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Captain Midnight Incident

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news story on HBO satellite override by Captain Midnight

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My dad remembers ... ( 4 months ago by AllisonTheSNLGuru)

My dad remembers this happening - I asked him about it last year.
I wonder if anyone actually caught this on tape while that movie was airing on that night? Weird stuff!

I was in 7th grade ... ( 3 months ago by smithbe40)

I was in 7th grade when it happened. My Dad had been taping it, but got annoyed by the message and rewound it to the beginning. (And it was taped over eventually.) It was on late and I was probably in bed by then. :) I had never seen the actual test pattern message, until just deciding to look it up on Google. I never realized it was an east coast back - for some reason I thought just our local cable company was hit. (Upstate NY)

I live in South ... ( 3 months ago by AllisonTheSNLGuru)

I live in South Jersey, but I was living in Central Jersey at the time, and was about four years old, so I don't remember it, but it definitely harkens back to the Max Headroom incident, though this was prior to that - my mom says she remember a "specific Max Headroom incident," but I was just telling her about it.
It's amazing how slow the programmers were at reacting to this incident, but it does make for a great historical, if not infamous, TV moment of the '80s.

Hey "Used Cars" !! ... ( 3 months ago by dlnorton3001)

Hey "Used Cars" !! Funny movie!!

Kudos to whoever ... ( 3 months ago by BivMan101)

Kudos to whoever put that message up. i wouldnt pay 12.50 to see a movie on HBO.

Me either, and ... ( 3 months ago by jularlmin313)

Me either, and that's in '08 dollars!

Array ( 3 months ago by airehk)

FUTURE BUCKS!!!
But seriously thats BS, congrats for stickin it to the man.

holy god...all the ... ( 3 months ago by brabon)

holy god...all the way back in 87 they were trying to scare the shit out of us over nothing

12.95 a month for ... ( 3 months ago by rekhjerh)

12.95 a month for hbo is nothing today. Now its like 40 bucks.

i only pay 12.95 a ... ( 2 months ago by dougkeno)

i only pay 12.95 a month and i have direct tv

too bad you can't ... ( 2 months ago by gnithe)

too bad you can't do that these days

Woohoo! Go Captain ... ( 2 months ago by EtaNett)

Woohoo! Go Captain Midnight!

it was done by a ... ( 2 months ago by HotDogMilk)

it was done by a guy who worked in a studio, after closing he was bored so he decided to do this for fun. look it up on wikipedia. they are useful for SOME things.

RIP Peter Jennings ( 2 months ago by Pigtard)

RIP Peter Jennings

Long live the new ... ( 1 month ago by robmuadib)

Long live the new Flesh!

if i could do that, ... ( 1 month ago by PrinceTogari)

if i could do that, i would. in a second. oh, the propaganda i would spread....

Captain Midnight ... ( 1 month ago by nomadcowatbk)

Captain Midnight was on the Tex-OK border?

wow that is awsome ( 1 month ago by puertoirish)

wow that is awsome

robmuadib (2 weeks ... ( 1 month ago by saturn54321)

robmuadib (2 weeks ago)
"Long live the new Flesh!"
Hehe. Cronenberg probably was impressed!

I think he was ... ( 3 weeks ago by 33388665599)

I think he was physically doing it from Ocala, Florida.
But maybe he was transmitting from the Tx-Ok. border

lol ( 2 weeks ago by winokur89)

lol

RIP Mr. Jennings... ... ( 2 weeks ago by DodgerOfZion)

RIP Mr. Jennings...I was but a little baby when this happened.

Not quite...he ... ( 4 days ago by WhatsAYak)

Not quite...he worked as a satellite operator/dealer and was angered by HBO's recent decision to start charging dish owners for recieving their programming, which he feared would cut into his business (hence the "$12.95 month/No way!" line).

Im laughing ( 2 hours ago by MajorasMaskPro)

Im laughing

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