Year: 1985
Duration: 00:57:35
Directed by: Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton
Actors: Matt Frewer, Nickolas Grace, Hilary Tindall
Language: English
Country: UK
Also known as: Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into the Future
Description:
In the post-apocalyptic future where television sets are more important than food, TV ratings are the all important currency of the nation. A new technique of preventing viewers from channel surfing proves somewhat detrimental to particularly sedentary couch potatoes. The top studio becomes concerned: dead viewers make for low ratings. Edison Carter, top news reporter, is sent to find out more. After a motorcycle accident, his mind is preserved by wizz-kid Bryce and becomes his wise cracking, computer generated alter-ego: Max Headroom, who manages to boost ratings above those of any live hosts to date. This made for TV movie was later remade (sanitized version) as the first episode of the series.
This is the longer version that features not only more Max but also an extra smattering of music videos introduced by Max. Apparently from the start, the idea behind Max Headroom was to have the “computer generated” character host his own music video show. This, then, is the original pilot for the Max Headroom music video series which would follow, doubling as a smartly-written, darkly comedic, 2000 A.D. style sci-fi cyberpunk thriller. Music videos shown include XTC’s “Making Plans For Nigel”, Queen’s “Radio Ga Ga” and The Vapors’ “Turning Japanese”, besides others.
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One of my favorite tv icons of the 80’s was Max Headrom who’s real lifetime individual was the annoying neighbor on “Honey I shrunk the kids”
There was a interesting tv series based on it.
I thought i heard somewere which they are considering a fresh Max Headrom because a film or anything. Has anybody heard about this?
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Dunno. But when analog tv went digital, Max was on some sort of advert carrying on about the switch, google it up, you might find it.
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most awesome dystopian/cyberpunk act ever. Wonderful and way underrated