Change Your Image
davidmmiller
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Weekend (1974)
Foreshadowed the World Trade Center collapsing 27 years later
I have a few memories of this show when i was a kid and being disappointed that 'Saturday Night Live' wasn't being shown that week. I remember a somewhat sardonic piece about the then-new World Trade Center, and at one point it snidely suggested that the whole project should be dynamited--there was even a low-budget animation of the towers collapsing on themselves down to the ground.
I also remember they did a piece on an early video arcade game where the object of the game was to drive a car and rundown as many pedestrians as possible. The graphics were pretty primitive (white on black), with a little cross popping up after the little walking stick figure was rundown. The piece questioned whether 'violent' games like this were morally OK, and if they were a sign of things to come.