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Title: The Year of the Sex Olympics (29 Jul 1968)
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| Leonard Rossiter | ... | Co-Ordinator Ugo Priest | |
| Suzanne Neve | ... | Deanie Webb | |
| Tony Vogel | ... | Nat Mender | |
| Brian Cox | ... | Lasar Opie | |
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Vickery Turner | ... | Misch |
| George Murcell | ... | Grels | |
| Martin Potter | ... | Kin Hodder | |
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Lesley Roach | ... | Keten Webb |
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Hira Talfrey | ... | Betty |
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Patricia Maynard | ... | Nurse |
| Trevor Peacock | ... | Custard Pie Expert | |
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Brian Coburn | ... | Custard Pie Expert |
| Derek Fowlds | ... | Custard Pie Expert | |
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Wolfe Morris | ... | Custard Pie Expert |
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Braham Murray | ... | Custard Pie Expert |
Set in a future when the world is dominated and run by television, where language has become almost redundant and all "tensions" - love, war, hate, loyalty - have been removed. Overpopulation is a problem, so there are gluttony programmes to put people off food and pornography programmes to put them off sex. There is artsex and sportsex, and now this - the year of the Sex Olympics. Audience attention begins to wane, however, until TV executive Ugo Priest works on a new concept - a reality-based programme in which a couple is stranded on a bleak island, without the aid of any modern technology, and their efforts to survive filmed twenty-four hours a day. A concept which may sound familiar in the age of reality TV... Written by UK DVD blurb
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I first saw this in the early 70's, it was considered then to be nothing more than science fiction. Intended to be a glimpse of a world where anything goes in the name of entertainment, as well as a warning. It was meant to be an extreme satirical extrapolation, alluding to a future time, in the hope that it might not happen. Spooky really!!
This theme has been done to death many times since, but it was still fresh and original back then. I also remember a TV programme around about the same time called 'The Machine Stops', based on a short story by E M Forster. Although somewhat dated and naive now, bear in mind that it was written in 1909. Its main theme is that humans eventually become alienated and remote from their surroundings, preferring to communicate via TV screens, referred to as Cinematophote. This happened, in the fictional world, because the Earth was contaminated and the inhabitants had to go underground. Obviously the Internet, TV or email was not known then, but it predicted all three, it is strange how fact has 'triumphed' over fiction.
We haven't got to the next stage yet, whereby humans are entirely isolated from their surroundings, but who can say what the future portends?