Max Headroom

max Headroom is a American Televised series of 14 47 minutes episodes, created by Peter Waag and diffused between the March 30th 1987 and the May 5th 1988 on the network ABC. In France, the series was diffused starting from the February 4th 1988 on Canal+.

Synopsis

In a future where one distributes television stations free that it is illegal to extinguish, Edison Carter, journalist high-speed motorboat of Canal 23 , discovers, following an accident, its virtual double. Both will launch out in the denunciation of a tyrannical audio-visual system.

Distribution

Rewards

  • Emmy Award 1987 : Better artistic director for the episode subjective Publicity ( Blipverts )
  • Emmy Award 1987: Better sound assembly for the episode subjective Publicity ( Blipverts )
  • Emmy Award 1987: Better sound mixing for the episode subjective Publicity ( Blipverts )

Episodes

First season (1987)

      1 (1-  1) : Subjective Publicity ( Blipverts )
      2 (1-  2) : The Large circus ( Rakers )
      3 (1-  3) : The Bank of the bodies ( Body Banks )
      4 (1-  4) : Security systems ( Security Systems )
      5 (1-  5) : The War of the indices ( War )
      6 (1-  6) : The White ( The Blanks )

Second season (1987-1988)

      7 (2-  1) : The School ( Academy )
      8 (2-  2) : The Enigma ( Deities )
      9 (2-  3) : The Return of Grossberg ( Grossberg' S Return )
    10 (2-  4) : Robbers of dreams ( Dream Thieves )
    11 (2-  5) : The Emission shock ( Whacketts )
    12 (2-  6) : Informaticomania ( Neurostim )
    13 (2-  7) : The Great lessons ( Let us injure )
    14 (2-  8) : In vitro traffic ( Baby Grobags )

Telefilm

  • 1985 : max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into the Future (diffused in VO subtitled during the emission the Night more shorts on Channel +)

Comments

Max Headroom draws its name from the control panel Maximum Headroom 2.3m , which means in maximum English height 2,30 m , that the journalist Edison Carter struck at the time of an car accident.

In the beginning, max Headroom was a character presenting of the videos clips on the British chain Chanel 4. He was such a success that he became the high-speed motorboat of a telefilm which filled with enthusiasm American youth. The chain ABC then decided to make of it televised series which collected the strongest audience of the year 1987.

Coca-Cola will use it in one of its publicities for the launching of the New Coke (become later the Coca Light ). It will also appear in the pages of the magazine Playboy and in the video clip Paranoimia of the group Art off Noise.

See too

External bonds

  • max Headroom: twenty minutes in the future
  • The max Headroom Chronicles
  • Profile

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