30 years ago, the most infamous TV hijacking occurred. A look back at the Max Headroom incident.

[yepyepyep]

Looks like it was made by The Residents.

 

[Owarifin]

Probably a broadcast engineer pulled that off.

 

[Zubz]

Man, I love this story. I've only known about it for a little over 5 of those 30 years. But I'm desperate to know more. At the same time, I always want to have this mystery racking around in my brain.

Looks like it was made by The Residents.

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I, uh... I never made that connection but it wouldn't shock me, actually.

 

[Mr_Black]

sensible chuckle

 

[itwasTuesday]

I feel like a coke for some reason.

 

[FireSafetyBear]

It's nothing for the most part. On the UnresolvedMysteries sub, there's been plenty of breakdowns and research and it's mostly likely a former employee considering some of the film or whatever was in a TV studio.

 

[DrFunk]

Still the trippiest shit I've seen. I think it's fascinating how the perp has never been caught and how it even happened

 

[Deleted member 197]

That part where its spanked by the maid is hot, i wish that was me.

Looks like it was made by The Residents.

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Iep it does.

 

[Deleted member 5745]

I've never heard of this before.

That's creepy af.

 

[CannonballB]

I was at home watching Dr Who on channel 11, Chicago's local PBS station, when it happened. The whole thing was surreal. There were no message boards to go to and no breaking news websites at the time so there was no way to know what had happened until the news the next day.

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I lived across the lake from Chicago (Buchanan, MI), my grandma (Eau Claire, MI) had one of those rotating antenna thingies on her house - I remember hearing about this and watching WGN (Channel 9) and WTTW after that hoping to see it again live. We'd rotate and rotate the fuck out of that antenna trying to pick up all the Chicago stations hoping it'd happen again.

Shit was creepy as fuck back in the day!

 

[Monogatari]

Just a douche's prank. Probably a huge wasted opportunity.
If you could guarantee 90 seconds of airtime to anybody in the world to do or say any message they wanted on a national US broadcast, how much would that be worth?

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He should have shouted CHEMTRAILS instead.

 

[Deleted member 420]

Thought it was Eminem

 

[Deleted member 9100]

I recognise that face but had no idea what it was connected to. That's neat and they never caught the person either, wonder how hard they tried.

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The face is a mask of max headroom, a tv show from the 80s. It's from more than just the hijacking.

 

[riotous]

My roommates and I ran a pirate radio station in Seattle for a couple of months; never got caught or anything.. would randomly meet people who would bring it up.

Was kind of cool.

 

[Cormano]

Creepy, lets hope this doesnt give me nightmares.

 

[Christor]

My brother saw this live. He still remembers it happening and how freaky it was to him as a small kid.