Highway’s assistant is Jetto (Jacko), his version of Scotty is engineer D. In the back portion of the track is stored a sports car for short jaunts. Jones), a lawman who drives a truck that can go into “ stealth mode” and that features a cab which looks like a helicopter.
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Our series lead is the enigmatically-named Highway (Sam J. Our narrator also notes that this is a world in which “ the laws of the present collide with the crimes of tomorrow.”įortunately, there’s a “ new breed” of lawman to handle such crimes. Conrad – in authoritative baritone –reports that the series occurs “ just beyond now,” in a world “ where reality rides a razor thin seam between fact and possibility.” That’s a fancy way of noting that the series takes place in the near future. Virtually all the new series of the season involved larger-than-life heroes, whether from fiction, a Mad Max-like dystopia, or the auspices of new, digital technology.Īn uncredited William Conrad narrates the opening montage of this unusual series from Glen A. On the tube, original sci-fi TV programming was still trying to get a foothold.
President Ronald Reagan was dealing with the fall-out from the Iran Contra affair, the Fox Network was starting up (with fare such as T he Tracey Ullman Show, Werewolf and Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987 -1994)) premiered in syndication to enthusiastic audiences.