Episode guide
Max Headroom: Season 1
6 episodes · premiered Mar 31, 1987
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- Episode 1: Blipverts Mar 31, 1987 · 1h In the near future, when TVs can't be shut off and ratings are all that matter, investigative reporter Edison Carter and his computer-generated alter ego Max Headroom battle to keep the…
- Episode 2: Rakers Apr 7, 1987 · 1h Theora goes AWOL when she learns her estranged brother is involved in the brutal and dangerous ""sport"" of raking, which the promoters are trying to have legalized and televised.
- Episode 3: Body Banks Apr 14, 1987 · 1h Breughel and Mahler are stealing live bodies from the Fringes and selling them to Nightingales Body Bank. The wealthy Plantaganet wants pituitarys from the bodies for an operation which…
- Episode 4: Security Systems Apr 21, 1987 · 1h Carter is accused of credit fraud and becomes a fugitive after delving into the hostile takeover of Security Systems, the world's most powerful corporation.
- Episode 5: War Apr 28, 1987 · 1h In the middle of a global ratings sweep programmer packager Frank Braddock tries to sell Network 23 a package covering the activities of a terrorist group, the White Brigade. Edison and…
- Episode 6: The Blanks May 5, 1987 · 48m As the ""blanks"" -- undesirables with no computer records -- are rounded up and arrested, the networks face permanent cancellation by hackers who threaten to crash the city's entire…