Max Headroom's Giant Christmas Turkey

  • Comedy
12/26/1986
40

Storyline

An extra long special where "computer-generated" host from the future Max Headroom sings humorous holiday songs and interviews guests, along with a couple odd skits. Produced as part of the HBO talk show spin-off of the British Channel Four/Chrysalis science fiction series.

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      • Geronimo1967

        How very aptly titled. This isnt a film, it isnt even a television programme about a film. Its a Christmas light entertainment show based on the Channel Four series that ran in the UK in the mid 1980s. It features the stylised Matt Frewer in the title role as the irreverent computer-generated hybrid of Noel Edmonds and Dame Edna Everage delivering pithy one-liners in his uniquely self-effacing and staccato style. Whats really quite striking about this is the shocking quality of the production. I know time hasnt been especially kind to the ZX81 style of computer graphics but the contributors - especially Robin Williams - look as if they just pre-recorded monologues and the editors dropped in questions and comments from the host ad hoc. He se...

        June 26, 2025

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