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Max Headroom
Season 1
TV-PG
92%
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In the near future, an intrepid investigative TV reporter does his job with the help of his colleagues and a computerized version of himself.
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6 Episodes
Blipverts
E1
Blipverts
In the near future, when TVs can't be shut off and ratings are all that matter, investigative reporter Edison Carter and his computer-generated alter ego Max Headroom battle to keep the "blank" generation informed. In the opener, Carter stumbles across his own network's cover-up of a sometimes deadly new form of TV advertising called "blipverts".
Rakers
E2
Rakers
Theora goes AWOL when she learns her estranged brother is involved in the brutal and dangerous ""sport"" of raking, which the promoters are trying to have legalized and televised.
Body Banks
E3
Body Banks
Breughel and Mahler are stealing live bodies from the Fringes and selling them to Nightingales Body Bank. The wealthy Plantaganet wants pituitarys from the bodies for an operation which could save his aging mother. While Carter races to save a Fringer girl's life, Cheviot is more concerned that Max is offending Network 23's biggest sponsor, ZikZak, who have decided to buy him.
Security Systems
E4
Security Systems
Carter is accused of credit fraud and becomes a fugitive after delving into the hostile takeover of Security Systems, the world's most powerful corporation.
War
E5
War
In the middle of a global ratings sweep programmer packager Frank Braddock tries to sell Network 23 a package covering the activities of a terrorist group, the White Brigade. Edison and Murray become suspicious when Breakthru TV, who have bought the package, start broadcasting terrorist bombings as soon as they occur.
The Blanks
E6
The Blanks
As the ""blanks"" -- undesirables with no computer records -- are rounded up and arrested, the networks face permanent cancellation by hackers who threaten to crash the city's entire computer system if their companions aren't released.
Cast of Season 1
Matt Frewer
Edison Carter / Max Headroom
Chris Young
Bryce Lynch
Jeffrey Tambor
Murray
William Morgan Sheppard
Blank Reg
Concetta Tomei
Blank Dominique
Amanda Pays
Theora Jones
George Coe
Ben Cheviot
Lee Wilkof
Edwards
Season 1 Ratings & Reviews
Boston Globe
Ed Siegel
Combining the new wave look of Blade Runner, Repo Man and Mad Max with a sensibility somewhere between The Prisoner, A Clockwork Orange and SCTV, Max Headroom is the most refreshing and creative program since Hill Street Blues.
Boston Globe
Matthew Gilbert
Max roams the airwaves of Headroom pretty much at free will; as such, he's a brilliantly hip joke on -- and saboteur of -- the medium that made him.
NPR
David Bianculli
This is smart stuff - and way ahead of its time, as a good sci-fi series should be.
IGN Movies
Cindy White
He's the ultimate talking head, by design, and just like the series built around him, a product of our time as well as an astute comment on it.
Slate
Patrick Cassels
Look past the Wayfarers and the neon-striped background and Max Headroom reveals itself as one of the most prescient television shows of its decade (unless you interpret Dallas as an extended metaphor for the dangers of oil dependency).
Newsweek
Marc Peyser
Undoubtedly, the creators would like to think that it was ahead of its time-there was a bit of early X-Files about it-but considering its short life, it was closer to a show that deserved to be forgotten.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Sharon Eberson
The pilot lands viewers in a world that feels at once familiar and frightening.
Washington Post
Jen Chaney
Watching Max Headroom... is a reminder that what once was "20 minutes into the future" is, 20 years later, what's happening right this second.
Los Angeles Times
Lee Margulies
The premiere is easily the most original looking hour on TV this season.
AV Club
Emily St. James
There series occasionally over-relies on primitive computer graphics (particularly in the pilot), but the use of video, while jarring at first, eventually becomes key to its success.
New York Times
John J. O'Connor
No doubt about it, Max Headroom is one of the most inventive characters ever to glow on a television screen...
People Magazine
Jeff Jarvis
I was afraid this superbly strange saga might lose something in the translation. But no. Not one whit of wit or wonderful weird-ness is sacrificed.
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