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[Bud Brewster]

My how time flies. 2017 sounded so far in the future back in 1971. Now 1971 sounds exactly that far back in the past.

This early Steven Spielberg project is a feature length episode of the popular series "The Name of the Game", in which Gene Barry ("War of the Worlds", "The 27th Day") plays the publisher of a fictitious magazine called "People" (before there was a real one).

The story is a dream sequence in which Barry visits Los Angeles in the year 2017. Pollution has turned the air into a permanent yellow fog, and everybody lives underground.

Philip Wylie penned the screenplay, which effectively makes its point about the consequences of being apathetic towards our environment. Co-starring Barry Sullivan ("Planet of Vampires"), Edmond O'Brien, and Sharon Farrell.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[orzel-w]

The studio took advantage of a recent wildfire in the hills around LA to show a defoliated, lifeless landscape, shot through an orange filter to make the air look (more) polluted.
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[MetroPolly]

Whoa. I've seen this! Man, was it ever depressing.

[Custer]

Philip Wylie was quite a writer... he wrote a novelisation of this as Los Angeles: A.D. 2017, which must have been one of his last projects, since he died in October 1971. His main claims to fame would be:

Gladiator (1930) partially inspired the comic-book character Superman.

The Savage Gentleman (1932) "Pulp historians point out that the themes of The Savage Gentleman are replicated to an uncanny degree in the pulp character Clark ???Doc??? Savage (1933) created by Lester Dent..." - Richard A. Lupoff

When Worlds Collide (1933), co-written with Edwin Balmer, inspired Alex Raymond's comic strip Flash Gordon, and as adapted as an eponymous 1951 film by producer George Pal.

[Bud Brewster]

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And now, through the magic of 21st Century thecnology, we can —

— travel back to 1971 —

— take a right turn into a parallel universe so that we can —

— journey to an another dimension in which we can —

— visit an alternate future which makes 2017 look nothing like we remember from two years in our past!

Yes. folks, you're right! We all need to carefully read that sentence again, concentrate on the awesome concept it suggests . . . and then wash down three Tylenol with a beer!
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_________ Spielberg's "L.A. 2017" trailer (1971)


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____________THE NAME OF THE GAME LA 2017


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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Pow]

Yep,I remember watching this one,Bud,when it first aired.