n8   Doesn't follow you 🇺🇦17h ago

Real question; likely only for people who've lived in Germany for a substantial period of time:

How "big" / popular of a cultural phenomenon was Max Headroom, back at the time (1980s–1990s)?

I kinda get the sense that it was a large thing, or at least larger than it was in other non-UK/US countries, based on the fact that there seem to be a lot of German-language books & memorabilia out there, which I don't see in other languages....

But perhaps that just represents the size of the market.

Show thread    n8   Doesn't follow you 🇺🇦17h ago
(in case you're wondering, this came up because I have been trying to track down clear source images of the "Big Time TV" logo from Blank Reg's bus.)
Show thread    n8   Doesn't follow you 🇺🇦17h ago

Just after having posted this, I feel like I'm not going to get any replies with insights into the answer, just because nobody on the Internets these days remembers the show anymore.

If you don't believe me, rewind a couple of weeks to the "cow tools" news story and witness how few people even in the nerd-saturated Mastodon space had any idea what The Far Side is.

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@n8 Hey I made a DVD set of Max Headroom in the 1990s. I don’t have the sources or the answers but I support your argument for its greatness!
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Show thread    n8   Doesn't follow you 🇺🇦15h ago
@sfoskett I own the commercial DVD set and secretly hold out hope for Blu-Ray (and for the music-video shows, which I never really watched)! Although I do know that HD is gonna let us all see the gloriously inexpensive set-dressing with all its warts....