Total Recall 2070

Total Recall 2070 (vt Total Recall: The Series). TV Series, said to have premiered on Showtime 14 March 1999 (Wardle [40]) and covered by IMDb by April 1999. Canada: PolyGram Television, Alliance Atlantis Communications, TEAM Communications Group (prod.) / Dimension Films and Showtime Networks (dist.). Gajdecki Visual Effects, SpFx. Art Monterastelli, creator, exec. prod. Mario Azzopardi, Fred Gerber, primary dirs. Michael Easton, Karl Pruner, Michael Rawlins, Cynthia Preston, and Judith Krant, featured players.

Compared by Karl Pruner, the actor playing "TOTAL RECALL's android cop," Ian Farve, to I. Asimov's The Caves of Steel (under Fiction), by Paul Wardle to the 1976 FUTURE COP (television pilot), and by IMDb users to Mann and Machine and BLADE RUNNER. "Android" here is in the sense that STNG's Mr. Data is an android, except "Farve has all the emotions" (Pruner quoted by Wardle). The series also features a threatening, somewhat cyberpunk-appearing scientist and a "Rekall chair" such as that used in film TOTAL RECALL (1990). Said by Wardle to be closer than the 1990 film to P. K. Dick's "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale." Covered by Wardle in Cinefantastique 31.3 (March 1999): [40]-43. Cf. also the 1976 series Holmes & YoYo (listed in this Category).