Set "20 minutes into the future" - Max Headroom is a short-run, 1987, TV series that posed the possibility (as far-fetched as it sounded) of actually translating people into computer data.Yes. Today - 30 years later - That potentiality does convert into old news. But, back then - It really sparked the interest of many-a-viewer who religiously tuned into this program like total fiends.With its episodes rarely ever being shot in natural light - Max Headroom's vision of the future was, indeed, a decidedly cold and callous one where cynicism and corruption prevailed on every street corner.Injecting elements of both punk and new wave into its 1-hour episodes - This surprisingly short-lived series certainly had its fair share of good points, as well as its not-so-good points, too.

Max Headroom was a show WAY ahead of its time. The blipverts episode is just one example of how prophetic this really was. Max as a character steals the show. There's something about him that glues you to the screen. The music score is cool too (soundtrack anyone). My biggest complaint is that the DVD didn't have the original feature or any of the New Coke commercials. That being said, I was all to happy to really care since the DVD looks great. A lot of people may shrug their shoulders at this odd gem, but for sci/fi fans, its a real treat. Some of the miniature work looks dated, but in my opinion it only adds to the shows charm .I feel bad that a show this great has been forgotten for so many years. It really should have a bigger audience than it does. Hopefully the DVD release will give it a new life for the younger generation to appreciate it.

Before "Revolution" ... Before "Dark Angel" ... Before "Falling Skies" and "The Walking Dead" ... There was Max."Max Headroom" was the first cyberpunk, post-apocalyptic TV show EVER (way back in 1987).Max was decades ahead of its time. The show predicted such things as identity theft, the Internet, the webcam, and the fusion of media and government. (One episode even mourned the closure of movie theaters. Today, thanks to Netflix and video-on-demand, that has now come to pass.) In a word, Max was prophetic. The hip, trendy post-apocalyptic shows that you're seeing today owe a great debt to Max Headroom.

as a child my brother and i used to sneak down to our cellar and watch unattendedly TV. in a "kunststuecke" (a tv series where they show movies normally not shown) we just by accident saw the original max headroom uk1995. man. it took us not even a thought to quickly make a philosophy out of it and to take this as our new expectation standard for this genre.but boy, we never saw it again (not a single video-store holds this) and we were quite nervous when the remake (tv series) was announced ... what a disappointment! with their cold blooded commerciality they made a perfectly clean familiy movie out of the bleak retro ambiance of the original 57 min trip. worst, these are the versions the video-stores are filing.