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Best Episodes of Max Headroom
Blipverts
S1 Ep1
7.8
31st Mar 1987
In the near future, when TVs can't be shut off and ratings are all that matter, investigative reporter Edison Carter and his computer-generated alter ego Max Headroom battle to keep the "blank" generation informed. In the opener, Carter stumbles across his own network's cover-up of a sometimes deadly new form of TV advertising called "blipverts".
Grossberg's Return
S2 Ep3
7.7
2nd Oct 1987
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.
Rakers
S1 Ep2
7.6
7th Apr 1987
Theora goes AWOL when she learns her estranged brother is involved in the brutal and dangerous ""sport"" of raking, which the promoters are trying to have legalized and televised.
Body Banks
S1 Ep3
7.6
14th Apr 1987
Breughel and Mahler are stealing live bodies from the Fringes and selling them to Nightingales Body Bank. The wealthy Plantaganet wants pituitarys from the bodies for an operation which could save his aging mother. While Carter races to save a Fringer girl's life, Cheviot is more concerned that Max is offending Network 23's biggest sponsor, ZikZak, who have decided to buy him.
Worst Episodes of Max Headroom
Whackets
S2 Ep5
7.0
16th Oct 1987
A video narcotic is causing people to leave their TVs tuned to Big Time Television twenty-four hours a day.
Neurostim
S2 Ep6
7.0
28th Apr 1988
Zik-Zak introduces Neurostim, a device to directly stimulate the brain and bypass the need to use television for advertising.
Lessons
S2 Ep7
7.0
5th May 1988
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.
The Blanks
S1 Ep6
7.1
5th May 1987
As the ""blanks"" -- undesirables with no computer records -- are rounded up and arrested, the networks face permanent cancellation by hackers who threaten to crash the city's entire computer system if their companions aren't released.
Max Headroom Episode Guide
Blipverts
S1 Ep1
7.8
31st Mar 1987
In the near future, when TVs can't be shut off and ratings are all that matter, investigative reporter Edison Carter and his computer-generated alter ego Max Headroom battle to keep the "blank" generation informed. In the opener, Carter stumbles across his own network's cover-up of a sometimes deadly new form of TV advertising called "blipverts".
Rakers
S1 Ep2
7.6
7th Apr 1987
Theora goes AWOL when she learns her estranged brother is involved in the brutal and dangerous ""sport"" of raking, which the promoters are trying to have legalized and televised.
Body Banks
S1 Ep3
7.6
14th Apr 1987
Breughel and Mahler are stealing live bodies from the Fringes and selling them to Nightingales Body Bank. The wealthy Plantaganet wants pituitarys from the bodies for an operation which could save his aging mother. While Carter races to save a Fringer girl's life, Cheviot is more concerned that Max is offending Network 23's biggest sponsor, ZikZak, who have decided to buy him.
Security Systems
S1 Ep4
7.5
21st Apr 1987
Carter is accused of credit fraud and becomes a fugitive after delving into the hostile takeover of Security Systems, the world's most powerful corporation.
War
S1 Ep5
7.5
28th Apr 1987
In the middle of a global ratings sweep programmer packager Frank Braddock tries to sell Network 23 a package covering the activities of a terrorist group, the White Brigade. Edison and Murray become suspicious when Breakthru TV, who have bought the package, start broadcasting terrorist bombings as soon as they occur.
The Blanks
S1 Ep6
7.1
5th May 1987
As the ""blanks"" -- undesirables with no computer records -- are rounded up and arrested, the networks face permanent cancellation by hackers who threaten to crash the city's entire computer system if their companions aren't released.
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?
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The best rated episodes of Max Headroom are:
Blipverts S1E1 rated 7.8
Grossberg's Return S2E3 rated 7.7
Rakers S1E2 rated 7.6
Body Banks S1E3 rated 7.5
The lowest rated episodes of Max Headroom are:
Whackets S2E5 rated 7.0
Neurostim S2E6 rated 7.0
Lessons S2E7 rated 7.0
The Blanks S1E6 rated 7.1
The first episode of Max Headroom aired on March 31, 1987.
The last episode of Max Headroom aired on May 12, 1988.
