About this season
Television networks battle one another in an unrelenting ratings war. Whoever controls the airwaves controls the dystopic world in which they broadcast. So when Network 23's star reporter, Edison Carter, uncovers a deadly secret that could shake up the station's dominion over its viewers, the only option is to eliminate Carter before he can make his story public. After Carter's "accident," his mind is uploaded to create the world's first self-aware, computer-generated TV host — Max Headroom! But will Max bow to his creators? Or will he be the key to his human alter ago bringing down a network superpower?
Episodes (8)
1. Academy
6.5Aired 18 September 1987 • 47 min
Network 23 becomes the victim of signal zipping - illegal interruption of their satellite feed. When Bryce tracks the zipping to Big Time Television, Reg is arrested and sent for trial by gameshow on ""You the Jury"". Meanwhile Edison and Theora trace the real zippers to the Academy of Computer Sciences, and Bryce's old schoolfriends.
2. Deities
6.5Aired 25 September 1987 • 48 min
The Vu-Age Church is running a phony resurrection service, claiming to be able to store cortical scans of its members and keep them on-line for the day when cloning is perfected and their personalities can be placed in new bodies. Edison is reluctant to pursue the story because Vu- Age's leading televangelist, Vanna Smith, is an old flame.
3. Grossberg's Return
8.5Aired 2 October 1987 • 48 min
Rival Network 66 attempts to defeat Network 23 in a ratings-based election by introducing a ""watch while you sleep"" device into its programming to cause people to leave their TV sets on all night.
4. Dream Thieves
5.5Aired 9 October 1987 • 48 min
Some shady entrepreneurs are stealing people's dreams and selling them to the highest bidders. Edison goes undercover to expose their lethal business.
5. Whacketts
5.5Aired 16 October 1987 • 48 min
A video narcotic is causing people to leave their TVs tuned to Big Time Television twenty-four hours a day.
6. Neurostim
4.5Aired 28 April 1988 • 48 min
Zik-Zak introduces Neurostim, a device to directly stimulate the brain and bypass the need to use television for advertising.
7. Lessons
6.5Aired 5 May 1988 • 48 min
Network 23 censors go a step too far when they try to shut down a secret school in the fringes, because it's using pirated Network 23 instructional programming.
8. Baby Grobags
7.0Aired 12 May 1988 • 48 min
Edison Carter is on the trail of some rather dark people who are stealing babies from the baby pods where they are grown while Bryce carefully considers working for Grossberg and channel 66.