Max Headroom season 1 - Metacritic

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ABC
Mar 31, 1987

ABC
Mar 31, 1987

Max Headroom

Summary This groundbreaking science fiction series ran for two short seasons on ABC in the late 1980s. The show, set "20 minutes into the future," depicts a dystopian world where television networks and corporations have become all-powerful. Matt Frewer stars as investigative TV reporter Edison Carter and as his unpredictable computer-generated ...

ABC
Mar 31, 1987

ABC
Mar 31, 1987

Season 1

Season Premiere: Mar 31, 1987

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Summary This groundbreaking science fiction series ran for two short seasons on ABC in the late 1980s. The show, set "20 minutes into the future," depicts a dystopian world where television networks and corporations have become all-powerful. Matt Frewer stars as investigative TV reporter Edison Carter and as his unpredictable computer-generated ...

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Episode 1 • Mar 31, 1987 • 1 h

Top TV reporter Max Edison discovers Network 23 is experimenting with advertising that is lethal to some viewers. His boss tries to kill him and copy his mind to a controllable simulation. Instead Edison survives - and Max Headroom is born.

Episode 2 • Apr 7, 1987 • 1 h

Theora's brother gets involved in "raking" - a violent underground sport that is a cross between skateboarding and roller-derby.

Episode 3 • Apr 14, 1987 • 1 h

While Max attempts to fill the many gaps in his and Edison's memory, a young woman goes missing, revealing the shadowy world of involuntary organ donation.

Episode 4 • Apr 21, 1987 • 1 h

Security Systems

The CEO of Security Systems, the world's largest security center, fears there may be danger behind the possible purchase of her company by an unknown buyer.

Episode 5 • Apr 28, 1987 • 1 h

Edison and the Network 23 team are dumbfounded when a lesser rival network appears to be always at the scenes of recent terrorist attacks for the big ratings-drawing exclusives.

Episode 6 • May 5, 1987 • 1 h

A group of unidentified anarchists who are known only as Blanks terrorize the city's central computer systems.

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