Street Hawk

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Street Hawk
Street Hawk main title caption.
Genre	Action
Creator(s)	Bruce Lansbury Paul M. Belous Robert Wolterstoff
Starring	Rex Smith Joe Regalbuto
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	13
Production
Running time	50 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC
Original run	January 4, 1985 – May 16, 1985
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Street Hawk was an American television series that aired for 13 episodes on ABC in 1985. This series was originally planned for the fall of 1984, Mondays at 8:00/7:00 CST. However, ABC changed their minds when a summer series Call to Glory did well and Street Hawk was pushed to mid-season.

Street Hawk made its debut on January 4, 1985 on ABC at 9 PM EST and lasted until May 16, 1985. Many say it arrived too late after many of the super vehicle shows had disappeared. The show was about a police officer called Jesse Mach who was picked to test a top secret project named "Street Hawk". Norman Tuttle, his partner, designed and built the bike and reluctantly picked Jesse to test it.

The musical theme was composed by Tangerine Dream and a modified version (which features in the pilot episode during the sequence where Jesse takes the bike out for the first time) appeared on their album "Le Parc", titled "LA - Streethawk"

[edit] The bike

The Bike in the pilot episode was based upon a 1983 Honda XL500 trailbike, the bikes used in the series were based on 1984 Honda xr500's, the bikes used for the stunt shots were based on honda CR250's, overall 15 bikes were used in the show. The whereabouts of 14 of the bikes are unknown, but one (Stuntbike) now resides in "The cars of the stars" museum in England after being restored by the show's stuntman Chris Bromham. The pilot bike was designed by Andrew Probert and the series bikes were redesigned by Ron Cobb.