This is brilliant. Key scene from The News-Benders (1968) episode from the BBC2 (UK) Thirty-Minute Theatre series which ran from 1965 - 1973. Telling you just like it is, way back when. (6m 17s) Truth

Everything's just a "coink-e-dink," no doubt. That also applies to the rather "out there" predictive programming element from the Comedy Central series, Legends of Chamberlain Heights