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Season 1 – Max Headroom

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After he is seriously injured by his corrupt employers, crusading reporter Edison Carter undergoes a procedure to digitize his mind into a computer program personified by eccentric character Max Headroom. Max's ability to move through computer and television networks freely is a huge help to Edison, who is determined to stamp out the corruption in his futuristic society.
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Max Headroom — Season 1

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Critics Consensus

A caustic, surreal sendup of television and the culture it generates, Max Headroom wasn't around long, but it was ahead of its time -- 20 minutes into the future, to be exact.

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Ed Siegel Boston Globe 05/08/2018
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. Go to Full Review Matthew Gilbert Boston Globe 05/07/2018
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. Go to Full Review Lee Margulies Los Angeles Times 05/05/2018
The premiere is easily the most original looking hour on TV this season. Go to Full Review MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher 06/10/2021
[E]ven more mindblowing today, for its unwitting prescience, for its daring satire (I can't believe they got away with some of what they got away with on network television), and for its frenetic, and pointedly so, style. Go to Full Review Sharon Eberson Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 05/05/2018
2.5/4
The pilot lands viewers in a world that feels at once familiar and frightening. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Georgan G 01/12/2025 Thought this was interesting and Max always had funny comments. See more David W @Sternhammer 02/04/2023 Caustic, prescient, great environmental designs, superbly written, futuristic yet familiar and with a lead actor in Matt Frewer who inhabited his role wonderfully. An absolutely classic near future sci-fi series which I adored then and still love today. It was a crying shame that it didn't get a longer run when so many far inferior series were given room to breathe. Still, it's two series left an indelible mark on the genre for those who were lucky enough to 'get it'. The very definition of a cult series. See more Read all reviews
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Matt Frewer

Edison Carter

Jeffrey Tambor

Murray

Amanda Pays

Theora Jones

Chris Young

Bryce Lynch

Lee Wilkof

Edwards

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Mar 31, 1987 Blipverts Investigating the mysterious death of a TV viewer, Edison meets with network resistance. Details Episode 2 Aired Apr 7, 1987 Rakers Edison Carter (Matt Frewer) learns that the shady promoter of a lethal form of skateboarding has targeted Theora's (Amanda Pays) younger brother as a victim. Details Episode 3 Aired Apr 14, 1987 Body Banks Carter tries to track down a woman who has been abducted by someone at an illegal body-parts transplant clinic. Details Episode 4 Aired Apr 21, 1987 Security Systems Edison (Matt Frewer) takes refuge with Blank Reg (Morgan Sheppard) and the Fringers after being framed on criminal charges. Emmy Award-nominated episode (make-up). Details Episode 5 Aired Apr 28, 1987 War Edison and his associates become involved in warlike encounters when a power-hungry advertising executive plans to take control of Network 23. Details Episode 6 Aired May 5, 1987 The Blanks Edison (Matt Frewer) investigates when it appears that someone has sabotaged every television set in the world. With Peter Crook and Virginia Kiser. Details

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Season Info

Network
ABC
Genre
Sci-Fi
Original Language
English
Release Date
Mar 31, 1987