The Max Headroom signal hijacking was a hijacking of the television signals of two stations in Chicago, Illinois, on November 22, 1987, that briefly sent a pirate broadcast of an unidentified person wearing a Max Headroom mask and costume to thousands of home viewers. It was one of the first and only successful TV signal hijackings in the U.S. With all sorts of shenanigans going on the video concluded on PBS with the masked figure presenting his bare buttocks to a woman with a flyswatter while y