This is a great cartoon. I say so because I used to think it was the best one when I was a child. And now, that I'm an adult, I still think it's a great cartoon. Maybe the second best I've ever seen (only surpassed by The Simpsons).The characters are great (especially the villains who are very complex and have many different abilities). To name some, The BountyHunter, The time-stopper, Mo-Lec-U-Lar, Windhammer, Mon-star, Zero, the memory thief, Melodia, Buzz-Saw etc.As for the names, I don't think they are bad. But I say that the Spanish translations are better. For example: "SilverHawks" means Hawks made of silver, but not all of them were made of this metal: The Copper kid, SteelHeart, Steelwill, C. Stargazer (gold), Hotwing (gold) and Flashback (green). In Spanish they were called "Halcónes Galácticos" which means "Galactic Hawks" which is a better name, or at least more descriptive of them all.The setting is amazing. There's an Artificial sun and the planets are beautiful: The Penal Planet, Hawkhaven, Bedlama, Dollare, The hanging Rock, etc.I agree with the person that said (As for falling in space and characters not needing life support) that Limbo Galaxy has an artificial sun (which, technically should be artificial star...), possibly there is artificial gravity or a black hole. Finally, I would love Hollywood to make a Silverhawks movie o Warner to make a new season of the Greatest Hawks ever.

Silverhawks, essentially, is a 1940's Chicago cop show set in outter space. The evil criminal Mon*star and his gang of thugs has escaped from prison, and must be stopped. Unfortunately, he's on the other side of the galaxy, and no human could survive the journey to get there. So, a team of heroes volunteer to be transformed into cyborgs, partly metal, partly real, that can withstand the rigors of the journey. Once there, they set up headquarters and police the sector. Voiced by many of the same voice actors of Thundercats, it featured some of the most interesting character designs of the decade. THEY SHOULD MAKE A MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I loved this show growing up and it still holds fond memories in my heart. It does require a bit of a suspension of disbelief ( but what 80's kid show didn't? ). The characters were cool, Mon-star had an interesting design for sure. I'd love to see this series on DVD as well as the other 2 Rankin Bass classics : Thundercats and Tigersharks.Good times, good times.

Flush from the success of Thundercats, Rankin-Bass thought that lightning could strike again with this show. Well, lightning does often strike high points more than once, but it didn't happen here in the creative sense. In short, this show is terrible.First thing, the villain is a copy of Thundercats' Mum-Ra and the heroes are worse. They barely display anything resembling a personality and show only the threadbare cliches of what proper heroes should be. The dialogue is stilted and written with obviously no creativity in any sense of the word. The setting is ludicrous with it being set in outer space, but characters seem to be able to operate without any protection as if it all had the equivalent ground level Earth atmosphere. I've heard of children who scoffed at this insult to their intelligence and they had every right to be offended.It was truly the nadir of the 1980's toy cartoon craze that makes you value what quality shows we do have today.