zimbach: MrEricSir: Farty McPooPants: Didn't he have a talk show, too?

He was a VJ, he had a talk show, a made for TV movie (which the TV series was based on), an ad for New Coke, and a music video with Art of Noise.

That's off the top of my head, he probably had a few other appearances.

More recently, Max was used on British PSAs about the digital TV transition.

Here's that. It was clever to have Max age and go bald along with Frewer. Of course these days Max could be recreated as an actual digital character and performed by Frewer through motion capture.

aearra: Probably the best and most adventurous series on american television.

The funny thing is, it started out as an English production.

I had the biggest crush on Amanda Pays back in the day. I'm glad to hear I wasn't alone.

Superjew: And Matt Frewer has been the voice of Jack (Jack In The Box) for many years now. I imagine he's doing all right, too.

If that is true i can totally hear it now. I always wondered who did that voice.

Red Shirt Blues: Klippoklondike: Apos: A fantastic satire the likes of which,as Weaver 95 has astutely pointed out,we may never see again. Matt Frewer is still a woefully underrated actor and deserves more recognition.

He was the best part of The Stand, and that's coming from a huge Gary Sinise fan.

tsk tsk, silly man
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she was the best part of The Stand

Is that Laura San Giacomo? I might have to check this movie out. She sexy. But Jeez, could you have found a still that didn't look like she's getting assaulted?

Now a message from Zik-Zak!

One of the few shows I own on DVD. Truly one of the greatest things ever put on TV. Also just about the only time anyone has ever done cyberpunk right on the big or little screen.

/live and direct!

Now a message from Zik-Zak!

Great. Now I haz a craving for a Zik-Zak Candy Pak!

/"how can you tell when a network executive is lying? His lips are moving..."

ShawnDoc: That's why it only lasted one season.

And by one you mean two, right?

Link

the_wanderer: ShawnDoc: That's why it only lasted one season.

And by one you mean two, right?

Link

To be fair that's still just 14 episodes. British seasons are ridiculously short.

zez: Superjew: And Matt Frewer has been the voice of Jack (Jack In The Box) for many years now. I imagine he's doing all right, too.

If that is true i can totally hear it now. I always wondered who did that voice.

Matt Frewer has also had a re-occuring role on Eureka on the SyFy Channel...


And who can forget Ronron Reagan in Back to the Future?

Awright awright....let's make with more of the Amanda Pays picks....

Apos: Matt Frewer is still a woefully underrated actor and deserves more recognition.

If you have Netflix, look up the CBC show called 'Intelligence'. Matt plays a part of an organized crime investigation unit in Vancouver. He works pretty well in the role but once in a while one of his Max Headroom mannerisms will pop up and pull you back to the 80s.

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Blank Reg was right!

You know, I don't think anyone has had more awesome acting jobs than W. Morgan Sheppard. Is there an important sci-fi series in the last 30 years that he HASN'T been involved in?

MrEricSir: Farty McPooPants: Didn't he have a talk show, too?

He was a VJ, he had a talk show, a made for TV movie (which the TV series was based on), an ad for New Coke, and a music video with Art of Noise.

That's off the top of my head, he probably had a few other appearances.

There was also the Christmas Special.

Shadow Blasko: mark12A: Now a message from Zik-Zak!

Great. Now I haz a craving for a Zik-Zak Candy Pak!

/"how can you tell when a network executive is lying? His lips are moving..."

Just watch this blipvert.

/Happy to have all the eps on my computer.

I think I have the Blipvert episode on a vhs somewhere from when it first aired. I wonder if I can find it. It'd be worth it for the commercials alone.

I really need to digitize my episodes from Max Headroom's music videos & celebrity interviews show that ran on Cinemax. Those VHS aren't gonna last forever!

MrEricSir: Farty McPooPants: Didn't he have a talk show, too?

He was a VJ, he had a talk show, a made for TV movie (which the TV series was based on), an ad for New Coke, and a music video with Art of Noise.

That's off the top of my head, he probably had a few other appearances.

At least one book. I have a copy of "Max Headroom's Guide to Life" around here somewhere. There's quite a bit about playing golf in it for some reason. Very strange for a character with no arms or legs to bang on about so much.


Still, the TV series was by far the best. The darkness was toned down quite a bit from the TV movie but it remained wonderfully atmospheric and compelling. It's also the most subversive show I have ever seen on television. Which is always a good thing.

It truly does deserve far more attention than it receives.

Possibly the weirdest two minutes I've experienced in my life (and I've done a shiatload of LSD)

Apos: Klippoklondike: Apos: A fantastic satire the likes of which,as Weaver 95 has astutely pointed out,we may never see again. Matt Frewer is still a woefully underrated actor and deserves more recognition.

He was the best part of The Stand, and that's coming from a huge Gary Sinise fan.

I concur. His character wasn't only the most relatable-you could feel the depth of his self-loathing and despair-but was arguably the best novel-adapted.

My life for you!

WhyteRaven74: aearra: Probably the best and most adventurous series on american television.

The funny thing is, it started out as an English production.

As did so many other popular, successful American shows. Funny that.

Mad_Radhu: scalpod: [lh3.ggpht.com image 220x256]

Blank Reg was right!

You know, I don't think anyone has had more awesome acting jobs than W. Morgan Sheppard. Is there an important sci-fi series in the last 30 years that he HASN'T been involved in?

I thought he should have been Mad Eye Moody in Harry Potter.

Shadow Blasko: katerbug72: Shadow Blasko: mark12A: Now a message from Zik-Zak!

Great. Now I haz a craving for a Zik-Zak Candy Pak!

/"how can you tell when a network executive is lying? His lips are moving..."

Just watch this blipvert.

/Happy to have all the eps on my computer.

I think I have the Blipvert episode on a vhs somewhere from when it first aired. I wonder if I can find it. It'd be worth it for the commercials alone.

Isn't it weird how Demolition Man got that so right?

Nostalgia for commercials seemed so weird years ago, and I totally get it now. My old MTV vhs tapes get more play now than they ever did in the 80's, and I NEVER fast forward through a commercial. Just too much fun.

I used to pause the VCR when the commercials came on to take them out, now I wish I hadn't. I'd rather watch the old commercials now than the shows I taped.

Skyfrog: Shadow Blasko: katerbug72: Shadow Blasko: mark12A: Now a message from Zik-Zak!

Great. Now I haz a craving for a Zik-Zak Candy Pak!

/"how can you tell when a network executive is lying? His lips are moving..."

Just watch this blipvert.

/Happy to have all the eps on my computer.

I think I have the Blipvert episode on a vhs somewhere from when it first aired. I wonder if I can find it. It'd be worth it for the commercials alone.

Isn't it weird how Demolition Man got that so right?

Nostalgia for commercials seemed so weird years ago, and I totally get it now. My old MTV vhs tapes get more play now than they ever did in the 80's, and I NEVER fast forward through a commercial. Just too much fun.

I used to pause the VCR when the commercials came on to take them out, now I wish I hadn't. I'd rather watch the old commercials now than the shows I taped.

I recently found my tape of Saturday morning recording of Dungeons and Dragons. Dug out a VCR and popped it in.

SO getting it transferred to DVD. Not for the shows (which I already have on hdd) but for the commercials and Tron-esque CBS station breaks.

Remember the old Levis commercials? Animated and the blues ones? Those were so awesome!

Okay, sorry, I'm done.

/heh heh heh Lee-VY-sah!

Trivia of interest to me: the bellydancer in one of the episodes helped inspire the present-day Tribal styles.

fustanella: Trivia of interest to me: the bellydancer in one of the episodes helped inspire the present-day Tribal styles.

as in, tribal style of tattoos?

/if so, NEAT-O!

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Possibly the weirdest two minutes I've experienced in my life (and I've done a shiatload of LSD)

and for real, this was my vision of the future growing up, what I wanted to be. The typical cyberpunk fantasy of using technology to strike a blow against the vast corporate hegemony.


/then I discovered girls, beer and apathy, and stopped caring.

mekkab: fustanella: Trivia of interest to me: the bellydancer in one of the episodes helped inspire the present-day Tribal styles.

as in, tribal style of tattoos?

/if so, NEAT-O!

Dunno if she has any tribal tattoos; only met her once, in passing, and she was rather covered up. She did influence American Tribal Style (FatChance) dance, Gypsy Caravan, Black Sheep, etc, blah blah blah, kids off yard, etc.

Snapper Carr: Possibly the weirdest two minutes I've experienced in my life (and I've done a shiatload of LSD)

I was looking for that. I wondered how so this thread got so deep without that being mentioned.

I tried to yesterday but it didn't take-I always miss that 'cancel post in progress' part next to refresh....

Catch the wave.

SweetSilverBlues: Skyfrog: Shadow Blasko: katerbug72: Shadow Blasko: mark12A: Now a message from Zik-Zak!

Great. Now I haz a craving for a Zik-Zak Candy Pak!

/"how can you tell when a network executive is lying? His lips are moving..."

Just watch this blipvert.

/Happy to have all the eps on my computer.

I think I have the Blipvert episode on a vhs somewhere from when it first aired. I wonder if I can find it. It'd be worth it for the commercials alone.

Isn't it weird how Demolition Man got that so right?

Nostalgia for commercials seemed so weird years ago, and I totally get it now. My old MTV vhs tapes get more play now than they ever did in the 80's, and I NEVER fast forward through a commercial. Just too much fun.

I used to pause the VCR when the commercials came on to take them out, now I wish I hadn't. I'd rather watch the old commercials now than the shows I taped.

I recently found my tape of Saturday morning recording of Dungeons and Dragons. Dug out a VCR and popped it in.

SO getting it transferred to DVD. Not for the shows (which I already have on hdd) but for the commercials and Tron-esque CBS station breaks.

Remember the old Levis commercials? Animated and the blues ones? Those were so awesome!

Okay, sorry, I'm done.

/heh heh heh Lee-VY-sah!

No no no... It's Levy-OH-sah, not Levy-oh-SAH.

ZeroCorpse: SweetSilverBlues: Skyfrog: Shadow Blasko: katerbug72: Shadow Blasko: mark12A: Now a message from Zik-Zak!

Great. Now I haz a craving for a Zik-Zak Candy Pak!

/"how can you tell when a network executive is lying? His lips are moving..."

Just watch this blipvert.

/Happy to have all the eps on my computer.

I think I have the Blipvert episode on a vhs somewhere from when it first aired. I wonder if I can find it. It'd be worth it for the commercials alone.

Isn't it weird how Demolition Man got that so right?

Nostalgia for commercials seemed so weird years ago, and I totally get it now. My old MTV vhs tapes get more play now than they ever did in the 80's, and I NEVER fast forward through a commercial. Just too much fun.

I used to pause the VCR when the commercials came on to take them out, now I wish I hadn't. I'd rather watch the old commercials now than the shows I taped.

I recently found my tape of Saturday morning recording of Dungeons and Dragons. Dug out a VCR and popped it in.

SO getting it transferred to DVD. Not for the shows (which I already have on hdd) but for the commercials and Tron-esque CBS station breaks.

Remember the old Levis commercials? Animated and the blues ones? Those were so awesome!

Okay, sorry, I'm done.

/heh heh heh Lee-VY-sah!

No no no... It's Levy-OH-sah, not Levy-oh-SAH.

You're a nightmare. Honestly.

Superjew: And Matt Frewer has been the voice of Jack (Jack In The Box) for many years now. I imagine he's doing all right, too.

Nope - the voice of "Jack" is Dick Sittig, a marketing executive with Secret Weapon Marketing. My company used them for a while, and it was very weird listening to Dick talk, since it was hard not to picture Jack. Secret Weapon came up with the whole "Jack" thing, more-or-less saving the company after the E coli incidents.

Morpher59: Nope - the voice of "Jack" is Dick Sittig, a marketing executive with Secret Weapon Marketing. My company used them for a while, and it was very weird listening to Dick talk, since it was hard not to picture Jack.

No shiat! The very first time I saw a Jack in the Box commercial with Jack, I said, "that's Matt Frewer!" and I've got a pretty good ear for voices, and I'm a big Matt Frewer fan from way back.

I know there's been controversy over this, but I've stuck to my first impression and none of the subsequent commercials have made me doubt it.

If you actually witnessed Dick Sittig doing the spots, I will of course defer to your first-hand experience. He does do a hell of a job impersonating Matt Frewer's voice.

Superjew: Morpher59: Nope - the voice of "Jack" is Dick Sittig, a marketing executive with Secret Weapon Marketing. My company used them for a while, and it was very weird listening to Dick talk, since it was hard not to picture Jack.

No shiat! The very first time I saw a Jack in the Box commercial with Jack, I said, "that's Matt Frewer!" and I've got a pretty good ear for voices, and I'm a big Matt Frewer fan from way back.

I know there's been controversy over this, but I've stuck to my first impression and none of the subsequent commercials have made me doubt it.

If you actually witnessed Dick Sittig doing the spots, I will of course defer to your first-hand experience. He does do a hell of a job impersonating Matt Frewer's voice.

He's not trying to impersonate Frewer - it's his natural voice, though he puts a bit of smarminess into it for the ads. It's not a big secret that Sittig is the voice of Jack - there are tons of references in various articles on the web. If you heard him talk in person, you'd have no doubt.

I thought that show was stupid at the time. And now that I know it was just an analogue/makeup job pretending to be digital...Well, let's say my opinion of the show has not improved.

Mad_Radhu: scalpod: [lh3.ggpht.com image 220x256]

Blank Reg was right!

You know, I don't think anyone has had more awesome acting jobs than W. Morgan Sheppard. Is there an important sci-fi series in the last 30 years that he HASN'T been involved in?

He is the narrator for Civilization V as well.

SweetSilverBlues: He had a very, very brief sitcom called Doctor Doctor. Side-achingly funny shiat.

So of course it was immediately canceled.

Which still has my favorite joke from a TV series.... when coffee gets poured into his lap he says: I hope that was decaf or I'll be up all night.

(Other fav is the Tick saying "Nope!" ... If you know what I mean)

dstrick44: I thought that show was stupid at the time. And now that I know it was just an analogue/makeup job pretending to be digital...Well, let's say my opinion of the show has not improved.

Neither has your taste, but you don't hear us bleating about it.

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/drunk enough to not remember the thread
//was a tot when the show aired

always reminded me of(and visa versa):

Matt Frewer on "Doctor, Doctor" was hilarious!

/any of you Farkers remember that? Got any tips for getting grubs out of my lawn?

Mole Man: Max Headroom was in Doctor Who as well.

Chicago

Let's not forget Senior Trip!



/actually, let's forget Senior Trip