Max Headroom
20 minutes into the future

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Primary Cast

Recurring Cast

Season One

Blipverts

Original Airdate: 03/31/87 (L)
Directed by: Rocky Morton & Annabel Jankel
Teleplay: Steve Roberts
Story: George Stone, Rocky Morton & Annabel Jankel

Guest Cast:

Raking

Original Airdate: 04/07/87 (L,S)
Directed by: Farhad Mann
Teleplay: Joe Gannon & Steve Roberts
Story: Steve Roberts

Guest Cast:

Body Banks

Original Airdate: 04/14/87 (L,S)
Directed by: Francis DeLia
Written by: Steve Roberts

Guest Cast:

Security Systems

Original Airdate: 04/21/87 (L)
Directed by: Tommy Lee Wallace
Written by: Michael Cassutt



War

Original Airdate: 04/28/87 (L,S)
Directed by: Thomas J. Wright
Written by: Martin Pasko, Rebecca Parr, Michael Cassutt & Steve Roberts

The Blanks

Original Airdate: 05/05/87 (L)
Directed by: Tommy Lee Wallace
Written by: Steve Roberts

Season Two



7. Academy 09/18/87 Directed by: Victor Lobl
Written by: David Brown

Edison must challenge Bryce and his classmates at the Academy of Computer Sciences when they frame Blank Reg on a charge of zipping, interrupting a network satellite feed.



8. Deities 09/25/87 Directed by: Tom Wright
Written by: Michael Cassutt

A TV church, led by a college flame of Edison's, kidnaps Max. Edison must retrieve Max and uncover the church's phony electronic "soul storage" system, which claims to keep the personalities of the dead online -- for a price. [Alternate title: Resurrection Vanna]



9. Grossberg's Return 10/02/87 Directed by: Janet Greek
Written by: Steve Roberts

Rival Network 66 attempts to defeat Network 23 in a ratings-based election by introducing a "watch while you sleep" device into its programming to cause people to leave their TV sets on all night.



10. Dream Thieves 10/09/87 S Directed by: Todd Holland Teleplay: Steve Roberts

Story: Charles Grant Craig

Some shady entrepreneurs are stealing people's dreams and selling them to the highest bidders. Edison goes undercover to expose their lethal business.



11. Whacketts 10/16/87 Directed by: Victor Lobl Teleplay: Arthur Sellers

Story: Dennis Rolfe

A video narcotic is causing people to leave their TVs tuned to Big Time Television twenty-four hours a day. [Alternate title: The Addiction Game]



12. NeuroStim 04/28/88 Directed by: Maurice Phillips
Written by: Arthur Sellers & Michael Cassutt

Zik-Zak introduces Neurostim, a device to directly stimulate the brain and bypass the need to use television for advertising.



13. Lessons 05/05/88 Directed by: Victor Lobl Teleplay: Adrian Hein & Steve Roberts

Story: Colman DeKay & Howard Brookner

Network 23 censors go a step too far when they try to shut down a secret school in the fringes, because it's using pirated Network 23 instructional programming.



14. Baby Growbags (never aired in USA until Bravo showing) Directed by: Janet Greek
Written by: Chris Ruppenthal

Edison Carter is on the trail of some rather dark people who are stealing babies from the baby pods where they are grown while Bryce carefully considers working for Grossberg and channel 66.

S - Script available from Script City (213)-871-0707.

L - Produced on laserdisk and subtitled in Japanese.

(Also produced on a limited video basis from CEL home video.(?))

V - Widely produced on video.