Product Details

• Actors: Matt Frewer
• Format: Color, NTSC, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, Original recording
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Karl Lorimar Video
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000J5E4CQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #269,098 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

In the post-apocalyptic future where television sets are more important than food, TV ratings are the all important currency of the nation. A new technique of preventing viewers from channel surfing proves somewhat detrimental to particularly sedentary couch potatoes. The top studio becomes concerned: dead viewers make for low ratings. Edison Carter, top news reporter, is sent to find out more. After a motorcycle accident, his mind is preserved by wizz-kid Bryce and becomes his wise cracking, computer generated alter-ego: Max Headroom, who manages to boost ratings above those of any live hosts to date. This made for TV movie was later remade (sanitized version) as the first episode of the series.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Where is Max Headroom?, August 28, 2007

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Brent Hilton (Layton, Utah USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Max Headroom: The Original Story (VHS Tape)

What a groundbreaking series and i love this movie , the series that followed is what the future was going to be, we could only imagine in the 80's. it was just great i can't wait until the powers that be release this movie and the series out on DVD Matt Frewer is just awsome as the wisecracking reporter in the future Edison Carter who breaks the stories with help from his friends at the network including max headroom his cyber buddy. the gadgets i just love some of them and few have already come to pass . Anyway Please Release this Movie And Series On DVD Whoever Owns the Rights Please. If you ever do release it, Release It with all the Max Pepsi /Coke Ads Etc. Parrrrty Onnn Ok !

1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars [Three-and-a-half stars out of four] ..."Make Room for Max. Headroom...", April 23, 2009

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Ricahrd A. Salzer (Chesapeake, Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Max Headroom: The Original Story (VHS Tape)

The Maximun Headroom here is a malfunctioning

computer character based on Matt Frewer's 'real

life' in this Pilot originally cast for the BBC.

Frewer, a Canadian-American is the only non-brit

in here and the lovely Amanda Pays by herself is

worth a watch by herself! Spawned the short-lived,

but well-made t.v. series which coincided with the

short-lived and tragically bad 'new coke'. But I'd

trade the (Nutri-)poison diet coke for new coke

any day! Bring back 1985 with Cheap Trick's great

LP 'Standing on the Edge'. At least they had a real

Bassist then (Jon Brant)! Look for the 'Tricksters

on Tour for their 35th season this summer!!!!!!!!!!!!