80s TV Retro Time Capsule | Max Headroom Episodes “Grossberg’s Return & “Dream Thieves” | MTV & DEVO

Special DEVO Remix Edition!!!
I’m premiering three DEVO video remixes as part of tonights show. Tonight will be more music video focused. I’ve done some remix work & reworked some old favorites. Hope you dig it.

I’m also showing quite a few trailers & songs that debuted today…July 20th…like GoGo’s debut of Vacation, Films like The Neverending Story, Best Defense, Revenge of the Nerds…all released today in various of years of the 80s…never heard of The Man With One Red Shoe…we’ll take care of that. I actually had way more I wanted to squeeze in but as it stands there’ll be plenty of 80s weirdness for you.

Tonight we aren't going to get too heavy. This is mostly about taking a break from the madness w/a bit of classic TV from the late 80s. Take a trip back with me to the 80s when Max Headroom was beginning to air on one of the three major networks...yep...3 channels we had to choose from without the 'miracle of Cable TV'...not only did you have to be 'lucky enough' to live in the Suburbs to get MTV...you'd still have to call your local cable company & demand "I WANT MY MTV!"

Honestly, MTV didn't suck back then. It was pretty great actually. Get this...when you tuned in, they made the bold programming decision to play music videos 24 hours a day...or at least something resembling 'music'...mixed with 'video'...instead of The Real World Survivor Amazing Race marathons....before they destroyed modern television with Reality TV, they actually played music videos & I will tonight as well...and I'll throw in some SNL skits, classic commercials (long distance rates were a bitch back then)...and other interesting things from the 80s that might surprise the kids to learn.

There was no smartphones...computers used huge floppy disks & played mostly text only games like Oregon Trail or you might be lucky enough to know someone with a Macintosh who can play Summer Games or something graphical...but modems & the like...were mostly something we saw Matthew Broderick use in WarGames & Ferris Bueller but didn't have access to ourselves. To make matters worse...I lived on a farm in 1987...way the hell away from modern conveniences...which meant we got our entertainment by VHS tapes

Cannon Pictures...Chuck Norris, Charles Bronson, Michael Dudikoff...that's right, we waited for the corner store to deliver us classic B-films chock full of violence, explosions and badass dudes exacting revenge on their enemies or cleaning up the neighborhood....the Bandit was on the run from Smokey....we still gave a damn about Frank Sinatra & the Rat Pack even though it wasn't our generation...we sorta knew they were Hollywood royalty...

You can imagine what it was like to see something like Max Headroom in 1987...I remain impressed by this amazing television series to this day. It's incredibly prophetic, not to mention well-produced. The acting is top notch. Every episode was cinema quality across the board. I was definitely a fan. But I had no idea that these were more than plotlines...

Continuing the series with Season Two Episodes Three & Four

“Grossberg’s Return”
Grossberg wages a grim vendetta against Edison and Network 23 by taking firm control of their arch rival Network 66.

“Dream Thieves”
Following the death of an old colleague who was found literally drained of life, Edison races to expose the deadly process of recording and broadcasting dreams. But is the audience's own demand for the innovative new program too great to conquer?

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