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8 unusual facts about Max Headroom


Lie

In the 1985 Max Headroom, the title character comments that one can always tell when a politician lies because "their lips move."

Ricardo Gutierrez

Gutierrez has appeared in various television shows including Hill Street Blues, Knot's Landing, Max Headroom, Hunter, and Wiseguy.

The Max Headroom Show

New format to the show with a studio audience with Max on TV's hanging from the ceiling.

Each episode was preceded by Max's intro which said "He's the toast of the town (lightly buttered). He's the non-fattening sugar substitute in your tea. He's a bon vivant, a gaucho amigo, a goomba, a mensch, and the fifth musketeer. He's the apple of your eye and aren't you glad he's here. Direct from a wax and shine at the carwash around the corner, it's the man of the hour, or at least for a good thirty minutes, Max Headroom."

The interviews were brief and always managed to get onto the subject of Max's obsession with golf.

The show featured actor Matt Frewer playing the role as computer-generated talk-show host Max Headroom.

The second season, known as The Max Talking Headroom Show was a bigger show and had a studio audience which Max would interact with, especially for his regular quiz.

The first season was Max playing music videos, often in multiple parts as he interrupted them.


Horror of Fang Rock

On 22 November 1987 a broadcast of Horror of Fang Rock by Chicago television station WTTW was interrupted for around 90 seconds by a pirate broadcast featuring an individual disguised as television character Max Headroom.

Janet Greek

As a television director, Greek's credits include St. Elsewhere, L.A. Law, Max Headroom, The Outsiders, Over My Dead Body, Northern Exposure, The Burning Zone, Melrose Place, Xena: Warrior Princess and the Babylon 5 spin-off Crusade.

Nolan Thomas

In the UK during the mid 80's "Yo, Little Brother" received some cult status after it was aired on the Max Headroom Show (channel 4 Television).

Rebecca Parr Cioffi

Rebecca Parr, later billed as Rebecca Parr Cioffi, is an American television writer, story editor and producer best known for her work on Cheers, Roseanne, Max Headroom, Simon & Simon, and Hearts Afire amongst other shows.


see also

Paranoimia

The 7" single features a monologue about Max Headroom being scared and unable to sleep (hence "Paranoimia", a portmanteau of "paranoia" and "insomnia"). The 12" has a completely different vocal with Headroom as a master of ceremonies, talking about the music and introducing the band (which he claims comprises Peter O'Toole, Martina Navratilova, Cher and the Pope).