by Nigel Kneale.
With Leonard Rossiter, Suzanne Neve
and Tony Vogel, Vickery Turner, Brian Cox, George Murcell
(Colour)

This frightening new play by Nigel Kneale is set in the future, in a world totally dominated and run by television. A world that is air-conditioned, fully automated and full of gigantic TV screens, where a child seeing a window for the first time would say, 'Oh, look, a mini-screen!'
A world where language has become almost redundant - the 'low-drive' people who form 98 per cent of the population don't need to read, write or even speak to each other. The other two per cent-the 'high-drive' people - run the television programmes.
All 'tensions' - like war, hate, love, loyalty - have been removed, so with none of these factors left to control the problems of over-population, other methods must be found.
The answer is in television - there are gluttony programmes to put people off food, and applied pornography programmes to put them off sex. There's art-sex, and sport-sex - this happens to be the year of the sex Olympics.
For the tiny minority who want no part of this TV world, there's only one way out - to become a programme themselves. Deanie, Nat Mender and their child go to a small island where life hasn't been made trivial and safe, and isn't, in the words of the play, 'comfy and cosy,' where television doesn't supply all needs.
The cameras are on them twenty-four hours a day - it's the Live Life Show and is soon top of the ratings. The final outcome is both tragic and terrifying.