Hard to believe that the British produced, cyber-punk series, Max Headroom actually appeared on American network television in 1987. Home Media reports,

“Max Headroom” starred Matt Frewer as a reporter whose mind is downloaded into a computer to create a virtual clone who exists in the digital world. Amanda Pays, Jeffrey Tambor and W. Morgan Sheppard also star in the series, which ran for 14 episodes on Cinemax and ABC in 1987 and 1988. Set in the near future, “Max Headroom” depicted a world of television run amok.

Using the medium it was satirizing, the darkly humorous and prophetic series warned of a future of media and corporate mind control that is right here and now. In a bizarre example of reality imitating art, Max Headroom became the corporate spokesman for the New Coke. “C-c-c-catch the wave!”

The complete Max Headroom series is being released on DVD by Shout Factory on August 10. 

In the video Paranoima, Max hooks up with Art Of Noise in “Happy Harry’s High Club”.