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Max Headroom (1985)
Country of Origin: UK
Dates of Original Broadcast: 4 April 1985
Number of Seasons: N/A
Total Number of Episodes: 1
Running Times: 57m
Format:
Colour Format: Technicolor
Sound:
DIRECTION
Directed by: Rocky Morton, Annabel Jankel
CREW
PRODUCTION
Copyright: © 1985 Chrysalis Visual Programming Ltd.
Production Companies: Produced by Chrysalis for Channel 4
Executive Producer: Terry Ellis
Produced by: Peter Wagg
Line Producer: Chris Griffin
Production Manager: Redmond Morris
Production Coordinator: Clare St. John
SCRIPT
Screenplay by: Steve Roberts
From an Original Idea by: George Stone, Rocky Morton, Annabel Jankel
Max Dialogue: Paul Owen & David Hansen
Script Consultant: Colin Wilson
DIRECTION
First Assistant Director: Chris Rose
Second Assistant Director: John Dodds
Third Assistant Director: Terry
Bamber
Continuity: Francine Brown
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Phil Meheux
Camera Operator: Trevor Brooker
Video Cameraman: Richard Taylor
Clapper Loader: Ralph Ramsden
Focus Puller: Peter Turner
Gaffer: Terry Potter
Camera Grip: Harry Eckford
Stills Photographer: Brian Cooke
Video Playback Supervisor: Mike Pia
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Michael Bradsell
First Assistant Editor: Andrew Parker
VT Playback Editor: Andrew Gillman
Colour by: Technicolor
MUSIC
Music by: Midge Ure and Chris Cross
Music Engineer: Rik Walton
SOUND
Sound Mixer: Ken Weston
Boom Operator: Steve O'Brien
Sound Maintenance: Don Brown
Dubbing Mixer: Richard King
Dubbing Editor: Howard Lanning
Assistant Dubbing Editor: Paul Conway
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UPCostume Designer:
Michael Baldwin
Wardrobe Mistress: Marina Drecker
Wardrobe Assistant: Raymond Harris
Make-up: Sandra Shepherd
Hairdresser: Ross Carver
Assistant Hairdresser: Leon Hamme
SPECIAL MAKE-UP EFFECTS
Special Make-up: Coast to Coast
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Ian Scoones
VISUAL EFFECTS
Electronic Effects: Richard Monkhouse
Graphics: Rod Lord, Computer Effects, Peter Tupy
TITLES AND OPTICALS
Titles by: National Screen
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Maurice Cain
Art Director: Alan Williams
Set Dresser: Val Wolstenholm
Production Buyer: Brian Read
Prop Master: John Mills
Construction Manager: Charles Simmons
OTHER CREW
Production Accountant: Linda Gregory
Researcher: Nicholas Hicks-Beach
Production Runner: Gerry Kennedy
LOCATIONS
Filmed on location and at Lee International Film Studios, Wembley, Middlesex
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
With thanks to Andy Park and George Stone.
CASTING
Casting: The Hubbard Company
CAST
Matt Frewer (Edison Carter/Max Headroom)
Nickolas Grace (Grossman)
Hilary Tindall (Dominique)
Morgan Shepherd (Blank Reg)
Amanda Pays (Theora Jones)
Paul Spurrier (Bryce Lynch)
Hilton McRae (Breughel)
George Rossi (Mahler)
Roger Sloman (Murray)
Anthony Dutton (Gorrister)
Constantine Gregory (Ben Cheviot)
Lloyd Maguire (Edwards)
Elizabeth Richardson (Ms Formby)
Gary Hope (Ashwell)
Joane Hall (bodybank receptionist)
Howard Samuels (ENG reporter)
Roger Tebb (helipad reporter)
Val McLane (eyewitness)
Michael Cule (exploding man)
PLOT SUMMARY
Twenty minutes into the future, TV ratings are the
new gods and the massive television corporations will stop at nothing
to win and retain viewers. Ace Channel 24 reporter Edison Carter uncovers
a project by his own network to introduce blipverts, massively compressed
adverts that can cause some particularly lazy viewers to explode. While
trying to escape with evidence of the project, Carter is seriously injured
in a motorcycle accident. He recovers, but finds that while he was unconscious,
Channel 24's youthful computer nerd genius Bryce Lynch has hacked his
memories and created a computer-generated alter ego, the wise cracking,
stuttering Max Headroom, who sends ratings through the roof. Can Carter
persuade Max to help him expose the blipvert project before anyone else
is killed?
AVAILABILITY
UK
Television Distributor: Channel 4
USA
Video Distributor: Karl-Lorimar Home Video
Laserdisc Distributor: Warner Bros. Home Video
POSTER TAGS
20 minutes into the future...
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Rebus Tapes, The
Max Headroom - The Movie
Max Headroom: The Original Story
LINKS
SEQUELS
Max Headroom Show, The (1985)
Max Headroom (1987)
Original Max Talking Headroom Show, The (1987)
REFERENCES
PERIODICALS
Screen International no.473 (24 November
1984) p.18 (UK)
note
Starburst vol.7 no.10 (June 1985) p.19
illustrated credits, review (by Richard Ashford)
Starburst vol.7 no.11 (July 1985) pp.23-27
(UK)
illustrated interview with Annabel Jankel (Talking head by
Richard Ashford and Cefn Ridout)
Television Weekly no.99 (14 December 1984)
p.19 (UK)
note
BOOKS
The Complete Directory to Science Fiction and Horror
Television Series p.476
credits, review
The Encyclopedia of TV Science Fiction (3rd
edition) pp.260-261
credits, review
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits
KEYWORDS
artificial
intelligence, computers,
cyberpunk, the
future, hackers, journalists,
satire, television,
totalitarianism
Last Updated:
15 August, 2009
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