Everybody likes to see injustice be made to stand on its head, so there should be a lot of people cheering for this unlikely but vigorous and mildly enjoyable spot of escapism. Timothy Hutton is the 20-year-old who heeds the famous advice `Go fight City Hall' after his older brother, a fireman (a role that gives Robert Urich rather more acting opportunities than the star) is badly injured, when, off-duty and slightly the worse for drink, he rescues a child from a tenement blaze. After Urich is denied private treatment, and then a disability pension, because he'd been drinking, Hutton goes to work as a kind of plain-clothes caped crusader, humiliating the vaguely corrupt New York mayor (a sharkishly-smiling Robert Culp) at every opportunity. If the thrills are cheap and the lines occasionally cheaper, the enterprise still has the surefire appeal of a non-league side taking on Liverpool in the Cup. Hutton is in (though several levels below) such screen heroes as Jefferson Smith and Longefellow Deeds). The American dream lives!

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