6.7/1073 votesLoading...#1 - Rakers
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/7/1987
Theora goes AWOL when she learns her estranged brother is involved in the brutal and dangerous ""sport"" of raking, which the promoters are trying to have legalized and televised.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: James Crocker, Steve Roberts
6.8/1056 votesLoading...#2 - Academy
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1987
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: N/A
7.2/1058 votesLoading...#3 - Deities
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1987
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
7.3/1072 votesLoading...#4 - Body Banks
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/14/1987
Breughel and Mahler are stealing live bodies from the Fringes and selling them to Nightingales Body Bank. The wealthy Plantaganet wants pituitarys from the bodies for an operation which could save his aging mother. While Carter races to save a Fringer girl's life, Cheviot is more concerned that Max is offending Network 23's biggest sponsor, ZikZak, who have decided to buy him.
Director: N/A
Writer: Steve Roberts
7.3/1067 votesLoading...#5 - Security Systems
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/21/1987
Carter is accused of credit fraud and becomes a fugitive after delving into the hostile takeover of Security Systems, the world's most powerful corporation.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Cassutt
7.4/1060 votesLoading...#6 - War
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/28/1987
In the middle of a global ratings sweep programmer packager Frank Braddock tries to sell Network 23 a package covering the activities of a terrorist group, the White Brigade. Edison and Murray become suspicious when Breakthru TV, who have bought the package, start broadcasting terrorist bombings as soon as they occur.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: Martin Pasko, Steve Roberts, Michael Cassutt
7.4/1052 votesLoading...#7 - Neurostim
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 4/28/1988
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
7.4/1047 votesLoading...#8 - Baby Grobags
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 5/12/1998
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
7.6/1087 votesLoading...#9 - The Blanks
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/5/1987
As the ""blanks"" -- undesirables with no computer records -- are rounded up and arrested, the networks face permanent cancellation by hackers who threaten to crash the city's entire computer system if their companions aren't released.
Director: N/A
Writer: Steve Roberts
7.6/1047 votesLoading...#10 - Dream Thieves
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1987
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
7.8/10110 votesLoading...#11 - Blipverts
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/31/1987
In the near future, when TVs can't be shut off and ratings are all that matter, investigative reporter Edison Carter and his computer-generated alter ego Max Headroom battle to keep the "blank" generation informed. In the opener, Carter stumbles across his own network's cover-up of a sometimes deadly new form of TV advertising called "blipverts".
Director: Farhad Mann
Writer: Joe Gannon
7.8/1045 votesLoading...#12 - Lessons
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 5/5/1988
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
7.9/1053 votesLoading...#13 - Grossberg's Return
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1987
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
8.1/1055 votesLoading...#14 - Whackets
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1987
A video narcotic is causing people to leave their TVs tuned to Big Time Television twenty-four hours a day.
Director: Victor Lobl
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of Max Headroom
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Rakers" is the worst rated episode of "Max Headroom". It scored 6.7/10 based on 73 votes. Directed by Thomas J. Wright and written by James Crocker, Steve Roberts, it aired on 4/7/1987. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Academy".