Season 2

Max HeadroomSeason 2

1987
8 Episodes

Episodes

Academy
S02E01
6.5

Academy

Network 23 becomes the victim of signal zipping - illegal interruption of their satellite feed. When Bryce tracks the zipping to Big Time Television, Reg is arrested and sent for trial by gameshow on ""You the Jury"". Meanwhile Edison and Theora trace the real zippers to the Academy of Computer Sciences, and Bryce's old schoolfriends.

18 Sept 198747m
Deities
S02E02
6.5

Deities

The Vu-Age Church is running a phony resurrection service, claiming to be able to store cortical scans of its members and keep them on-line for the day when cloning is perfected and their personalities can be placed in new bodies. Edison is reluctant to pursue the story because Vu- Age's leading televangelist, Vanna Smith, is an old flame.

25 Sept 198748m
Grossberg's Return
S02E03
8.5

Grossberg's Return

Rival Network 66 attempts to defeat Network 23 in a ratings-based election by introducing a ""watch while you sleep"" device into its programming to cause people to leave their TV sets on all night.

02 Oct 198748m
Dream Thieves
S02E04
5.5

Dream Thieves

Some shady entrepreneurs are stealing people's dreams and selling them to the highest bidders. Edison goes undercover to expose their lethal business.

09 Oct 198748m
Whacketts
S02E05
5.5

Whacketts

A video narcotic is causing people to leave their TVs tuned to Big Time Television twenty-four hours a day.

16 Oct 198748m
Neurostim
S02E06
4.5

Neurostim

Zik-Zak introduces Neurostim, a device to directly stimulate the brain and bypass the need to use television for advertising.

28 Apr 198848m
Lessons
S02E07
6.5

Lessons

Network 23 censors go a step too far when they try to shut down a secret school in the fringes, because it's using pirated Network 23 instructional programming.

05 May 198848m
Baby Grobags
S02E08
7.0

Baby Grobags

Edison Carter is on the trail of some rather dark people who are stealing babies from the baby pods where they are grown while Bryce carefully considers working for Grossberg and channel 66.

12 May 198848m