90 seconds may not seem like a whole lot of time, but you’d be amazed what you can accomplish in a minute and a half.
The same person in the same Max Headroom mask, standing before the same sheet of corrugated metal again took over the station this time, though, he won himself 90 seconds of screen time. Later on, during channel 11 WTTW’s 11pm broadcast of Doctor Who (the Fourth Doctor story “Horror of Fang Rock”, for the curious) it happened again. WGN’s engineers worked quickly, circumventing the hijacking by switching the frequency of their studio link to that of another transmitter - but this incident wasn’t the only oddity of the night. Someone had hijacked the television station. It was intensely bizarre, and it could only mean one thing: The Max lookalike stood before a sheet of corrugated metal, moving around as if he were dancing there was no sound beyond a low buzzing noise.
YOUTUBE MAX HEADROOM INCIDENT MOVIE
The mask was designed to look like Max Headroom, the fictional AI character played by Matt Frewer who had first been introduced to the world in the 1985 made-for-TV movie Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into the Future. A person wearing a mask - the latex kind that covers your whole head - suddenly flashed up on the screen. What replaced it ran for only 30 seconds, but in spite of its brevity, wasn’t an image easily forgotten. On November 22, 1987, the signal during channel 9 WGN’s regular broadcast of the nine o’clock news cut out without warning. Little did the creators of the show know, however, that over 20 years later, the people of Chicago would end up in an Outer Limits-type situation in real life.
But we knew it was fiction, so we settled back to enjoy it in the same way we do when we huddle around campfires, telling scary tales to each other in the dark.
YOUTUBE MAX HEADROOM INCIDENT TV
We will control all that you see and hear.” This is true of any TV broadcast - the network is of course in control of what you’re seeing - but this simple opening narration created the conceit that our television sets had been taken over by something different, something… otherworldly. “There is nothing wrong with your television set,” it told us. When The Outer Limits debuted on ABC in 1963, one of the most iconic and troubling opening sequences ever to hit television appeared on our screens for the very first times. Previously in this series: Bloody Mary and other games you shouldn’t play.
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