So after 30 years, Max Headroom shows up on the real life equivalent of “20 minutes into the future.” The whole series can now be found on the oddball short-run and orphan show source CW Seed.
I believe it’s the first time its been (legally) available, all at once, for free, since the brief reruns ca. 1994.
I have the whole series on VHS tapes from its original broadcasts. Now if I could just find a VCR again. I loved the episodes back then - gotta watch them again.
Amazon still has VCR/DVD combos that can record from the tape to a disc.
Pricey though.
The only thing I remember about that show was Amanda Pays. Classy, pretty, with a lovely voice.
As, 'tis Max Headroom here, and I quote from the bard, Shakespeare, a writer: “The quality of TV is not strained, it dropeth as the gentle ratings dropeth to a very tiny percentage share and, lo, 'tis gone.” Of course, Shakespeare would have loved your rating system. Twelfth Night would have been lucky to have lasted one!
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Pfft, Blank Reg has been re-running the shows on Big Time TV for years.
And those of you (un)lucky enough to park next to him have enjoyed the service immensely. For all the [World Population]-4 rest of us… it’s interesting to see the series finally resurface. I wasn’t sure it ever would, given the tangle of rights and permissions the whole property is buried in.
I wonder how they hold up?
I was bugged that the TV series’ world didn’t match the movie’s. Too many changes. Still, I was more of a purist then.
C-c-c-c-atch the Wave! (oops, that’s commercial Max.) Is that my tea’s made?
I just bought one from Wal-Mart about 5 months ago for about 180 bucks. Not cheap, but not what I would call pricey either.
If you live in a bigger city, I have found that Goodwill-type stores have several at any given time. The one that had the most available recently was the thrift store attached to the AZ Humane Society (!). They had like 5 good looking players last time I was there. And the prices are usually in the tens of dollars, and I think that you’ll have a good chance of finding a better player than the stores have - HiFi VHS, better features.
Surprisingly well, in most respects. Many of the issues and plot points that were so edgy and extreme have more or less come to pass.
The only big change was moving Max from BigTime TV to Network 23. Which did change the dynamic a little but opened up the story possibilities quite a bit.
Not that they would have been exhausted in 13 episodes, either way.
Well, that and making Bryce a good guy. Or at least, a not so bad guy. He did try to murder Edison in the movie. He was unambiguously the bad guy in the film.
I’ll trust you on the rest. It’s been 30 years into the past since I’ve seen the episodes.
If you’re going to Amazon just to buy a DVD recorder for the transfer, wouldn’t it be easier just to buy the DVD set of the entire series that they offer?
Yeah, I just checked. The DVD set is available for 27.99. (And Amazon informs me I bought it in 2010)
Still worth watching. Time to do it again…
The (long delayed) release of the series back in 2010 was a big deal, and of course the set is still available. (It’s also the completely uncut original release, which means it contains a little here and there that was cut by S&P - such as Carter shouting “Shit!”)
But it’s amusing/bemusing to me that the legitimate broadcast availability was (1) ABC back in the day; (2) G4/Tech TV/Bravo around 1994 (the first appearance of the final episode)… and only now a sort of general release on streaming, demand, anything.
Poor Max. All these years locked up in his box.