I'm looking for a late 1950?s or early 1960?s television screenplay in
which a young man stumbles upon older couples who are hiding from a law
which mandates the death of all people over the age of about 30.  Can anyone
come up with the title and information where I can get a copy? My
godfather thought the title was "Them," but I couldn't find any
matching plot under that name(just the movie about giant ants).  He
recalls these plot details:
the couples (some of them inter-racial) were hiding out; they were
escaping the mandatory death imposed by law; a young man encounters
them, perhaps on a beach; rather than turn them in to the authorities,
he accompanies them to their hideout, and in very moving conversations
they explain to him the meaning of life.

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Clarification of Question by asiatraveler-ga on 17 Jan 2005 18:13 PST

Thanks everyone for trying.  I think I have to give up!  Just to
clarify, it is NOT Logan's Run that I'm looking for.  Pinkfreud, I
think you are totally right:  the controversial nature of the program
should make it stand out; which just stumps me all the more.  I was
hoping a 50's tv expert would recall the movie.  My godfather recalls
it being a real tear-jerker and very profound.  He was about 19 y.o.,
but a very intelligent guy.  (Logan's Run, by the way, wouldn't have
made such an impression on him!)

Journalist, I have already looked through the episode lists of those
shows, mostly as listed on tvtome.com.  Didn't find one that fit.  I
would guess that the show was live, not taped; but it seemed to take
place in several locations, include outdoor shots.  So it must have
been taped.  Probably lost in the dust bin of history.

Markj-ga, I did come across that article some time ago.  Thanks, though.

Adm7373, ???

Sounds like "Logans Run" - you can get it from Amazon for about $10.

"Logan's Run" was not a tv movie, as far as I am aware, though. It was
a major motion pic.

Kriswrite

same question-expired
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=442109

We know it's not Logan's Run.  But there were very few made-for-tv
movies until the early-to-mid 1960s, so it does seem likely that the
recollected film was either a theatrical movie or a shorter-form TV
series.

Is it called "Wild In The Streets"?  I remember seeing that in the 60's....

I just checked out "Wild In The Streets" on IMBD....that's not it<br><br>
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063808/

I DO remember the last verse of a movie similar to the one you're
describing, though....the scenario was this:  There was this
30-year-old guy who was walking along and came across a young boy who
asked him something.  When the young boy asked the 30-year-old guy how
old he was the man said "30", to which the boy replied, "you're too
old!"....does that spark a memory?

asiatraveler --

I don't know if you have come across this discussion of TV drama in
the early years of television, but, if not, it might jog your
gorfather's memory about the drama series he might have watched
regularly during those years:

Museum of Broadcast Communications: The Golden Age of Television Drama
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/G/htmlG/goldenage/goldenage.htm

It also lists some possibly useful print resources that should be
available in a large public or university library system.

markj-ga

Here's the plot summary for "Wild In The Streets"....

http://imdb.com/title/tt0063808/plotsummary

Plot Summary for Wild in the Streets (1968)

"Max Frost, a 24-year old rock star millionaire, joins causes with a
California politician to get the vote for 15-year olds. He continues
his master plan by helping elect one of his groupies to the senate.
Max and his cohorts resort to trickery to get congress to lower the
minimum age requirements for higher office, and he's on his way to the
Oval Office with his youth-controlled police state agenda.

Max Flatow is a precocious, social miscreant who has a way with
home-made explosives. When he tires of these, he runs away from home
only to emerge seven years later as Max Frost, the world's most
popular entertainer. When Congressman John Fergus uses Frost as a
political ploy to gain the youth vote in his run for the Senate, Frost
wills himself into the system, gaining new rights for the young.
Eventually, Frost runs for the presidency. Winning in a landslide, he
issues his first presidential edict: All oldsters are required to live
in "retirement homes" where they are forced to ingest LSD, taking the
60s catch phrase "Never trust anyone over 30" to its most extreme
consequences."

....that's where I remember the phrase "over 30" from....

I really do think you are describing Logan's Run was it was both a
movie and a TV serial.

Here amazon.com describes the movie

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004VVNB/qid=1105941240/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-1294545-5822349?v=glance&s=dvd

And here is described as TV show

http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/logantv/

Logan's Run is this basic theme but the film/TV series isn't old
enough for that.  I wonder if it's an old "One Step Beyond" or "Outer
Limits" episode.

Best regards,
journalist-ga

Well, after doing a bit of research, I've found the "siblings" of
Playhouse 90 - the teleplay might have been presented on any one of
them:

Alcoa Hour
Goodyear Playhouse
CBS Television Workshop
Philco Television Playhouse
Actor's Studio
Kraft Television Theater
General Electric (GE) Theater
Studio One

Hmmm, too many choices maybe?  lol  Good luck.

Best regards,
journalist-ga

I wonder if this might have been a local or syndicated program. The
portrayal of interracial couples would have been very controversial
during this time period, and national networks would have been leery
of alienating viewers in certain areas of the country by showing
relationships between men and women of different races.

For example, when the African-American performer Sammy Davis, Jr.
married the caucasian actress Mai Britt in 1960, some television
stations vowed never to show any footage of Sammy ever again.

i remember seeing this movie as a kid in the 1960s. i  have asked many
people if they remember this flick and none seem to.  it was about
this lsd like prison camp that put all people over 30 into and the
young people controlled the country..it was a freaky film that ill
never forgt and wish it got some publicity from a critic or media who
would revisit the film and maybe make a remake or part 2 like film..it
is amazing how little people remember about this film.