Max Headroom
The Master of Disaster
Boy, perceptive one, aren't you.
Also, this is the way it was done most times in NWA/old school WCW, as well as the War Games.
Some say I should be a detective.
I'm just a young fella, who never really started watching regularly until a little after the invasion angle was over, so I don't know all too much about how they were done back in the day. Although I'm sure they were much less convoluted than they are these days.