Like New Coke, they needed to make statements ... into two local TV broadcasts with footage of a person in a Max Headroom mask. The culprits were never found. Later that year, Matt Frewer told ...

(Note: Max Headroom also tried to sell people on New Coke.) The character was eventually ... (except for the times a guy in a Max Headroom mask hijacked Chicago TV broadcasts in the late ...

Grab your floppy discs, crank the Duran Duran, and crack open some ice cold New Coke. Max Headroom, the perplexing fictional character played by Matt Frewer in a variety of television forms ...

A few minutes into the broadcast, the scene featuring an early 20th-century lighthouse faded away, and the face of the fictional AI character Max ... Headroom’s recent commercial for Coca-Cola ...

He even appeared in adverts for new Coke, as well as on the cover of Newsweek. But he became an even bigger sensation when ABC produced Max Headroom – a drama that continued the story that was ...

In the pre-internet U.S., New Coke commercials featuring Max Headroom and bootlegged videos fueled mystery about whether some mad genius had really created a “computer generated” person ...

He's the purportedly AI-generated television host of a series of 1980's TV movie and subsequent shows that aired in the U.S. and the U.K., and also the chief marketer of New Coke (a famous flop).

During a sports recap on the 9 O’Clock Evening News, a person in a Max Headroom mask danced/bobbed their head for 16 seconds in front of a sheet of slowly rocking corrugated metal sheet.

He also took on a kind of underground status as a countercultural icon when in 1987, a TV pirate wearing a Max Headroom mask took over a pair of Chicago TV broadcasts, making strange and lewd ...