Max Headroom es una serie de televisión satírica de ciencia ficción producida en Gran Bretaña por Chrysalis Visual Programming y Lakeside Productions para Lorimar-Telepictures que se emitió en los Estados Unidos en ABC desde marzo de 1987 hasta mayo de 1988. La serie se basó en el piloto de channel 4 British TV producido por Chrysalis, "Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into the Future". La serie a menudo se confunde con un programa producido en Estados Unidos debido a la ambientación y su uso de un elenco casi en su totalidad estadounidense, además de ser transmitida en los Estados Unidos por la cadena ABC. Cinemax transmitió el piloto del Reino Unido seguido de una serie de seis semanas de lo más destacado de The Max Headroom Show, un programa de videos musicales donde Headroom aparece entre videos musicales. ABC se interesó en el piloto y le pidió a Chrysalis / Lakeside que produjera la serie para el público estadounidense.
Max Headroom (Temporada 1)
Blipverts 8.0
Fecha de emisión: 1987-03-31
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: 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".
Rakers 7.0
Fecha de emisión: 1987-04-07
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: 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.
Body Banks 1.0
Fecha de emisión: 1987-04-14
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: 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.
Security Systems 2.0
Fecha de emisión: 1987-04-21
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: 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.
War 3.0
Fecha de emisión: 1987-04-28
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: 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.
The Blanks 3.0
Fecha de emisión: 1987-05-05
Duración: 48 min
Sinopsis: 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.
Temporadas
Episodios 6
Episodios 8
Episodios 12