7) Nigel Neale's The Year of the Sex Olympics
This television play from the creator of Quatermass takes place in a terrible future where society is divided into the "low drives" who are basically the working class, and the the "hi-drives" who control the media and society. To keep the "low-drives" pacified, the "hi-drives" give them a constant flow of crappy reality television, culminating with a family stuck on an island with a psycho killer. It's a satire on media culture that feels more prescient today than in the 1960s —
And this do's not happen today?
I've only seen two - Logan's Run and Demolition Man.
Jenny Agutter
Hang on, you can't mention Jenny Agutter with out mentioning An American werewolf in London, she was hot to trot in that film
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That Farrow bloke you executed today, are you sure he's dead?
Well I chopped his head off, that usually does the trick.
Yes, don't get clever with me Baldrick. I just thought you might have lopped off a leg or something by mistake.
No, the thing I chopped off had a nose.
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