It is the day after tomorrow, and television networks rule the planet. The TV sets themselves do not turn off, and the programming is designed to keep citizens in a state of complacency. Society is in a shambles, with poverty rampant. In the shadows of the Networks, untold millions live on the streets with only a TV to their names, and many can only make their living by selling dead bodies on the organ transplant black market. The one ray of hope is Edison Carter, investigative reporter for Network 23. Edison covers the stories that matter, and he is the voice of the people who have no other. Edison, of course, winds up on the wrong side of some very bad men who try their best to have him killed. An attempt to find out what he knows by reading his brain with a computer inadvertently creates a stuttering, manic computer simulation of Edison that calls itself Max.
Show Info
Schedule: Thursdays at 20:00
(60 min)
Status: Ended
Show Type:
Scripted
Genres:
DramaScience-Fiction
Episodes ordered: 8 episodes
Created by:
Annabel JankelRocky MortonGeorge Stone
7.6 (16 votes)
Previous Episode
Baby Grobags
Episode 2x08; May 12, 1988
While researching a story on genetically engineered "designer babies", Carter discovers that babies with exceptionally high IQs are being stolen from their parents just before being "born" to be used for a new TV show on Network 66.
Previous Episodes
Episode Name | Airdate | Trailer |
---|---|---|
2x08: Baby Grobags | May 12, 1988 | |
2x07: Lessons | May 5, 1988 | |
2x06: Neurostim | Apr 28, 1988 |
Cast
![Edison Carter](https://static.tvmaze.com/uploads/images/medium_portrait/421/1053376.jpg)
![Max Headroom](https://static.tvmaze.com/uploads/images/medium_portrait/489/1224276.jpg)
![Theora Jones](https://static.tvmaze.com/uploads/images/medium_portrait/488/1222079.jpg)
![Ben Cheviot](https://static.tvmaze.com/uploads/images/medium_portrait/489/1223261.jpg)
![Bryce Lynch](https://static.tvmaze.com/uploads/images/medium_portrait/489/1223299.jpg)
![Murray](https://static.tvmaze.com/uploads/images/medium_portrait/489/1223296.jpg)
![Blank Reg](https://static.tvmaze.com/uploads/images/medium_portrait/421/1053405.jpg)