(Could also be called "The Norman (as in "Truman") Show".)

Norman Rose plays a brilliant scientist who, at show's beginning, has committed suicide. Before his death, he'd been developing a technology called "space heat" (if one can get past thinking of "space heaters") that if used as a weapon could literally set the world on fire. His behavior had been strange lately...he was losing parts of his memory and was forgetting old friends.

His wife (nicely done, again, by Marian Seldes) opens their safe and is going through his personal papers after the funeral, and makes a startling discovery. He'd been contacted by a firm called "Life films, Inc." and had been given an amazing opportunity to view every single moment of his life from birth onward. Rose's character became immersed and practically addicted to the moments when he could view his past...

Russell Horton and Earl Hammond also played double duty, as both friends and the two mysterious employees of the film company he meets. 