High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate is a 1971 television movie directed by Ted Post, starring Helen Hayes, Mildred Natwick, Myrna Loy and Sylvia Sidney, adapted from a novel of the same name by Doris Miles Disney. It premiered on ABC on November 9, 1971. Both the novel and film are noteworthy as a pre-World Wide Web foray into the idea of virtual reality.