Episode
Max Headroom: Whacketts
Overview
A video narcotic is causing people to leave their TVs tuned to Big Time Television twenty-four hours a day.
Details
- Series
- Max Headroom
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 1987-10-16
- Runtime
- 48 min
Episode context
Whacketts is Episode 5 in Season 2 of Max Headroom. It aired on 1987-10-16. The runtime is 48 min.
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Episode 4: Dream Thieves
Some shady entrepreneurs are stealing people's dreams and selling them to the highest bidders. Edison goes undercover to expose their lethal business.
Episode 6: Neurostim
Zik-Zak introduces Neurostim, a device to directly stimulate the brain and bypass the need to use television for advertising.
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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.
Episode 7: Lessons
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.
Episode 2: Deities
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.
Episode 8: Baby Grobags
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.
Episode 1: Academy
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.