Max Headroom: The Complete Series -- Disc 1 (1987) starring Matt Frewer, Amanda Pays. This is a ground-breaking, short-lived TV series that ran on ABC in 1987-88. It features a virtual person named Max Headroom (Frewer) who is created when his human progenitor Edison Carter (also played by Frewer) is believed to be dead and his personality is transferred into a computer. Carter is a TV reporter for "Channel 23," a sinister media organization which wields way too much power in a future, dystopian society. The first episode is the one in which Carter uncovers the network's practice of showing "blipverts," ads which are compressed to run in a short time so that viewers can't switch the channel. Only trouble is, blipverts kill. Pays plays Carter's "controller," Theora Jones, who, besides being lovely, is a computer genius. The real heart of the series is, of course, Max Headroom, who became a celebrity in his own right in the late '80s and even appeared on "The Late Show" with David Letterman. The bits in which he appears are amusing. The first episode especially, in which he is created, is very entertaining. Subsequent episodes, not so much. Concept: A. Execution: B-. Only closed captions are offered for the hearing-impaired.
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