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Cold Lazarus is set in the 24th century, in a dystopian Britain where the ruined streets are unsafe, and where society is run by American oligarchs in charge of powerful commercial corporations.
Cold Lazarus: With Albert Finney, Ciarán Hinds, Frances de la Tour, Grant Masters. Writer Daniel Feeld, first seen in Dennis Potter's "Karaoke," returns three centuries later as a disembodied head.
- (777)
- 1997-06-04
- Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- 300
Cold Lazarus advances the story of Karaoke to the year 2368 when the cryogenically frozen head of television scriptwriter Daniel Feeld (Albert Finney) is thawed by unscrupulous entertainment moguls who plunder his memories of 20th-century life – an irony intended by writer Dennis Potter who wrote the two shows simultaneously while dying of ...
Where Karaoke had been more traditional territory for Potter, and immediately recognisable as his work, Cold Lazarus was a different kettle of fish.
- Renny Rye
- 4 (from 1 vote)
- Drama, Science Fiction, TV Series
- 1996
Dennis Potter's last epic drama, starring Albert Finney. In 2368 a group of scientists are on the brink of a breakthrough as they begin to tap into the memory of a man who died in the...
Cold Lazarus is the companion piece to Karaoke (see our review), and the last work Dennis Potter wrote as he struggled against his fatal illness. While Karaoke can stand on its own, Cold Lazarus is best understood as a companion piece or sequel to it.
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S1.E1 ∙ Episode #1.1. Sun, May 26, 1996. Over 300 years in the future, a team of researchers (lead by Frances de la Tour) attempt to view the memories of a long-dead man (Albert Finney). The modern backdrop is much changed but accurate to today's trends with terrorist threats making public excursions dangerous, cigarettes banned and ...
