Max Headroom is a look into the future. Society is run-down and dominated by television and large corporations. Edison Carter is a reporter intent on exposing corruption and greed. In the pilot episode, Edison is hunted down by his own employer. He is injured and his mind is digitized into a computer program. The resulting program takes on a life of its own.
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02x08 Baby Grobags Aired: Apr. 01, 1997Edison 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 … [continue reading]
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Previous Episodes
- 02x08 Baby Grobags (Apr. 01, 1997)
- 02x07 Lessons (May. 05, 1988)
- 02x06 Neurostim (Apr. 28, 1988)
- 02x05 Whackets (Oct. 16, 1987)
- 02x04 Dream Thieves (Oct. 09, 1987)
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Show's Cast / Crew
Directors
- Victor Lobl (3 episodes)
- Thomas J. Wright (3 episodes)
- Janet Greek (2 episodes)
Writers
- Steve Roberts (10 episodes)
- Michael Cassutt (4 episodes)
- Arthur Sellers (2 episodes)
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- After the show was initially canceled in the second season (after drawing minimal ratings after being moved to Friday nights, against Dallas and Miami Vice), Max Headroom made a final…
[show]After the show was initially canceled in the second season (after drawing minimal ratings after being moved to Friday nights, against Dallas and Miami Vice), Max Headroom made a final announcement, paraphrasing (and imitating) Winston Churchill: "We will fight them on the streets of Dallas... We will fight them on the streets of Miami... Vice... and if the ratings book lasts for a thousand years, they will say this is Max Headroom's finest hour."
[hide] - Max Headroom is not the only character named for a sign. The Zik Zak Corporation chairman, Ped Xing, is named after the street sign abbreviation for "Pedestrian Crossing".
- All of the PCs at Network 23 were Commodore 128s (That's 128 *Kilobytes*. The average dishwasher now has more computing power than Theora's then-top-of-the-line PC.)
