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Max Headroom

1987 Ended 60m episodes

7.0/10 81 votes

DramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

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?

Created by:: Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton
Cast:: Matt Frewer, Chris Young, Jeffrey Tambor, William Morgan Sheppard
Language:: English
Country:: United States of America
Network:: ABC

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Season 1

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E01

Episode 1

★ 8.0

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1987-03-31 · 60m

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".

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E02

Episode 2

★ 7.0

Rakers

1987-04-07 · 60m

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.

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E03

Episode 3

★ 1.0

Body Banks

1987-04-14 · 60m

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.

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E04

Episode 4

★ 2.0

Security Systems

1987-04-21 · 60m

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.

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E05

Episode 5

★ 3.0

War

1987-04-28 · 60m

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.

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E06

Episode 6

★ 3.0

The Blanks

1987-05-05 · 48m

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.

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