tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post2318648086199257850..comments2024-03-17T07:11:44.454-04:00Comments on John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Cult Movies and Classic TV: The Films of 1980: Death WatchJohn Kenneth Muirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15629979615332893780noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post-23593495078270545712015-05-05T11:28:32.672-04:002015-05-05T11:28:32.672-04:00I already thought of another example that I forgot...I already thought of another example that I forgot to include, and it's a REALLY good one:<br /><br />Daddy-O (TV pilot, Rod Amateau and Max Shulman, 1961)<br /><br />Maybe I'll work further on this topic at my new blog, Book 'em, Danno! (a successor to my old Patrick Murtha's Diary blog). I would also love to see more thoughts on it by JKM here!Patrick Murthahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08103905929956454199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post-55176112591875003362015-05-05T11:05:30.530-04:002015-05-05T11:05:30.530-04:00This is an interesting addition to the genre of re...This is an interesting addition to the genre of relatively early (pre-1990) satires on the television industry. Many of these seem to focus on reality TV before reality TV became a dominant force, and this can be considered as prescient. Many of the reality TV satires further seem to focus on the prospect of actual deaths being televised for entertainment purposes; that possibility has seemed to be "just over the horizon" for quite a while.<br /><br />I have compiled a little list of pre-1990 satires on television AND of reality TV "anticipations" - there is considerable overlap between these. This is undoubtedly far from complete, but it is what I have got right now. A good subject for further research. <br /><br />"The Racer" (short story, Ib Melchior, 1952, basis of Bartel film below)<br />"The Seventh Victim" (short story, Robert Sheckley, 1953, basis of Petri film below)<br />Who He? (aka The Rat Race) (novel, Alfred Bester, 1953, with interesting similarities to Michael Tolkin's 1988 novel The Player and Robert Altman's 1992 film of it)<br />"You're Another" (short story, Damon Knight, 1955)<br />"The Prize of Peril" (short story, Robert Sheckley, 1958, basis of Toelle and Boisset films below)<br />Golk (novel, Richard G. Stern, 1960)<br />"It Could Be You" (short story, Frank Roberts, 1964)<br />The 10th Victim (Elio Petri, 1965)<br />"Survivor" (short story, Walter F. Moudy, 1965) <br />The Year of the Sex Olympics (Michael Elliott and Nigel Kneale, 1968)<br />"Bread and Circuses" (episode of Star Trek, 1968)<br />Das Millionenspiel (Tom Toelle, 1970)<br />The Unsleeping Eye (aka The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe) (novel, D.G. Compton, 1973, basis of Tavernier film below) <br />Your Sparkle Cavalcade of Death (novel, Robert Shiarella, 1974)<br />Network (Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky, 1975)<br />Death Race 200 (Paul Bartel, 1975)<br />"Ladies and Gentlemen, This is Your Crisis" (short story, Kate Wilhelm, 1976)<br />Real Life (Albert Brooks, 1979)<br />The Long Walk (novel, Stephen King, 1979)<br />Death Watch (Bertrand Tavernier, 1980)<br />The Running Man (novel, Stephen King, 1982, basis of Glaser film below)<br />Le prix du danger (Yves Boisset, 1983)<br />Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983)<br />"Vengeance on Varos" (eight-episode arc of Dr. Who, 1985)<br />Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future (Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel, 1985)<br />The Running Man (Paul Michael Glaser, 1987)<br />Deathrow Gameshow (Mark Pirro, 1987)<br />Max Headroom (TV series, 1987-1988)Patrick Murthahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08103905929956454199noreply@blogger.com