To See the Invisible Man - S1-E40
Visible crew/equipment: When the woman ignores Mitchell and rushes into her apartment building, the glass door she opens reflects the camera, crew and studio lights. (00:06:20)
The Twilight Zone (1985)
1 visible crew/equipment mistake in To See the Invisible Man
Starring: Charles Aidman, Robin Ward
The Mind of Simon Foster - S3-E23
Continuity mistake: When the pawnbroker closes his metal gate, he's facing the wire mesh. When the shot cuts, he's instantly facing away from it. (00:10:15)
Trivia: Director Wes Craven appears in this episode as the angry dad who threatens Debbie.
Question: At the end of the episode, Dicky's parents are called and informed that the government has killed him? Why did they do this?
Answer: It's the opposite - not smart but dumb. The voice said he failed to get a perfect score, less than one hundred percent.
Quote: "We regret to inform you that your son's intelligence quotient has EXCEEDED the government standard, according to section blah blah blah of the New Code." As in the original short story, they were eliminating intelligent people.
Where can I find the short story?
It's in the compilation "100 Great Science Fiction Short Stories" edited by Isaac Asimov.
It's by Henry Slesar and a quick Google search will show you some online copies. It's only two pages.
According to Wikipedia, it was first published in the February 1958 issue of Playboy magazine; it may have been reprinted elsewhere since then.
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Answer: They live in a totalitarian state where people who are deemed too smart (and therefore a threat to the authorities) are done away with. That's the point of the test, to eliminate potential troublemakers.
Brian Katcher