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"Max Headroom" (1987) More at IMDbPro »

• Matt Frewer, Amanda Pays and William Morgan Sheppard were the only actors held over from the original UK version.
  
  
• William Gibson, a fan of the show, had written a script for the show, but the series was canceled before it was shot.
  
  
• According to the first episode, the name "Max Headroom" came about when Edison Carter was fleeing from security guards on a motorcycle, and he ran into a parking garage exit gate labeled MAX HEADROOM. While he was in a coma his memory was downloaded into a computer by Bryce Lynch and the computer-generated personality chose this to be its new name.
  
  
• Max Headroom is not the only character named for a sign. The Zik Zak Corporation chairman, Ped Xing, is named after the street sign abbreviation for "Pedestrian Crossing".
  
  
• The "Max Headroom" sign is the British equivalent of "Maximum Clearance".
  
  
• The futuristic graphics used on the show were created by a top-of-the-line computer of 1987, a Commodore Amiga.
  
  
• After the show was initially canceled in the second season (after drawing minimal ratings after being moved to Friday nights, against "Dallas" (1978) and "Miami Vice" (1984)), Max Headroom made a final announcement, paraphrasing (and imitating) Winston Churchill: "We will fight them on the streets of Dallas... We will fight them on the streets of Miami... Vice... and if the ratings book lasts for a thousand years, they will say this is Max Headroom's finest hour."
  
  
• Exactly when the story is meant to be set is an open question. However in the original (Channel 4) "pilot" we are told that Bryce is 18 years old, and his records indicate that he was born in 1987, meaning the story is taking place in 2004.
  
  
• The average cell phone now has more computing power than Theora's PC.
  
  
• All of the PCs at Network 23 were Commodore 128s (That's 128 *Kilobytes*. At the time, they were top-of-the-line machines.)
  
  

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