Remembering Max Headroom

Saturday, September 2, 2006

Matt’s post got me remembering coming home from college and seeing some TV Terrorism back in the late 1980s. For just a few seconds, Max Headroom appeared on the TV screen (not the actual TV show), interrupting some regularly scheduled programs. My recollection was that it happened twice, once to PBS (before Doctor Who was [...]

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Matt’s post got me remembering coming home from college and seeing some TV Terrorism back in the late 1980s. For just a few seconds, Max Headroom appeared on the TV screen (not the actual TV show), interrupting some regularly scheduled programs. My recollection was that it happened twice, once to PBS (before Doctor Who was about to start) and once to NBC (during the evening news). I don’t recall it being longer than a few seconds, and I definitely don’t recall any naked bottom paddling, but it was something that stuck to my brain otherwise.

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