Max Headroom Pirating Incident

TV Short
1987
16+
2m

IMDb RATING

8.5/10

326

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Comedy Crime Horror Mystery Sci-Fi Short

Illegal broadcast showing Max Headroom Impostor doing non-sense things and obscenities, shown over sports news and "Doctor Who" episode, which became cult phenomena as culprits were never ca... Read allIllegal broadcast showing Max Headroom Impostor doing non-sense things and obscenities, shown over sports news and "Doctor Who" episode, which became cult phenomena as culprits were never captured.Illegal broadcast showing Max Headroom Impostor doing non-sense things and obscenities, shown over sports news and "Doctor Who" episode, which became cult phenomena as culprits were never captured.

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Anonymous

Max Headroom
(uncredited)

Eric Fournier

Max Headroom
(uncredited)

Max Headroom Hijacker

Max
(uncredited)

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Trivia
Years later, a man surfaced on Reddit, claiming to have known the guy behind the incident. He stated that the man had a hijacked radio and was autistic. This man later said who he believed was behind the incident was not at all Max and had no involvement in the highjacking.

Goofs
The actor's mouth can be seen briefly several times over the course of the video.

Quotes
Max Headroom: [First Lines] That does it! He's a freakin' nerd!
[Giggles]
Max Headroom: Yeah, I think I'm better than Chuck Swirsky. Frickin' liberal!

Crazy credits
There's no credits at all.

Alternate versions
The first version shown was cut on 30 seconds, the second was 90 seconds. Bootleg version are more or less longer depending on amount of "Doctor Who" footage used.

Connections
Featured in Blameitonjorge: Top 40 Lost or Banned Episodes of Kid Shows (2015)

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10/10

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Yeah, I'm giving this 10 of 10 stars for pure brass.

I vaguely remember watching WHO as a kid and seeing this, I totally remember the news coverage of it.

It made no sense, I couldn't understand most of what he was saying, I really don't think it had a point outside of, hey look what we did....

... and the mystery continues. So 10 of 10 for D.B. Coopering this.