The Future Isn't What It Used To Be

I've been reading a book about Steven Spielberg. Spielberg was different from his noted contemporaries--Lucas, Coppola, Scorsese, etc.--in that they were into movies of all sorts while he was more an entertainer.  They worked on film projects, often experimental, for little money while he signed a seven-year deal at Universal to direct TV.

The book notes one of his early works was a sci-fi 1971 episode of The Name Of The Game entitled "LA 2017." (Odd already in that TNOTG was set in the present.) So what happens in this far off future?

Well, things aren't going too well in Los Angeles.  The air is unbreathable so the survivors have moved underground.  And while they pretend to have a democracy, it's actually despotic.

I'd love to see the whole 90-minute episode.  Luckily, someone made a trailer for it: