What show was this?

[klmama]

I remember back in the 70s or 80s watching an episode of some show (maybe a new Twilight Zone?) in which a guy is being punished for some crime by being completely ignored for a year or some other long period of time.  He still lives among people, in his own apartment, but others don't talk to him or interact with him in any way.  If they do, they can be punished.  He speaks to others, but they ignore him and walk away.  The man becomes desperate for human interaction, and he starts talking with a blind man, who doesn't realize who the guy is or what the situation is.  Then,  the government drone that checks up on him and makes sure others don't interact with him appears; the blind man realizes he's been talking to someone he's supposed to ignore and leaves angrily.  The man is alone again.

 

What show is this?  Thanks.

 

 

[smstjohn]

Using some google magic :),  I think you are talking about a 1980's Twilight Zone episode called "To See the Invisible Man". Although I don't see the part about the blind man, but maybe that's just not something in the synopsis I saw? Worth a shot, at least!

[klmama]

That was it!  Thank you for your help!  I guess it wasn't a drone that caused the blind man to know, it was someone whispering to him.  I thought that was the end, but I just found it on YouTube and watched the rest of it.  Funny how things pop into the mind after so many years.  Now, on with my day....

 

[OneStepAtATime]

I have had a fragment of a memory of some TV show I watched with my dad that I have never been able to identify.  I totally understand wanting to just figure out what a random TV memory is!  Glad you can get on with your day.   :lol:

[Home'scool]

I remember that episode! I thought it was very well done.

 

I think that was also the same series that had an episode about the Boogeyman. A boy discovers the Boogeyman is living under his bed, but every night when the Boogeyman rises up he says "I am the Boogeyman and I will never harm the child under whose bed I live" before he floats out the window to cause havoc.

 

This boy starts being bullied at school and decides to get revenge. He tells the bully to meet him at the playground at midnight. When the Boogeyman rises up from underneath his bed and says "I am the Boogeyman and I will never harm the child under whose bed I live" the boy tells him to go to the playground and harm his bully. Then he follows the Boogeyman and watches from the bushes while the Boogeyman kills the bully.

 

The boy then turns to leave, but there looms the Boogeyman. The Boogeyman starts to strangle him and the boy yells "But you said you would never harm the child under whose bed you live! You live under my bed!"

 

And the Boogeyman says "No, I am the Boogeyman who lives under another child's bed!"

 

I remember watching and gasping "Oooooo there is more than one Boogeyman!!"

 

They really had some good stories on that series.

[VaKim]

I remember that episode! I thought it was very well done.

 

I think that was also the same series that had an episode about the Boogeyman. A boy discovers the Boogeyman is living under his bed, but every night when the Boogeyman rises up he says "I am the Boogeyman and I will never harm the child under whose bed I live" before he floats out the window to cause havoc.

 

This boy starts being bullied at school and decides to get revenge. He tells the bully to meet him at the playground at midnight. When the Boogeyman rises up from underneath his bed and says "I am the Boogeyman and I will never harm the child under whose bed I live" the boy tells him to go to the playground and harm his bully. Then he follows the Boogeyman and watches from the bushes while the Boogeyman kills the bully.

 

The boy then turns to leave, but there looms the Boogeyman. The Boogeyman starts to strangle him and the boy yells "But you said you would never harm the child under whose bed you live! You live under my bed!"

 

And the Boogeyman says "No, I am the Boogeyman who lives under another child's bed!"

 

I remember watching and gasping "Oooooo there is more than one Boogeyman!!"

 

They really had some good stories on that series.

I remember that one!