Talk:Max Headroom

Very nice entry. Thanks!

You're welcome. Other than looking up the number of episodes and the actor's name who played Bryce, I did it all from memory. OK, I'll admit it, I recorded (and still have) 12 or 13 of the episodes on video tape. Gosh, I'm a geek! :-) --Alan Millar

Scary. Very scary. ;-)

You know, a .wav file would be cool, for people who have never heard him speak. Maybe the Coke quote, I don't know. I assume it's okay to include appropriate audio in an article, right? --Dmerrill

I can't see why not from a technical or policy viewpoint. You have to be careful about copyright though. A few seconds (such as a simple quote) constituting a very small part of the original work is probably okay under fair use provisions, so long as you acknowldge its source and that it is copyrighted. -- SJK

Couple of things that should be added/cleared up: The original British "pilot" was a 1984 stand-alone TV-movie (Titled Twenty Minutes Into the Future), by Channel 4, not the BBC I think. Channel 4 then followed this up with The Max Headroom Show which was basically a music-video presentation show. The American made TV series came later. I only saw a few episodes of the series, but the original film was superb. Perhaps the best example of cyberpunk to ever make it to the TV. -- DrBob

Yes, I did some checking and Channel 4 is correct. Now integrated into article. --Alan Millar

M-m-m-max. Headroom. Headroom. yeah, I was heartbroken when they took that off the air.

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Where did the Max Headroom-like cartoons of Ronald Reagan appear? Was in on Saturday Night Live? -- Zoe

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The Max version of Reagan was in "Doonesbury". I believe that Max Headroom was also used in shows on the cable network CineMax in the US.

What also funny is that Max's lines in the New Coke promotions were things like "The new taste is catching on!" and such. Very Network 23ish over all.

Regards, Bill N (who has the shows on SuperBetamax!)

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Regarding the "unknown" characters in the cast list, Rosalind Chao played a Network 23 helicopter pilot in later episodes (earlier the pilot was a character named "Ramirez", I think), and Andreas Katsulas played an executive at Network 66 who clashed with Grossberg on occasion. I don't know their character names off the top of my head, but I could probably find them.

Arteitle (who also has them all on SuperBeta, but from recent SciFi channel airings!)