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Great Books (1993)
No DVD
The best tv series devoted to the books of the Western Cannon... and yet inexplicably out of print. That this series is not available as a box set of DVDs is criminal.
The Outer Limits: Afterlife (1996)
Clancey Brown
The 100 episodes of Showtimes "The Outer Limits" was the best anthology tv series since the advent of color TV.
And this episode was one of it's very best.
Total Recall 2070: Machine Dreams: Part 1 (1999)
PK Dick would've been pleased
Of course, one would have to be familiar with science fiction writer Philip K. Dick to appreciate this series premier, which has absolutely nothing to do with an Arnold Schwarzenneger movie. "Total Recall: 2070" was Showtime's noble experiment in sci-fi noir. If one has actually read Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" and "We Can Build It For You Wholesale" then one has a basis for appreciating what this series was attempting to do. If not, probably not.
Those reviewers savvy enough to make the connection have written excellent reviews and I second their comments. There is a hard-bitten existentialism at the heart of this series which deals with issues of artificial life/intelligence, a corporate/government dominance reminiscent of "1984", and strained human relations in an environment where being human is by no means what it used to be.
Why the 22 episodes of this series have not been released is beyond me.