Max Headroom
Dream Thieves
TV Flash files “Dream Thieves” as hour 10 of 14 in the TV Flash guide — Max Headroom (1987–1988) on ABC, season 2, episode 4, aired 1987-10-09, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E04: listed hour 10 of 14 in the Max Headroom guide, hour 4 of 8 in season 2. It aired 1987-10-09 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Grossberg's Return” (S02E03). Next is “Whackets” (S02E05).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
In an attempt to get an edge over the major networks, a subscription cable channel turns to airing recorded dream sequences. When Carter begins researching a story on dream recording, he learns that the process can have fatal side effects for the donors.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Dream Thieves sit in the Max Headroom guide?
S02E04 is listed hour 10 of 14 — hour 4 of 8 in season 2, season 2 episode 4.
When did Max Headroom S02E04 air?
Dream Thieves aired 1987-10-09 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Is Max a real CGI character?
Stuttering computer-generated host as the 1980s sold it — Frewer in a dual role, chrome as aesthetic. The ads sometimes outshone the ABC series. The blipverts are the sting.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Twenty minutes into the future: stuttering computer-generated host, TV-news as authoritarian weather, and cyberpunk chrome on ABC of all places. Matt Frewer's Max became a Coke pitchman who sometimes outshone the series. Brief, glossy, and still the weirdest primetime warning about media monopolies America accidentally aired. The blipverts still sting.
Two seasons. Fourteen hours. ABC, 1987–1988, after Channel 4 U.K. origins: investigative reporter Edison Carter and his digital alter ego expose corporate media dystopia — twenty minutes into the future. That is the window, not a chrome souvenir. Max Headroom, from George Stone, Annabel Jankel, and Rocky Morton, put Matt Frewer in the dual role of Carter and the stuttering computer-generated host, with Amanda Pays and Chris Young. Cyberpunk visual language on American network primetime, however briefly. TV-news…
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