MAX HEADROOM CAST SERIES
Morgan Sheppard, Pays was one of only three cast members to also appear in the American-made series that followed. Theora Jones was played by Amanda Pays and first appeared in the British-made television pilot film for the series. The series depicted very little of the past described by Edison, though he did meet a female priest that he once dated when his reporting put him at odds with the Vu Age Church that she now headed.Įdison cares about his co-workers, especially Theora Jones and Bryce Lynch.Īccording to a personal statistics file displayed on a computer screen in the series, Edison is 6'2" tall and weighs 180 pounds. Eventually, one of these instances required him to flee his workspace, upon which he was injured in a motorcycle accident (that he was helped to suffer) Bryce Lynch downloaded a copy of his mind into a computer, giving birth to the character Max Headroom. A few posters were produced for comic shops, with a picture of Max Headroom saying comics will never be the same again.Įdison Carter ( Matt Frewer) was a hard-hitting reporter for Network 23, who sometimes uncovered things that his superiors in the network would have preferred to keep private. Plans for a cinema version titled Max Headroom for President were mentioned in the media, but the film was never produced.Ĭomico comics also had plans to publish a graphic novel based on the story, but never fulfilled them. The series began as a mid-season replacement in spring of 1987, and was sufficiently popular to be renewed for the fall television season, but the viewer ratings could not be sustained, due to direct competition with CBS's Top 20 hit Dallas and NBC's Top 30 hit Miami Vice, and Max Headroom was canceled part-way into its first broadcast season leftover episodes aired in spring 1988.
spin-off series featuring Max Headroom was a fictional drama, while its main character was originally created for a non-fiction entertainment show in Britain. In an arrangement perhaps unique in the history of television, the U.S.
MAX HEADROOM CAST MOVIE
series expanded on the cyberpunk themes in the British TV movie but otherwise had no connection to the British music video show. Among the non-original cast, Jeffrey Tambor co-starred as "Murray,” Edison Carter's neurotic editor. Morgan Sheppard later joined the cast as "Blank Reg". version series were Matt Frewer (Max Headroom, Edison Carter) and Amanda Pays (Theora Jones) original cast member W. The only original cast retained for the U.S. The pilot featured plot changes and some minor visual touches, but retained the same basic storyline.
The film was re-shot as a pilot program for a new series broadcast by the U.S.-based ABC television network. In 1987, the story told in 20 Minutes into the Future, a made-for-television movie, formed the basis of a full-fledged drama television series.
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