The Pedestrian

I suppose this could happen. Bradbury must have seen humans as kind of ineffectual nits who had just decided to sit back and watch TV and ignore the world around them (a common theme in his writing). In this totalitarian society, mini-copters fly around keeping people from leaving their houses, threatening them with a kind of neutralization if they even walk the neighborhood. David Ogden Stiers is a risk taker who gets his friend to check the world outside. Of course, they are going to be seen by the observers and are going to pay a price. What is interesting is what they eventually find out. This is a pretty simplistic story with a pessimistic message. I like Bradbury but at times his insights and opinions weren't all that insightful.

Who would have thunk; walking outside is deemed and ordered illegal by some in authoritah..

The only thing missing is the masks.

This one follows the idea of the short story with the same title, but it's a different take on the dystopian idea of humans isolating themselves and society seeing walking as disobedience. I prefer the short story version even though this was entertaining and well made.