Glen Larson wanted the talking muscle car to have a heartbeat and asked Scheffe to design a beam of light like the Cylons had in Battlestar Galactica to be used on the front of the vehicle. David Hasselhoff is back as charismatic crimefighter Michael Knight, the driver of the world’s most dynamic, high-tech talking car, K. I have to figure since there are four extra discs for the series alone there’s going to be less compression issues. Then there’s the bafflingly weird follow-up Knight Rider 2010 that takes the franchise to the post-apocalyptic future.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).The new Knight rider has nothing on the Original, even the women in the original were very pleasing ( although i only remember kitt ! There were fewer CGI shots to contend with so aside from some optical effects it generally looks pretty good. The book is in German, but I’ve been picking through using the Google Translate app on my phone - it’s cumbersome and time-consuming scanning each page but it works.

For the main series, all four seasons, 86 episodes total, are spread out between 20 Region Free BD-50 discs. It was also the right show for the right era and that magic in a bottle simply hasn’t been recaptured. By mentioning those other similar series I hoped to illustrate the point that the basic nuts and bolts of the operation are similar to numerous other shows from the late 70s and early 80s. Like so many shows of the era like The A-Team, Airwolf, The Six Million Dollar Man, or even to some extent The Incredible Hulk featuring loner heroes helping simple folk deal with whatever criminal enterprise is harassing them.The show stars David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight, a sleek and modern crime fighter assisted by KITT, an advanced, artificially intelligent, self-aware, and nearly indestructible car. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. At review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the first season scores 35%, based mainly on archived contemporaneous reviews, with an average rating of 5.

Knight Rider 2010 however leaned on a lot more early CGI for various sequences and it’s a bit dodgy looking. All four seasons of the 1980s action crime drama about an ex-cop who is recruited into a covert crime fighting organisation.The rest of the series music was composed by Stu Phillips for 13 episodes and Don Peake for 75 episodes. For the scenes in which KITT appeared to be driving without a driver, Gill would sit behind the driver's seat. Watch it on a weekend afternoon when you have nothing better to do, its really not that bad and you'll enjoy it if you want a brainless few hours just to enjoy some typical man time with cars, explosions and the like. All of the discs are housed in five separate fold-out slipcases, four of which contain the show’s four season run, and when laid out alongside each other, reveal a side view of K.

Through 86 thrilling adventures David Hasselhoff and the voice of William Daniels thrilled audiences. Self-made billionaire Wilton Knight rescues police Detective Lieutenant Michael Arthur Long after a near-fatal shot to the face, giving him a new identity (by plastic surgery) and a new name: Michael Knight.Complete with all four seasons, the two made for television follow-up films Knight Rider 2000 and Knight Rider 2010, and the shortlived Team Knight Rider series, this is a massive set. This amazing box set features all four seasons with excellent A/V, the two made-for-TV movies in SD, the followup Team Knight Rider show in SD, and hours of bonus features in a large beautiful box full of swag.