Max Headroom 1987
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?
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S1·E1 BlipvertsIn 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…
S1·E2 RakersTheora 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…
S1·E3 Body BanksBreughel 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…
S1·E4 Security SystemsCarter is accused of credit fraud and becomes a fugitive after delving into the hostile takeover of Security Systems, the world's most powerful corporation.
S1·E5 WarIn 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…
S1·E6 The BlanksAs the ""blanks"" -- undesirables with no computer records -- are rounded up and arrested, the networks face permanent cancellation by hackers who threaten to crash the…Cast
C
Carol Mayo Jenkins
S
Sandra Sexton
P
Peter Crook
Bruno the Blank
A
Ainslie Currie
Mink
L
Laura Carrington
Frances
Crew
- Creator
- Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton
Details
- First air date
- Mar 31, 1987
- Last air date
- May 12, 1988
- Seasons
- 2
- Episodes
- 14
- Episode runtime
- 60 min
- Network
- ABC
- Status
- Ended
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
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