Max Headroom (TV series) Quotes

Max Headroom is a Science fiction that appeared on TV in 1987 on American Broadcasting Company. Max Headroom completed its run in 1988.

Max Headroom was on for 2 seasons and 14 episodes. It features Brian E. Frankish as producer, and Michael Hoenig as theme composer. Max Headroom is executive produced by Peter Wagg. Max Headroom is created by George Stone.

Max Headroom is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Max Headroom is 45-48 minutes long. Max Headroom is produced by Chrysalis Group/Lakeside and distributed by Warner Bros. Television Distribution.

Max Headroom Quotes

• (Unnamed) "How can you tell a network executive is lying? His lips move."

• (Unnamed) "You can't fake a tape. Pictures don't lie."
• (Unnamed) "At least not until you've assembled them creatively."

• (Unnamed) "Well, most people would agree that censors are a silly breed. In fact, it surprises me how they ever manage to breed at all."

• (Unnamed) "The show has surprise, shock, pace -- and huge cash stakes. I've accomplished the impossible -- I've replaced mindless action with fascination."

• (Unnamed) "I want you to form a team of the most brilliant minds in network television."
• (Unnamed) "Isn't that a contradiction in terms?"

• (Unnamed) "Say, would someone mind checking the ratings? I seem to have an audience of two."

• (Unnamed) "Override Censor? Good God, Murray. I'm the Chairman, not the Creator."

• (Unnamed) "What do men do when women are distressed?"
• (Unnamed) "Run away or boast, normally."

• (Unnamed) "The loudest sound in the universe is the last heartbeat."

• (Unnamed) "What happened to the old religions?"
• (Unnamed) "I don't know. Television killed it. We have better miracles."

• (Unnamed) ""I have noted three 'damns,' four 'hells,' sixteen cases of sexual innuendo, a reference to self-abuse, two veiled remarks about network presidents, and a joke about the Son of God." Doesn't say which god."
• (Unnamed) "I'm sure it's the current one. It's probably the guy who's running the censor computer."

• (Unnamed) "Yes, t-t-t-t-tune into Network 23. The network that's a real mind-blower."
• (Unnamed) "And I love, love, l-l-love -- love those blip-blip-blip-blipverts."

• (Unnamed) "Converts are the worst bigots."

• (Unnamed) "Freedom. You know, writers have no freedom on TV. One rude suggestion, and the censors are straight on their back. Not on their back in a rude way."

• (Unnamed) "As, 'tis Max Headroom here, and I quote from the bard, Shakespeare, a writer: "The quality of TV is not strained, it dropeth as the gentle ratings dropeth to a very tiny percentage share and, lo, 'tis gone." Of course, Shakespeare would have loved your rating system. Twelfth Night would have been lucky to have lasted one."

• (Unnamed) "There are no experimental failures. There's only more data."

• (Zik-Zak Announcer) "Zik-Zak -- We make everything you need and you need everything we make."

• (Unnamed) "Now, I'm no librarian, in fact, I don't know what star sign I am. But, as a famous person once said, "You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." And as I; another more famous person; once said, "If you don't teach them to read, you can fool them whenever you like.""

• (Unnamed) "Those that can, do. Those that can't, censor it."

• (Unnamed) "Ah; love; the walks over soft grass, the smiles over candlelight, the fights over just about everything else --"

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