SHORT CUTS EP18 | The Max Headroom Incident: The Unsolved TV Hijack of 1987
Episode Description | You are watching your local TV sports news one night when the screen suddenly goes fuzzy and this odd character comes onto the screen, says nothing, then disappears. The TV station you are watching has been hijacked. Later that same night, it happens again … but this time, the hacker has some rather interesting information to share and a strange fetish-like scenario to act out on live television.
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