Word: thinktank
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Invisible Man. This new series started out a little better than most. David McCallum plays a conscientious scientist working on important research, but when it's a success and his thinktank decides to sell it to the Pentagon, he turns the research on himself and destroys the project. The project: invisibility. You might think its a big breakthrough for television to be dealing with such a controversial issue. But, when the students of the real issues are napalm-makers and poison gas developers aren't working on invisibility, they're working on laser-beam weapons and accurate nuclear weapons...
...place in Vienna and slowly molds it back into the London of the canon. He homes in on squalid quarters and warehouses by the river and at last even transforms Freud's apartment at Bergasse 19 from a sedate and bookish settlement into the familiar malodorous and cluttered Holmes thinktank...
...Lear has staved off every major threat with a combination of logic, persuasion, threats to cancel a whole episode (or the whole series), and scathing contempt for the censors' "thinktank mentality," his term for the corporate and governmental attitude that underestimates "how wise-heart a great many Americans...