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Mmax headroom
No longer available on ebay because they (WB) don't want you to have access to the uncut shows. They want you to have to settle for Tech TVs Raped copies. Ours are full length good quality recordings of the original airings (except for the one that never aired on ABC).One of our first customers ripped our original SP set with commercials and posted for download. It takes a long time, they are very big files.
There is now a new SP set. The new Deluxe SP set has no commercials and comes with picture menus and extras. The set has beautiful image and sound. Original British pilot in its orignal form is an additional 10.00
SP Deluxe SP set 7 Discs for 85.00
This series is now available on DVD
NOW AVAILABLE MAX HEADROOM '85
The original pilot was also shown with extra footage of Max commentaries and music videos to make the pilot a 3 part lead in to the 6 episode CH4 music video program on Cinemax that was Max Headroom's First U.S. Appearance.
Extended pilot and the 6 music video shows on
2 DVD SP Set 30.00
Over 4 hours of Max in his first U.S. appearance!
Also now available, The Cinemax Talk show!
ON TWO SP DVD DISCS
Max interviews guests and does comedy.
Features The Max Headroom Xmas Special.
Nearly 4 hours on 2 DVDs for 30.00
Contact Thistlehillmedia@yahoo.com for information.
Max Headroom the character was in existence long
before the TV series that bore his name was even thought about. Max first
appeared on British TV in 1982 as the presenter of a pop music
video show. Only his head would appear against a computer generated background
and for a while the public was led to believe that Max was indeed a computer
generated image himself. In reality he wasn’t, he was Matt Frewer, a Canadian
actor. As Max, he was loud, obnoxious and had the tendency to stutter. After a
couple of years as a video presenter, Max was given an origin story which was
broadcast on Channel 4 in 1985. Known by several different titles- Max Headroom:
the Original Story. Max Headroom the Movie and Rebus:
in Max Headroom: The Original Story Max was given an origin. Set in the near future, ‘Twenty Minutes into the Future’ to be exact. television is the only growth industry and the big TV networks are continuously trying new things to get the ever-important ratings. Edison Carter is an investigative TV reporter, star of the show What I Want to Know, a live series controlled by Theora Jones at the Network 23 studios. One of Network 23’s newest innovations was blipverts, a type of advertising that compresses an entire commercial break into a few seconds, preventing the audience from changing channels. They have one unfortunate side effect: people watching them sometimes explode. Edison Carter discovers this fact, and before he can go public finds himself pursued by a couple of thugs who plan to take him to a body bank. While being chased ‘ his motorcycle crashes and he becomes unconscious. Boy genius Bryce Lynch transfers Edison’s personality into a computer where it becomes Max Headroom, taking his name from the last thing he saw: a sign in the garage stating ‘Max Headroom, 2.M'.There were two versions of the original pilot, one that was just the storiy and a multi part version with added Max and music that paved the way for the music video program .
When Max first came to America he came as the host of Max Headroom on Cinemax, a version of the Channel 4 Music video program with an occasional guest. Later came The Max Headroom Show, a Talk show with Max as the host.We have both shows.
He also appeared on Late Night With David Letterman and became the star of several New Coke ads.
MAX HEADROOM 85
Cinemax Series 1 (Enhanced pilot and 6 shows) 11/85
Guests include Sting, Simon Le Bon, Boy George, and Roger Daltry and lots of conversation about golf.
over 4 hours of Max and vintage music videos on 1 LP DVD for 25.00 or
ON TWO SP DVDS for 30.00
Later Cinemax series available as well.
Max Headroom ABC 1987-88
AVAILABLE AS
LP DVD 4 DISCS for 100.00
Disc 1 Episode 1 and Original pilot and Episode 14
Disc 2 Episodes 02,03,04,05
Disc 3 Episodes 06,07,08,09
Disc 4 Episodes 10,11,12,13
OR
Deluxe SP DVD 7 DISCS for 85.00
(no commercials except as extras outside program, includes New Coke ad)
Disc 1 Episodes 01,02
Disc 2 Episodes 03,04,
Disc 3 Episodes 05,06
Disc 4 Episodes 07,08
Disc 5 Episodes 09,10
Disc 6 Episodes 11,12
Disc 7 Episodes 13,14
14 episodes
regulars:
Matt Frewer as Edison Carter / Max Headroom
Amanda Pays as Theora Jones
George Coe as Ben Cheviot [ 1-2 1
Chris Young as Bryce Lynch [ 1-2 1
Jeffrey Tambor as Murray E 1-2 1
semi-regulars:
W.Morgan
Sheppard as Blank Reg
Concetta Tomei as Dominique
Virginia Kiser as Ms. Formby
Hank Garrett as Ashwell
Lee Wilkof as Edwards
Sharron Barr as Lauren
By the spring of 1987 Max was ready for his own American
TV series. The pilot episode for this series was similar to the UK pilot.
Omitted from it is the body bank subplot- this would appear later in a separate
episode. The
series had three performers from the pilot reprise their roles: Frewer as Max /
Edison. Amanda Pays as Theora and W. Morgan Shepard as Blank Reg. In addition
Bryce Lynch boy genius made the transformation from bad guy to good guy. Max
Headroom however is not the star of the series rather Edison Carter is. The
episodes are about Edison Carter investigative reporter, Max is only around as
comic relief and to occasionally help in the investigation.
The series was a moderate success on ABC and after a
spring tryout ABC renewed the series for the fall of 1987. However a new night
and time provided ratings which were somewhat of a disappointment and the series
was yanked from the schedule after only 5 episodes were broadcast (3 additionial
episodes had been completed and several others were in various stages of
production). The last of these to be broadcast had Max saying some unkind things
about the network executives where the preview of next week’s episode would
have been, if there were a next week. Two of the unaired episodes were broadcast
the following year as ‘NEW’ programming in a schedule of mostly reruns. The
final episode was first broadcast in Britain and has since shown up in the
United States during reruns of the series on various cable networks.
Perhaps the series was canceled because it took the
executives at ABC the better part of a year to realize that they were among the network television executives who were often portrayed on the show in a
unfavorable fashion. Max in fact referred to them that way in the never
broadcast ‘next episode’ promo which was part of the final episode. The
‘promo’ simply stated that there would be no last
episode due to some
idiot’s decision to cancel the series.
Pilot spring 1985 C4 stereo
000. Max Headroom: the Original Story
(aka: Max Headroom)
{
Nickolas Grace [
Grossberg 1. Hilary Tindall Dominique 1’ Paul Spurner E Bryce Lynch 1’ Roger
Sloman [ Murray I. Hilton McRae, George Rossi
Edison
discovers the truth about blipverts. a new form of advertising and after an
accident his persona is transferred to a computer where it takes on the
personality of Max Headroom. Max may be just what Blank Reg needs to give Big
Time TV a needed ratings boost.
b:
4 Apr 85 w: Steve Roberts 5:
George Stone.
Rocky Morton & Annabel Jankel d: Rocky Morton & Annabel Jankel
1st Season Spring 1987 ABC stereo
These are the order in which they aired which is not production order (Body Banks is actually show 2).
001. Blipverts (aka: The Birth)
Charles Rocket E
Grossberg I. Ken Swofford. Billie Bird
Edison
investigates the side effects of ‘blipverts’ on viewers, but finds out too
much. After an ‘accident’ he runs into a side effect of his own, in the form
of Max Headroom.
b:
31 Mar 81 w: Steve Roberts. Philip DeGuere & Joe Gannon d: Parhad Mann
002. Rakers
Peter Cohl. Wortham Krimmer. Arsenio ‘Sonny’ Trinidad. Joseph Ruskin
Theora’s
brother is participating in raking- a dangerous, illegal sport- which the
promoters want to make legal and part of the Network 23 schedule.
b:
7 Apr 87 w: James Crocker d: Thomas J. Wright
003. Body Banks
Scott Craft. John Winston
A
down and out girl is captured by a body bank, where body parts are obtained for
surgery, since she has rare blood type.
b:
14 Apr 87 w: Steve Roberts d: Francis DeLia
004. Security Systems
Carol Mayo Jenkins, J.W. Smith
After
Edison looks into who is buying out the all powerful Security Systems Inc.
stock, he finds his records changed and is soon on the run for the worst
possible crime: credit fraud.
b:
21 Apr 87 w: Michael Cassutt d: Tommy Lee Wallace
005. War
Gary Swanson, Robert O’Reilly. Lisa Niemi, Richard Lineback
Edison
investigates terrorism made to help the ratings of a rival network’s news.
b:
28 Apr 87 w: Martin Pasko, Rebecca Parr. Steve Roberts & Michael Cassutt d:
Thomas J. Wright
006. The Blanks
Sherman Howard . Peter Crook
When
blanks- people with no computer records- are arrested, a group of them take
control of the city’s computer control and television and offer to give them
back in exchange for blanks’ rights.
b:
5 May 87 w: Steve Roberts d: Tommy Lee Wallace
2nd Season Pall 1987
007. Academy
James Greene. Christopher Burton, Mya Akerling
Students
at Bryce’s old school break into Network 23 satellite beam. and Bryce leads
everyone to believe Blank Reg did it.
b:
18 Sep 87 w: David 5.8. Brown d: Victor Lobl
008. Deities
Dayle Haddon, Gregory Itzin
Edison’s
old flame Vanna Smith is running a TV ministry that promises to resurrect people
once they die by storing their personalities in a computer.
b:
24 Sep 87 w: Michael Cassutt d: Thomas J. Wright
009. Grossberg’s Return
Charles Rocket, Rosalind Chao, Caroline Kava
Grossberg
is back in charge of Network 66 and is trying to destroy Network 23 with a
process that allows people to watch Network 66 while they sleep.
b:
2 Oct 87 w: Steve Roberts d: Janet Greek
010. Dream Thieves
Jenette Goldstein, Mark Lindsay Chapman, Ron
Passen, Vernon Weddle
Investigating
the death of a rival and old friend, Edison discovers a company that pays
indigent people to have their dreams recorded and then exploited on television.
b:
9 Oct 87 w: Steve Roberts s: Grant Craig
d: Todd Holland
011. Whackets
Charles Rocket, Bert Kramer, Bill Maher, Richard Prank
Edison
must expose the criminals behind a electronically addictive game show.
b:
16 Oct 87 w: Arthur Sellers s: Dennis Rolfe d: Victor Lobl
012. Neurostim
Sab Shimono, Evan Kim, Jim Piddock, Prank Khalil Wheaton, Saida Pagan
Edison
gets a little too involved when he investigates the new giveaway item from
Zik-Zak that
b: 28
Apr 88 w: Arthur Sellers & Michael Cassutt d: Maurice
Phillips
013. Lessons
Laura Carrington, Mike Preston, John Ourbin, Peter Crook, Rick Lieberman,
Guy Christopher
Edison’s
coverage of ‘Sky Clearance’ night uncovers network censors working wiV the
metrocops in raids on secret schools set up by the fringe dwellers to give their
children the education the
b:
5 May 88 w: Adrian Hem s:
Colman deKay
& Howard Brookner d: Victor Lobl
014. Baby Grobags
(Never aired on ABC)
Amanda Hillwood, Jere Burns, Millicent Martin, Paul Marchese
An
old friend of Theora’s who is using the new Grobag method of having a child- which allows the
mother to avoid
being pregnant- gets help from Edison and Theora when her daughter turns up
missing on her birthday.
b:
---
w: Adrian Hem 5: Chris
Ruppenthal & Adrian Hem d: Janet Greek
James
Byrne d: Alvin Ganzer
SP DVD 7 DISCS
Disc 1 Episode 01,02
Disc 2 Episodes 03,04
Disc 3 Episodes 05,06
Disc 4 Episodes 07,08
Disc 5 Episodes 09,10
Disc 6 Episodes 11,12
Disc 7 Episodes 13,14
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