“The Man in the Cube” was written and produced by Jim Henson, prior to his Muppets productions. It was broadcast on NBC’s “Experiments in Television” series in 1969.

Link courtesy Douglas Rushkoff, who writes:

“I saw this television program when I was six or seven years old. It was a Sunday morning thing – they did experimental and religious stuff on Sunday mornings. I saw it with my dad, who probably understood it better than I did at the time.

“But it always stayed with me. It was a really strange, haunting experience for a kid. My introduction to existentialism, I suppose. I didn’t remember that much of it – only that I had seen it, and felt it had changed me: that the person I had become was informed by this little television film.

“At Princeton, more than ten years later, I found out that two of my very best friends – Tom Burka and Walter Kirn – had been obsessed with this little television show, as well. They, too, felt the drama had somehow warped their entire perspective on life. That perhaps we had even been damaged by this little show – that it was responsible for a sadness and confusion we just couldn’t shake…”