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The Best Episodes of Max Headroom

Every episode of Max Headroom ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Max Headroom!

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Television networks battle one another in an unrelenting ratings war. Whoever controls the airwaves controls the dystopic world in which they broadcast. So when Network 23's star reporter, Edison Carter, uncovers a deadly secret that

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Max Headroom Season 2 Episode 5 - Whacketts
    8.2/10(59 votes)

    #1 - Whacketts

    S2:E5

    A video narcotic is causing people to leave their TVs tuned to Big Time Television twenty-four hours a day.

    Director:Victor Lobl
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Max Headroom Season 2 Episode 3 - Grossberg's Return
    8.0/10(57 votes)

    #2 - Grossberg's Return

    S2:E3

    Rival Network 66 attempts to defeat Network 23 in a ratings-based election by introducing a ""watch while you sleep"" device into its programming to cause people to leave their TV sets on all night.

    Director:Janet Greek
    Writer:Steve Roberts

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  3. Max Headroom Season 2 Episode 7 - Lessons
    7.9/10(49 votes)

    #3 - Lessons

    S2:E7

    Network 23 censors go a step too far when they try to shut down a secret school in the fringes, because it's using pirated Network 23 instructional programming.

    Director:Victor Lobl
    Writer:Steve Roberts

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  4. Max Headroom Season 2 Episode 4 - Dream Thieves
    7.7/10(52 votes)

    #4 - Dream Thieves

    S2:E4

    Some shady entrepreneurs are stealing people's dreams and selling them to the highest bidders. Edison goes undercover to expose their lethal business.

    Director:Todd Holland
    Writer:Steve Roberts

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  5. Max Headroom Season 1 Episode 1 - Blipverts
    7.6/10(137 votes)

    #5 - Blipverts

    S1:E1

    In the near future, when TVs can't be shut off and ratings are all that matter, investigative reporter Edison Carter and his computer-generated alter ego Max Headroom battle to keep the "blank" generation informed. In the opener, Carter stumbles across his own network's cover-up of a sometimes deadly new form of TV advertising called "blipverts".

    Director:Farhad Mann
    Writer:Joe Gannon

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  6. Max Headroom Season 1 Episode 6 - The Blanks
    7.6/10(71 votes)

    #6 - The Blanks

    S1:E6

    As the ""blanks"" -- undesirables with no computer records -- are rounded up and arrested, the networks face permanent cancellation by hackers who threaten to crash the city's entire computer system if their companions aren't released.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Steve Roberts

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  7. Max Headroom Season 1 Episode 5 - War
    7.5/10(64 votes)

    #7 - War

    S1:E5

    In the middle of a global ratings sweep programmer packager Frank Braddock tries to sell Network 23 a package covering the activities of a terrorist group, the White Brigade. Edison and Murray become suspicious when Breakthru TV, who have bought the package, start broadcasting terrorist bombings as soon as they occur.

    Director:Thomas J. Wright
    Writers:Michael Cassutt, Steve Roberts, Martin Pasko

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  8. Max Headroom Season 1 Episode 3 - Body Banks
    7.4/10(85 votes)

    #8 - Body Banks

    S1:E3

    Breughel and Mahler are stealing live bodies from the Fringes and selling them to Nightingales Body Bank. The wealthy Plantaganet wants pituitarys from the bodies for an operation which could save his aging mother. While Carter races to save a Fringer girl's life, Cheviot is more concerned that Max is offending Network 23's biggest sponsor, ZikZak, who have decided to buy him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Steve Roberts

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  9. Max Headroom Season 2 Episode 2 - Deities
    7.4/10(62 votes)

    #9 - Deities

    S2:E2

    The Vu-Age Church is running a phony resurrection service, claiming to be able to store cortical scans of its members and keep them on-line for the day when cloning is perfected and their personalities can be placed in new bodies. Edison is reluctant to pursue the story because Vu- Age's leading televangelist, Vanna Smith, is an old flame.

    Director:Thomas J. Wright
    Writer:Michael Cassutt

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  10. Max Headroom Season 2 Episode 6 - Neurostim
    7.4/10(56 votes)

    #10 - Neurostim

    S2:E6

    Zik-Zak introduces Neurostim, a device to directly stimulate the brain and bypass the need to use television for advertising.

    Director:Maurice Phillips
    Writer:Michael Cassutt

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  11. Max Headroom Season 2 Episode 8 - Baby Grobags
    7.4/10(52 votes)

    #11 - Baby Grobags

    S2:E8

    Edison Carter is on the trail of some rather dark people who are stealing babies from the baby pods where they are grown while Bryce carefully considers working for Grossberg and channel 66.

    Director:Janet Greek
    Writer:Chris Ruppenthal

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  12. Max Headroom Season 1 Episode 4 - Security Systems
    7.3/10(77 votes)

    #12 - Security Systems

    S1:E4

    Carter is accused of credit fraud and becomes a fugitive after delving into the hostile takeover of Security Systems, the world's most powerful corporation.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Michael Cassutt

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  13. Max Headroom Season 2 Episode 1 - Academy
    7.1/10(62 votes)

    #13 - Academy

    S2:E1

    Network 23 becomes the victim of signal zipping - illegal interruption of their satellite feed. When Bryce tracks the zipping to Big Time Television, Reg is arrested and sent for trial by gameshow on ""You the Jury"". Meanwhile Edison and Theora trace the real zippers to the Academy of Computer Sciences, and Bryce's old schoolfriends.

    Director:Victor Lobl
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Max Headroom Season 1 Episode 2 - Rakers
    6.7/10(82 votes)

    #14 - Rakers

    S1:E2

    Theora goes AWOL when she learns her estranged brother is involved in the brutal and dangerous ""sport"" of raking, which the promoters are trying to have legalized and televised.

    Director:Thomas J. Wright
    Writers:Steve Roberts, James Crocker

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Best Episodes Summary

"Whacketts" is the best rated episode of "Max Headroom". It scored 8.2/10 based on 59 votes. Directed by Victor Lobl and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/16/1987. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Grossberg's Return".