Dead Head is a four-part crime thriller scripted by Howard Brenton.

[1] It juxtaposed 1940s film noir style and costumes with contemporary London settings.

[2] Petty criminal Eddy Cass (Lawson) receives a mysterious box that proves to contain the head of a young woman.

This involves Cass in a conspiracy by the British security services to frame him for the crimes of a sadistic serial murderer of prostitutes.

The Times called it an "intriguing tale," though "neither a pleasant thriller to watch nor to contemplate"; while The Guardian thought it had "lashings of panache and style"; and writing in 1996, the Evening Standard called it the "only British series that came close to Twin Peaks jocular malice.