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kimbutgar

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14. There was a show called name of the game in the early 70's
Sun Mar 12, 2017, 03:05 PM
Mar 2017

Oneepisode was called Los Angeles AD 2017. Where the pollution was so bad the rich lived underground.

"L.A. 2017" is a 1971 episode of the NBC television series The Name of the Game. Sometimes referred to as "Los Angeles: AD 2017" (the name of Philip Wylie's subsequent novel based on his script) or "Los Angeles 2017", this was a science fiction piece, shot for only $375,000. The director, the 24-year-old Steven Spielberg, used camera angles to drive his first movie-length television episode across and remarked in later years that the show "opened a lot of doors for me".

A publisher, Glenn Howard (Gene Barry), finds himself suddenly plunged 46 years into the future only to learn that the people of Los Angeles are living underground to escape the pollution. A fascist America is run like a corporation with a number of vice-presidents. The police department of the subterranean Los Angeles is led/managed by psychiatrists.

At the end, Howard wakes up to discover it was all a dream—although there is a chilling final image of dead birds that hint at a troubled future ahead.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.A._2017

I got a copy from a website specializing in old tv. This episode was so prophetic now it's scary.

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