Trivia / Max Headroom

• Referenced by...: In Back to the Future Part II, the digital waiters in the Cafe 80s are all expys of Max, complete with the glitchy stutter.
• Screwed by the Network: After a successful run as a mid-season replacement in 1986, it was pitted against Dallas on CBS and Miami Vice on NBC in the Friday Night Death Slot in the fall. The show was cancelled after 11 episodes; of the remaining three, two were aired by ABC as filler during the 1988 WGA Strike and the last did not see the light of day until Bravo aired it in 1995. It's been alleged that the show was nothing more than ABC's sacrificial lamb against the two ratings juggernauts and that network executives and advertisers were very uncomfortable with the show's vicious portrayal of network television.

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