Who played max headroom
There were things like blanks (people who have no records in the system), Baby Farming, and TV Terrorism. Other episodes investigate other cyberpunk style aspects of the future in which he lives. Unfortunately he comes back and there are problems with the duplicate that make it unreliable (Edison had concussion when they tried to copy his brain). When he starts to investigate his own company he is disappeared and they attempt to create a computer duplicate. The main idea is that in a cyberpunk future where television is totally dominant as the " Opiate of the Masses" there is an investigative TV reporter called Edison Carter (played by Matt Frewer). Only 14 episodes were produced (and they were not all originally broadcast).
WHO PLAYED MAX HEADROOM SERIES
The American production company Lorimar then produced a short series based upon this in 1987. The original " 20 Minutes into the Future" drama was a one shot made in 1984 that explained the origin of the character (it is the same basic plot as the " Blipverts" episode). He would introduce music videos and also interview celebrities over the TV.
WHO PLAYED MAX HEADROOM FULL
For the full lineup of guests and other details go to /nz/.Max Headroom was initially conceived as a novelty host for a pop music TV program on Channel 4 in Britain. Matt Frewer is at Armageddon, TSB Bank Arena, Wellington, April 21 and 22. "I was doing a lot of theatre before Max came along and bits and pieces in Britain for 11 years but it was certainly a major cherry in the pie and I'm very grateful for it." They live it, breathe it, love it and you have to know that going in, otherwise, it's just too overwhelming in a weird way, but it's a lot of fun."Īnd he has no problem being famous for a character that hasn't been seen for close to 30 years. Sci-fi fans are rabid and they're so passionate about that kind of genre. "Yeah, I've been to quite a few conventions around the world. He's a veteran of fan expos and is looking forward to seeing how New Zealand fans react. It was just very odd, but the good thing about it was the barrier of the makeup provided a certain level of anonymity." We did 12 episodes and made it onto the cover of Newsweek so there's this character that was sort of bigger than me. "But the double-edged sword with that was that Max suddenly became so high profile. It would be churlish to be ungrateful, it basically took me to LA playing lead in a high profile series, so I didn't have to do any pavement pounding to get known," he says. It wasn't the end of his career, and Frewer went on to star in several television shows and movies, including playing Dr Mike Stratford in the CBS sit-com Doctor Doctor (1989-91), The Fourth Protocol (1987), Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989), National Lampoon's Senior Trip (1995), the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead and Star Trek: The Next Generation but he's still defined by that early role as a computer generated television host.
We thought we would never get turfed off the air because the reviews were so good, but little did we know that after 12 episodes they yanked us off." "I say 'took off from there', but we really only did 12 episodes with the ABC and then it got pulled off the air, because we bit the hand that fed us rather than nibbled. "That convinced ABC it could translate to the other side of the pond and it took off from there," he says. The show started in Britain and evolved into a kind of talk show before getting a big break when Coca- Cola used Max Headroom in an advertisement and from there it made it in the American market. It became this really hip cool thing to do for quite a while in the UK." It gradually became this kind of rite of passage for publicists to send all their clients to get roasted by Max. I would do a little sort of intro for each video on Channel Four and I started ad-libbing more and more and eventually we introduced live guests into proceedings. It was always designed to be a video jockey for pumping Chrysalis Records' artists abroad. Unlike many television programmes from the 80s, which date badly, old clips of Max Headroom on YouTube are still pretty out there.
Max Headroom - a name taken from a car park warning sign - took on a life of its own and become a cult hit, which no doubt is part of the reason Frewer is heading to New Zealand for Armageddon.