Brave New World (1980)
- Director(s):
- Burt Brinckerhoff
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Synopsis of Brave New World
This 3-hour TV adaptation of the 1932 Aldous Huxley novel is set 600 years in the future. In this "well- ordered" society, the citizens are required to take mind-controlling drugs, sex without love is compulsory, and test-tube babies are commonplace because of a ban on pregnancy. Keir Dullea heads the cast as Thomas Grahmbell, "director of hatcheries". Not everybody is satisfied with society's lack of humanity and feeling; the loudest dissidents are free-thinking poet Heimholtz Watson (Dick Anthony Williams) and brilliant oddball Bernard Marx (Bud Cort). An injection of new "old" ideas are brought in by "primitive" John Savage (Kristoffer Tabori), who lives on an Indian reservation which still honors 20th century values. Meanwhile, Linda Lysenko (Julie Cobb) becomes a natural mother--and in so doing becomes a criminal. In keeping with the style of the original book, the script's newly-minted characters are given names of pop-culture icons (Disney, Maoina, Stalina, and so on). Brave New World was first telecast March 7, 1980. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of Brave New World
- Julie Cobb - Linda Lysenko
- Kristoffer Tabori - John Savage
- Bud Cort - Bernard Marx
- Jeanetta Arnette
- Tara Buckman - Alpha Teacher
- Aron Kincaid - J. Edgar Millhouse
- Tricia O'Neil
- Marcia Strassman - Lenina Disney
- Ron O'Neal - Mustapha Mond
- Keir Dullea - Thomas Grambell
- Dick Anthony Williams - Helmholz Watson
- Jonelle Allen - Fanny Crowne
- Reb Brown - Henry Exxon
- Lee Chamberlin - Head Nurse
- Carole Mallory - Miss Trotsky
- Victoria Racimo - Beta Teacher
- Valerie Curtin - Chief Warden Stelina Shell
- Director(s):
- Burt Brinckerhoff
- Writer(s):
- Robert E. Thompson
- Producer(s):
- Jacqueline Babbin
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