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Television broadcasting -- Drama.
Reporters and reporting -- Drama.
Artificial intelligence -- Drama.
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Television broadcasting -- Drama.
Reporters and reporting -- Drama.
Artificial intelligence -- Drama.
MARC Display
Max
Headroom
[videorecording (DVD)] : the
complete
series
.
Shout! Factory, [2010].
Call #:
DVD
MAX
Subjects
Television broadcasting -- Drama.
Reporters and reporting -- Drama.
Artificial intelligence -- Drama.
ISBN:
9781603994323
1603994327
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)] :
Description:
5 videodiscs (ca. 11 hr.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.
Notes:
Contains all 14 episodes from the dystopian cyberpunk media satire sci-fi comedy TV
series
, originally broadcast during the 1987-1988 TV season, plus bonus features on 5 discs.
Bonus features: Live on Network 23: the story of
Max
Headroom
; looking back at the future ; the big-time blanks ; the science behind the fiction; the writers remember ; producing dystopia.
[Standard 1.33:1 full frame].
Home use only.
Closed-captioned.
Contents:
Disc 1. Blipverts --Rakers --Body banks --Security systems -- Disc 2. War --The blanks --Academy -- Disc 3. Deities --Grossberg's return --Dream thieves --Whackets -- Disc 4. Neurostim --Lessons -- Baby Grobags -- Disc 5. Bonus features.
Production:
Created by Grant Craig ; various episode writers & directors.
Performers:
Matt Frewer, Amanda Pays, Jeffrey Tambor and Morgan Sheppard.
Summary:
"Television networks battle one another in an unrelenting ratings war. Whoever controls the airwaves controls the dystopic world in which they broadcast. So when Network 23s star reporter, Edison Carter, uncovers a deadly secret that could shake up the dominion the station has over its viewers, the only option is to eliminate Carter before he can make his story public. After Carter's 'accident,' his mind is uploaded to create the world's first self-aware, computer-generated TV host:
Max
Headroom
! But will
Max
bow to his creators? Or will he be the key to his human alter ago bringing down a network superpower? With his own international talk show, music videos, countless endorsements and merchandising, the puckish
Max
Headroom
became more than just a character on television. He was a decade-defining icon, never better represented than in this sardonically witty, adventurous look at society and the place of media within it. Now all 14 uncut episodes - starring Matt Frewer (Watchmen), Amanda Pays (The Flash), Jeffrey Tambor (Arrested Development) and Morgan Sheppard (Star Trek) - are finally available together in one long-awaited DVD collection!"--Container.
Genre:
Science fiction television programs.
Show business television programs.
Television comedies.
Dystopian television programs.
Films for the hearing impaired.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Frewer, Matt, 1958-
Pays, Amanda.
Tambor, Jeffrey, 1944-
Sheppard, W. Morgan.
Holds:
1
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Halifax North Memorial Public Library
Adult Feature DVDs
DVD MAX
Adult Dvds-21 Days-Adult Accompaniment
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