

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
2017 · 1 season · 10 episodes · Ended · Channel 4
Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama
TMDB 7.0 · 382 votes
A diverse anthology of ambitious, moving tales inspired by Philip K Dick's short stories.
Episodes
- S01E01The Hood Maker2017-09-1750m
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.
- S01E02Impossible Planet2017-09-2451m
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.
- S01E03The Commuter2017-10-0150m
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.
- S01E04Crazy Diamond2017-10-0851m
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.
- S01E05Real Life2017-10-1555m
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.
- S01E06Human Is2017-10-2949m
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.
- S01E07The Father Thing2018-02-2649m
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.
- S01E08Autofac2018-03-0551m
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.
- S01E09Safe & Sound2018-03-1251m
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.
- S01E10Kill All Others2018-03-1949m
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.
Cast
Steve BuscemiEd Morris
Annalise BassoFoster Lee
Timothy SpallEd Jacobson
Rebecca ManleyMary Jacobson
Anthony BoyleSam Jacobson
Rudi DharmalingamBob Paine
Tuppence MiddletonLinda
Anne ReidMartine Jenkins
Ann AkinjirinDr. Simpson
Hayley SquiresWaitress
Tom BrookeTall man in light coat
Marko LehtIcelandic customer









