'Rakers' by James Crocker and Steve Roberts story by James Crocker

The latest craze sweeping the nation is ‘Rakeboarding’, an illegal and violent combat sport played using high-powered skateboards. The sport’s promotion team want to legalise Raking so that they can sell the transmission rights to Network 23 - which suits the channel executives perfectly, as they are currently looking for a replacement to everyone's favourite children's show, ‘Missile Mike’. When Theora learns that her long-lost brother Shawn has become involved in Rakeboarding, she immediately sets off to find a way to help him…

Matt Frewer (Edison Carter / Max Headroom), Amanda Pays (Theora Jones), George Coe (Ben Cheviot), Jeffrey Tambor (Murray), Chris Young (Bryce Lynch), Peter Cohl (Shawn), Wortham Krimmer (Jack Friday), J.W. Smith (Rik), Arsenio Sonny Trinidad (Ped Zing), Joseph Ruskin (Promoter)

Directed by Thomas J. Wright
Produced by Brian Frankish
Executive Producer Peter Wagg

US TX:
7th April, 1987

Notes:
*Featuring Max Headroom, Edison Carter, Theora Jones, Murray and Bryce Lynch