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Max Headroom Season 1 Episodes

1987-1988
2 Seasons
ABC
Comedy, Science Fiction

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Twenty minutes into the future, the world has become imbued network-television. It's illegal to turn off your TV, and televisions are given to the needy. In this world, Network 23 has a highly-rated news program with a roving reporter named Edison Carter. But Carter uncovers a plot to cover up lethal "blipverts" and is almost killed. In the process his mind is copied into a computer, and the computer-generated personality "Max Headroom" is born. Together, Max and Edison, along with Edison's controller Theora, their boss Murray, their boss' boss Ben Cheviot, and Network 23's boy-genius Bryce combat crime, placate sponsors, defeat rival networks, and turn in stories. 14 episodes.

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

Season 1
Season 2

6 Episodes 1987 - 1987

Episode 1

Blipverts

Tue, Mar 31, 198760 mins

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.

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Episode 2

Rakers

Tue, Apr 7, 198760 mins

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

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Episode 3

Body Banks

Tue, Apr 14, 198760 mins

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.

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Episode 4

Security Systems

Tue, Apr 21, 198760 mins

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.

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Episode 5

War

Tue, Apr 28, 198760 mins

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.

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Episode 6

The Blanks

Tue, May 5, 198760 mins

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

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