The Max Headroom Show Season 1
January. 01,1900
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Synopsis
The Max Headroom Show started life in the UK in 1985. It was made by Carlton TV and shown on Channel 4 with an initial season of 6 shows. The show featured actor Matt Frewer playing the role as computer-generated talk-show host Max Headroom. It returned in 1986 for a second season of ten episodes plus a Christmas special.
The first season was Max playing music videos, often in multiple parts as he interrupted them. He had a guest each week in a lounge bar setting with him on a TV on the bar. The interviews were brief and always managed to get onto the subject of Max's obsession with golf. Each episode was preceded by Max's intro which said "He's the toast of the town. He's the non-fattening sugar substitute in your tea. He's a bon vivant, a gaucho amigo, a goomba, a mensch, and the fifth musketeer. He's the apple of your eye and aren't you glad he's here. Direct from a wax and shine at the carwash around the corner, it's the man of the hour, or at least for a good thirty minutes, Max Headroom."
The second season, known as The Max Talking Headroom Show was a bigger show and had a studio audience which Max would interact with, especially for his regular quiz. In most cases the winner never got their prize, or the quiz never happened, sometimes because he ran out of time after explaining the rules which were different each week. Most weeks there was a performance art type act in the studio. There was a guest each week too - sometimes in the studio, sometimes via another TV. Max would often sing comedic songs of his own in a crooner style.
Episode 6 : Episode 6 - Boy George
January. 01,0001
Videos:
The Police - Synchronicity 2
Belouis Some - Imagination
Paul Hardcastle - 19
Black Lace - Agadoo
Culture Club - Victims
Bonzo Dog Doo Da Band - Urban Spaceman
Guest: Boy George, Talking about insane asylum, Golf, George's Book, Max's Book, The A-Team, Dynasty, Minorities, The Athens concert, George's career, Autograph Book. Max sings a closing crooner song in a white suit
Episode 5 : Episode 5
January. 01,0001
Videos:
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
Peter Gabriel - Shock The Monkey
Izzy Royal - Coronation Street
The Kinks - Come Dancing
Pat Benatar - Love is a Battlefield
Ledernacken - Ich will dich essen
Episode 4 : Episode 4 - Roger Daltrey
January. 01,0001
Videos:
Ultravox - Love's Great Adventure
Madness - Driving in My Car
Heaven 17 - Let Me Go
Go West - Call Me
The Pale Fountains - Jean's Not Happening
Roger Daltrey - After The Fire
Elton John & Millie Jackson - Act of War
Guest: Roger Daltrey, Talking about Acting, Directing, his Album Under a Raging Moon, Golf, Oscar award.
Episode 3 : Episode 3 - Arcadia
January. 01,0001
Videos:
Intaferon - Steamhammer Sam
Bryan Adams - Heaven
Jesse Rae - Over The Sea
Severed Heads - Goodbye Tonsils
Arcadia - Election Day
David Bowie - Loving The Alien
Simon Le Bon & Nick Rhodes: Talking about how Nick looks like Richard Gere, Paris vs New York, Not Golf, Golf.
Episode 2 : Episode 2
January. 01,0001
Videos:
Supertramp - Cannonball
Waysted - Love Loaded
Heat N Serve - Rats on a Budget
Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust
Hit List - Into the Fire
China Crisis - King in a Catholic Style
Udo Lindenberg - Germans
Episode 1 : Episode 1 - Sting
January. 01,0001
Videos:
Jean-Michel Jarre - Zoolook
King Kurt - Destination Zululand
Japan - Visions of China
Cabaret Voltaire - Sensoria
Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman - Kinky Boots
Sting - If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
Guest : Sting, talked about dream of the blue turtles album, Golf, Jazz, Shoes (Brown, not black), Getting political in songs, being 33, Playing his songs in foreign countries where they might not understand the lyrics like America, Size 7.5 shoes, Mark Knopfler, Playing Guitar, Sandals, Film: Bride, Tennis (in Golf shoes on Sting's court), Hair Weaves.
