In this episode we take a look at the hidden VHS treasure that is Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future (1985).
In the post-apocalyptic future where television sets are more important than food, TV ratings are the all important currency of the nation. A new technique of preventing viewers from channel surfing proves somewhat detrimental to particularly sedentary couch potatoes. The top studio becomes concerned: dead viewers make for low ratings. Edison Carter, top news reporter, is sent to find out more. After a motorcycle accident, his mind is preserved by wizz-kid Bryce and becomes his wise cracking, computer generated alter-ego: Max Headroom, who manages to boost ratings above those of any live hosts to date.
Matt Frewer as Edison Carter / Max Headroom
Nickolas Grace as Grossman
Amanda Pays as Theora Jones
W. Morgan Sheppard as Blank Reg
Roger Sloman as Murray
Hilary Tindall as Dominique
Paul Spurrier as Bryce Lynch
Hilton McRae as Breugel
George Rossi as Mahler
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