Examination Day, a mid 80's Twilght Zone episode

Youtube ^ | mid-80's | Phillip DeGuer

[DallasBiff]

Nancy Pelosi's and Adam Schiff's paradise of government.

[DallasBiff]

Very interesting teleplay. This was made in the mid 80's during the Reagan years. The lefty Hollywood writer was projecting his and Pelosi's paradise.

[yarddog]

I liked the old “Twilight Zone” shows.

They always had a surprise ending which you sort of knew what it would be, so it really wasn’t a surprise.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Wow, that has to be the worst production I think I’ve EVER seen in any show or movie. What a stinker.

You can save yourself a lot of time by skipping to the climax at 9:35. You won’t miss a thing.

But the thesis is spot-on. It’s very similar to the part of the plot in “The Man in the High Castle” where the son of the Reichsfuerher in America is found to have a bad disease that makes him less than perfect.

[gibsonguy]

Isn’t this the screening process the DNC uses for potential candidates?

[RonnG]

...and the teachers and bureacrats depicted are probaby the highest paid in this society.

[jdege]

https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836

[FatherofFive]

So now we know why there are public schools.

[American in Israel]

Pretty creepy, as the tv episode is based on the fear of a totalitarian state, and ths socilist penchant for mass executions for intellectuals being prevalent in recent history the article raises a chill down the spine.

[IYAS9YAS]

It pre-dates the 80s. I read the short story it was based on in the 70s, and that may have been written in the 60s.

[jjotto]

Henry Slesar wrote the short story ‘Examination Day’ in 1958.

[Bommer]

It was already covered in The Obsolete Man

You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future, not a future that will be but one that might be. This is not a new world, it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super-states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace. This is Mr. Romney Wordsworth, in his last forty-eight hours on Earth. He's a citizen of the State but will soon have to be eliminated, because he's built out of flesh and because he has a mind. Mr. Romney Wordsworth, who will draw his last breaths in The Twilight Zone.