TV's Record Crime Wave

Waters, Harry F. "TV's Record Crime Wave." Newsweek 6 May 1985: esp. 77B.

The section on "The Lows of Hi-Tech" comments briefly on the turning over of "the war against crime to machines," at least on such TV shows as Knight Rider (q.v. under Drama), Airwolf (which "stars a hopped-up helicopter"), and Street Hawk (which "stars an 'all-terrain attack' motorcycle that can hyperthrust to 300 mph and neutralize a killer tank with its 'particle beam' ray gun