Whicker's World
Whicker's New World
Subjects of Whicker's scrutiny in this series exploring the new "American Lifestyles", first broadcast in 1969, include cryogenics, media stardom, swinging singles, wage slavery, and old age.
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6 Episodes
- Immortality IncE1
Immortality IncWhicker looks at the cult of immortality in America, where people will pay $10,000 for the chance to live twice. They believe that while they are frozen for a century or two, science will find a way of re-animating them as medicine crosses new frontiers. A Michigan professor predicts it will become a trillion dollar industry. Twenty people are frozen already. On Long Island, Whicker talks to a Manhattan policeman, beside them, in a crate of dry ice, is his wife. His hope is that science will find a way to cure the cancer from which she died, and then invent a method of reviving her. On his death he will join her in the ‘freezatorium’. In the San Fernando Valley, Whicker meets the director of a scheme by which 20 bodies can be frozen in large tanks, liquid nitrogen preserves them in this frozen limbo and a salt solution replaces their blood. - MicroMedia IncE2
MicroMedia IncWhere have all the American children gone? The pre-teens, the seven-to-elevens you'd think are entitled to be childish, have grown into the first Micro Media generation - mature moppets who make movies instead of playing games and are completely at home with computers and crime, the stockmarket and sex. - Swingles IncE3
Swingles IncThere is a new economic force in America today, privileged and envied: the swinging, 24 million unabashed and unwed adults with few inhibitions about their marital status. In the third of his journey into the new transatlantic lifestyles, Alan Whicker found them courted not only by each other, but by big business. - Bodysnatchers IncE5
Bodysnatchers IncBusiness executives, America's leading heroes, enjoy the greatest prestige and the greatest rewards. The President of General Motors collects £330,000 a year and others pick up £125,000. In return, Society demands nothing from the top executive - except his entire life!