First viewed : Summer 1990
This was nothing to do with Dick Turpin, it was a short-lived US action series broadcast late night on a Friday on ITV. It starred a block of wood called Sam Jones - best known for being Flash Gordon in the 1980 film - as a road cop in the near future which looked and sounded very like the late eighties. He had an even more lunk -headed sidekick Jetto played by Mark Jackson, a former Australian rules footballer who was similarly challenged in the acting department. His rig had a concealed helicopter and could become invisible.
I only ever saw this half-conscious and it just seemed noisy and utterly vacuous. Only nine episodes were made.
Sounds like the real arse-end of that 80s craze of shows with a vehicle as the star - Knight Rider, Street Hawk, Airwolf. Dukes of Hazzard to a lesser degree. I enjoyed all of them as a kid, but this one totally passed me by, probably due to the time slot or it just not making it onto Border. No loss!
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