‘Headroom’s Doctor Who interruption lasted longer as there were no engineers on duty to change the broadcasting frequency (as the WGN engineers had), and the broadcast ended when the pirate switched it off themselves. (An offscreen hand has a flyswatter and begins to spank Max’s bare bottom) They’re coming to get me! Bend over bitch! Ooooh! Oh do it! Ooooh! Looks like you got footprints on it! (moans) Oh, my piles! (moans) Oh, I just made a giant masterpiece for all the Greatest World Newspaper nerds! (giggles and moans) My brother is wearing the other one. Your love is fading… (moans, and hums theme to Clutch Cargo) I still see the X!. (giggles and moans)Ĭatch the wave! (holds up Pepsi can) (moans) Yeah, I think I’m better than Chuck Swirsky – fricking liberal! Oh Jesus. More interesting to us, later that evening at 11:20pm, a broadcast of The Horror of Fang Rock on WTTW was interrupted by the same character, this time able to broadcast the following ‘message’:.During WGN-TVs The Nine O’Clock News, the screen went black for 15 seconds followed by a 28-second intrusion of ‘Headroom’ (accompanied with a swiverlling corrugated metal panel designed to appear like the ‘real’ Headroom’s backdrop), who rocked around and transmitted a buzzing noise. ![]() On November 22nd 1987, two stations in Chicago, Illinois were hijacked by an unknown individual dressed as Max Headroom (central character from a British movie released in 1985, who was by then starring a spinoff show), using signals that overpowered the official transmission. 2.5: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith.Missing Episode Clips: Patrick Troughton.Missing Episode Clips: William Hartnell.The Disused Yeti: 1999 Survey Supplement.Graham Strong and the Power of the Daleks.Chasing Shadows: The Adventures of an Episode Hunter.Are There Missing Episodes in New Zealand?.The people responsible have never been identified. He then held up a Michael Jackson glove and said, “My brother is wearing the other one”, then put the glove on and continued, “But it’s dirty! It’s like you got bloodstains on it!” He then removed the glove and threw it down.įor Act 3, the picture cut to a man and his bare butt as he held the now-removed Max Headroom mask up to the camera and screamed “They’re coming to get me!” as a woman in a French maid outfit then proceeded to spank his bare ass with a flyswatter while screaming “Bend over, bitch!” He also made some fart noises and stated he had “made a giant masterpiece for all the greatest world newspaper nerds”. The show was interrupted by static and the for one minute and twenty-two seconds, someone in a Max Headroom mask screamed, laughed, moaned, called WGN’s Chuck Swirsky a “fricking Liberal” and blurted out random phrases like New Coke’s slogan “Catch the Wave” while holding a Pepsi can.Īfter crushing the Pepsi can, he tossed it off screen, flipped off the camera, grabbed the Pepsi can, sang “Your Love Is Fading’ and begun humming the Clutch Cargo theme song. Later in the night at 11:15 PM the same person or persons hijacked the broadcast signal Chicago PBS affiliate WTTW-11 during a broadcast of Doctor Who. Unlike the earlier hijack, which was barely intelligible, the next one was much more successful. After gaining control of the broadcast again, all Dan Roan could say was “Well, if you’re wondering what’s happened, so am I.” ![]() ![]() There was no audio other than a buzzing noise and the technicians at WGN were quickly able to stop the hijack by switching the frequency of their studio link. The screen went black for 15 seconds and then returned with a mysterious person wearing a Max Headroom mask. ![]() On the evening of November 22nd, 1987 Max Headroom hijacked two TV stations in Chicago.Īt approximately 9:15 PM, during Nine O’Clock News with Dan Roan on WGN-TV Channel 9, the broadcast signal was hijacked as he narrated highlights of the Bears victory over the Lions.
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