Remember Street Hawk? Of course you do. Well the joyous news is that this motorcycle equivalent of Knight Rider and Airwolf is coming to proper DVD on March 22nd. I already have it on dodgy DVD, but I’ll probably get it as well, even if the episodes don’t exactly hold up in the way that Airwolf‘s first season’s have over the years.
Just to get you in the mood, here’s the title sequence, complete with marvellous theme tune by Tangerine Dream, and a clip of the infamous ‘hyperthrust’. The adrenaline jolt I just got from both was epic, so be careful.
If you can bear the excitement, after the jump, there’s a longer clip from the pilot episode as well as two of a very cheesy, early 80s George Clooney.
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
