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Character

Ms. Formby (Telefilm)
Miss Julia Formby (US Series)

Episodes

Telefilm, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 1.6

Portrayed by

Elizabeth Richardson (Telefilm)

Virginia Kiser (First US Season)

Telebiography

Channel 23 board member. In the telefilm, she argues for moving the Polly Show to counter Max Headroom's rising ratings on Big Time TV.

In the first series season, she is an associate of Cheviot's, with whom she apparently had an affair at some earlier time. There are apparently still mixed feelings between them. We find out her first name in "Body Banks."

She is gone in the second season, with a catty comment about her affair with Cheviot being the reason. Her replacement is Lauren.

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Character

Friday, Jack

Episodes

1.2

Portrayed by

Wortham Krimmer

Telebiography

Jack Friday is apparently a talent scout or producer for the sports division of Network 23. He attempts to bring raking to the network by concealing the brutal nature of the sport until the agreements are signed. He ends up in a fistfight with politician Simon Peller and, it is to be assumed, out of a job.

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Character

Fringer Lookout

Episodes

1.2

Portrayed by

Tabi Cooper

Telebiography

Fringer girl who announces to someone via a radio link that the raker team bus is approaching the playing site.

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Character

Game Show Host

Episodes

1.3

Portrayed by

Fred Holliday

Telebiography

Host of on-screen show apparently titled "It's a Gas!"

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Character

First Gambler

Episodes

1.2

Portrayed by

Brian Libby

Telebiography

Gambler who announces his selection of the winning raker by his reach.

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Character

Second Gambler

Episodes

1.2

Portrayed by

Ron D. Ross

Telebiography

Gambler who is betting on his grandson, Viper.

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Character

Garth, Harriet

Episodes

2.3

Portrayed by

Caroline Kava

Telebiography

Network 66 politician running against Simon Peller and others. Set up and betrayed by Grossberg as part of his plans to discredit Edison Carter and Network 23.

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Character

Harriet Garth's stud

Episodes

2.3

Portrayed by

Unknown

Telebiography

Man who comes out of Harriet Garth's apartment and denies the accusation of being her illicit lover. He says (probably truthfully) that he was just interviewing her.

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Character

Gorrister

Episodes

Telefilm, 1.1

Portrayed by

Anthony Dutton (Telefilm)

Ken Swofford (US Series)

Telebiography

Gorrister is one of Network 23's controllers, assigned to Edison Carter when he goes out to cover the blipvert story. Acting on orders from Murray and the Network 23 board, he pulls the plug on Carter's link, leaving Carter in a dangerous field situation. Carter punches him on his return.

In the telefilm, Gorrister is not seen again.

In the US series pilot, he is apparently killed because of what he knows about the blipvert story, then delivered to the body bank by Breugal and Mahler, in the same load as Edison Carter.

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Character

Grace (Rik's Bodyguard)

Episodes

1.2

Portrayed by

Kawena Charlot

Telebiography

A tough street girl, currently Rik's bodyguard but with other talents. Last name may be McGill.

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Character

Grossman (Telefilm)
Ned Grossberg (US Series)

Episodes

Telefilm, 1.1, 2.3

Portrayed by

Nickolas Grace (Telefilm)

Charles Rocket (US Series)

Telebiography

The amoral president of Network 23 who cares for nothing but ratings, Grossman is destroyed over his support for the blipvert project and replaced by Ben Cheviot.

In the telefilm, his future is unclear and he may well have ended up, along with Bryce Lynch, in Breugal and Mahler's body van.

In the US series (as Grossberg), he is established as the co-builder of Network 23, with Ben Cheviot. He returns later as a member of rival Network 66's board and maneuvers his way into its chairmanship, with his lust for ratings matched only by his desire to see Network 23 destroyed.

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Character

Gwynn (Riot Cop)

Episodes

1.5

Portrayed by

Unknown

Telebiography

SWAT or riot cop at the scene of the first White Brigade staged explosion, who has to be ordered by his chief to roust Carter.

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Character

Hauser, Croyd

Episodes

1.5

Portrayed by

Robert O'Reilly

Telebiography

Croyd Hauser is the sociopathic leader of the posturing and phony White Brigade terrorist group. Either crazy to start with or driven crazy by years of simulated warfare, he finally turns to attempted murder to further his oddball cause and is killed in the final attempt at a staged explosion.

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Character

Hewett

Episodes

1.5

Portrayed by

Richard Lineback

Telebiography

Hewett is the muscle of the posturing and phony White Brigade terrorist group. He laughs his way through their turn to real violence until he's killed in their final attempt at a staged explosion.

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Character

Indian Commentator

Episodes

2.3

Portrayed by

John Hamelin *

Telebiography

International commentator who questions the ethics of the unfolding Harriet Garth affair.

* This casting match is pending verification.

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Character

Jaxy

Episodes

1.6

Portrayed by

Lycia Naff

Telebiography

Blank who appears briefly on Bruno's comm screen.

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Character

Jenny

Episodes

2.3

Portrayed by

Lisa Peders

Telebiography

Bryce's classmate and now his counterpart at Network 66, she is cheerfully willing to tell Bryce all about the worthless "ViewDoze" project.

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Character

Jones, Shawn

Episodes

1.2

Portrayed by

Peter Cohl

Telebiography

Shawn is the estranged younger brother of Theora. Both spent 12 years in state homes, but only Theora was adopted, something that embittered Shawn and kept him from acknowledging her for at least ten years.

We learn everything we know about him in "Rakers." He is married, or living in some form of common-law, with Winnie, and they have an infant son. He has lost his job as a busboy through being unreliable, in part, it appears, because he is devoting too much time to raking and getting hurt in raking matches.

After Edison Carter rescues him from a final brutal raking match, he appears to mend fences with his older sister and be on a path to a better life. However, we never hear of him again.

He may be the cause of Theora's comment that she "knows all about little boys."

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Character

Jones, Theora

Episodes

All

Portrayed by

Amanda Pays

Telebiography

One of the best videolink controllers in the world, Theora Jones was hired away from World 1 to work with Edison Carter, who had demanded a controller he could trust - trust not to leave him cut off in the field, as Gorrister had done.

Theora almost immediately proved her ability when she broke into the Network 23 executive washroom by going around high-level security blocks, and gave Carter his first break on the blipverts story.

In "Rakers," we found out she had a brother, Shawn, from whom she had been estranged for many years. We also learned that she was raised in state homes for 12 years, then adopted... leaving Shawn behind. She appears to have mended fences with Shawn but he is not mentioned again in the series.

It is in the unproduced episode "Theora's Tale" that we find out more: that she was raised by the head of another network, from whom she is also estranged, and that Ben Cheviot is her real father.

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Character

Headroom, Max

Episodes

All

Portrayed by

Matt Frewer

Telebiography

T-T-T-Top Secret. Sorry. Sorry.

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Character

Helipad Reporter

Episodes

Telefilm

Portrayed by

Roger Tebb

Telebiography

The reporter interviewing Cheviot on the rooftop, brushed aside by Carter.

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Character

Mr. Kiyoko

Episodes

1.3

Portrayed by

Unknown

Telebiography

Ped Xing's assistant who explains that Zik-Zak wishes to purchase the services of Max Headroom.

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Character

Kurslar

Episodes

2.3

Portrayed by

Brett Porter

Telebiography

Slightly sleazy news freelancer who comes up with securicam evidence of Harriet Garth's affair, sending Edison Carter and Network 23 on a wild goose chase of Grossberg's devising.

It later transpires that it is Kurslar himself in the video with Garth, and is implied at the end of the episode that he is a Network 66 employee or operative.

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Character

Lauren (Network 23 board)

Episodes

2.3

Portrayed by

Sharon Barr

Telebiography

Channel 23 board member who replaces Julia Formby in the second season.

When Cheviot makes a comment about wishing Formby were there - "she always handled things at night" - Lauren makes the catty remark that that's why Formby isn't there any more, implying that Cheviot and Formby's affair is no longer a secret. (And that, typically, it was the woman who paid the price...)

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Character

Lucian

Episodes

1.5

Portrayed by

J. Michael Flynn

Telebiography

Lucian is the bomb expert of the posturing and phony White Brigade terrorist group. He appears to be a somewhat better person than his cohorts, but he also ends up killed by the group's final attempt at a staged explosion.

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Character

Lynch, Bryce

Episodes

All

Portrayed by

Paul Spurrier (Telefilm)

Chris Young (US Series)

Telebiography

Bryce, as he will tell you with little provocation, is a supergenius, the product of good genetics and the elite Academy of Computer Sciences.

In the telefilm, Bryce is a nasty little partner of Grossman and apparently ends up out on his brilliant can - or perhaps in a body bank - after the blipverts episode.

In the series, he turns to the good and becomes a friend and partner - even something of a son - to Edison Carter.

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Character

Mahler

Episodes

Telefilm, 1.1, 1.3

Portrayed by

George Rossi (Telefilm)

Rick Ducommun (US Series)

? (US Series)

Telebiography

Not very bright but enthusiastic about his work, the thug Mahler works at the sufferance of his brighter partner Breugal.

At least, he does until he proves to be too good of a tissue match for a body bank request, whereupon Breugal cashes him in and finds a replacement he sentimentally names Mahler.

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Character

Maitre 'd

Episodes

1.2

Portrayed by

Doug Hale

Telebiography

Maitre 'd of "The Fresh Start" restaurant who fired Shawn Jones.

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Character

Martinez (Chopper 7 pilot)

Episodes

1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5

Portrayed by

Ricardo Gutierrez

Telebiography

Helicopter pilot who seems to be Carter's usual ride to and from story locations. Often helps get Carter out of trouble.

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Character

Dr. Mason

Episodes

1.3

Portrayed by

Claude Earl Jones

Telebiography

Doctor (perhaps the lead doctor) at Nightingale's Body Bank who is in on the live body snatching ring. He is killed by Dr. Moon when Edison Carter catches them.

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Character

Gladys McWilliams (Exploder's Wife)

Episodes

1.1

Portrayed by

Pearl Shear

Telebiography

The wife of the exploding blipvert viewer, stunned and dragged away by Metrocops.

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Character

Mel

Episodes

1.3

Portrayed by

Scott Kraft

Telebiography

Mel is a Fringer and probably a Blank. He and his girlfriend Rayna come to the city to sell her rare blood, but are jumped by Breugal and Mahler, who cart Rayna off to the body bank for a forced donation of her pituitary gland. Mel kidnaps Theora, who takes him to Carter, who he convinces to help recover Rayna and expose the ugly trade in Fringers being used as a living donor bank for the wealthy.

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Character

Older Metrocop

Episodes

1.6

Portrayed by

Kenneth White

Telebiography

Metrocop who accompanies Carter and Janie Crane to the Blank's apartment where they discover the television's off switch.

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Character

Missile Mike

Episodes

1.2

Portrayed by

Unknown

Telebiography

Eponymous star of the extremely violent Network 23 children's show.

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Character

Dr. Moon

Episodes

1.3

Portrayed by

Michael Paul Chan

Telebiography

Doctor at Nightingale's Body Bank who is in on the live body snatching ring. He kills Dr. Mason and then himself when Edison Carter catches them.

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Character

Murray

Episodes

All

Portrayed by

Roger Sloman (Telefilm)

Jeffrey Tambor (US Series)

Telebiography

A tough news producer and former reporter himself, Murray is tasked with corralling and supporting the volatile Edison Carter. All too often, his job is relaying unpopular decisions by the Network 23 board to Carter - or letting Carter follow his instincts and then living with the results.

Murray hates hospitals, but has the undying if daughterly affection of Theora Jones, whom he hired away from World 1 as Carter's controller.

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