TELEVISION - PHILIP K. DICK'S ELECTRIC DREAMS
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams is a British-American science fiction television anthology series based on the works of American Science-Fiction writer Philip K. Dick. It consists of ten standalone episodes based on Dick's work, written by British and American writers. Each episode lasts approximtaely 50 minutes (10, 7 Discs, Channel4, PAL)
Episode 1 - The Hood Maker - In an authoritarian regime called the Free Union, a minority of humans have developed telepathic abilities. Mistrusted by society, they are referred to as "Teeps", live in ghettos, and are routinely discriminated against. A telepath named Honor is recruited to work for the police, and forms a close relationship with her handler, Agent Ross. The pair investigate when a mysterious individual calling himself the "Hood Maker" begins distributing telepathy-proof hoods throughout the city.
Episode 2 - Impossible Planet - Two bored space tourism guides, Norton and Andrews, are approached by a very elderly woman, Irma Louise Gordon, who offers them a large sum of money to take her on one last trip to Earth. As they are not sure the planet even exists anymore, having been evacuated centuries ago due to solar flares, they head for a similar planet, although Irma's robot servant is onto the subterfuge. Irma has a very specific dream about her grandparents swimming in a river in Carolina, and wants to re-enact this with Norton, who is identical to her grandfather.
Episode 3 - The Commuter - Ed Jacobson is a railway worker at Woking station. His life takes a turn for the worse when his son, Sam, begins experiencing psychotic episodes. Shortly afterwards, a young woman named Linda asks for a ticket to a non-existent destination called "Macon Heights". Intrigued, Jacobson follows a number of passengers who jump off the train and walk to an idyllic village where their traumas are wiped away. On his return home, he discovers his son never existed, and he returns to Macon Heights to find Linda and demand she restore his original life.
Episode 4 - Crazy Diamond - Ed Morris works at a company which produces synthetic humanoids called Jacks and Jills, and the QCs ("quantum consciousness") which give them intelligence and emotions. He is approached by a dying Jill, who wants him to help her steal ten QCs – one to extend her own lifespan, and the rest to sell to give Ed a chance to start a new life with his wife, Sally.
Episode 5 - Real Life - Sarah is a policewoman living in the future who shares headspace with George, a brilliant game designer, each pursuing violent killers whose plans could have shattering consequences. 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 - Mission director Vera Herrick is trapped in a loveless marriage with military hero Colonel Silas Herrick. Silas returns to the planet of Rexor IV to obtain a substance needed to process Earth's toxic atmosphere, but comes under attack from the local Rexorians. When their ship returns on autopilot, Silas has apparently survived, and Vera finds him uncharacteristically kind and considerate. The couple are arrested by the State, who believe that Silas has been taken over by a Rexorian consciousness.
Episode 7 - The Father Thing - Eleven-year-old Charlie is out camping with his Father when they see glowing orbs slowly falling from the sky. After they return home, Charlie's Father starts to change and Charlie is uncertain who or what his father is. And he is not alone.
Episode 8 - Autofac - Twenty years after a nuclear war, a small community of survivors are threatened by a nearby environmentally-unfriendly automated factory, and set out to shut it down. They plan to bypass the deadly defenses of the factory by using the factory's own customer services to get inside.
Episode 9 - Safe and Sound - The USA is divided between high-tech, hysterically paranoid "safe" cities and "bubble" communities where invasive technologies are rejected. A "bubble" mother and daughter family move to the big city and while the mother tries to negotiate better treatment of the bubbles, her daughter struggles to adapt to school life, its social oddities, and the pervasive technologies around her before finally giving in to the all-controlling Dex.
Episode 10 - Kill All Others - North America, Mexico and Canada are a single nation with a single presidential Candidate. Philbert Noyce is less than enthusiastic about consumerism and is a low-motivation Q.A. worker on a production line. During the Candidate's speech one night, Philbert hears her utter the words "kill all others" while those words flash on the screen. Few others have seen or heard the message but many are affected by it. Philbert begins to wonder whether he is an Other.