Trick Baby

This program depicts the lives of Joe who was overweight, stressed and a lover of high fat, high cholesterol foods, and Ann who was a workaholic smoker. Both have died at 47 and, through realistically staged autopsies, the pathologists explain why. The program stresses that we are all responsible for our own health, and the life choices we make can, to a large degree, control our life span.

When a quiet group of pensioners learn that their homes are to be torn down to make way for a block of flats, they decide to take action. What starts as an attempt to discourage the developers soon escalates into wholesale murder of both the developers and the construction workers.

Every year, on June 27th, in a small village in New England, inhabited by no more than 300 people, a lottery is held in which a family is chosen as part of a ritual to ensure a good harvest.

Bartleby, an enigmatic man who calmly refuses to carry out his duties, is introduced in this period dramatization of Melville’s haunting story as a scrivener in a 1969 film production of Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corporation.