40 years of
SilverHawks
The Origin Story went out on a Monday afternoon in September 1986, and by the first week of December the run was over and the SilverHawks were off the air for good. Forty years on, everything we have been able to find of it lives here: the episodes, the toys, the comics and the production scripts. It opens today.
Banner art generated with AI for this anniversary, in the style of the 1986 series.
Launch squadron
The people bringing this in
SilverHawks ran a single season in 1986 and then went quiet, and what is left of it survived in two ways: the people who made it held on to their paperwork, and the people who grew up on it held on to everything else. The squadron below is both, and between them they opened their shelves, their scans and their address books for the eighth of September, so the archive could open with something in it rather than a promise to fill it in later.
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Peter Lawrence SilverHawks show runner -
Sean McKeone Author of Hall of Omens -
JP @thundercats_classics -
ThunderCats.org -
Only My Toys Cesar - AI filmmaker
The first week
SilverHawks went out on weekday afternoons, so the opening was not one episode but five, Monday to Friday, in the week beginning 8 September 1986. Mon*Star breaks out on the Monday, and by the Friday the team has already lost control of the sun that the whole galaxy runs on.
- Mon 8 Sept The Origin Story When the intergalactic criminal Mon*Star breaks out of his prison, Earth sends a team of biomechanically enhanced humans to capture him.
- Tue 9 Sept Journey to Limbo The SilverHawks arrive at Hawk Haven and have their first encounter with Mon*Star and his Mob.
- Wed 10 Sept The Planet Eater Mon*Star employs the Sky Chomper to "eat" other spaceships and feed the debris to the Planet Eater, his biggest and most devastating weapon yet.
- Thu 11 Sept Save The Sun The Mob seize control of the massive Artificial Sun, the main source of power in the Galaxy of Limbo.
- Fri 12 Sept Stop Timestopper A delinquent with the power to stop time joins Mon*Star's gang and helps them plunder the Crystal Mine of Automata.
What is here
- 65 episodes The episode guide Every one with its writer, its broadcast date and what happens in it.
- 6 episodes Production scripts Recording and conformed scripts, searchable, free to members.
- 61 profiles The squadron Who they were before they were rebuilt, and what each one flies with.
- Newest first Super7 The Ultimates and ReAction releases, in order of release.
- Two series Kenner, 1987 to 1988 The original line, the one most people actually owned.
- Seven issues Star Comics Marvel's kid imprint ran it alongside the show, then stopped.
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Squadron
The roster
Every SilverHawk is partly metal and partly real. Each portrait is split on the diagonal between the two. The switch advances the metal across the frame.
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Quicksilver
Capt. Jonathan Quick
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Steelheart
Sgt. Emily Hart
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Steelwill
Sgt. Will Hart
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Bluegrass
Bluegrass
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The Copper Kidd
Copper Kidd
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Commander Stargazer
Stargazer
Where the show goes
Limbo star chart
Eight places the series names, plotted. The number on each is how many of the 65 episodes name it. Choose one to see which.
Galaxy of Limbo
15 of 65 episodes
- 02 Journey to Limbo
- 04 Save The Sun
- 06 Darkbird
- 17 Operation Big Freeze
- 19 The Great Galaxy Race
- 21 Hotwing Hits Limbo
Hawk Haven
10 of 65 episodes
- 02 Journey to Limbo
- 08 The Threat of Dritt
- 11 Gold Shield
- 13 The Milk Run
- 16 Race Against Time
- 18 The Ghost Ship
Penal Planet 10
7 of 65 episodes
- 10 Magnetic Attraction
- 15 The Hardware Trap - Part II
- 45 The Bounty Hunter Returns
- 51 Gangwar - Part II
- 53 Sneak Attack - Part II
- 59 Match-Up
Earth
7 of 65 episodes
- 01 The Origin Story
- 12 Zero The Memory Thief
- 21 Hotwing Hits Limbo
- 32 The Saviour Stone
- 49 Window in Time
- 57 Battle Cruiser
Automata
5 of 65 episodes
- 05 Stop Timestopper
- 24 The Fighting Hawks
- 29 Limbo Gold Rush
- 30 Countdown to Zero
- 58 Small World
Bedlama
4 of 65 episodes
- 25 The Renegade Hero
- 39 A Piece of the Action
- 43 The Star of Bedlama
- 61 The Invisible Destroyer