The Best Episodes of Max Headroom Season 2

Episode Rankings

1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   6.9/10(59 votes)

   #1 - Academy

   S2:E19/18/1987

   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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   Director:Victor Lobl

   Writer:Unknown
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   7.3/10(59 votes)

   #2 - Deities

   S2:E29/25/1987

   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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   Director:Thomas J. Wright

   Writer:Michael Cassutt
3. 

   7.9/10(54 votes)

   #3 - Grossberg's Return

   S2:E310/2/1987

   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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   Director:Janet Greek

   Writer:Steve Roberts
4. 

   7.6/10(49 votes)

   #4 - Dream Thieves

   S2:E410/9/1987

   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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   Director:Todd Holland

   Writer:Steve Roberts
5. 

   8.1/10(56 votes)

   #5 - Whacketts

   S2:E510/16/1987

   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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   Director:Victor Lobl

   Writer:Unknown
6. 

   7.4/10(53 votes)

   #6 - Neurostim

   S2:E64/28/1988

   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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   Director:Maurice Phillips

   Writer:Michael Cassutt
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7. 

   7.8/10(46 votes)

   #7 - Lessons

   S2:E75/5/1988

   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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   Director:Victor Lobl

   Writer:Steve Roberts
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   7.3/10(49 votes)

   #8 - Baby Grobags

   S2:E85/12/1988

   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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   Director:Janet Greek

   Writer:Chris Ruppenthal