On this day in television history - Electric Dreams (2017 TV series & book):

Electric Dreams

Anthology series based on short stories by Philip K. Dick.

All 10 episodes released January 12, 2018.

Previously shown on Channel 4 from September 17, 2017 – March 19, 2018.

Theme music by Harry Gregson-Williams.

Season 1. Episode 1.

Episode entitled: The Hood Maker.

Directed by Julian Jarrold.

Written by Matthew Graham.

Music by Ólafur Arnalds.

Cast: Richard Madden, Holliday Grainger, Noma Dumezweni, Richard McCabe, Anneika Rose, Chris Mayo, Remmie Milner, Tom Mothersdale, Ian Pink, Richard Rowe-McGhie, Paul Ritter, Sarah Vevers, Darcey Brown, Hilary Agostini, Raj Awasti, Tom Blount, Janine Catterall, Nick Davison, Laraine Dix, Shawnah Donley, Jade Francine, Ricardo Freitas, Charlotte Jo Hanbury, Juke Hardy, Lana Ish-Muhametova, Danielle Kingston, Nina Mangold, Stephanie Moore, Joshua Neil, Elsa Nori, Axel Nu, Tom Ogg, Jacqueline Ramnarine, Sarah Sharman, Tony Way, Latesha Wilson.

Season 1. Episode 2.

Episode entitled: Impossible Planet.

Directed by David Farr.

Written by David Farr.

Music by Bear McCreary.

Cast: Geraldine Chaplin, Benedict Wong, Jack Reynor, Bekka Bowling, Justin Butcher, Georgina Campbell, Annes Elwy, Malik Ibheis, Christopher Staines, Steven Dutton, Nicholle Hembra.

Season 1. Episode 3.

Episode entitled: The Commuter.

Directed by Tom Harper.

Written by Jack Thorne.

Music by Harry Gregson-Williams.

Cast: Timothy Spall, Anthony Boyle, Rudi Dharmalingam, Rebecca Manley, Tuppence Middleton, Anne Reid, Hayley Squires, Nicole Agada, Ann Akinjirin / Ann Akin, Rebecca Birch, Tom Brooke, Lauren Carse, Brodie Jouxson, Matthew Jure, Naveed Khan, Marko Leht, Matthew Raymond, Roy Beck, Justin Cosh, Karl Farrer, Michael Haydon, Gilbert White.

Season 1. Episode 4.

Episode entitled: Crazy Diamond.

Directed by Marc Munden.

Written by Tony Grisoni.

Music by Cristobal Tapia de Veer.

Cast: Steve Buscemi, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Julia Davis, Lucian Msamati, Joanna Scanlan, Michael Socha, Isis Davis, Sophia Del Pizzo, Gina Gangar, Lauren Hobbs, Scott Karim, Kerri McLean, Abraham Popoola, Adam Riches, Ross Carter, Olga Docheva, James Henri-Thomas, Hyo Won Kim.

Season 1. Episode 5.

Episode entitled: Real Life.

Directed by Jeffrey Reiner.

Written by Ronald D. Moore.

Music by Bear McCreary.

Cast: Terrence Howard, Anna Paquin, Rachelle Lefevre, Lara Pulver, Guy Burnet, Jacob Vargas, Sam Witwer, Christian Isely, Anton Bassey, Anu Bhatt, J. Salome Martinez, Karin Anglin, Dominic Capone III, Jason Singer, Lisa Greene, Chris Nolte, Jonathan Posthuma, Rekkhan.

Season 1. Episode 6.

Episode entitled: Human Is.

Directed by Francesca Gregorini.

Written by Jessica Mecklenburg.

Music by Cristobal Tapia de Veer.

Cast: Bryan Cranston, Essie Davis, Liam Cunningham, Khalid Abdalla, Ruth Bradley, William Gaminara, Nathalie Armin, Ronan Vibert, Jamie Wilkes, Marc Danbury, Fode Simbo, Dean Ashton, Jessica D'Arcy, Ntiarna Xavier Knight, Lee Admassie, Gintare Beinoraviciute, Dilyana Bouklieva, Debbie Cameron, Alan Cassidy, Bern Collaço, Rene Costa, Vaslov Goom, Juke Hardy, Adam King, Adam King-Sekera, Sarah Sayuri Leung, James Pepper, Darren Tassell, Penni Tovey, Michael Yates.

Season 1. Episode 7.

Episode entitled: The Father Thing.

Directed by Michael Dinner.

Written by Michael Dinner.

Music by Harry Gregson-Williams.

Cast: Greg Kinnear, Jack Gore, Shannon Brown, Alana Arenas, Terry Kinney, Marc Grapey, Jack Lewis, Zakk Paradise, Mireille Enos, Cole Keriazakos, Philip Ghantous, Brian Boland, Ryan Evans, Andrew Rothenberg, Eric C. Lynch, Steve Johnson, Tyler Evans, Vaslov Goom, Sarah Sayuri Leung, David Lowenthal, Paul A Munday, Russ Panzarella, Devito Parker Jr., Delphine Pontvieux, Corinne van den Heuvel.

Season 1. Episode 8.

Episode entitled: Autofac.

Directed by Peter Horton.

Written by Travis Beacham.

Music by Ólafur Arnalds, BT.

Cast: Juno Temple, Janelle Monáe, David Lyons, Nick Eversman, Jay Paulson, Maximiliano Hernández, Rebecca Jordan, Roberto Mantica, Desmond Laurent, Jeff Dlugolecki, Pretty Rickey PR.

Season 1. Episode 9.

Episode entitled: Safe and Sound.

Directed by Alan Taylor.

Written by Kalen Egan, Travis Sentell.

Music by Mark Isham.

Cast: Annalise Basso, Maura Tierney, Connor Paolo, Alice Lee, Algee Smith, Martin Donovan, Emily Rudd, Mari Marroquin, Emma González, Jordan Vintryst, Randall McDonald, Mike Geraghty, Terence Sims, Sam Straley, Matthew Chappelle, Aidan Traynor, Lindsay Stock, Pamela Jones, Aurora Adachi-Winter, Sarah Lo, Jeremiah Garcia, Andy Stout, Erica Geiger, Matthias Kocur, Deano Bugatti Mitchison, Lily Paige, Dylan Rogers, Ashland Thomas.

Season 1. Episode 10.

Episode entitled: Kill All Others.

Directed by Dee Rees.

Written by Dee Rees.

Music by Bear McCreary.

Cast: Mel Rodriguez, Sarah Baker, Jason Mitchell, Glenn Morshower, Louis Herthum, DuShon Monique Brown, Vera Farmiga, Kathy Scambiatterra, Kylan Conroy, Dale Rivera, Bassam Abdelfattah, Joe Caballero, Joe Yau, Gabriel Ruiz, Tim Heurlin, Terry Berner, Richard Perez, Cindy Chang, Desiree Ballesteros, Lia D. Mortensen, Shaz Campbell, Marsha Estell, Karissa Murrell Myers, Bryan Christopher, Michelle Bester, Brian Bianchi, Joette Waters, Daniel Craig Baker, Michael Corsale, Clarence E. Davis, Vaslov Goom, Peter S. Kim, Freddy Moyano, Rafaela Ochoa, Bryan C. Ordman, Russ Panzarella, Darren Sheehan.

Recommended reading:

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

By Philip K. Dick.

Published by Gollancz.

Published 2017.

ISBN-10: 1473223288

ISBN-13: 9781473223288

Description:

The stories that inspired the original dramatic series. Though perhaps most famous as a novelist, Philip K. Dick wrote more than one hundred short stories over the course of his career, each as mind-bending and genre-defining as his longer works. Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams collects ten of the best. In “Autofac,” Dick shows us one of the earliest examples (and warnings) in science fiction of self-replicating machines. “Exhibit Piece” and “The Commuter” feature Dick exploring one of his favorite themes: the shifting nature of reality and whether it is even possible to perceive the world as it truly exists. And “The Hanging Stranger” provides a thrilling, dark political allegory as relevant today as it was when Dick wrote it at the height of the Cold War. Strange, funny, and powerful, the stories in this collection highlight a master at work, encapsulating his boundless imagination and deep understanding of the human condition.

Born on this day – Philip K. Dick:

Philip K. Dick

Writer

December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982

Credits:

Books:

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / aka Blade Runner (1968); The Edge of Human (By: K.W. Jeter) (1995); Replicant Night (By: K.W. Jeter) (1996); Eye and Talon (By: K.W. Jeter) (2000); 100 Astounding Little Alien Stories (1996); A Handful of Darkness (1955); A Maze of Death (1970); A Scanner Darkly (1977); A Scanner Darkly (1977); Alien Worlds (1964); Alpha 3 (1972); Alpha 5 (1974); Angels! (1995); Anthology of Sci-Fi V1 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V10 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V11 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V12 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V13 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V15 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V17 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V18 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V19 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V2 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V20 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V22 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V24 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V3 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V4 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V5 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V5, the Pulp Writers (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V6 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V7 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V8 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi V9 (2013); Anthology of Sci-Fi, the Pulp Writers V1 (2013); Bangs & Whimpers: Stories about The End of The World (1999); Battlefields Beyond Tomorrow (1987); bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Beyond Lies the Wub (1951); Beyond the Door (1954); Beyond Tomorrow (1976); Cantata-140 aka The Crack in Space (1964); Christopher Hitchens (2017); Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964); Confessions of a Crap Artist (1975); Contact: Stories of the New World (2013); Counter-Clock World (1967); Dangerous Visions (1967); Dangerous Visions 2 (1967); David Bowie (2016); Deus Irae (1976); Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb (1965); Dr. Futurity (1960); Ernest Hemingway (2015); Eye in the Sky (1957); Fantastic Stories Presents (2014); Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology (1974); Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974); Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Gabriel García Márquez (2015); Galactic Pot-Healer (1969); Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1963 (1963); Gather Yourselves Together (1994); Graham Greene: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2019); Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2013); Human Is? (1955); Humpty Dumpty in Oakland (1986); Hunger for Horror (1988); Hunter S. Thompson (2018); I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon (1985); In Milton Lumky Territory (1984); In Pursuit of VALIS (1991); Inside the Funhouse (1992); Invaders! (1993); J. D. Salinger (2016); James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations (2014); Jane Jacobs (2016); Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2022); John Lewis: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2021); Johnny Cash: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Jorge Luis Borges (2012); Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2018); Kathy Acker: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2018); Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2022); Kurt Vonnegut (2011); Learning to Live Finally (2005); Lies, Inc. (1983); Lieu: Science Fiction Short Stories (2015); Lou Reed (2015); Martian Time-Slip (1964); Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2017); Mary and the Giant (1987); More Amazing Stories (1998); Nature's Warnings: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction (2020); New Skies: An Anthology of Today's Science Fiction (2003); Nick and the Glimmung (1988); Nora Ephron: The Last Interview (2015); Now Wait for Last Year (1966); Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2023); Oliver Sacks (2016); Our Friends From Frolix 8 (1970); Peter Davison's Book of Alien Monsters (1982); Philip K. Dick (2015); Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (2017); Puttering About in a Small Land (1985); Radio Free Albemuth (1985); Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview (2014); Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2009); Robots Through the Ages (2023); Science Fiction Super Pack #1 (2013); Second Variety (1987); Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2021); Small Town (1954); Solar Lottery / World of Chance (1955); Spells of Enchantment (1991); Star Science Fiction Stories 3 (1955); Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 (1953); Tales of Time Travel - Book Three: Seven Short Science Fiction Stories (2016); The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction (1980); The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 24 (1982); The Book of Philip K. Dick (1972); The Broken Bubble (1988); The Campfire Collection (2005); The Cosmic Puppets (1957); The Crack in Space (1966); The Crystal Crypt (1954); The Dark-Haired Girl (1988); The Defenders (1953); The Defenders and Three Others (1950); The Divine Invasion (1981); The Eighth Galaxy Reader (1965); The Eyes Have It and Other Stories (2022); The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack (2012); The Game-Players of Titan (1963); The Ganymede Takeover (1967); The Golden Man (1980); The Gun (1952); The Last of the Masters (1954); The Lobster's Birthday and Other Stories (2014); The Mammoth Book Of Science Fiction (2002); The Man in the High Castle (1962); The Man Who Japed (1956); The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike (1984); The Minority Report (1956); The Monster Book of Monsters (1988); The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1993); The Penultimate Truth (1964); The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick (1995); The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford and Other Classic Stories (1987); The Simulacra (1964); The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack (2013); The Skull (1952); The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1964); The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982); The Ultimate Cyberpunk (2002); The Ultimate Short Story Bundle (2020); The Unreconstructed M (1957); The Unteleported Man (1964); The Variable Man and Other Stories (1957); The Vintage Book of Amnesia (2000); The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010); The World Jones Made (1956); The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 3 (1970); The Young Oxford Book of Aliens (1999); The Zap Gun (1967); Time Out of Joint (1959); Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020); Total Recall (1966); Ubik (1969); Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2019); VALIS (1981); Visions of Fear (1992); Voices from the Street (2007); Vulcan's Hammer (1960); War Veteran (1955); We Can Build You (1969); We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (1987); What If Our World is Their Heaven? (1982).

Movies, television and video:

Blade Runner (1982); Blade Runner 2049 (2017); A Scanner Darkly (2006); Andys (2014); Barjo (1992); Beyond the Door (2011); BIOS (2018); Blade Runner (video game) (1997); Blade Runner 60: Director's Cut (2012); Blade Runner(s); Blade Runner(s) (2019); Blade Runner: Black Lotus (2021–2022); Blade Runner: Czy androidy marza o elektrycznych owcach? (Audioplay) (2012); Blow up: Le web magazine cinéma d'Arte (2013); Cineficción Radio / The Defenders (2021); Curious Matter Anthology (2019); Dust (2019); Electric Dreams (2017–2018); Ficción sonora (2014); Impostor (2001); Minority Report (2002); Minority Report (2015); Morning Patrol (1987); Natural City (2003); Next (2007); Out of This World (1962); Pavel Kolev & Icaka: There's No Lie (2019); Paycheck (2003); Paycheck: Alternate Ending (2004); Paycheck: Deleted / Extended Scenes (2004); Philip K. Dick Interview (1977); Philip K. Dick: The Metz Speech (1977); Piper in the Woods (2016); Radio Free Albemuth (2010); Radio Theater Project (2014); Roog (2019); Screamers (1995); Screamers: The Hunting (2009); Second Variety (2014); The Adjustment Bureau (2011); The Crystal Crypt (2013); The Edge of Human (2022); The Great C (2018); The Man in the High Castle (2015–2019); The Pipers (2013); The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick (1990); The Room 13 (2018); The Skull (2023); The Truth (2011); Total Recall (1990 / 2012); Total Recall 2070 (1999 / 2012); Vampirismus (1981).

Recommended reading - Adjustment Team, by Philip K. Dick (1954):

Adjustment Team

By Philip K. Dick.

Filmed as The Adjustment Bureau (2011), directed by George Nolfi.

Published by Read & Co. Classics.

First published 1954.

Illustrated edition.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1473305543

ISBN-13: 978-1473305540

Description:

Posing the question of who truly controls our destiny, Adjustment Team is a remarkable short story by the prolific science fiction writer Philip K. Dick.

Ed Fletcher is a real estate salesman with a steady routine. When he leaves late for work one day, his entire life is thrust off-kilter. Arriving at his office, Ed realises the entire world has been transformed into a horrifying black-and-white nightmare. Rushing to get help, Ed begins to question the philosophy of life and, on the brink of a psychotic breakdown, he realises that he might not be in charge of his own fate.

First published in 1954, Adjustment Team was adapted into the science fiction romantic thriller The Adjustment Bureau in 2011.