Are you a child of the 80s?

[Qkchk]

I remember this TV show as a youngin, man it was sooo cool. I was so mesmerized by the bike. Can anyone figure out what it is exactly? A bitza?


http://www.retrojunk.com/details_tvshows/266-street-hawk/



Just happened to find this site for all you retro junkies out there......(like me :p) Who can remember cartoons like Thundercats and He-man? :first:

[NhuanH]

Sadly, there are even more sadder arses than us:
http://www.streethawkonline.com/bikeinfo.html

Oh, to find out what it really was after getting into real bikes. Gutted. The Heads-Up Display was rad, man!
Just this one time though, the cage was way cooler. KITT could talk back.

At least now we know where the makers of Torque got their idea of re-badging bikes from...

[MattRSK]

The bike itself was a modified 1983 XL500 from Honda, which was used in the pilot. For later episodes an XR500 was used with 11 1984 Honda XCR250's used for stunts.

[Qkchk]

Sadly, there are even more sadder arses than us:
http://www.streethawkonline.com/bikeinfo.html


Thanks for the site, interesting reading............:blip: I was quite surprised how modern his helmet looks in this era................ weird huh?

[Madness]

300mph on a Honda XR500, ya gotta love the 80's.

I can't say I remember the show even after watching the intro. I saw an episode of Knight Rider a while back when I was home sick that was set around a pro-mx race. It was hilarious.

My favourites included Logan's Run, The Goodies, The Omen series on the Sunday Horrors. The mini-series fad was cool too, Roots.

TVNZ had a few beauties also, Peppermint Twist anyone?

[skidMark]

i wasted my time watching the intro video showing a honda?

what a waste of bandwidth and a useless waste of my eyes

knight rider is where it's at ....gloss black trans am's kick ass

[ogr1]

Not child of the 80's, but I'm still a child at heart.

[Waylander]

knight rider is where it's at ....gloss black trans am's kick ass
Two things wrong with knight rider.

First and most important, it's a fucking cage.

Second and most horrifying, it has the hoff.

[R6_kid]

Two things wrong with knight rider.

First and most important, it's a fucking cage.

Second and most horrifying, it has the hoff.

third and final, markauckland likes it.

[skidMark]

oh cmon i'm just hoping one day the final episode will be the hoff getting run over by the cage

[scumdog]

Hate it when the good guy hares off the highway into the desert after the baddies on his Harley (or Triumph in some cases) and in the next off-road shot it turns into a 'trailie' painted up in the same colours as the good guys road bike....argh!

Gimme Renegade!!!!:rockon:

[skelstar]

(Born in 1972)...I remember watching 'Battle of the Planets'. Took me years to remember what it was called. Man it was awesome.

[Lias]

When I was at my parents place a few weeks ago I had a total 80's nostalgia trip re-reading the Terry Teo cartoon books I owned as a kid.. Terry & The Gun Runners, Terry & The last Moa, and the other one about the cheese factory.. Great stuff lol.

[Qkchk]

When I was at my parents place a few weeks ago I had a total 80's nostalgia trip re-reading the Terry Teo cartoon books I owned as a kid.. Terry & The Gun Runners, Terry & The last Moa, and the other one about the cheese factory.. Great stuff lol.
Didnt they make that into a animated series?

[GR81]

remember also Air Wolf?
i can even remember how the music goes haha ;)

http://www.tv.com/airwolf/show/2219/summary.html

[Jonny Rotten]

Two things wrong with knight rider.

First and most important, it's a fucking cage.

Second and most horrifying, it has the hoff.

hey man dont hassle the hoff

[Kornholio]

Ummm CHiPs, Dukes of Hazzard, BJ and the Bear, Space 1999, Logans Run, Battlestar Galactica...Star Trek even...

[Quartida]

You are all forgetting the most important production from the 80s.





Playschool.

[Kornholio]

You are all forgetting the most important production from the 80s.





Playschool.

I believe it started in the '70s but meh it was great anyway :first:

[Lazy7]

no not me?

and no - thats not me. with two of my friends... at an 80's party...

nope. not me.

and this link ISN'T to the 80's party invite that i made where i show how much i know about the 80s.

http://andrew.blackpepper.co.nz/80/

classic stuff.

[Waylander]

hey man dont hassle the hoff:nya: and other letters.l

[T.W.R]

You are all forgetting the most important production from the 80s.





Playschool.

:shutup: what about Stu "Nice one Stu":niceone: legend on his chopper or Spot On

[Drum]

Heh heh. Nice one Stuey!

Dont forget Ollie Olsen. Keep cool till after school.
And what about Steve Parr on What Now Saturday mornings at 8am. Or was that the seventies?

Ready to Roll at 6pm Saturday nights. Who remebers the "video blackout" when we went for a year without music videos?

[skidMark]

i remember one which they did reruns of it like 8 years back...... the car was i think a lamborghini countach or something and it went from like an ordinary car into it...... jet black car...not knight rider....ummmm shit ive forgotten it rep to the person who gets it first lol

[Swoop]

Radio with pictures.
The Muppet Show (or was that '70's?)

[skelstar]

Automan!!!

[scumdog]

The Kenny Everett Video Show (complete with the Naughty Bits)!!!

[Swoop]

The Kenny Everett Video Show (complete with the Naughty Bits)!!!
And the "Hot Gossip" dancers......

Strange, that show has never been repeated here...

[T.W.R]

The Kenny Everett Video Show (complete with the Naughty Bits)!!!

:killingme that was great comedy , "Syd Snott" & Gizard Puke"

Another One Was : Not the Nine O'clock News , now that was weird :gob: get to any raunchy bits & it would flash animals going hard at it :rofl:

[Lias]

Heh heh. Nice one Stuey!

Dont forget Ollie Olsen. Keep cool till after school.


Ollie Olsen works for Te Wananga o Aotearoa in christchurch now.. When i saw his name on the staff list, I was like "surely not" but tis indeed him lol.

[Waylander]

i remember one which they did reruns of it like 8 years back...... the car was i think a lamborghini countach or something and it went from like an ordinary car into it...... jet black car...not knight rider....ummmm shit ive forgotten it rep to the person who gets it first lol
More crasy cage talk.:nono:

[junglegirl]

what about the muppets??? YEAH Animal, Miss Piggy, Kermit, that freaky spanish chef

[Drum]

Have we forgotten Miami Vice? Where else do cops get to drive Lamborghinis (sp?) and chat up bikini clad chicks on the back of a Scarab. Everyone wanted to be a vice cop in '85.

[Flatcap]

Have we forgotten Miami Vice? Where else do cops get to drive Lamborghinis (sp?) and chat up bikini clad chicks on the back of a Scarab. Everyone wanted to be a vice cop in '85.

That would be a Ferrari Testarossa

[Drum]

That would be a Ferrari Testarossa

The white one Bodie? Niiice.

[Flatcap]

The white one Bodie? Niiice.


They started out with a green Ferarri that was blow up by some bling wearing Columbian - what was that one?

[Swoop]

what about the muppets??? YEAH Animal, Miss Piggy, Kermit, that freaky spanish chef
He was Swedish!!!

Don't forget Dr Bunsen Honeydew and his assistant Beaker!

[Squeak the Rat]

A measely amount of bling for who names this show first:

[Swoop]

A measely amount of bling for who names this show first:
Looks like the labour party caucus, 2006...

[Kornholio]

Looks like the labour party caucus, 2006...

Hmm sorta looks familiar...I want one of those waggons tho, COOL man :D

And who can forget The Gemini man...who could make himself invisible for 15 minutes by starting the stopwatch on his cool digital watch(there werent many digital watches out there back then so it was awesome)

[Maha]

A measely amount of bling for who names this show first:
Wouldn't have a clue, the only programe i can remember that had a chimp (apart from Planet of the Apes) was BJ and the Bear, funny thing was, Bear was in fact a chimp, BJ was played by Greg Evigan and he was a trucker, his side kick was the chimp..........:rockon: