Total Recall 2070

Total Recall 2070
Total Recall 2070 title card
Genre	Science fiction
Created by	Art Monterastelli
Starring	Michael Easton Karl Pruner Cynthia Preston Michael Rawlins Judith Krant Matthew Bennett
Composer(s)	Jack Lenz Zoran Borisavljevic
Country of origin	Canada
No. of episodes	22
Production
Running time	44 minutes
Release
Original network	OnTV (Canada) Showtime (United States)
Audio format	Dolby Surround 2.0
Original release	January 5 (1999-01-05) – June 8, 1999 (1999-06-08)

Total Recall 2070 is a science fiction television series first broadcast in 1999 on the Canadian television channel CHCH-TV and later the same year on the American Showtime channel. It was later syndicated in the United States with some editing to remove scenes of nudity, violence and (in most cases) strong language.

The series is named after the 1990 film Total Recall,^[1] loosely based on Philip K. Dick's short story We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, but it has been noted as sharing no major plot points or characters with it, other than the Rekall company and the concept of virtual vacations.^[2]^[3] Instead, a much larger influence in its plot elements and especially visual style has been recognized to be the 1982 film Blade Runner, itself a loose adaptation of Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8] Series creator Art Monterastelli has admitted the stronger influence of Blade Runner over Total Recall, and explained, he thought doing a paranoid psychological thriller with a strong visual background reminiscent of Blade Runner, would be a better use of their limited budget, provide more creative opportunities to the writers, and even be more in line with the spirit of Dick's antihero storylines as found in his body of work, compared to the Total Recall action film.^[9] Despite the influence of his works to the series production, Dick is not credited on the series main or end titles.

The series was filmed in Toronto. It was a Canadian/German co-production. Only one season, consisting of 22 episodes, was produced.

Story

Total Recall 2070 takes place in a dark, crowded, industrial and cosmopolitan setting, with a noir sci-fi aesthetic. The government bureaucracy is heavily influenced by a small number of extremely powerful companies called "the Consortium" (including computer memory and virtual-reality vacation provider Rekall and android manufacturer Uber Braun). David Hume is a senior detective for the Citizens Protection Bureau (CPB), a police agency focused on general public safety. After his partner is killed by self-aware androids, he is partnered against his wishes with Ian Farve, a naive officer new to the department, who is himself secretly an "Alpha Class" android—a model with a more complex psychological nature. Hume and the CPB often have conflicts with the Assessor's Office (the investigative agency that has sole jurisdiction over crimes related to the Consortium) and with the private security forces of Consortium companies. The main story arcs of the series concern the agendas of the Consortium, the mystery of Farve's origins, Hume's wife Olivia, whose memories have been tampered with, and the mysterious manufacturer of Alpha Class androids. Significant plot elements remain unresolved by the end of the series run, due to cancellation; a crucial story arc from the series was the suggestion that the memory expansion used on self-aware androids was part non-human DNA and that a material found by a remote base on Mars could create a hybrid of human and android DNA.

Main characters

Character	Actor	Description
David Hume	Michael Easton	CPB Detective
Ian Farve	Karl Pruner	Hume's android partner
Olivia Hume	Cynthia Preston	Hume's wife
Martin Ehrenthal	Michael Anthony Rawlins	Hume's superior
Olan Chang	Judith Krant	CPB forensic and computer scientist
James Calley	Matthew Bennett	Assessor's Office representative

The Consortium

Company Logos for Minacon and Uber Braun

By the year 2070, Earth and Mars (as well as space stations) are ruled by a unified government known as the Interplanetary Council (IPC). However, much of the real power is held by the Consortium, composed of at least six multi-global companies that financed the colonization of Mars.

The known six companies are:

Rekall, the information technology powerhouse of the 21st century. Rekall also provides the Operating Systems for the Androids manufactured by Uber Braun.
Minacon, the energy supply company, provides both the oil on Earth and the deuterium on Mars.
Tashimo-Pacific, the transport company, created "Johnny Cab."
Uber Braun, the rocket and robotics corporation, build the service androids.
Variable Dynamics, the medical and bio-tech company, is interested in creating synthetic humans.
Tillman Heath advertising boards are around the city in the series. Tillman Heath is the agriculture and chemicals giant but its real purpose was not unveiled in the 1st series. Its slogan is "Bringing the world's food supply to you."

Production

Most of this series was filmed at the Downsview Park studio, at the location of a former Canadian Forces Base in north Toronto. An entire futuristic environment of different sets was constructed for the production.^[10]

Episode list

Episode	First airdate	Plot^[11]
1. "Machine Dreams" (part 1)	January 5, 1999	David Hume and his new partner Ian Farve must track down a gang of androids. To be continued...
2. "Machine Dreams" (part 2)	January 12, 1999	The detectives' hunt for the androids takes them to Mars.
3. "Self-Inflicted"	February 2, 1999	CPB investigates a potential biohazard situation.
4. "Allure"	February 9, 1999	Hume investigates a puzzling suicide.
5. "Infiltration"	February 16, 1999	Hume and Farve investigate the murder of an Uber-Braun employee.
6. "Nothing Like the Real Thing"	January 19, 1999	A motiveless murder leads Hume to investigate black-market memory implants.
7. "Rough Whimper of Insanity"	February 23, 1999	Farve starts behaving erratically.
8. "First Wave"	March 2, 1999	The CPB computer network goes haywire.
9. "Baby Lottery"	March 9, 1999	A baby is taken from his parents because of a genetic disposition towards crime.
10. "Brain Fever"	March 16, 1999	The head of the Mars Miners Union is shot by a member who then attempts to kill himself.
11. "Begotten Not Made"	March 23, 1999	Dr. Latham is starting to cooperate, when a lawyer from Rekall shows up demands his release.
12. "Brightness Falls"	March 30, 1999	Farve and Moralez investigate the death of a cult leader.
13. "Burning Desire"	April 6, 1999	CPB investigates the death of a man who was fried in his sublimator.
14. "Astral Projections"	April 13, 1999	Hume and Farve investigate a cargo transport that went down in the freezing "New Territories".
15. "Paranoid"	April 20, 1999	Farve and Hume investigate the murder of the head of the Nexus dating service.
16. "Restitution"	April 27, 1999	Brant is kidnapped on his way to a Mars safe house.
17. "Bones Beneath My Skin"	May 4, 1999	Farve and Hume investigate the destruction of an android at a chemical company.
18. "Assessment"	May 11, 1999	Farve and Hume are ambushed and captured by a rogue section of the assessor's office.
19. "Eye Witness"	May 18, 1999	Olivia finds a friend's rich husband standing over a bloody corpse.
20. "Personal Effects"	May 25, 1999	Olan decides to keep a vial found on a corpse in a crashed shuttle out of her report.
21. "Virtual Justice"	June 1, 1999	After witnessing a fellow cop kill a cornered prison escapee, Hume looks into the dead man's case.
22. "Meet My Maker"	June 8, 1999	Farve takes Hume to meet the alpha-android's creator.

Distribution

DVD releases

In 1999, the complete series was released on DVD in Japan (in English and dubbed in Japanese). The 2-hour series pilot ("Machine Dreams") has been available on region 1 DVD (Canada and the United States) since 2000. The series was broadcasting in Italy as of 2010 on Fantasy channel (Sky pay-TV), dubbed in Italian language.

On February 22, 2011, Alliance Home Entertainment released the complete series for the first time on DVD (uncut) in Canada only.^[12]

Online

Since September 2009, the entire 22-episode series (in the censored US versions, and with advertising) has been available in low-resolution Flash Video format via Comcast's official Hulu-based "FanCast" streaming video online service.^[13] The whole series was also formerly available online through the beta version of the Joost online TV content distribution system.^[14]

References

↑ Robb, Brian J. (July 1, 2006). Counterfeit Worlds: Philip K. Dick on Film. Titan Books. pp. 200–225. ISBN 1840239689.
↑ "The Movie Report Archive, Volume 65 - TheMovieReport.com". themoviereport.com. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
↑ http://retrophaseshift.com/2015/01/12/obscure-sf-primer-total-recall-2070/
↑ staff. "Glen reviews Total Recall 2070". aintitcool.com. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
↑ Platt, John (1999-03-01), "A Total Recall spin-off that's an awful lot like Blade Runner", Science Fiction Weekly: Issue 98 Vol.5 No.9, archived from the original on 2008-01-15, retrieved 2008-02-06
↑ LINAN, STEVEN (6 March 1999). "Murder, Mystery, Androids in Showtime's 'Total Recall 2070'". Retrieved 16 November 2016 – via LA Times.
↑ "DVD Review: TOTAL RECALL 2070 the series". enterline-media.com. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
↑ "Review of Total Recall". challengingdestiny.com. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
↑ Garcia, Frank; Phillips, Mark (December 10, 2008). Science Fiction Television Series: Histories, Casts and Credits for 58 Prime Time Shows, 1990 - 2004. McFarland. p. 339. ISBN 0786424834.
↑ "Downsview Park Film Studios". Archived from the original on 2007-02-10. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
↑ Robb, Brian J. (2006). Counterfeit Worlds: Philip K. Dick on Film. Titan Books. pp. 200–225.
↑ "Total Recall 2070: The Complete Series". Retrieved 16 November 2016 – via Amazon.
↑ "Watch Total Recall 2070 Online – Streaming Full Length Episodes". FanCast.com. Comcast. Retrieved September 24, 2009.
↑ "Joost Channel Overview". Archived from the original on 2007-04-06. Retrieved 2007-04-03.

External links

Total Recall 2070 at TV.com
Total Recall 2070 at the Internet Movie Database

Blade Runner

Novels	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The Edge of Human Replicant Night Eye and Talon

Films	Blade Runner (Themes Versions Soundtrack Tears in rain monologue) Blade Runner 2049

Video games	Blade Runner (1985) Blade Runner (1997)

Characters	Rick Deckard

Miscellaneous	Comics Replicant Soldier Total Recall 2070

Works by Philip K. Dick

Novels

Gather Yourselves Together (1950)
Voices from the Street (1952)
Solar Lottery (1954)
Mary and the Giant (1954)
The World Jones Made (1954)
Eye in the Sky (1955)
The Man Who Japed (1955)
A Time for George Stavros (1956)
Pilgrim on the Hill (1956)
The Broken Bubble (1956)
The Cosmic Puppets (1957)
Puttering About in a Small Land (1957)
Nicholas and the Higs (1958)
Time Out of Joint (1958)
In Milton Lumky Territory (1958)
Confessions of a Crap Artist (1959)
The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike (1960)
Humpty Dumpty in Oakland (1960)
Vulcan's Hammer (1960)
Dr. Futurity (1960)
The Man in the High Castle (1961)
We Can Build You (1962)
Martian Time-Slip (1962)
Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb (1963)
The Game-Players of Titan (1963)
The Simulacra (1963)
The Crack in Space (1963)
Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964)
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1964)
The Zap Gun (1964)
The Penultimate Truth (1964)
The Unteleported Man (1964)
The Ganymede Takeover (1965)
Counter-Clock World (1965)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1966)
Nick and the Glimmung (1966)
Now Wait for Last Year (1966)
Ubik (1966)
Galactic Pot-Healer (1968)
A Maze of Death (1968)
Our Friends from Frolix 8 (1969)
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974)
Deus Irae (1976)
Radio Free Albemuth (1976; published 1985)
A Scanner Darkly (1977)
VALIS (1981)
The Divine Invasion (1981)
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982)
The Owl in Daylight (unfinished)

Collections

A Handful of Darkness (1955)
The Variable Man (1956)
The Preserving Machine (1969)
The Book of Philip K. Dick (1973)
The Best of Philip K. Dick (1977)
The Golden Man (1980)
Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities (1984)
I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon (1985)
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick (1987)
Beyond Lies the Wub (1988)
The Dark Haired Girl (1989)
The Father-Thing (1989)
Second Variety (1989)
The Days of Perky Pat (1990)
The Little Black Box (1990)
The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford (1990)
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (1990)
The Minority Report (1991)
Second Variety (1991)
The Eye of the Sibyl (1992)
The Philip K. Dick Reader (1997)
Minority Report (2002)
Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick (2002)
Paycheck (2004)
Vintage PKD (2006)

Short stories

"Beyond Lies the Wub" (1952)
"The Gun" (1952)
"The Skull" (1952)
"The Little Movement" (1952)
"The Defenders" (1953)
"Mr. Spaceship" (1953)
"Piper in the Woods" (1953)
"Roog" (1953)
"The Infinites" (1953)
"Second Variety" (1953)
"The World She Wanted" (1953)
"Colony" (1953)
"The Cookie Lady" (1953)
"Impostor" (1953)
"Martians Come in Clouds" (1953)
"Paycheck" (1953)
"The Preserving Machine" (1953)
"The Cosmic Poachers" (1953)
"Expendable" (1953)
"The Indefatigable Frog" (1953)
"The Commuter" (1953)
"Out in the Garden" (1953)
"The Great C" (1953)
"The King of the Elves" (1953)
"The Trouble with Bubbles" (1953)
"The Variable Man" (1953)
"The Impossible Planet" (1953)
"Planet for Transients" (1953)
"Some Kinds of Life" (1953)
"The Builder" (1953)
"The Hanging Stranger" (1953)
"Project: Earth" (1953)
"The Eyes Have It" (1953)
"Tony and the Beetles" (1953)
"Prize Ship" (1954)
"Beyond the Door" (1954)
"The Crystal Crypt" (1954)
"A Present for Pat" (1954)
"The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford" (1954)
"The Golden Man" (1954)
"James P. Crow" (1954)
"Prominent Author" (1954)
"Small Town" (1954)
"Survey Team" (1954)
"Sales Pitch" (1954)
"Time Pawn" (1954)
"Breakfast at Twilight" (1954)
"The Crawlers" (1954)
"Of Withered Apples" (1954)
"Exhibit Piece" (1954)
"Adjustment Team" (1954)
"Shell Game" (1954)
"Meddler" (1954)
"Souvenir" (1954)
"A World of Talent" (1954)
"The Last of the Masters" (1954)
"Progeny" (1954)
"Upon the Dull Earth" (1954)
"The Father-thing" (1954)
"Strange Eden" (1954)
"Jon's World" (1954)
"The Turning Wheel" (1954)
"Foster, You're Dead!" (1955)
"Human Is" (1955)
"War Veteran" (1955)
"Captive Market" (1955)
"Nanny" (1955)
"The Hood Maker" (1955)
"The Chromium Fence" (1955)
"Service Call" (1955)
"A Surface Raid" (1955)
"The Mold of Yancy" (1955)
"Autofac" (1955)
"Psi-man Heal My Child!" (1955)
"The Minority Report" (1956)
"To Serve the Master" (1956)
"Pay for the Printer" (1956)
"A Glass of Darkness" (1956)
"The Unreconstructed M" (1957)
"Misadjustment" (1957)
"Null-O" (1958)
"Explorers We" (1959)
"Recall Mechanism" (1959)
"Fair Game" (1959)
"War Game" (1959)
"All We Marsmen" (1963)
"Stand-by" (1963)
"What'll We Do with Ragland Park?" (1963)
"The Days of Perky Pat" (1963)
"If There Were No Benny Cemoli" (1963)
"Waterspider" (1964)
"Novelty Act" (1964)
"Oh, to Be a Blobel!" (1964)
"The War with the Fnools" (1964)
"What the Dead Men Say" (1964)
"Orpheus with Clay Feet" (1964)
"Cantata 140" (1964)
"A Game of Unchance" (1964)
"The Little Black Box" (1964)
"Precious Artifact" (1964)
"The Unteleported Man" (1964)
"Retreat Syndrome" (1965)
"Project Plowshare" (1965)
"We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" (1966)
"Holy Quarrel" (1966)
"Return Match" (1967)
"Faith of Our Fathers" (1967)
"Not by Its Cover" (1968)
"The Story to End All Stories" (1968)
"The Electric Ant" (1969)
"A. Lincoln, Simulacrum" (1969)
"The Pre-persons" (1974)
"A Little Something for Us Tempunauts" (1974)
"The Exit Door Leads In" (1979)
"Chains of Air, Web of Aethyr" (1980)
"Rautavaara's Case" (1980)
"I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon" (1980)
"The Alien Mind" (1981)
"Strange Memories of Death" (1984)
"Cadbury, the Beaver Who Lacked" (1987)
"The Day Mr. Computer Fell Out of Its Tree" (1987)
"The Eye of the Sibyl" (1987)
"Stability" (1987)
"Goodbye, Vincent" (1988)

Adaptations

Films	Blade Runner (1982) Total Recall (1990) Confessions d'un Barjo (1992) Screamers (1995) Impostor (2002) Minority Report (2002) Paycheck (2003) A Scanner Darkly (2006) Next (2007) Screamers: The Hunting (2009) Radio Free Albemuth (2010) The Adjustment Bureau (2011) Total Recall (2012) Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

TV series	Total Recall 2070 (1999) The Man in the High Castle (2015) Minority Report (2015)

Showtime original programming

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2000s debuts	American Candidate Barbershop: The Series Big Brother: After Dark Body Language Brotherhood Californication The Chris Isaak Show Dead Like Me Deeper Throat Dexter Elite Xtreme Combat Family Business Fat Actress Free for All Going to California Full Color Football: The History of the American Football League Huff Jeremiah Kama Sutra The L Word Lady Chatterley's Stories Leap Years Lock 'N Load Masters of Horror Meadowlands Nurse Jackie Odyssey 5 Out of Order Penn & Teller: Bullshit! Queer as Folk Queer Duck Resurrection Blvd. Secret Diary of a Call Girl ShoMMA ShoXC Sleeper Cell Soul Food Tracey Ullman's State of the Union The Tudors The Underground This American Life United States of Tara Weeds

2010s debuts	Beach Heat: Miami The Big C The Borgias Dave's Old Porn The Green Room with Paul Provenza Happyish House of Lies Inside NASCAR La La Land Look: The Series Masters of Sex Penny Dreadful The Real L Word Roadies Time of Death Web Therapy

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