The Bearded Trio

On this day, 44 years ago, Steven Spielberg presented us his vision of the future of our society, in a dystopian episode of the TV series The Name of the Game . The episode was titled: L.A. 2017 (so we still have 2 years to find out how much of his predictions have become reality). The series, that ran for three seasons, and had episodes of 90 minutes each, focused on three, rotating, lead actors: Gene Barry, Tony Franciosa and Robert Stack. In L.A.2017 Gene Barry portrays Glenn Howard, who, while returning from a conference on Ecology, on his way back to Los Angeles, has an accident and loses consciousness. The moment he awakens, he finds himself projected to the future, and is escorted through the Los Angeles Portal in the year 2017. Because of the pollution most of the inhabitants live below the surface to prevent them from being contaminated. When Glenn is shown around in the Los Angeles of the future, he discovers that he doesn't like it very much. Air has...