Read a short summary of all 14 'Max Headroom' episodes below. Keep checking back for show times.

1. Blipverts

To improve ratings, Network 23 creates "Blipverts," -- high-speed commercials condensed into a few seconds, that prevent channel-changing and embed themselves in viewers' minds. Unfortunately, these commercials have one tiny side effect -- sometimes they cause viewers to explode. Network 23's star reporter, Edison Carter, is hot on the trail of the blipvert story but gets a little too close and gets thrown through a billboard.

Network 23 executive Ned Grossberg decides to let Carter die to keep the blipvert story under wraps and replaces him with a computer simulation (Max) created by resident genius Bryce Lynch. Carter lives and both his real and simulated version prove to be tougher and smarter than Grossberg expected.


2. Body Banks

An old woman is dying, and young female "fringers" are being kidnapped to provide body parts to keep her alive. But even 21st century medicine can't keep her going forever, and the only alternative is to keep her mind alive by stealing the technology that created Max.


3. Rakers

The latest fad is the illegal sport of "raking" or "rakeboarding" -- arena combat on powered skateboards. The promoters want raking legalized so they can sell it to Network 23's sports channel. Meanwhile, Edison is looking for Theora, his controller, and Network 23 is looking for something to replace everyone's favorite children's show, "Missile Mike."


4. War

The White Brigade, a terrorist group fighting for neo-radicalistic anarcho-syndicalism, is going around the city blowing up buildings, and Network 23 rival Breakthru TV appears to have somehow acquired the exclusive rights to all news coverage of their activities. It occurs to Edison and Murray, though, how Breakthru signed a contract with terrorists. But Edison isn't the only one on the job, and new reporter Janie Crane has managed to get a bit closer to the story than she intended.


5. Blanks

The "blanks" are the invisible people, and Simon Peller, newly elected city official, is doing his best to put them all in prison. The blanks, in return, are doing their best to wreck the entire computer network. It's up to Edison Carter and Blank Reg to save the city with a bit of help from Bryce Lynch and the Trojan Sheep.



6. Security Systems

Security Systems Inc. is the largest security firm in the world, with connections to the government, corporations, and the police. Somebody is trying to take it over, and Carter wants to know who. But SSI has an artificial intelligence of its own with one or two ideas about what to do with nosy reporters.


7. Grossberg's Return

There's a "telelection" on and Network 66's Harriet Garth is beating 23's Simon Peller by a landslide. Votes are based on ratings, and 66's show is a total loser, so why are people staying tuned in droves? Bryce discovers that 66 has a scam called "View-Doze" that lets people tune in while they sleep, and the executive who thought it up has a very familiar face! But Grossberg's scheme turns out to be a lot deeper than it looks.


8. Deities

The Video Church of the Vu Age promises its followers a secular resurrection by recording their brain scans until the technology is developed to give them new bodies -- provided they pay for it, of course. The church's founder, Vanna Smith, is an old friend of Edison Carter, and he's torn between his old feelings for her and his suspicion of a church that seems to be raking in a lot of money.



9. The Academy

Somebody is "zipping" Network 23's satellites and hijacking their transmissions. Bryce claims to have tracked them down and fingers Big Time TV as the culprits, but Blank Reg protests his innocence. Theora does some investigating of her own and finds something very suspicious about the Academy of Computer Sciences (ACS), Bryce's alma mater. Edison tries to find the real perpetrators before Reg is sentenced to death by a game show.


10. Neurostim

The Zik-Zak Corporation has come up with a new gimmick -- the Neurostim bracelet. It makes all your dreams come true, it's free with every Zik-Zak product, and it could put network television out of business. Edison Carter's investigation is hampered by an argument with Max about just who pulls the ratings around here.



11. Whacketts

Bigtime TV's "Whacketts" is the dumbest game show in the history of television (and that's no small achievement). So what is it about the show that keeps everyone addicted, to the extent of risking their own lives to stay tuned? Edison wants to know why, partly because it's stealing his (and Max's) ratings, and so does our old friend Grossberg, now head of Network 66. But when a cop investigating the same mystery commits suicide, the plot begins to seriously thicken.


12. Dream Thieves

Edison runs into an old friend -- Paddy Ashton, a former Network 23 reporter, now a street bum who claims to be making a living by selling his dreams. When Ashton mysteriously dies, Edison investigates Mind's Eye, the outfit that's buying dreams. Quite a few people have died of "nightmare trauma" and it's all in the name of television!



13. Baby Grobags

Ovu-Vat offers the latest in high tech pregnancy -- you supply the genes and they'll grow the baby for you with no pain, no inconvenience, no risk, and no surprises. Theora isn't very impressed, especially when her friend Helen Zeno's baby disappears just before the "birth." Meanwhile, Network 66 has a new, high-rating show about child prodigies. Grossman is trying to lure Bryce away from Network 23, Edison is trying to find out what's going on, and Murray is trying to find an excuse to avoid visiting anything resembling a hospital.


14. Lessons

A secret school, using pirated Network 23 educational shows to teach the children of the Fringe, is raided by the Metrocops. Edison and Theora help one of the children escape, try to track down her mother and find out why Network 23's chief censor was involved in the raid. The censor appears to be getting ideas above his station, but he has underestimated Edison's stubbornness and Bryce's ingenuity.