Yes, MATT FREWER, the one and only Max Headroom, will be on hand for the last three days of the M-M-M-Maxathon. But wait, there’s more… Max himself is coming too. After thirty years, they’re ready to spill all the secrets. Head writer STEVE ROBERTS, who scripted the British pilot and crossed the pond to head the writing staff for the ABC show, will be flying in to join us, and MICHAEL CASSUTT, another of Max’s writer producers will be with us start to finish. Some very special guests will be coming to Santa Fe to help us celebrate the anniversary. With our world famous popcorn… and maybe we can even find some New Coke! Now see them again on the Cocteau’s big medium-sized screen. You saw them once on your little-bitty 1987 tv set.

We’ll be screening all fourteen episodes of his show: the original British pilot, “Twenty Minutes Into the Future,” and the American remake of same, plus every one of the ABC hours that followed. We’ve having a whole week of Max, to celebrate his 30th anniversary. That’s the week we’re having our M-M-M-MAXATHON!!! So mark the dates May 13 – May 20 down on your calendars, and be sure to swing by the Jean Cocteau Cinema. Thirty years have come and gone since that glorious year of 1987, and once again we’re going twenty minutes into the future… in Santa Fe, at least. Then ABC pulled the plug, and Max vanished from the airwaves, surviving only in the hearts and minds of science fiction fans. His series on ABC was hailed as innovative, startling, ground-breaking, original… like nothing else on television… the first cyberpunk television show… but it proved to be way WAY ahead of its time, starting strong and falling fast, surviving for only two short semi-seasons, an initial run of six episodes, and a second season of seven. He made the cover of NEWSWEEK, was parodied on the cover of MAD, did a guest appearance with David Letterman.Īlas, alack, Max Headroom’s reign as the king of popular media proved as short lived as New Coke. Then Max crossed the Atlantic to get his own sf show on ABC. New Coke made him their official spokesman. And then a ground-breaking British television movie. Then he got his own talk show, also in the UK. He started out in the Uk introducing music videos. Twenty minutes into the future… thirty years into the past… it was 1987, and Max was the hottest television personality in the world, with the hottest television show.

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