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I've run out of episodes of Street Hawk to watch. So, to wrap up the season, and because I can't be bothered to write a proper analysis - observations whilst watching the show:
1. That is quite possibly the most annoying voice over ever.
2. Norman's awesome.
3. Jesse Mach needs to learn what shirts are, and how to wear them. Or, alternatively, somebody needs to tell the director that it doesn't always make sense for the lead to be topless.
4. The bike is one hell of a poser.
5. Jesse spends an inordinate amount of time hanging around in Norman's bedroom dressed in just a towel. And, on one occasion, sprawled on his bed in just a towel. Skimpy ones too. Subtext, Jesse?!
6. Whoever cancelled the show is a nut.
7. The bike corners incredibly well at 300mph. Norman seems to have invented a way to transcend the laws of physics. Go Norman!
8. Jesse has a button on his handlebars that makes his helmet visor go up and down. This is just the sort of fabulous and utterly pointless gadget that the world needs more of.
9. If there are any flames anywhere, the bike will drive through them.
10. The police are never going to learn that Street Hawk can jump over their cars. And will do so at the slightest opportunity.
11. If it's at all possible for Jesse to be in any way underclad, he will be.
12. This show has a weird set up. Most of the bike stuff is done by a stuntman, and half of Norman's scenes are at his desk, monitoring the bike. This means that for both actors, probably half of each episode is voiceover work only.
13. I need to see The Pirates Of Penzance again.
14. Jesse is pretty, granted. However Norman is adorable - and interesting. More screen time for Norman!
15. How the bloody hell does Norman do all that with that computer?! It's 1985, and his modem is more powerful than the ones available now!
16. I wonder what audience the show's makers were aiming at? It has all the fun and flair of a family show, but people die. Lots of people die, usually in burning wrecks, or mown down by machine gun fire. Or both. It takes some getting used to. I know that ITV screened it in the same slot as The A-Team, but I can't remember if it was edited at all. It had a regular comic strip in Look-In magazine, though, which shows that they were aiming at the kiddie audience at least to some extent.
17. Norman's car is magic. It dies halfway through the season, but it's still there parked outside Street Hawk HQ in every episode.
18. Somehow Norman has managed to invent a bullet-proof tyre. And a bullet-proof Jesse. Way to go, Norman.
19. Tangerine Dream should do more TV themes.
20. Finnish adcaps are pretty.
21. Every American action show in the eighties had the same actors playing bad guys. They spent the whole of the eighties moving from one show to the next, on rotation.
22. Just what is Jesse's job at the police station?! One episode he's in PR, the next he's being taken along on investigations by the chief. And how many cases are attended to by the chief, anyway?!
Ah well. It's been fun revisiting Street Hawk, and I hope it gets a DVD release some day. Not by Universal, though. They've screwed up most of their other releases. Anyways, I think I know what I'm going to re-watch next. I've found my VR.5 discs! I haven't watched that show in a good ten years now, so that's the next one, I think. As I recall, I don't have the first few episodes of the show, though, so it'll mean starting at about episode five or six. I think I was on the 15:00-23:00 shift when it was shown on BBC2, which probably explains the missing episodes. Still, jumping in at the deep end can be more fun.
Be interesting to see how the technology looks now that the show is quite old.
Exhibit A: If it can go through a fire, it will.
Exhibit B: And if it can jump over something, it will.
Exhibit C: And if it can jump over a fire, it's in bike heaven.
Exhibit D: That bike is such a camera-whore...
Exhibit E: Your shirt has buttons, Jesse. Little round things, with handy nearby holes.
Ask Norman for instructions if necessary.
Exhibit F: This is an ex-car.
Exhibit G: Though possibly it's haunting Norman's secret lair.
Exhibit H: Jesse. Pretty, yes. But can he build a super-computer from scratch?! Nope.
Exhibit I: Norman. Adorable.
Exhibit J: Finnish adcaps. A good thing, especially when there's no adverts to go with them.
And so endeth the journey by super bike. Next up, a journey by swirly blue thing. Hurrah!
1. That is quite possibly the most annoying voice over ever.
2. Norman's awesome.
3. Jesse Mach needs to learn what shirts are, and how to wear them. Or, alternatively, somebody needs to tell the director that it doesn't always make sense for the lead to be topless.
4. The bike is one hell of a poser.
5. Jesse spends an inordinate amount of time hanging around in Norman's bedroom dressed in just a towel. And, on one occasion, sprawled on his bed in just a towel. Skimpy ones too. Subtext, Jesse?!
6. Whoever cancelled the show is a nut.
7. The bike corners incredibly well at 300mph. Norman seems to have invented a way to transcend the laws of physics. Go Norman!
8. Jesse has a button on his handlebars that makes his helmet visor go up and down. This is just the sort of fabulous and utterly pointless gadget that the world needs more of.
9. If there are any flames anywhere, the bike will drive through them.
10. The police are never going to learn that Street Hawk can jump over their cars. And will do so at the slightest opportunity.
11. If it's at all possible for Jesse to be in any way underclad, he will be.
12. This show has a weird set up. Most of the bike stuff is done by a stuntman, and half of Norman's scenes are at his desk, monitoring the bike. This means that for both actors, probably half of each episode is voiceover work only.
13. I need to see The Pirates Of Penzance again.
14. Jesse is pretty, granted. However Norman is adorable - and interesting. More screen time for Norman!
15. How the bloody hell does Norman do all that with that computer?! It's 1985, and his modem is more powerful than the ones available now!
16. I wonder what audience the show's makers were aiming at? It has all the fun and flair of a family show, but people die. Lots of people die, usually in burning wrecks, or mown down by machine gun fire. Or both. It takes some getting used to. I know that ITV screened it in the same slot as The A-Team, but I can't remember if it was edited at all. It had a regular comic strip in Look-In magazine, though, which shows that they were aiming at the kiddie audience at least to some extent.
17. Norman's car is magic. It dies halfway through the season, but it's still there parked outside Street Hawk HQ in every episode.
18. Somehow Norman has managed to invent a bullet-proof tyre. And a bullet-proof Jesse. Way to go, Norman.
19. Tangerine Dream should do more TV themes.
20. Finnish adcaps are pretty.
21. Every American action show in the eighties had the same actors playing bad guys. They spent the whole of the eighties moving from one show to the next, on rotation.
22. Just what is Jesse's job at the police station?! One episode he's in PR, the next he's being taken along on investigations by the chief. And how many cases are attended to by the chief, anyway?!
Ah well. It's been fun revisiting Street Hawk, and I hope it gets a DVD release some day. Not by Universal, though. They've screwed up most of their other releases. Anyways, I think I know what I'm going to re-watch next. I've found my VR.5 discs! I haven't watched that show in a good ten years now, so that's the next one, I think. As I recall, I don't have the first few episodes of the show, though, so it'll mean starting at about episode five or six. I think I was on the 15:00-23:00 shift when it was shown on BBC2, which probably explains the missing episodes. Still, jumping in at the deep end can be more fun.
Be interesting to see how the technology looks now that the show is quite old.
Exhibit A: If it can go through a fire, it will.
Exhibit B: And if it can jump over something, it will.
Exhibit C: And if it can jump over a fire, it's in bike heaven.
Exhibit D: That bike is such a camera-whore...
Exhibit E: Your shirt has buttons, Jesse. Little round things, with handy nearby holes.
Ask Norman for instructions if necessary.
Exhibit F: This is an ex-car.
Exhibit G: Though possibly it's haunting Norman's secret lair.
Exhibit H: Jesse. Pretty, yes. But can he build a super-computer from scratch?! Nope.
Exhibit I: Norman. Adorable.
Exhibit J: Finnish adcaps. A good thing, especially when there's no adverts to go with them.
And so endeth the journey by super bike. Next up, a journey by swirly blue thing. Hurrah!
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