Season 1 • Episode 4
LatestDaniel Feeld's frozen head has been stolen from the cryogenics laboratory at the Masdon Science Centre by media mogul Dasid Siltz and scientist Emma Porlock.
Cold Lazarus is a four-part British television drama written by Dennis Potter with the knowledge that he was dying of pancreatic cancer. Forming the second half of a pair with the television serial Karaoke, it is Potter's sole science fiction work. In a bleak, synthetic 24th-century dystopian Britain, scientists work on reviving the mind of 20th-century writer Daniel Feeld, whose head was frozen after Feeld's death shortly after the events of 'Karaoke'. Progress has not been made, so discontinuation is considered, but media mogul David Siltz, who has been spying on the project, envisages a fortune from broadcasting Feeld's memories on TV.
Writing
Potter's final script, written while literally dying
Acting
Finney's disembodied head performance is devastating
Production
Cheap BBC sci-fi that weaponizes its own limitations
Creator
Dennis Potter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Potter insisted on chain-smoking through his final interview, filmed between Karaoke and Cold Lazarus shoots, declining pain medication to stay lucid for rewrites.
The 24th-century corporate 'Future London' deliberately reused sets from other BBC productions to comment on television's cannibalization of itself.
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