Reviews

I've only ever seen two or three episodes of this series, but they enthralled me. I only wish it were possible to buy them on DVD.

Who else but Steve Allen would conceive of a talk show that had Genghis Khan debating with Emily Dickinson? Pure genius! Highlights from the other episodes that I've caught featured:

* The Marquis De Sade giving a most wonderful soliloquy on the sadism of God -- to the booing of the audience.

* Gandhi debating with a woman (whose name I forget) on the value of birth control (Gandhi was very much against).

* There was an entire episode entirely about Shakespeare and his various characters, but it was IMHO, one of the weakest of the episodes.

I absolutely loved this movie when I first saw in on TV in the 70's and looked for it for years before I finally found and bought a VHS copy.

In many ways, I think this is the finest bit of SF ever to be put on TV. Forget about special effects and fancy sets. This eschewed all of them and instead provided a thought-provoking and sometimes funny look at man's relation to reality.

Its difficult to say more without spoiling some of the more wonderful moments of the film, but I very much enjoyed seeing how the various characters interacted with each other throughout the film as the circumstances changed.