WGN Channel 9 - The Nine O'Clock News - "The 1st 'Max Headroom' Incident" (1987)

*Corrected identification of second anchor seen at the end of the clip, in the video description*

Why does the guys face look like this

It's not all it's cracked up to be. The govt is scarier. They rip you off and you love it.

I like how the anchor's default response was to lie

It's Joe Biden 😂

My grandma said she saw this, maybe both, not sure

This is more scary than the username 666 incident

Wait the 1st incident ? How many more are ther e

Imagine if it’s my dad.

Incident Of Nightmare

THE SOUND THO gives me nostalgia and everything

I really hope someone who saw this live can confirm wether or not it really did have audio, although I don’t expect them to know what they would have been saying

It is Joker.

Does anybody still have this on tape or a copy of it on tape from another tape?

I’m thinking I know it’s from the 80s but if we change the audio channels on a newer TV or on a TV that supports SAP or Spanish for example we might be able to hear something with the different frequencies

I agree with that one comment I saw not sure if it was this or another maxheadroom, dr who cares is right, he 💯 did make a masterpiece for all the newspaper nerds.

Anything to save us from another galling sports breakdown. Thanks, Max!

36 years later still at large

I just recently found out about this but didn't know there was actual footage lol

brought to your viewing pleasure by Gen X teens😂

OG Hackers😂

Hackers ... 😎💫🌍

Def someone who worked there

I mean, People those days are not allowed to watching tv in the middle of the night, like [the worst] ever.

Funny 😂😂

Emplemon's usage of this footage brought me here

I wouldve shit myself if i saw this on my TV back in 87.

The first one will scar you for life

The second one will make you piss yourself laughing

I thought he should sing rap god

Honestly props imagine at this time of that date being able stay anonymous and do this because your bored I'd laugh it's kinda entertaining to me

I know the Chicago signal of WGN was available as a superstation across the country, did the entire country see this or did it just effect thie OTA signal?

It's obviously aliens highjacking the signal.

Your boss

I like how the rotating metal panel syncs up with the audio glitches!

Someone should make a movie about someone investigating this, and they actually solve it but it’s a completely fictitious answer to this mystery

This isn’t helpful in the slightest, but you can see his mouth moving under the mask which is eerie lol.

Almost as disturbing as watching the Detroit Lions play football.

ET phone home? Couldn't be

I think at the end of the first and beginning of the second incidents are connected. If only we knew what "Max" was saying here...

VHS? 🤓

Makes me want to listen to “Silent Morning” by Noel 😂😂

You can say that Max couldn’t BEAR to hear the news

soooooooooooooooooo ceepy !

I bet that the person or persons that did this has left a comment on one of these videos. I know it Hass to be one of us but which one of us is it? Max headroom forever. 🎉

I like to think this was filmed on the top of a skyscraper roof, in some little shack at the bottom of the antenna

It was amazing to watch this, I'm from the UK never seen anything like it at the time.

I thought the one during Doctor Who was the first incident.

Omg this scares the shit out of me like 15 seconds of black silence until this obnoxious buzzing with someone wearing a max headroom mask and then gone

Max, wherever and whoever you are, and if you’re still even alive, just know that I think you’re a real American hero.

Thanks for posting this! Great stuff, especially the background story of how the signal was switched and how the footage was obtained.

Why not post both incidents?