It’s someone in a mask, an oversized head with sunglasses, square chin, white teeth, blond slicked back hair. WGN Announcer: Then the defense, which hadn’t put up a sack in 12 quarters finally di-Īmory: The screen goes black, for a long time.īen: There’s this weird, twisted scene that pops up on the television. Wayne Larabie called it like this on WGN radio…īen: Everything’s going along normally, and then right in the middle of the announcer’s description of the game, while the football newsreel played… WGN Announcer: Then they scored again at the Lion’s 31. The announcer was talking about the Chicago Bears game. Gotta love that public media baby.īen: But if you were one of the thousands of Chicago residents watching WGN Channel 9’s 9 O’Clock News, you were about to hear and see something really unusual.Īmory: It happened during the sportscast. (Ben recites the commercial at the same time)īen: Dennis Weaver is Buck James, Sunday on ABCĪmory: Over on PBS you had some serious masterpiece theater nerdery happening. Raisin commercial: Oooh I heard it through the grapevine!Īmory: Specifically, on the night of Sunday November 22nd, 1987, a one-season show called Buck James, the doctor who wears scrubs and cowboy boots.īuck James: “I don’t give a damn about politics is what I don’t give a damn about.” Dennis Weaver is Buck James, Sunday on ABC. and then he started to unzip my jeans… Nutritious foods like Campbell’s Soup can help keep your resistance up.Īmory: Fear mongering from Court TV, and Cambpell’s soup!īen: Maybe some of those loveable hella-creepy claymation California raisins! A mysterious occurrence that’s never been explained.īen: If you were in Chicago and flipping through TV channels in 1987, you would find a range of stuff. Where, during primetime television hours, something truly weird happened. Specifically the night of November 22nd, 1987 in Chicago. So we need to get a feel for the year 1987.Īmory: Yeah. I was not alive.Īmory: You win in the contest of who is older, congratulations.īen: Thank you very much. music, sound effects, tone) are harder to translate to text.īen Brock Johnson: Amory, do you remember the year 1987?Īmory Sivertson: No. The transcript has been edited from our original script for clarity. This content was originally created for audio. Email us at Leave us a voicemail at 85.Post or comment in the official Endless Thread subreddit.We want to hear from you! Don't hesitate to reach out with reactions to episodes, ideas for future stories, feedback about the show, or just to say hi. Chris Knittel and Alex Pasternak's article "The Mystery of the Creepiest Television Hack." Contact Us: Bowie Poag's Reddit post with his original "J and K" theory Other Links: A Reddit post with some theories on the Max Headroom Incident It's called "The Max Headroom Incident." You can find more of his work HERE . Thanks to u/gregorburns for this week's artwork. Who dunnit? Why? How? We dig into the story. In the years since, Redditors have played an integral role in getting to the bottom of this case. On November 22, 1987, two TV stations in Chicago had their broadcast signals hijacked by someone wearing a Max Headroom mask. This episode originally aired on November 22, 2019. The people behind the famous incident are still unknown.Facebook Email “The Max Headroom Incident” from u/gregorburns This is the best known broadcast hijacking, due to the oddity, the same people interrupting two TV stations, and utilizing the mask of a famous TV character in the intrusion. The incident made national headlines and the people responsible have never been identified. After a brief and only partially successful attempt to break into the signal of intended target of WGN-TV, the signal pirates, whose identities were never found, succeeded in getting their broadcast intruded onto WTTW during an episode of the Doctor Who serial "Horror of Fang Rock." The pirate broadcast, which lasted 90 seconds and was pre-recorded on videotape, featured an individual disguised as television character Max Headroom parodying WGN and television in general. The intruder was successful in interrupting two broadcast television stations within the course of three hours. It is an example of what is known in the television business as broadcast signal intrusion. The Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion was a television signal hijacking that occurred in Chicago, Illinois, United States on the evening of November 22, 1987.
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