand new coils (3) nor the accel super coil that I know works off the Polara. What’s wrong
Lets start from scratch. Known good coil? Check!
Known good spark plug? Check!
Known good wire? 1000 ohms or less per foot? Check!
Spark plug on wire,wire stuffed into coil tower and spark pkug wedged on a good ground.

take a jumper, on plus side of coil to positive battery post.
Take another jumper, neg side of coil and scratch it across ground.please make sure neg bat cable is attatched.
This should establish spark at the plug.

ok, now that we hopefully have spark, lets move over to distributor. a simple test light,wire lead on plus side of battery,pointy end on wire coming from points . Crank engine. Test light should flash.
no flash? Or light stays on,need to know before proceeding.