"The Ray Bradbury Theater" The Murderer (TV Episode 1990) - Cedric Smith as Dr. Arnold Fellows

Albert Brock : You're wondering why it's so quiet in here.

Dr. Arnold Fellows : Yes.

Albert Brock : I just kicked the radio to death.
Albert Brock : Excuse me.

[bites Dr. Fellows' radio and destroys it]

Albert Brock : Welcome to tranquility.

Dr. Arnold Fellows : This will cost you $300.

Albert Brock : I don't care.

[turns around singing]

Albert Brock : I don't care, I don't care.
Dr. Arnold Fellows : But the phone is useful, essential to all our lives, couldn't you adjust?

Albert Brock : Why are we always adjusting to machines? They're like spoiled kids always making demands. We're adults, we should have control over them. And the telephone just sits there and demands to be used.
Dr. Arnold Fellows : Suppose you tell me when you first started to hate the telephone.

Albert Brock : Oh at first I loved them, I mean when I was growing up we had them all over: in the kitchen, the bathroom, in our cars. Then when I was 16 my folks gave me my first video phone. Only it was so new no one else in town had one, so I had nobody I could call. But then, Emily Foster, prettiest girl in town got one, started to get real close. But the phone changes you, even it has a picture, it drains your personality so what comes through the other end is some cold fish of a voice. Saying the wrong things, changing the meaning on you, next thing you know, you've made an enemy.

Cedric Smith: Dr. Arnold Fellows