TV series
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
Overview
A diverse anthology of ambitious, moving tales inspired by Philip K Dick's short stories.
Details
- First air date
- 2017-09-17
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 10 episodes
- Genres
- Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama
- Network
- Channel 4
- Production
- Sony Pictures Television, Channel 4 Television, Tall Ship Productions, Moonshot Entertainment, Anonymous Content, Amazon Studios, Electric Shepherd Productions, Left Bank Pictures, Rooney McP Productions
- Country
- GB
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Steve Buscemi as Ed Morris
- Annalise Basso as Foster Lee
- Timothy Spall as Ed Jacobson
- Rebecca Manley as Mary Jacobson
- Anthony Boyle as Sam Jacobson
- Rudi Dharmalingam as Bob Paine
- Tuppence Middleton as Linda
- Anne Reid as Martine Jenkins
- Ann Akinjirin as Dr. Simpson
- Hayley Squires as Waitress
- Tom Brooke as Tall man in light coat
- Marko Leht as Icelandic customer
Creators and crew
- Philip K. Dick - Creator
- James Degus - Executive Producer
- David Kanter - Executive Producer
- Isa Dick Hackett - Executive Producer
- Michael Dinner - Executive Producer
- Ronald D. Moore - Executive Producer
Episodes
Episode 1: The Hood Maker
The world is without advanced technology and mutant telepaths have become humanity’s only mechanism for long distance communication. But their powers have unintended implications and when the public begin to embrace mysterious, telepath-blocking hoods, two detectives with an entangled past are brought in to investigate.
Episode 2: Impossible Planet
Two disillusioned, disenchanted and indifferent space tourism employees take up an elderly woman’s request for a trip back to Earth… the existence of which is a long-debunked myth.
Episode 3: The Commuter
Ed Jacobson, an unassuming employee at a train station, is alarmed to discover that a number of daily commuters are taking the train to a town that shouldn’t exist.
Episode 4: Crazy Diamond
As average a man as ever there was, when approached by a gorgeous synthetic woman with an illegal plan that could change his life completely, a smitten Ed decides to help... and then his world really begins to crumble.
Episode 5: Real Life
Sarah, a policewoman living in the future, shares headspace with George, a brilliant game designer. In a race against time, sharing a bond that no one else can see, they learn the very thing that connects them can also destroy them.
Episode 6: Human Is
A woman suffering in a loveless marriage finds that upon his return from battle, her emotionally abusive husband suddenly appears to be a different man - in more ways than one.
Episode 7: The Father Thing
The world is under attack as aliens quietly invade our homes. Charlie, our young hero, must make the most difficult decisions imaginable, to protect his Mother and the human race, as he is among the first to realize that humans are being replaced by dangerous monsters.
Episode 8: Autofac
Despite society and the world as we know it having collapsed, a massive, automatic product-manufacturing factory continues to operate according to the principles of consumerism - humans consume products to be happy, and in order to consume continuously, they must be denied freedom of choice and free will. When a small band of rebels decide to shut down the factory, they discover they may actually be the perfect consumers after all.
Episode 9: Safe & Sound
A small-town girl, already gripped with social anxiety, moves to a big futuristic city with her mother. Exposed for the first time to urban society’s emphasis on security and terrorist prevention, it isn’t long before her school days are consumed by fear and paranoia. She soon finds guidance and companionship in the most unexpected of places.
Episode 10: Kill All Others
A man hangs dead from a lamppost, apparently murdered and inexplicably ignored by passersby, after a politician makes a shocking statement encouraging violence. When one man dares to question the situation he becomes an instant target.
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