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Post by WarrenPeace on Jul 1, 2023 23:12:56 GMT
October 16, 1987. Max Headroom was broadcasting a new episode that night, but in Midland, Texas an 18-month-old infant had fallen down a well on October 14. Now, two days later, it was time to attempt a rescue. A paramedic was lowered head first down the shaft. The incident was broadcast live as it happened. T his is going to sound awful, but I was worried that it would take too long and “Max Headroom” would be preempted. But there was a happy ending all around. Little Jessica McClure was saved (and still lives today) and Max (“Whackettes” Season 2, Episode 5) was broadcast on time. Whew. I know what you mean. I curse up a storm at the TV screen whenever those blankety blanks interrupt the show I am watching either late at night with one of their goddamn weekly emergency tests, (Why don't they test during the day time shows when I am not watching or in this day and age why can't they test without interruption?) or when there is an actual storm announcement that also interrupts what I am watching. It's dark. It's thunder and lightning. Raining. Yes, we know there is a storm coming you effing morons! LOL |
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Post by Deplorable Fascist Garbage on Jul 19, 2023 2:28:23 GMT
I remember when Max Headroom invaded our TV screens in Chicagoland, November 22nd 1987, he was spanked by a fly swatter, and displayed a dildo, this intrusion into the airwaves has actually never been solved.....
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2023 10:06:11 GMT
October 16, 1987. Max Headroom was broadcasting a new episode that night, but in Midland, Texas an 18-month-old infant had fallen down a well on October 14. Now, two days later, it was time to attempt a rescue. A paramedic was lowered head first down the shaft. The incident was broadcast live as it happened. This is going to sound awful, but I was worried that it would take too long and “Max Headroom” would be preempted. But there was a happy ending all around. Little Jessica McClure was saved (and still lives today) and Max (“Whackettes” Season 2, Episode 5) was broadcast on time. Whew. When TV companies interrupted the schedule for news of the Iranian Embassy rescue back in 1980 some people complained about their viewing of a John Wayne western being ruined. Anyway, Jan Leeming is extremely watchable… |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2023 12:58:39 GMT
Recently I was thinking about Max Headroom and wondered what ever happened to it, him. I was surprised to find that the current generation doesn't even know he existed. Lol. So yeah, it's bizarre to think of it as nostalgia. But I guess it is.
And there was the infamous hacking of a tv station's signal by someone wearing a Max Headroom mask.
It was almost 40 years ago and today’s youth don’t pay that much attention to what us old folk watched. The UK version was more of a music video show with Max doing his stuff in between and that sort of thing rarely ages well but I forgot about the US trying out a science fiction series based around Max. I never watched it but it’s on the Archive so perhaps I will one day. archive.org/details/max-headroom-completethat scifi show is the only thing I remember him from |
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Aug 7, 2023 21:34:38 GMT
It was almost 40 years ago and today’s youth don’t pay that much attention to what us old folk watched. The UK version was more of a music video show with Max doing his stuff in between and that sort of thing rarely ages well but I forgot about the US trying out a science fiction series based around Max. I never watched it but it’s on the Archive so perhaps I will one day. archive.org/details/max-headroom-completeSounds stupid. Same with Beavis and Butthead - when it was a music show, with them taking the piss out of the bands, it was hilarious. "Look at that guy's head." Etc. When they took the vids out, it was okay but not as good. |
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Post by primethefirst on Aug 8, 2023 2:35:56 GMT
There was a female version of Max Headroom done--it was for a commercial spoof or something
I have seen pictures--it was Caroline Munro
That comment about tv shows being interrupted reminds me of Hal Holbrook's speech in Capricorn One:
I remember when Glenn made his first orbit in Mercury, they put up television sets in Grand Central Station, and tens of thousands of people missed their trains to watch. You know, when Apollo 17 landed on the Moon, people were calling up the networks and bitching because reruns of I Love Lucy were cancelled... I can understand if it was a new Lucy show. After all what's a walk on the moon? But reruns?
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