Karaoke: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Daniel Feeld is working on a fictional play for television. The play, entitled Karaoke, concerns a beautiful young woman working in a sleazy karaoke bar run by Arthur Pig Mallion. Fiction and reality begin to intertwine when Feeld overhears snatches of his dialogue in the world around him and encounters real people bearing his character's names. The lines between the world he has created and the world in which he lives begin to blur and a desperate struggle to control both becomes enmeshed in his evolving sickness and a terminal diagnosis. Re-writing his will to right wrongs, leaving his body to a cryogenics laboratory, and plotting to go out with a bang, Daniel Feeld is about to write an ending for one world that will have great repercussions in the next.

Series details

• Title: Karaoke
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama
• Premiere date: 1996-04-28
• Final broadcast date listed: 1996-05-19
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: BBC Two
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 55 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 23392
• IMDb ID: tt0115230
• TVDB ID: 72976

Cast and credited roles

• Albert Finney — Daniel Feeld
• Richard E. Grant — Nick Balmer
• Hywel Bennett — Arthur 'Pig' Mailion
• Roy Hudd — Ben Baglin
• Julie Christie — Lady Ruth Balmer
• Keeley Hawes — Linda Langer
• Saffron Burrows — Sandra Sollars
• Simon Donald — Ian
• Neil Stuke — Peter
• Anna Chancellor — Anna Griffiths

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1996-04-28; final listed air date 1996-05-19; episode order: 4.

Source and licence

Adapted from Karaoke on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.