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This crossover episode is the final one of the original Max Headroom video show, and featured a few video clips along with Max's introductions and riffs, but focused on his first interview, with Sting.

The MaxRchives contain a complete recording of this show.

Videos & Segments

• A bored couple argues in voiceover about Max and watching the show. ("His last"?)
• Announcer introduces Max.
• Opening riff by Max:
  • Thank you (once or twenty times)
  • It's time for the new game show, "Get Excited!" (Max introduces his lovely assistants, explains the rules and tells how the Excite-O-Graph will determine who goes on to the next round.)
  • Max tells some golf jokes, followed by some Formula 1 jokes.
  • "Isn't it amazing how things can go wrong? The best laid plans of Max and men..."
  • Max announces his interview with Sting, who showed up at 7 a.m. at his home.
• (Commercial break - Clairol, Tennant's and In-Toto)
• Max explains how for 12 weeks he's been allowed into our homes, and now he's going to let us into his, to interview Sting.
• Max and his guest Sting talk about:
  • His new, solo album The Dream of the Blue Turtles
  • Golf ("I hate golf, Max, you know this... it's an old man's game.")
  • Jazz (Max yawns)
  • Shoes
    • A break for Max to introduce and then show the Redskins video "Bring It Down" (with extensive interruptions and an early cut-away)
  • Back to shoes - brown, not black (Sting hates black shoes)
  • Getting political in songs
  • On being 33
  • Playing his songs in foreign countries where they might not understand the lyrics (like America)
  • Back to shoes...
    • A break for a Max video riff about golf
  • Discussion of Sting's hair style, which he says is a hair weave
  • Max thanks Sting and gives him a memento... a pair of his very own golf shoes!
• Video clip: Backster's "Handclappin'," followed by a clip from Sid Vicious' cover of "My Way" in which he shoots at the audience.
• Max says it's been a damn great show and sings a song to that effect, segueing into a long closing riff about how great he is and how everyone will remember the show, and then back into the song.

Notes & Commentary

This show, part of the "lost" first season, would be re-used in large part for the first show of the second season, which would appear a few months later on Cinemax (possibly re-cut). There is more of the Sting interview to be seen in that repeat edit.

Max's comment that he's never had a guest "because he couldn't talk properly enough to have an intelligent conversation" is an inside reference to the problems of doing Max's stutters, repeats and visual shenanigans in realtime. With a solution found, Max could do these interviews - on his show, and with Terry Wogan and David Letterman.

Quotes & Caps