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MAX HEADROOM PROGRAMME GUIDE
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03/31/87
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Debut: In the near future, when TVs can't be shut off and ratings are all
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that matter, investigative reporter Edison Carter (Matt Frewer) and his
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computer- generated alter ego Max Headroom battle to keep the "blank"
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generation informed. In the opener, Carter stumbles across his own
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network's cover-up of a sometimes deadly new form of TV advertising called
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"blipverts". Chris Young (Bryce), Amanda Pays (Theora), Jeffrey Tambor
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(Murray), Charles Rocket (Grossberg), Ken Swofford (Gorrister), Billie Byrd
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(Florence), Virginia Kiser (Ms. Formby).
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04/07/87
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Theora may lose her job when she runs off to help her estranged brother,
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who's competing in a brutal sport that promoters want legalized and
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televised. Peter Cohl (Shawn), Wortham Krimmer (Jack Friday), JW Smith
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(Rik), Arsenio Trinidad (Ped Zing).
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04/14/87
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Carter races against time to save a woman who was shanghaied and sold to a
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"body bank" for experimentation. Meanwhile, Network 23's largest sponsor
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wants Max as spokesman. George Coe (Cheviot), Virginia Kiser (Formby),
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Morgan Sheppard (Blank Reg), Concetta Tomei (Dominique), Scott Kraft (Mel),
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John Winston (Plantaganet), JW Smith (Rik).
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04/21/87
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Carter is accused of credit fraud and becomes a fugitive after delving into
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the hostile takeover of Security Systems, the world's most powerful
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corporation. George Coe (Cheviot), JW Smith (Rik), Concetta Tomei
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(Dominique), Morgan Sheppard (Blank Reg), Carol Mayo Jenkins (Valerie
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Towne), Sally Stevens ( Voice of A-7).
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04/28/87
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Network 23 finds that the fine line between news and entertainment may very
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well be the bottom line. Dancing on that line is Braddock, a double
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dealing program packager who offers to sell Network 23 the exclusive rights
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to cover an urban-guerilla group's terrorist activities during a crucial
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24-hour global ratings-sweep period. The network turns Braddock's offer
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down, but a smaller rival accepts. Broadcasting from a terrorist bombing
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site, its ratings soar -- as Network 23's plummet. Barred from that site
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is Network 23 ace reporter Edison Carter, to the annoyance of some Network
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23 board members. But network head Ben Cheviot knows Braddock's reputation
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and assigns Carter to investigate. Gary Swenson (Braddock), Robert
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O'Reilly ( Croyd Hauser), Lisa Niemi (Janie Crane), J Michael Flynn
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(Lucian).
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05/05/87
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As the "blanks" -- undesirables with no computer records -- are rounded up
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and arrested, the networks face permanent cancellation by hackers who
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threaten to crash the city's entire computer system if their companions
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aren't released. Howard Sherman (Peller), Peter Crook (Bruno), Hank Garret
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(Ashwell), Morgan Sheppard (Blank Reg), Concetta Tomei (Dominique).
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7. Edison must challenge Bryce and his classmates at the Academy of
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Computer Sciences when they frame Blank Reg on a charge of zipping,
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interrupting a network satellite feed.
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8. A TV church, led by a college flame of Edison's, kidnaps Max. Edison
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must retrieve Max and uncover the church's phony electronic "soul
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storage" system, which claims to keep the personalities of the dead
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online -- for a price.
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9. Rival Network 66 attempts to defeat Network 23 in a ratings-based
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election by introducing a "watch while you sleep" device into its
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programming to cause people to leave their TV sets on all night.
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10. Some shady entrepreneurs are stealing people's dreams and selling them
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to the highest bidders. Edison goes undercover to expose their lethal
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business.
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11. A video narcotic is causing people to leave their TVs tuned to Big Time
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Television twenty-four hours a day.
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12. Zik-Zak introduces Neurostim, a device to directly stimulate the brain
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and bypass the need to use television for advertising.
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13. Network 23 censors go a step too far when they try to shut down a
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secret school in the fringes, because it's using pirated Network 23
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instructional programming.
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Episodes 1-6: Entered by Russ Perry (russell@uhura.cs.wisc.edu).
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Descriptions from TV Guide
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Episodes 7-13: Entered by Steven Grimm (koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu).
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Descriptions by him as well.
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