![]() ![]() Max Headroom also showed up at the 1988 Winter Olympics. Max was also featured on a single titled "Merry Christmas Santa Claus (You're a Lovely Guy)" released by Chrysalis Records. Musical performanceĪrt of Noise featured an overdubbed Max on the song " Paranoimia". He says that Channel 4 is now suddenly "20 years into the future," making a subtle reference to 20 Minutes into the Future. ![]() As he is looked after by a caretaker, he moans about being with the other "relics," and then talks about digital TV. Īn older-looking Max has been used in a campaign to inform UK households of the impending digital TV switchover. He recites the alphabet with selected commentary on some of the letters. In 1987, Frewer appeared as Max Headroom in a segment for Sesame Street. He also hosted an interview show on the Cinemax cable channel, called The Original Max Talking Headroom Show. In the UK, Max appeared in television commercials for Radio Rentals. He was the spokesman for New Coke (after the return of Coke Classic), delivering the slogan "Catch the wave!" (in his trademark staccato, stuttering playback as "Ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-catch the wave!"). Max became a minor celebrity outside the television series. Shout! Factory released Max Headroom: The Complete Series on DVD in the United States and Canada on August 10, 2010. The original movie was rebroadcast on More4 on 21 October 2007 as part of the 25th birthday celebrations of Channel 4. The character's name came from the last thing Carter saw during a vehicular accident that put him into a coma: A bar with a sign warning of low clearance, marked "MAX. Max Headroom was shown to have been created from the memories of Edison Carter. The background story provided for the Max Headroom character presents a dystopic look at a run-down near-future dominated by television and large corporations. Though officially two seasons, only fourteen episodes were created, and only thirteen aired. The first episode was presented in an extended edition to American audiences in 1986 on Cinemax. The Max Headroom Show was developed into the British television movie Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future which in turn became the pilot for a series which ran from 1987 to 1988. ![]() 1.1 Max Headroom and 20 Minutes into the FutureĪppearances Max Headroom and 20 Minutes into the Future. ![]()
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