The 1984 novel, Neuromancer, by William Gibson, a book which brought public attention to the cyberpunk movement, was one influence on the show. Max Headroom had a range of influences in its creation - the cyberpunk movement, MTV, early 1980s’ science fiction, and post-apocalyptic films, to name a few.
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The "Max Headroom" series depicted a dystopia where TV sets were strewn about everywhere, even in the city's slums. The first episode aired on the ABC network in March 1987. With that, more or less, the Max Headroom TV series was introduced to the American audience. Max, however, begins to evolve on his own as a mostly uncontrolled character and independent agent wandering around inside his the television network’s computer world. Max, of course, lives in the computer.Īce reporter Edison Carter, meanwhile, fully recovers from his trauma and returns to video reporting. The new entity is officially dubbed “Max Headroom” after he stutters through that phrase in his first on-screen appearance. In the process of Carter’s brain being scanned into the computer, a digital being is created - i.e., “Max” - who in appear- ance and manner resembles the real-world Edison Carter. The network is after something in Carter’s brain something he’s discovered. …And to make a long story short, Carter’s brain is somehow scanned into a computer, because his TV network doesn’t trust him. On a motorcycle, Carter was racing into a parking garage on the trail of some hot information when he smashed through, and was knocked out by, an automated entrance gate emblazoned with the warning phrase “maximum headroom.” That was the last phrase the erstwhile reporter recorded in his brain.Īce reporter, Edison Carter, inadvertently becomes the basis for the computer-generated 'Max'. Max Headroom the character was “born” when an actual news reporter named Edison Carter - ace investigative, mini-cam-toting reporter for Network 23 - had a near-death encounter in pursuit of a story. Still, Max was a generally likeable creation once viewers got to know him. Max, as he was known, was forever randomly popping up in each of the televised episodes with pearls of wit and wisdom, delivered in his trademark computer-to-blame stutter, often aggravating friends and foes alike. Max Headroom was a show about an acci- dentally-created, computer-generated being named “Max Headroom” who lived inside a television network’s computer system. Still today, the show has something of a cult and on-line following and remains one of television history’s more engaging self-critiques. The British-derived show was quite popular in its limited 1987-1988 American run on ABC-TV, but was pulled off the air before its final two episodes aired. “Max Headroom” is the name of a 1980’s sci-fi television show that perhaps got a little too close to the truth with its humorous but stinging critique of the TV ratings game and TV advertising. "I'm an image whose time has come,” says Max Headroom.
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