so dreadfully earnest. no wonder I was into it (for a little while) because it's so starry-eyed liberal in an old-fashioned civic-minded way. if you're curious: https://archive.org/details/PDTV0241 (and the episode I watched is called "Deadly Arena", season 5 episode 21)
I'm reminded a bit of an old 1950 Elia Kazan movie, Panic in the Streets, in which Richard Widmark plays a tough-minded public servant attempting to investigate and halt an outbreak of pneumonic plague. I don't know if this melodramatic approach to dramatizing public health does much lasting good, honestly...it seems so very dated these days.
~Chara
