The Name of the Game

The Name of the Game

Release Date:  1/15/1971
Country of Release:  USA
Length:  74 minutes
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Medium:  Video
Genre:  ADV
Release Message:  Glenn Howard (Gene Barry), while driving to a Pollution Summit meeting, falls unconscious and finds himself somehow in the future year 2017 where remaining society lives underground due to contaminated air.
Description:  Glenn Howard, while driving to a Pollution Summit meeting, falls unconscious and finds himself somehow in the future year 2017 where remaining society lives underground due to contaminated air. Can he somehow return to 1971? Mysteriously falling asleep dictating a boring plea for action on the ecology to President Nixon, while driving from an environmental summit, a publisher awakens in 2017. The Green Milhous Effect's few survivors live underground, while the U.S. is a corporate fascist state. Needed for his virility in an increasingly sterile society, the media czar is is courted by the U.S. high command, Plutocrats who built bomb shelters. This American Kremlin, headquartered in Detroit, disdain alcohol, getting high on milk instead. They need a Goebbels to brainwash workers forced to to build war machines above ground in the poisoned atmosphere, that the U.S. is still a democracy. Will doing the Time Warp get the arrogant publisher back to 1971 to save the smoggy planet?