The Trade-Ins story
An elderly couple want new young bodies for the two of them, but can pay for only one. Directed by: Elliot Silverstein. Story by: Rod Serling.
8 total · 3 choice · 4 major · 1 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| choosing who dies and who lives | choice | Central to the story was the tough decision of who would get to be young again. |
| coping with aging | choice | Central to the story was an inseparable couple who faced death of old age together (they kept re-iterating "the best is yet to come"). |
| what if I could be young again | choice | John and Marie found a company which could give them young new (android) bodies, but found they could only afford one. |
| coping with excruciating pain | major | John suffered such excruciating pain that he had to go ahead and become young without his wife. |
| husband and wife | major | The story followed John and Marie Holt as they went to the New Life Corporation to trade in their old bodies for youthful ones. |
| matrimonial love | major | John and Marie was notably in love with each other after 50 years of marriage and made a point of telling it. |
| mind transfer technology | major | The New Life Corporation transferred the consciousness of the elderly man John into a youthful and fit body. |
| taking a high-stakes wager vs. walking away | minor | John decided to bet their whole life's savings in a poker game and came out even. |