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Max Headroom

  • TV-PG
  • 1987–1988
  • 2 seasons
  • Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
  • 6.9

Television networks battle one another in an unrelenting ratings war. Whoever controls the airwaves controls the dystopic world in which they broadcast. So when Network 23's star reporter, Edison Carter, uncovers a deadly secret that could shake up the station's dominion over its viewers, the only option is to eliminate Carter before he can make his story public. After Carter's "accident," his mind is uploaded to create the world's first self-aware, computer-generated TV host — Max Headroom! But will Max bow to his creators? Or will he be the key to his human alter ago bringing down a network superpower?

Episodes

8 episodes
  1. 1Academy

    47 minSep 18, 1987

    Network 23 becomes the victim of signal zipping - illegal interruption of their satellite feed. When Bryce tracks the zipping to Big Time Television, Reg is arrested and sent for trial by gameshow on ""You the Jury"". Meanwhile Edison and Theora trace the real zippers to the Academy of Computer Sciences, and Bryce's old schoolfriends.

  2. 2Deities

    48 minSep 25, 1987

    The Vu-Age Church is running a phony resurrection service, claiming to be able to store cortical scans of its members and keep them on-line for the day when cloning is perfected and their personalities can be placed in new bodies. Edison is reluctant to pursue the story because Vu- Age's leading televangelist, Vanna Smith, is an old flame.

  3. 3Grossberg's Return

    48 minOct 2, 1987

    Rival Network 66 attempts to defeat Network 23 in a ratings-based election by introducing a ""watch while you sleep"" device into its programming to cause people to leave their TV sets on all night.

  4. 4Dream Thieves

    48 minOct 9, 1987

    Some shady entrepreneurs are stealing people's dreams and selling them to the highest bidders. Edison goes undercover to expose their lethal business.

  5. 5Whacketts

    48 minOct 16, 1987

    A video narcotic is causing people to leave their TVs tuned to Big Time Television twenty-four hours a day.

  6. 6Neurostim

    48 minApr 28, 1988

    Zik-Zak introduces Neurostim, a device to directly stimulate the brain and bypass the need to use television for advertising.

  7. 7Lessons

    48 minMay 5, 1988

    Network 23 censors go a step too far when they try to shut down a secret school in the fringes, because it's using pirated Network 23 instructional programming.

  8. 8Baby Grobags

    48 minMay 12, 1988

    Edison Carter is on the trail of some rather dark people who are stealing babies from the baby pods where they are grown while Bryce carefully considers working for Grossberg and channel 66.

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Series cast

Matt FrewerEdison Carter / Max Headroom14 episodes
Chris YoungBryce Lynch14 episodes
Jeffrey TamborMurray14 episodes
William Morgan SheppardBlank Reg14 episodes
Concetta TomeiBlank Dominique14 episodes
Amanda PaysTheora Jones14 episodes
George CoeBen Cheviot14 episodes
Lee WilkofEdwards14 episodes
Andreas Katsulas3 episodes
Rosalind ChaoAngie Barry2 episodes
Hank GarrettAshwell2 episodes
Sherman Howard2 episodes
John Winston1 episode
Carol Mayo Jenkins1 episode
Billie Bird1 episode
Dayle Haddon1 episode
Richard FrankBiller1 episode
Ron FasslerGrieg1 episode

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