About this episode
The episode explores the mysterious Max Headroom incident that interrupted Chicago's television broadcast in 1987.
In 1987, the people in the United States city of Chicago, were watching the evening TV. And then without warning the signal changed. The TV picture flickered and the sound dissolved into a harsh electronic buzz. On the screen appeared a figure wearing a rubber mask of the cult figure Max Headroom, the stuttering, sarcastic, artificially generated TV personality who had become an icon of 80s pop culture. His movements were jerky. His voice distorted and nonsensical. Then suddenly as it began, ...
Topics covered
- Max Headroom
- TV history
- media incidents
- pop culture
Keywords
- Chicago
- 1987
- television
- broadcast interruption
Mentioned in this episode
Places: United States, Chicago
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