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From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
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Subject: Re: American Playhouse (PBS) - "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank"
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Date: Thu, 31-Jan-85 19:02:59 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 31 19:02:59 1985
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Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: Not so good, if it's what I saw on CBC last year

William Daul writes:
> ... The American Playhouse (PBS) is showing a
> sci-fi play this week. It is called Overdrawn At The Memory Bank. I thought
> I had once heard it was good. Most material that the American Playhouse
> performs is excellent (a personal value judgement on my part).

I expect this is the same TV-movie I saw on the CBC last year.
It was a Canadian production.  I'd read the short story (same
title, can't remember the author or where I saw it) a year or
two before that -- long enough to forget some detail.

While I enjoyed the short story, I think the TV adapters must have
tampered with the plot.  The tycoon character had a large and illogical
part, which I don't remember from the story; he must have been added
or altered.  And this made the thing rather nonsensical.

However, if this major flaw is overlooked, it wasn't bad.

Mark Brader, Toronto, Canada