The Year of the Sex Olympics

Name: The Year of the Sex Olympics
Genre: Drama
Released: 1968-07-29
Duration: 1 h 45 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Leonard Rossiter, Suzanne Neve, Tony Vogel

Episode aired Jul 29, 1968
1h 45m

S5.E25

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. Overpopulatio... Read allSet 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 pr... Read allSet 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... Read all

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Suzanne Neve, Lesley Roach, and Tony Vogel in The Year of the Sex Olympics (1968)

Brian Cox in The Year of the Sex Olympics (1968)

Martin Potter, Vickery Turner, and Tony Vogel in The Year of the Sex Olympics (1968)

Suzanne Neve, Martin Potter, and Tony Vogel in The Year of the Sex Olympics (1968)

Brian Cox, Leonard Rossiter, and Tony Vogel in The Year of the Sex Olympics (1968)

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... —UK DVD blurb

television futuristic

Genre
- Drama
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Trivia
Originally filmed in color, only black and white copies are known to exist today.

Quotes
Nat Mender: Sex is not to do. Sex is to watch.

Connections
Featured in The Martians and Us (2006)

Top review

Prescient doesn't begin to describe it

Time : the near future. Or far. Or now.

A small minority of "high drive" people manufacture the entertainment and drugs that keep the majority of "low drive" people happy. TV is two way - they can see the audience reacting. And the news is bad - the Low Drives are getting bored, even with the "S=x Olympics" on the horizon.

Not all the High Drives are happy either. Some want "real art" on TV, others just have consciences. One "real art" advocate cracks, puts on an unscheduled demonstration during a TV show and is killed in a fall.

The audience laps it up, even as it laughs it up. The High Drives realize that the Low Drives want surprise, tragedy, even horror. They devise the "Live Life Show", with a High Drive family stranded on a windswept Scottish island, and lots of cameras around to follow their movements....and there's a surprise...your friendly neighborhood psychopath.

Britain's top actors, including the incomparable Leonard Rossiter, showed the way to where we are now, with Reality TV and Fear Factor lining the sewer of the public mind. At least they haven't killed anybody...yet.

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