Description: Max Headroom, Network 23, button, badge, blipverts MAX HEADROOM Max Headroom in White Suit & Network 23 logo buttons Two 1.25" pinback buttons: one with reproduction artwork of the company logo of Network 23, the television company from the sci-fi TV series "Max Headroom;" and one a picture of Max himself against a colorful neon-grid background, wearing a white suit and sharp sunglasses. Max Headroom originally appeared in the British-made cyberpunk TV movie Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future, which was broadcast in 1985. After the film's success, the character was spun off into a veejay in the British music video program, The Max Headroom Show, whose first episodes unusually featured no introductory title sequence or end credits. The spin-off show was an immediate cult hit. The final spin-off from the original film was the dramatic television series, Max Headroom, which was broadcast in the United States, running for two short seasons (mid-1987 and late 1987), with two more episodes shown later in 1988. "Max Headroom," set 20 minutes into the future, tell of a collapsing society held together only by television. A crusading TV reporter is sent to investigate the spontaneous explosion of viewers, and ends up having a copy of his mind uploaded onto the computer networks after an accident. Stars Matt Frewer, Amanda Pays. Max became a celebrity in multiple mediums outside his own television series, making cameo and sampled appearances or being parodied in other TV series, books, music, movies, and advertisement campaigns. He was the spokesman for New Coke (after the return of Coca-Cola Classic), delivering the slogan "Catch the wave!" (in his staccato, stuttering playback as "C-c-catch the wave!"). His own movie titled Max Headroom for President was discussed and canceled. In 1986, Quicksilva released a Max Headroom video game, which was sold in the UK for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64. Wear them on your business suit, your scroungers' rags, your punk leather jacket, or have them virtually embossed onto your cybernetic doppelganger. See our eBay store for more interesting items - combine orders to save shipping! Click Here Pin back on each button. US penny for scale. P-p-p-p-penny NOT included in price of button.
Price: 3.75 USD
Location: Raymond, New Hampshire
End Time: 2024-09-29T21:55:47.000Z
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Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
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