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Krokodil Tears by Jack Yeovil6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Barry, Spielberg’s first leading man, later had a significant bit-role in his War of the Worlds. This was Steven Spielberg’s first feature-length TV work, and it’s either a testimony to his golden boy rep that he was given a plum show over more experienced hands or a fluke decision to dump the weird script on the kid in the corner in the hope that he might understand it. He blacks out in 1971 but is woken up in 2017 – by Geoffrey Lewis in a gas-mask – and hauled into the underground complex which has replaced the city after a global eco-doom that began when pollution killed off all the algae in the sea, creating a shroud of toxic gas that reduced the Earth’s population to about three million souls living in dystopian bunkers with child-rearing (and post-natal abortion) out of Brave New World, eternal surveillance out of Nineteen Eighty-Four and a bunch of satirical-nightmarish new licks from veteran s-f writer Philip Wylie (who scripted this ‘very special episode’ of the ninety-minute contemporary drama series, The Name of the Game). Magazine publisher Glenn Howard (Gene Barry), driving back from a conference on the threat of pollution, is overcome by smog in the hills outside Los Angeles, and drives off the road. ![]()
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