Max Headroom (1987)

Max Headroom

Max Headroom is a British-produced American satirical science fiction television series by Chrysalis Visual Programming and Lakeside Productions for Lorimar-Telepictures that aired in the United States on ABC from March 1987 to May 1988. The series was based on the Channel 4 British TV pilot produced by Chrysalis, Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future. The series is often mistaken as an American-produced show due to the setting and its use of an almost entirely US cast along with being broadcast in the USA on the ABC network. Cinemax aired the UK pilot followed by a six-week run of highlights from The Max Headroom Show, a music video show where Headroom appears between music videos. ABC took an interest in the pilot and asked Chrysalis/Lakeside to produce the series for US audiences. The show went into production in late 1986 and ran for six episodes in the first season with eight being produced in season two.

Max Headroom

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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

Season 2

Season 2

Episodes season 0

  • 0x1

    Max headroom: 20 minutes into the future

  • 0x2

    Live on network 23: the story of max headroom

  • 0x3

    Looking back at the future: a cast round table

  • 0x4

    The big-time blanks

  • 0x5

    The science behind the fiction

  • 0x6

    The writers remember

  • 0x7

    Producing dystopia

  • 0x8

    Karl-lorimar max headroom sweepstakes

  • 0x9

    Paranoimia music video by the art of noise

  • 0x10

    Coke commercial

  • 0x11

    Car parts commercial

  • 0x12

    Max headroom: 20 minutes into the future - extended cinemax version

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    Blipverts

  • 1x2

    Rakers

  • 1x3

    Body banks

  • 1x4

    Security systems

  • 1x5

    War

  • 1x6

    The blanks

Episodes season 2

  • 2x1

    Academy

  • 2x2

    Deities

  • 2x3

    Grossberg's return

  • 2x4

    Dream thieves

  • 2x5

    Whackets

  • 2x6

    Neurostim

  • 2x7

    Lessons

  • 2x8

    Baby grobags

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