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Max Headroom
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Max Headroom in a promotion for Cinemax
Genre Science fiction
Drama
Created by Annabel Jankel
Rocky Morton
George Stone
Written by Steve Roberts
David Brown
Michael Cassutt
James Crocker
Joe Gannon
Adrian Hein
Rebecca Parr
Martin Pasko
Chris Ruppenthal
Arthur Sellers
Starring See Cast
Theme music composer Michael Hoenig
Country of origin United Kingdom
United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 2
No. of episodes 14 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Peter Wagg
Producer(s) Brian E. Frankish
Peter Wagg
Camera setup Single-camera
Running time 45–48 minutes
Production company(s) Chrysalis/Lakeside
Lorimar-Telepictures
Distributor Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Release
Original network ABC
Original release March 31, 1987 (1987-03-31) – May 12, 1988 (1988-05-12)
Chronology
Related shows Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future

Max Headroom is a British-produced American satirical science fiction television series by Chrysalis Visual Programming and Lakeside Productions for Lorimar-Telepictures that aired in the United States on ABC from March 1987 to May 1988. The series is set in a futuristic dystopia ruled by an oligarchy of television networks.

The series was based on the Channel 4 British TV film produced by Chrysalis, Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future and is often mistaken as an American-produced show due to the setting and its use of an almost entirely American cast along with being broadcast in the United States on the ABC network. Cinemax aired the UK pilot followed by a six-week run of highlights from The Max Headroom Show, a music video show where Headroom appears between music videos. ABC took an interest in the pilot and asked Chrysalis/Lakeside to produce the series for American audiences.

Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future was re-shot as a pilot program for a new series broadcast by the U.S. ABC television network. The pilot featured plot changes and some minor visual touches, but retained the same basic storyline. The only original cast retained for the series were Matt Frewer (Max Headroom/Edison Carter) and Amanda Pays (Theora Jones); a third original cast member, W. Morgan Sheppard, joined the series as "Blank Reg" in later episodes. Among the non-original cast, Jeffrey Tambor co-starred as "Murray", Edison Carter's neurotic producer.

The show went into production in late 1986 and ran for six episodes in the first season and eight in season two.


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