The Why Files
Season 2, Episode 14: The Max Headroom Incident
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November 22nd, 1987 was a pretty normal evening for television viewers in Chicago. That night, like every night, Dan Roan was covering sports on WGN-TV, Channel 9. Then suddenly, the signal was disrupted and screens across the city cut to black. Engineers at WGN-TV thought their transmitters were failing. They weren't. A few seconds later, something crazy happened. WGN's broadcast signal had been hijacked in what is now known as "The Max Headroom Incident"
All Episodes - Season 2
Episode 1
The Voynich Manuscript
Episode 2
What Does Outer Space Smell Like?
Episode 3
Stay Out Of The Nevada Triangle
Episode 4
Why We Like to be Scared
Episode 5
The Philadelphia Experiment
Episode 6
Aztec Death Whistle
Episode 7
Time Travelers Caught on Film
Episode 8
Mysterious Number Stations
Episode 9
World War 3 Has Already Begun
Episode 10
Nostradamus' Terrifying Predictions
Episode 11
A Message to the Dreamers
Episode 12
Ancient Acoustic Levitation - How the Pyramids Were Built?
Episode 13
Secrets of Mount Rushmore
Episode 14
The Max Headroom Incident
Episode 15
The Dog Suicide Bridge
Episode 16
Human Vs. Alien Technology
Episode 17
The World's Deadliest Video Game - Polybius
Episode 18
The Area 51 Airline They Don't Talk About
Episode 19
The Government Is Always Listening
Episode 20
Technology to Speak to the Dead
Episode 21
The Phantom Time Hypothesis
Episode 22
The Latitude Secret Society