Subj : Tales of Tomorrow - TZ/NG
To   : ED VANCE
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Thu Jun 20 2024 08:57:00

Spoilers!

> The show I am thinking of the tool was a surgical knife that only removed
> diseased tissue.
> Regular skin didn't show a scar after the knife was withdrawn.
> The ending showed the man putting the tool to his neck to demonstrate how safe
> it was.
> At that moment the people in the future turned the tool settings off.
> The man slit his throat while he was demonstrating the tool.

> That's as close as I remember the show.
> Probably the show was on in the 1970's is as far as I can guess.

Correct.  That is the Night Gallery episode, "The Little Black Bag," which
first aired in 1970 and has aired in reruns since.  That is the one with the
surgical knife that only removed diseased tissue.  One of the bums killed the
other to get the contents of the bag for himself.  He is the man who puts the
tool to his neck just as the future people disabled the contents of the bag.

The 1952 Tales of Tomorrow episode of the same name involved a doctor and
his wife.  It was the wife that, after killing her doctor husband,
ultimately died attempting to demonstrate the tools in the bag.

There was also an episode of a TV show called Out of the Unknown based on
the same story that aired in 1969.  I have not seen that one so I am not sure
exactly if it was the same.

Mike


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