Max Headroom debuted on September 18, 1987 and it ended on May 12, 1988 after one season and 14 episodes. The series starred Matt Frewer as Edison Carter, Amanda Pays as Theora Jones, Jeffrey Tambour as Murray, and Chris Young as Bryce Lynch. The series is set in a dystopic future in which an oligarchy of television networks controls the world. The series originally aired on ABC in the U.S. and was based on the British TV film Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future, which aired on Channel 4. The main character hit the mainstream in a series of New Coke commercials and Garry Trudeau used it in Doonesbury. Max Headroom is available on DVD. It is not currently streaming. It is difficult to understand how Max Headroom completely changed the way I viewed art, and especially how it did it in 1996 or so. It did, though, and in a way that is suitable for sharing as an article. Boston, the first day of the most significant snow of the year. It was the second of them, a storm that I remember going on for three days. I knew it was the second because we always played football on the day of the first snow, and I specifically remember being uninjured, so we must not have played. I was, in fact, on the couch in the common room of our suite, my socked feet up, covered in a bedspread with the faces of the New Kids on the Block on it. We had a TV and a VCR, though no cable or antenna, which meant we could only watch what we either rented from VideoSmith, or had brought with us from home. And we all had VHS collections. I had ordered Chinese for five, my suitemate, Omar, had ordered a large pizza, pepperoni and sausage (and New York Pizza knew that as our regular), and my buddy John had gone out to Star Market and stocked up our mini-kitchen with microwavable stuff.
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