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Back in the late Sixties and early Seventies, Universal Studios had a rotating anthology series titled THE NAME OF THE GAME. It starred Gene Barry, Robert Stack and Tony Fransciosa in ninety minute dramas spun off from a similarly yclept TV movie that had aired a few years earlier. Barry played Glenn Howard, head of a giant publishing empire, and his segments saw him trotting around the world to investigate various stories. One episode, titled “LA 2017”, written by no less than Philip Wylie, saw Howard attending a conference on climate change (not yet called such) and on the drive home seemingly falling through a “time warp” into the bleak and barren Future of the title. SPOILER: it turned out to be a dream induced by gas fumes leaking into his car, but before that climactic reveal it painted a grim picture of what we had coming. The next day at ACA it was all us hippies were talking about. The timeline was off by a few decades, obviously, but the episode (directed by Steven Spielberg) was on YouTube. See if you can find it and decide for yourselves how prescient it was otherwise.
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