MAX HEADROOM INCIDENT 30TH ANNIVERSARY MOVIE
MAX HEADROOM INCIDENT 30TH ANNIVERSARY TV

Together, the event made headlines across the world and became known as the Max Headroom signal hijacking – even though the Headroom element was nothing more than a mask. A little earlier, local news station WGN-TV experienced a 30-second outage when the same figure appeared, although no sound was broadcast at that time. It was the second intervention of the evening. “Oh, do it!” were the last words heard as the hack ended and replaced by Fourth Doctor Tom Baker back in the lighthouse, announcing, “As far as I can tell, a massive electric shock – he died instantly.” He put on a glove, saying his brother had the other one, made a comment about “world newspaper nerds” and then said, “Whoa! They’re coming to get me!” as he disappeared off-screen and was replaced by a man bending over, revealing his naked ass, which was then slapped by a woman. He’s a frickin’ nerd!” followed by references to local sports commentator Chuck Swirsky, Headroom’s recent commercial for Coca-Cola and words that were difficult to follow. In those seconds, the masked man spoke apparent gibberish, starting with, “That does it. In this short scene, the Los Angeles resistance watch a news bulletin, followed by Fang Rock (not only does the description match, but Rock received its LA debut at 17:30 on 26th May 1984, eighteen days after the final installment of V: The Final Battle – which this novel follows up – was broadcast on NBC).But it wasn’t really Headroom, played by Matt Frewer, who recently found fame with the character that hosted from “20 minutes into the future.” It was someone wearing a Headroom mask, who proceeded to clown around on the hacked airwaves for about 90 seconds. This is an interesting choice as, author Allen Wold had used the story in a scene in his 1985 novel V: The Pursuit of Diana.

MAX HEADROOM INCIDENT 30TH ANNIVERSARY TV

Of all the TV shows to interrupt, our pirate broadcaster chose Horror of Fang Rock.

On 24th December 2016, metal band Soul Conversion released a rather kicking demo called The Max Headroom Broadcast Interruption.

On November 24th, WMAQ-TV Channel 5 news jokingly faked an incursion using footage from the WGN-TV night.

On November 23rd, CBS Evening News, WFLD Channel 7, WGN Channel 9, WBBN Channel 2, WMAQ Channel 5 and WLS Channel 7 all reported on the event, all including clips from Horror of Fang Rock.

‘Headroom’s Doctor Who interruption lasted longer as there were no engineers on duty to change the broadcasting frequency (as the WGN engineers had), and the broadcast ended when the pirate switched it off themselves. (An offscreen hand has a flyswatter and begins to spank Max’s bare bottom) They’re coming to get me! Bend over bitch! Ooooh! Oh do it! Ooooh! Looks like you got footprints on it! (moans) Oh, my piles! (moans) Oh, I just made a giant masterpiece for all the Greatest World Newspaper nerds! (giggles and moans) My brother is wearing the other one. Your love is fading… (moans, and hums theme to Clutch Cargo) I still see the X!. (giggles and moans)Ĭatch the wave! (holds up Pepsi can) (moans) Yeah, I think I’m better than Chuck Swirsky – fricking liberal! Oh Jesus.

More interesting to us, later that evening at 11:20pm, a broadcast of The Horror of Fang Rock on WTTW was interrupted by the same character, this time able to broadcast the following ‘message’:.

During WGN-TVs The Nine O’Clock News, the screen went black for 15 seconds followed by a 28-second intrusion of ‘Headroom’ (accompanied with a swiverlling corrugated metal panel designed to appear like the ‘real’ Headroom’s backdrop), who rocked around and transmitted a buzzing noise.

MAX HEADROOM INCIDENT 30TH ANNIVERSARY MOVIE

On November 22nd 1987, two stations in Chicago, Illinois were hijacked by an unknown individual dressed as Max Headroom (central character from a British movie released in 1985, who was by then starring a spinoff show), using signals that overpowered the official transmission.

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Max headroom incident 30th anniversary