Street Hawk (Season 1)

Street Hawk (1985) is an American sci-fi action series from ABC you can watch online on iFILM. After an injury sidelines him, cop Jesse Mach is handed the keys to a secret motorcycle built to hit three hundred miles an hour.

By day Jesse pushes paper in police PR; by night he tears through the city on Street Hawk, an armoured bike loaded with a laser, hydraulics and an onboard computer. Engineer Norman Tuck runs the machine from a control room and talks him through every run. Rex Smith leads, with Joe Regalbuto, Christopher Lloyd and a pre-fame George Clooney turning up across the episodes.

Universal made this at the peak of the man-and-his-super-vehicle craze, somewhere in the same lane as Knight Rider but on two wheels. It lasted just thirteen episodes before ABC pulled it in May 1985. A fun curio for fans of '80s action and retro gadgetry. Stream Street Hawk online on iFILM.