a5c7b9f00b When Officer Jessie Mach is crippled after an assault by an old enemy, his time on motorcycle field duty seems finished. That is before Norman Tuttle recruits him for a secret government project. Mach is to be the test pilot for the Street Hawk, an advanced motorcycle that carries tremendous firepower and is capable of safely controlled periods of speed of over 300 MPH in an urban environment. This deal includes special surgery to repair his legs while keeping him the facade that he is still handicapped. Unfortunately for Tuttle, who can monitor the action from mission control, Jessie insists on getting involved in stopping crime rather than the simple tests Tuttle wants. So now the city has the additional protection of the mysterious superhero known as Street Hawk. A desk bound cop secretly fights crime as the test pilot for a prototype combat motorcycle. Along with most other comments in here, i was a kid of the 80's who watched all of the super-vehicle shows..<br/><br/>"Street Hawk" was definitely up there among the best of the lot, with, as most people have pointed out, a terrific soundtrack. TO THIS DAY i can still hum the theme song in it's entirety. Didn't realize at the time that that was Tangerine Dream!<br/><br/>I still refer to Joe Regalbuto (aka FRANK FONTANA from "Murphy Brown") as "NORMAN from STREET HAWK" whenever i see him in anything…..<br/><br/>Really wish the show would have lasted longer.<br/><br/>Would kill for a DVD release! Another one of the super-vehicle shows of the 80s was Supertrain, on NBC.<br/><br/>This series about life on a 200MPH rolling hotel, complete with swimming pool full of scantily-clad starlets, was the brainchild of networking programming "genius" Freddie Silverman. <br/><br/>I don't remember much about it, other thank it was highly plugged and the train was kinda cool-looking. I think the plots were the usual mix of mysterious murders on board, mysterious and sexy women, and bad guys seeking to derail the whole deal.<br/><br/>The viewers did it for them. Maybe because the idea that people would travel days to go transcon in a train when a jet could get them there in six hours (not like today when it takes 6 days, 5 of them sitting on the runway) was just a new feather on an old hat. <br/><br/>Anyway The series was soon gone, and so was Freddie.
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