1999 • Television
No image yet
Alternate title(s): Total Recall: The Series
Original release / air date: 5 January 1999
Runtime: 44 minutes
Country / region: Canada; Germany; United States
Original language: English
Network / broadcaster: CHCH-TV; Showtime
Production company / studio: Alliance Atlantis Communications; ProSieben; WIC Entertainment
Artificial character(s): Ian Farve, Beta-Class Androids
Performer(s): Karl Pruner
ASFR type: Built
Overview
In 2070, CPB detective David Hume is partnered with Ian Farve while investigating crimes involving powerful corporations, memory technology and increasingly self-aware androids.
ASFR Content
The series is built around android identity and artificial consciousness. Farve is secretly an advanced Alpha-class android, while ordinary service androids can be modified through memory technology into self-aware machines capable of overriding normal behavioural restrictions.