Talk:Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

Tie-in book
Not sure how relevant it might be to this page, but Gollancz have a paperback tie-in anthology "Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams: Volume 1" listed for September 2017 publication here. In particular, it lists the stories which make up that anthology, which might indicate the source material for the episodes which don't have titles listed in the PKD bibliography? That said, the product listing is a bit confusing, in that it mentions "10 stories included" (as per this TV series), but then goes on to list 12 titles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ErsatzCulture (talk • contribs) 15:49, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

Order of episodes
The ordering of the episodes in |the July 2017 Channel 4 press release differs slightly from the one in the Cast section:


 * Crazy Diamond is moved up from 3 to 1 in the Channel 4 PR
 * Human Is is moved up from 10 to 4 in the Channel 4 PR

I don't know where the ordering in the Cast section came from, so I don't know if the C4 PR ordering should take precedence - I suspect the "correct" order will only be known closer to actual transmission. Perhaps this should be explicitly caveated in the page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by ErsatzCulture (talk • contribs) 15:41, 15 July 2017 (UTC)


 * I've updated the page with ordering in the latest Channel 4 releases. The press pack contents page also explicitly states The Hood Maker is the first episode. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ErsatzCulture (talk • contribs) 13:35, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

Episodes with unclear source material
6 of the 10 episodes share titles with PKD stories, so we can be reasonably sure what they are based on. Of the others:


 * Crazy Diamond is explictly stated in the July 2017 Channel 4 press release to be "inspired by" Sales Pitch. (Curiously the original version of the PR, still available via Google's cache, stated it was "inspired by the story of the same name", but seems to have been subsequently corrected.)
 * Kill All Others seems like it might be based on The Hanging Stranger, based on some concepts and vaguely similar character names (Philbert Noyce/Ed Loyce).
 * Real Life and Safe & Sound, I have no idea about. Theoretically they could well be 2 from Exhibit Piece, Foster You're Dead, Holy Quarrel or If There Were No Benny Cemoli, which are the 4 remaining stories from the upcoming Gollancz tie-in anthology mentioned earlier, but I'm struggling to match up the synopses in the C4 PR with them - and in any case, this is all falling perilously close to violating No original research.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by ErsatzCulture (talk • contribs) 15:57, 15 July 2017 (UTC)


 * According to the October 2017 issue of SFX Magazine, which has a 4 page article on the series, Real Life is based on Exhibit Piece, and Safe and Sound on Foster, You're Dead. ErsatzCulture (talk) 20:07, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

Sarah Brown or Sarah Baker?
Just noticed the edit on 6th July states "Sarah BROWN was a misprint in the original source, which has since been corrected to Sarah BAKER.", which I inadvertently undid by updating with the official PR details issued by Channel 4. That PR seems fairly certain, going so far as to include credits that match with those for Sarah Brown - although IMDB's page for this page does list Sarah Baker. I'm unsure which should be considered more likely to be correct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ErsatzCulture (talk • contribs) 18:42, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

Press pack
The press pack has a bunch of interviews and other material, although weirdly there are still no transmission dates announced. I've updated a couple of things on the page, but it's likely there's still plenty of material that could be pulled out for the production section of the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ErsatzCulture (talk • contribs) 13:54, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

Episode Count in Infobox
The Infobox gave the episode count as 4 though the text of the article says there are 10 and enumerates ten episodes. Everywhere else I've checked also says 10 episodes. So I corrected the Infobox to use the number 10 as well.

(I suspect "4" was inadvertently taken from "Channel 4" which aired this show in the UK.)

Gltackett (talk) 13:33, 10 October 2017 (UTC)


 * The episode count in the infobox is specifically number of episodes aired, not made. The infoboxes really should be updated to make this clearer. Canterbury Tail   talk  23:29, 3 December 2017 (UTC)