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The Year of the Sex Olympics

The Year of the Sex Olympics is a 1968 television play made by the BBC and first broadcast on BBC2 as part of Theatre 625. Influenced by concerns about overpopulation, the counterculture of the 1960s and the societal effects of television, the play depicts a world of the future where a small elite control the media, keeping the lower classes docile by serving them an endless diet of lowest common denominator programmes and pornography. The play concentrates on an idea the programme controllers have for a new programme which will follow the trials and tribulations of a group of people left to fend for themselves on a remote island. In this respect, the play is often cited as having anticipated the craze for reality television.

English
  • Originally Aired July 29, 1968
  • Runtime 1 minutes
  • Network BBC Two
  • On Other Sites IMDB
  • Notes Is the series finale
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Name Type Role
Nigel Kneale Writer
Martin Potter Guest Star
Brian Cox Guest Star
Tony Vogel Guest Star
Suzanne Neve Guest Star
Derek Fowlds Guest Star
Leonard Rossiter Guest Star
Michael Elliott Director