Burgess Meredith stars in another episode (he was also in Time Enough at Last from Season 1 and Mister Dingle, the Strong, from Season 2 and Printer’s Devil from Season 4).
As with Time Enough at Last, he’s dealing with books here, as he’s a librarian, deemed “obsolete” by the state, and in his hearing, he has been sentenced to liquidation. Only in this future, he is given the option of determining how he would like to be liquidated. So he decides that he’d like to tell only his assassin, and he’d like to go in his room. So he does, and he invites the chancellor (Fritz Weaver, also in Third from the Sun from Season 1) over for a final word.
He doesn’t tell the chancellor that he wants to go by way of bomb, and that he’s locked the door. Not until he’s inside the room, that is, and the camera comes on. It’s only a minute or so before the bomb goes off, and the chancellor has buckled under the pressure and invokved the name of God (another no-no) when our little librarian lets him out. But by then the damage is done and the chancellor has become obsolete himself. Classic.
