This show was amazing, a staple of my youth in '97 and '98. I remember watching reruns late at night while playing Tomb Raider II for the PlayStation like a bawse.
The then-trendy and trendily-awkward references to Jackson Roykirk and Planet of the Spiders and 1975 Star Trek conventions are enough to make me want to avoid TKR...
I really think of this as live action M.A.S.K. and there is no doubt in my mind that the creators of Fast & Furious 6 watched this show and then said, "hold My Beer." I really wish Christine Steel had gone on to more things though. Congrats to Nick Wechsler going on to bigger and better with Revenge & the Boys (together those shows sound like an indie movie lol.)
i have felt like i was one of a few people who saw this show back in the nineties, and have felt like i was the only one who appreciated it's goofy, ridiculous charm. glad to see others remember this show, and that while it was not a great or even all that good show, it was mostly fun, and in the realm of 1990s syndicated sci-fi/fantasy it was on the better end of average.
I actually enjoyed it in a non goofy way because I was like 12 when I first saw it. Now I look at it and laugh at it like it's a parody but back then I seriously enjoyed the action and the cool cars and I remember I found the Girl in the Mustang hot 😄
How I bloody-love these "Never heard of it" TV Show Reviews. Wonderful to see the dross churned out by TV Execs. It is almost as though they had no idea what they were doing. Cheers guys.
This stuff was a precursor to the schlock we have now, but in their defense, they did try to make things entertaining and did not take themselves seriously and you could enjoy this because your expectations were not meant to high. Nowadays, shows and movies have become self-important and pretentious, and despite the big budgets, they come of bland and boring.
@@cane6074 Fair comment. I agree that there does seem to be a lot of schlock around today. If memory serves, TV has never been very good. Fortunately Nostalgia draws us to a few fondly remembered programmes, but these were far and few. You are spot-on with your assessment of modern films. Yup, bigger budgets leads to a more cautious approach to filmmaking. More Money imposes Less Risk = more blandness + more remakes + more boredom.
This feels oddly like that 90's Dark Shadows reboot, or perhaps Poltergeist: The Legacy. I definitely watched this because 97 was around the time I was old enough to have a TV in my room 😅
This show feels like it was not only trying to reboot Knight Rider, but also was trying to make their own version of Power Rangers. Just without the stock footage
I remember this show, and I feel like I somehow managed to enjoy it. But it is weird that the one thing I remembered was that the truck had a crush thing for the girl. Beast would literally ignore his driver, but would do anything Jenny asked.
I watched it when i was 12 or smth. Could not care less about the acting when you hear cars roasting each other inside a fing plane and seconds later you could see Kathy Trageser in stockings... lmao
I heard Team Knight Rider was in response to VIPER. VIPER was the only 90s action show that could hold Knight Riders candle. It actually had a lot of the same crew from KR working on Viper. Surprised no one talks about Viper. It was also way better then TKR.
@@hawkstringfellow Ratings were too low for the cost of the series. It did decent. There were some lawsuits that happened when the series finished which is why it faded into obscurity. It was a very well put together series.
I watched all of these attempts at reviving Knight Rider, and the Knight Rider 2000 tv movie was by far the closest one to get the formula right. Frankly, if NBC and Universal wanted to revive the concept, they should’ve just promoted Michael Knight to Devon’s position over the course of three or four seasons, train RC to take on Michael’s job, and… …rebuild and reprogram KARR. KITT’s already learned everything he needed to know about humanity, and a series where there’s a redemption arc for KARR could make the interaction with RC trying to teach him compassion interesting.
There were a few fanfics many moons ago that were about KARR being reprogrammed and redeemed. They did suffer a bit from being written by unskilled writers, but were good enough that I do believe a show about KARR had the potential to have been really good.
TKR is one of those shows I'd rather was burned out of my memory somehow. Not only did they forget the fundamental theme of the original show, but this and KR2000 both proved to me that Hollywood had somehow managed to forget that "lighthearted" is a setting that lands _between_ high camp and dark action. Not everything needs to be either Batman '66 or Robocop. Then, in 2008, they _almost_ surprised me with the tone of the reboot (minus the fact that Val Kilmer was a terrible choice to voice KITT in that show) before turning right around and changing the tone completely when the show went to series. Twice. I dunno, it just never seemed like that hard of a formula to figure out why the original worked, but damn if it didn't look like Universal thought otherwise. Repeatedly.
I've posted my comments above, but I think I felt duty bound to watch as it was 'Knight Rider' (in name) than actually ever really want to watch it for it's own merits. In some ways it almost felt like a cheap syndicated series with the 'Knight Rider' badge stuck on midway through development, as it has little real ties or feel to the original, other than the occasional "Is Michael Knight my dad?" thread. Gotta say though, I never much liked the 2008 series either, again so far fro the original that I wondered why they'd bother calling it 'Knight Rider' at all.
Yeah, you completely missed the point. Knight Rider was slapped on for marketing by Universal -- this show was actually supposed to be a live action M.A.S.K.
@@LakeHowellDigitalVideo LOL, WHAT?! 😂 I hadn't heard that one. And if that's true, literally everyone missed the point. I was never huge into M.A.S.K., but wasn't one of the primary vehicles a trailer cab? Seems like it would've missed the mark even if that's what the series actually was.
GoldenFoxPtime , I agree Val Kilmer was a terrible choice to voice KITT...they should have used original Voice actor William Daniels who voiced KITT in the original show.
The thing about David A. Goodman writing for Star Trek: Enterprise and executive producing for the Orville caught my attention, so I decided to look him up, and was pleasantly surprised to learn that he was also the president of WGAW from 2017 to 2021 and was one of the main forces pushing the 2023 writer's strike. Nifty.
"By the end I didn't really mind the main characters." Stam, if the RUclips thing doesn't work out, you've always got a career in diplomacy to fall back on.
I remember watching this. When the last episode of the season aired I was like. Yes! They’ll bring back Michael Knight! Then it was never given a second season.
The only upside to that concept was that they replaced this silly motorcycles with real ones half-way through the season. The combo car was also updated, but only about 10% less bad.
I don't care what anyone says, i still love this show. Infact i kinda prefer this over the original, but im weird so theres that. My favorite characters has to be a tie between Plato, Kat, and Beast.
I was (and am) a diehard fan of the original Knight Rider series, but passed over this series when it first aired, as it seemed so insultingly bad and off-premise. Many years later, during covid (while I was locked in my room WITH covid), I decided to give it a second look after rewatching the whole of Knight Rider and Knight Rider 2000 on DVD-let’s say to satisfy the completist in me. While it sadly didn’t appear to be available on physical media, I did find it on VUDU. As much as it pained me to purchase and not-own the series on digital, I watched all of it for the first time-and I had good time. (Maybe it was the covid talking, but it was, as you said, cheesy fun.) As far as the continuity, it can mostly work. It takes place before KR2000, so (with a couple of continuity complications and needle threading), it doesn’t necessarily preclude 2000 from taking place afterwards. But, more interesting is its possible continuity with the more recent NBC revival in 2008. Just like TKR, the 2008 mobile command center isn’t a tractor-trailer, but a massive VTOL cargo plane-as if directly acknowledging “Team Knight Rider,” if only subtly. And, frankly, I can’t think of any direct contradictions between TKR and 2008 whatsoever, even though TKR isn’t specifically mentioned. That plane, to me, suggests a connection. One might say, “Well, in TKR, Michael Knight had a daughter; in 2008, he has a son.” So? The kid can’t have a sister? I’d suspect half-sister and probably others. This is Michael Knight we’re talking about, if you know what I mean.
This was a decent show. I feel like the 2008 Knight Rider series took a lot of cues from this series. The KRO episode was my favorite of this series. It had a cool legacy tie in with the original series. I wish they'd have at least done a TV movie that would have resolved the revelations of Michael and KITT in the finale episode.
In a magazine review of tiberium sun, re Christine Steele. " we're not sure who this actress is, but we can see she is familiar with the silicon medium"
TKR made several episodes more than the 2008 series with Justin Bruening. I did like Domino, the 3000's aunt. Domino's AI would be like Cora AKA Recon Viper 1.
You should really do a video about another 90's syndicated Sci-Fi/Action show, Super Force. It was shot almost entirely at Universal Studios... Orlando. Unlike Team Knight Rider, there were a ton of recognizable faces who would show up as guest stars including Traci Lords, Sting (the wrestler), and Richard Moll. It also had an episode directed by Jerry Lewis. Yes, that Jerry Lewis. Get on it. You'd love it.
The car that turns into two motorcycles is amazingly silly even for a show like this--I like how they didn't even bother to figure out how that worked mechanically and just put in some animated lightning. There's also the question of WHY one would do this.
What i do not get is the color choice. For me it looks totally out of place and that color makes me think of old sci-fi TV-shows, as is the design of the vehicle itself. This is what cars in the future will look like according to old sci-fi TV-shows.
I watched TKR back when it was on, and have generally fond memories. Then again, I have a deep and abiding love for low budget cheese. The thing that baffled me was when they totally redesigned the two motorcycle car partway through. The original was just barely believable and appealed to my love of 80s sci-fi, but the new one was just two normal bikes, and totally gave up trying to be plausible.
I don’t even remember this show. Did it only air in Peru or something? I was a kid when Knight Rider aired. I remember the one with Val Kilmer’s voice. I don’t remember this at all.
Ten years ago all it took was ONE MAN and ONE CAR to get the job done ... now the foundation for law and government has assembled five highly skilledoperatives and pair them with the most ADVANCED state-of-the-art vehicles to take on a new breed of outlaw they are .. TEAM KNIGHT RIDER
I thought I'd not watched this show until I started watching this vid and suddenly the memories come back to me .......😂 I remember enjoying the nonsense but my heart will always be with the original Knight Rider
OK so at least I am not the only person who fondly remembered this show. But I wonder if it was because it was good or because I was only 15/16 when it came out lol
My friends and family used to think i was mad when i said that this show existed! They never believed me. I think it was on tv on Saturday afternoons ( in the UK).
The inner nerd in me identifies the DANTE screen as being a re-purposed early Blaupunkpt GPS head unit. Source : Used to fix these things. The buttons around the outside are a complete give away. They were very cool units with green vector graphics. Like a Sat Nav battle zone.
I always believed TKR was heavily influenced by Power Rangers. What frustrated me about this show is that with some more budget, some better acting and a bit more work on the vehicles I think it could have been something really great. I think the episode with KRO was the best one, though the season/series end cliffhanger did get me interested enough that I would have loved to see another season.
So TKR are part of FLG. I'd forgotten much we loved acronyms in the 90s 😂 ps I never saw this. It looks really bad! Props to Stam Fine for keeping my interest in his video.
Beast and duke but the super Vehicle phase had passed by the late 90s in 2008 knightrider did return untill they added super pursuit mode which killed the orginal show aswell
I do remember watching a lot of this show. Mainly because I tended to work late and it would play at something like 1am around here. It had the feel like they'd mixed Knight Rider with Power Rangers just to see what happened. It was as deep as a paper plate and was very disposable entertainment, but I still kind of liked it. And it didn't surprise me at all that it never received a second season.
I remember this after the original knight rider being the coolest show ever for me as a little boy. Then I rewatched one episode as an adult and couldn't stop laughing about how comically dumb this was. I didn't realise as a kid. Same story as with Sledge Hammer 😂
Ah, yes. This series. I have always called it 'A fan fiction that found a budget.' And I do believe that you are right about stating that the writing was probably done very quickly. As it does reflect some of my 'favorite' scenes from the show. Like from that fan favorite episode about KRO. In this scene, the whole team is trying to stop KRO from reaching somewhere. On a straightaway, the two forces conflict. They literally have a cut away shot stating how KRO is going to reach his objective. So, they do something. Attack Beast intercepts. KRO fires and does a mild dodging maneuver. *sigh* ...some... how... by forcing KRO to veer around the damaged truck, the motorcycle pair cruise off ahead... take a detour... walk through a house... get back on the road... reach the destination... got to say that I would have loved to see the two hours of scenes left on the cutting room floor to explain that bad bit of timing. Or another scene from a different episode involves one of the cast being rescued from a prison bus. They take the bus out, get her out of the bus... while backup is on the way by the police... and then start having this casual plot moving conversation for quite some time... until the plot realizes that action scene plus stroll through the park doesn't work and starts playing some dog barking sounds from a distant speaker and the cast pick up the pace. This will always be that show that gave us... ahem... KITT, the Folgers Can and Michael Knight's mannequin. And I do love how the history logs about Michael's adventures are just episode listings, as seen in TV Guide. Oh, Action Pack. How they weekly teased us with a new Knight Rider random run episode alongside Smokey and the Bandit and Hercules... only to be tied down in a lawsuit that let them eventually walk away with... A: The name (Knight Rider) and B: The loosest connection to that idea of Man and Car possible. Then getting the very last Action Pack episode to be that promised show. AND THEN thumbing their nose at Universal and getting this show going for their second season that was... at least far closer to the bullseye. Oh... and I tend to remember the very best episode being when Duke and Attack Beast basically soloed their own episode. I feel that one episode got closest to the feel of Knight Rider of the whole season. And had this show ever gotten its second season... who knows. They may have even figured out how to fix the problems. I mean, it is said that late into the season, some 'swish-swish' scanner bars were introduced into the cars. J. C. Whitney make... somewhere under the hood. Kind of buried. May be visible inside a dark tunnel.
I'm still shocked that even Stan completely missed the boat on this show. It wasn't Knight Rider, it was actually a live action M.A.S.K. show. Watch an episode of the M.A.S.K. cartoon, then watch this.... Then you'll get it. The tone, main characters, storylines and vehicles are basically identical. TKR was a continuation of the M.A.S.K. cartoon.
Oh, but they did. KITT played the part of a Folger's can and 'Mannequin' Michael Knight was in the viewfinder for a glorious couple seconds. And I think the cast sacrificed a couple hamburgers to pay for their presentation. Probably as a bribe to find something that worked from the props department to a hungry custodian.
This show was amazing, a staple of my youth in '97 and '98. I remember watching reruns late at night while playing Tomb Raider II for the PlayStation like a bawse.
RIP Brixton Karnes(Kyle). From January 1, 1960 to May 16, 2012.
"No expense was spared, when it comes to sparing expenses.." - mint!
You've equally made me want to watch this and yet avoid it like the plague... perfect for the shows you review!
Avoid. Avoid at all costs. You will lose IQ points very quickly
The then-trendy and trendily-awkward references to Jackson Roykirk and Planet of the Spiders and 1975 Star Trek conventions are enough to make me want to avoid TKR...
It had good action and the blonde chick was a babe.
Knight Rider 1982 to 1984 team knight rider 1995. Knight Rider 2000 for years 2000. And Knight Rider 2010.
In the team knight rider the shadow of the man is Kitt.
I really think of this as live action M.A.S.K. and there is no doubt in my mind that the creators of Fast & Furious 6 watched this show and then said, "hold My Beer." I really wish Christine Steel had gone on to more things though. Congrats to Nick Wechsler going on to bigger and better with Revenge & the Boys (together those shows sound like an indie movie lol.)
Nick was also in Roswell as the sheriff's son, he did a great job.
Fast and Furious is a rip off of a Charlie Sheen movie.
This show could have used an anti-Knight Rider team, that would have made things a lot more interesting
i have felt like i was one of a few people who saw this show back in the nineties, and have felt like i was the only one who appreciated it's goofy, ridiculous charm. glad to see others remember this show, and that while it was not a great or even all that good show, it was mostly fun, and in the realm of 1990s syndicated sci-fi/fantasy it was on the better end of average.
I actually enjoyed it in a non goofy way because I was like 12 when I first saw it. Now I look at it and laugh at it like it's a parody but back then I seriously enjoyed the action and the cool cars and I remember I found the Girl in the Mustang hot 😄
How I bloody-love these "Never heard of it" TV Show Reviews. Wonderful to see the dross churned out by TV Execs. It is almost as though they had no idea what they were doing. Cheers guys.
This stuff was a precursor to the schlock we have now, but in their defense, they did try to make things entertaining and did not take themselves seriously and you could enjoy this because your expectations were not meant to high. Nowadays, shows and movies have become self-important and pretentious, and despite the big budgets, they come of bland and boring.
@@cane6074 Fair comment. I agree that there does seem to be a lot of schlock around today. If memory serves, TV has never been very good. Fortunately Nostalgia draws us to a few fondly remembered programmes, but these were far and few. You are spot-on with your assessment of modern films. Yup, bigger budgets leads to a more cautious approach to filmmaking. More Money imposes Less Risk = more blandness + more remakes + more boredom.
TKR was a show that you'd come home to after going out to the Club or a Bar, its the perfect show to fall asleep to
Like MASH 😂
Whoa! Blast from the past. I remember this show from the 90s.
This feels oddly like that 90's Dark Shadows reboot, or perhaps Poltergeist: The Legacy. I definitely watched this because 97 was around the time I was old enough to have a TV in my room 😅
This show feels like it was not only trying to reboot Knight Rider, but also was trying to make their own version of Power Rangers. Just without the stock footage
Not jus me then!
The inside of their transport plane reminded me alot of the HQ from Power Rangers SPD.
So you mentioning that series is funny.
I remember this show, and I feel like I somehow managed to enjoy it. But it is weird that the one thing I remembered was that the truck had a crush thing for the girl. Beast would literally ignore his driver, but would do anything Jenny asked.
I watched it when i was 12 or smth. Could not care less about the acting when you hear cars roasting each other inside a fing plane and seconds later you could see Kathy Trageser in stockings... lmao
Awww, no, I absolutely _loved_ *'Team Knight Rider'* back in the day! I’m definitely going to have to give it a rewatch, very soon!
You can't beat the original. Miami Vice and the original night rider were my favorites when I was a kid.
I actually remember watching this back in the day and I Really like Beast's personality.
I heard Team Knight Rider was in response to VIPER. VIPER was the only 90s action show that could hold Knight Riders candle. It actually had a lot of the same crew from KR working on Viper. Surprised no one talks about Viper. It was also way better then TKR.
I can talk for hours about viper love that show all 4 seasons but season 1 was the best with that city and the outfit
I watched the 1st season of viper on NBC then losted the show 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
. What happen to viper????
@@hawkstringfellow Ratings were too low for the cost of the series. It did decent. There were some lawsuits that happened when the series finished which is why it faded into obscurity. It was a very well put together series.
I watched all of these attempts at reviving Knight Rider, and the Knight Rider 2000 tv movie was by far the closest one to get the formula right.
Frankly, if NBC and Universal wanted to revive the concept, they should’ve just promoted Michael Knight to Devon’s position over the course of three or four seasons, train RC to take on Michael’s job, and…
…rebuild and reprogram KARR.
KITT’s already learned everything he needed to know about humanity, and a series where there’s a redemption arc for KARR could make the interaction with RC trying to teach him compassion interesting.
There were a few fanfics many moons ago that were about KARR being reprogrammed and redeemed. They did suffer a bit from being written by unskilled writers, but were good enough that I do believe a show about KARR had the potential to have been really good.
Don't forget the Knight Rider with Val Kilmer as voice of K.I.T.T.
I'm the voice of the Knight Industries Three Thousand. One with the Ford Mustang
Val is a great actor but lets be honest the original 80's classic was the best , absolutely prefect
TKR is one of those shows I'd rather was burned out of my memory somehow. Not only did they forget the fundamental theme of the original show, but this and KR2000 both proved to me that Hollywood had somehow managed to forget that "lighthearted" is a setting that lands _between_ high camp and dark action. Not everything needs to be either Batman '66 or Robocop. Then, in 2008, they _almost_ surprised me with the tone of the reboot (minus the fact that Val Kilmer was a terrible choice to voice KITT in that show) before turning right around and changing the tone completely when the show went to series. Twice. I dunno, it just never seemed like that hard of a formula to figure out why the original worked, but damn if it didn't look like Universal thought otherwise. Repeatedly.
I've posted my comments above, but I think I felt duty bound to watch as it was 'Knight Rider' (in name) than actually ever really want to watch it for it's own merits. In some ways it almost felt like a cheap syndicated series with the 'Knight Rider' badge stuck on midway through development, as it has little real ties or feel to the original, other than the occasional "Is Michael Knight my dad?" thread. Gotta say though, I never much liked the 2008 series either, again so far fro the original that I wondered why they'd bother calling it 'Knight Rider' at all.
Yeah, you completely missed the point. Knight Rider was slapped on for marketing by Universal -- this show was actually supposed to be a live action M.A.S.K.
@@LakeHowellDigitalVideo LOL, WHAT?! 😂 I hadn't heard that one. And if that's true, literally everyone missed the point. I was never huge into M.A.S.K., but wasn't one of the primary vehicles a trailer cab? Seems like it would've missed the mark even if that's what the series actually was.
GoldenFoxPtime , I agree Val Kilmer was a terrible choice to voice KITT...they should have used original Voice actor William Daniels who voiced KITT in the original show.
Ah, I remember this series fondly. :)
A Jack of All Trades clip. I thought I was the only person to ever watch that show.
I'd love to see you talk about the short-lived Knight Rider reboot from the late 2000s, that had Val Kilmer as KITT
it's on the list...
I have such found memories of this show. I was one of the hundreds of millions who didn't watch it.
The thing about David A. Goodman writing for Star Trek: Enterprise and executive producing for the Orville caught my attention, so I decided to look him up, and was pleasantly surprised to learn that he was also the president of WGAW from 2017 to 2021 and was one of the main forces pushing the 2023 writer's strike. Nifty.
I enjoyed the effort to create something fresh within the IP.
"By the end I didn't really mind the main characters." Stam, if the RUclips thing doesn't work out, you've always got a career in diplomacy to fall back on.
I remember watching this. When the last episode of the season aired I was like. Yes! They’ll bring back Michael Knight! Then it was never given a second season.
The car that splits into two motorbikes looks much sillier than the prototype version from Malcolm.
The only upside to that concept was that they replaced this silly motorcycles with real ones half-way through the season. The combo car was also updated, but only about 10% less bad.
“No expense was spared in sparing expense” - genius
I don't care what anyone says, i still love this show. Infact i kinda prefer this over the original, but im weird so theres that. My favorite characters has to be a tie between Plato, Kat, and Beast.
I agree with you I also love this show I just love super car shows with computers and guns
Man I'm glad I missed out on this sh💩t show.
This show looks like the foundation for the Fast and Furious franchise.
I remember this and also remember I was too busy watching other 90s show not to be that interested 😊thanks for the review
I was (and am) a diehard fan of the original Knight Rider series, but passed over this series when it first aired, as it seemed so insultingly bad and off-premise. Many years later, during covid (while I was locked in my room WITH covid), I decided to give it a second look after rewatching the whole of Knight Rider and Knight Rider 2000 on DVD-let’s say to satisfy the completist in me. While it sadly didn’t appear to be available on physical media, I did find it on VUDU. As much as it pained me to purchase and not-own the series on digital, I watched all of it for the first time-and I had good time. (Maybe it was the covid talking, but it was, as you said, cheesy fun.)
As far as the continuity, it can mostly work. It takes place before KR2000, so (with a couple of continuity complications and needle threading), it doesn’t necessarily preclude 2000 from taking place afterwards. But, more interesting is its possible continuity with the more recent NBC revival in 2008.
Just like TKR, the 2008 mobile command center isn’t a tractor-trailer, but a massive VTOL cargo plane-as if directly acknowledging “Team Knight Rider,” if only subtly. And, frankly, I can’t think of any direct contradictions between TKR and 2008 whatsoever, even though TKR isn’t specifically mentioned. That plane, to me, suggests a connection.
One might say, “Well, in TKR, Michael Knight had a daughter; in 2008, he has a son.” So? The kid can’t have a sister? I’d suspect half-sister and probably others. This is Michael Knight we’re talking about, if you know what I mean.
As am I , original is the best the rest was like an expensive car advert along with the Viper tv series , 80's Knight Rider was the greatest !
@ Can’t argue there. There’s no beating the original.
This was a decent show. I feel like the 2008 Knight Rider series took a lot of cues from this series. The KRO episode was my favorite of this series. It had a cool legacy tie in with the original series. I wish they'd have at least done a TV movie that would have resolved the revelations of Michael and KITT in the finale episode.
In a magazine review of tiberium sun, re Christine Steele. " we're not sure who this actress is, but we can see she is familiar with the silicon medium"
Was hyped when i saw the trailer for the show but then watched like a few episodes and after a while totally forgot about it.
(feeds the almighty Algorithmo of DOOOOOM!!!!!)
TKR made several episodes more than the 2008 series with Justin Bruening. I did like Domino, the 3000's aunt. Domino's AI would be like Cora AKA Recon Viper 1.
Which episodes had the best catfights?
Look into Time Trax
You should really do a video about another 90's syndicated Sci-Fi/Action show, Super Force. It was shot almost entirely at Universal Studios... Orlando. Unlike Team Knight Rider, there were a ton of recognizable faces who would show up as guest stars including Traci Lords, Sting (the wrestler), and Richard Moll. It also had an episode directed by Jerry Lewis. Yes, that Jerry Lewis. Get on it. You'd love it.
It was a weird mash of StreetHawk/Robocop/Predator/Batman. Too bad that bike wasn't seen that much in the show.
I just wished there was a way to see this series again, as it hard to find it now.
18:18 Jackson Roykirk? As in the guy that invented the Nomad Probe in Star Trek TOS “The Changeling”!?
I’d swear those motorcycles got some kind of upgrade later in the show
Loved it 😢
I only liked this for its theme tune, and for Kathy Trageser's looks...
Duane Davis who played Duke was in Beetlejuice, Under Seige, Ghosts of mars and Nightmare on elm street 4
I used to record this on VHS to see the new episodes that were released. It is 90s cheese, but the original was 80s cheese. *shrug* Give it a watch!
Fair enough however 80s cheese was at least edible whereas 90s cheese looked like ass and smelled like dead feet! 🧀🦶🤢
The car that turns into two motorcycles is amazingly silly even for a show like this--I like how they didn't even bother to figure out how that worked mechanically and just put in some animated lightning. There's also the question of WHY one would do this.
Because the show was a live action version of the M.A.S.K. cartoon -- which also had a car that split into two
What i do not get is the color choice. For me it looks totally out of place and that color makes me think of old sci-fi TV-shows, as is the design of the vehicle itself. This is what cars in the future will look like according to old sci-fi TV-shows.
I watched TKR back when it was on, and have generally fond memories. Then again, I have a deep and abiding love for low budget cheese.
The thing that baffled me was when they totally redesigned the two motorcycle car partway through. The original was just barely believable and appealed to my love of 80s sci-fi, but the new one was just two normal bikes, and totally gave up trying to be plausible.
I half expected them to merge and become a Knight Voltron mix at some point.
I don’t even remember this show. Did it only air in Peru or something? I was a kid when Knight Rider aired. I remember the one with Val Kilmer’s voice. I don’t remember this at all.
I remember this. 😅😂😂😂😂😂😢. The 90s were crazy.
I thought I was the only person who remembered this show 😂
Ten years ago all it took was ONE MAN and ONE CAR to get the job done ... now the foundation for law and government has assembled five highly skilledoperatives and pair them with the most ADVANCED state-of-the-art vehicles to take on a new breed of outlaw they are .. TEAM KNIGHT RIDER
Government in its name, What'd you expect?🤣
I enjoyed Team Knight Rider and this video as well🚙🏎🏍🏍🛻
I liked this show
Oh I vaguely remember this.. it came on at like 2 am where I was.
I thought I'd not watched this show until I started watching this vid and suddenly the memories come back to me .......😂
I remember enjoying the nonsense but my heart will always be with the original Knight Rider
2010 was interesting and could have been a standalone
I did love the KRO episode
Is was definetly aimed at me when I was 11 years old watching this show. Loved it.
Maybe, it's the 12 year old boy in me, but i liked this show
OK so at least I am not the only person who fondly remembered this show. But I wonder if it was because it was good or because I was only 15/16 when it came out lol
Can you do an episode about Viper TV next? It was a TV show from the 90s with a transforming Dodge Viper car.
The car from the show sold a couple weeks ago, I think it was $80k.
I love viper tv show
Oh dear god no make the pain stop 📺
My late mum was a big fan of "Knight Rider" but *only* with David Hasselhoff as the star along with KITT. Oddly enough, she wasn't a "Baywatch" fan.
I thought this concept had potential back in the day, but... yeah. Execution was as lacking as Stam details.
One of these days, I’d like to see a Knight Rider reboot that has budget above $17 and some actually decent effort
My friends and family used to think i was mad when i said that this show existed! They never believed me. I think it was on tv on Saturday afternoons ( in the UK).
Yes it was,it aired at 5pm on Saturday's.I thought it was crazy and but liked it.But you can't beat the original show.
The inner nerd in me identifies the DANTE screen as being a re-purposed early Blaupunkpt GPS head unit. Source : Used to fix these things. The buttons around the outside are a complete give away. They were very cool units with green vector graphics. Like a Sat Nav battle zone.
I always believed TKR was heavily influenced by Power Rangers. What frustrated me about this show is that with some more budget, some better acting and a bit more work on the vehicles I think it could have been something really great. I think the episode with KRO was the best one, though the season/series end cliffhanger did get me interested enough that I would have loved to see another season.
MICHAEL LONG
was LAPD
working on a case in
LAS VEGAS
Nice work. Are you planning to cover the newest Knight Rider series?
yes, at some point down the track.
The one member of the cast who did anything else was Not Christian Slater. Roswell, Revenge and Chicago PD.
Domino was voiced by Nia Vardalos, who went on to star in My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
@@adamf1980 - All the cars' voice actors are kinda famous, especially Tom Kane (Professor Utonium & Yoda) and John Kassir (The Cryptkeeper)
So TKR are part of FLG. I'd forgotten much we loved acronyms in the 90s 😂 ps I never saw this. It looks really bad! Props to Stam Fine for keeping my interest in his video.
Syndicated TV at this time was something else. 🤣🤣🤣. I loved it then, but now you definitely have to turn off more than a few brain cells to watch.
Beast and duke but the super Vehicle phase had passed by the late 90s in 2008 knightrider did return untill they added super pursuit mode which killed the orginal show aswell
MOBIUS
was supposed to be
GARTHE KNIGHT
who survived the
DEATH of GOLIATH
and with a broken back
swam to the rogue submarine
to plot his revenge
Though KRO fittingly wasn't even a real Ferrari, just a half-assed Pontiac Fiero body kit.
Attack Beast was awesome.
Do 1)Robin's Hoods 2) Space Rangers 3) Time Trax 4) The Phoenix 5) Rip Baywatch a New One!
KRO was the best episode of tkr
I do remember watching a lot of this show. Mainly because I tended to work late and it would play at something like 1am around here. It had the feel like they'd mixed Knight Rider with Power Rangers just to see what happened. It was as deep as a paper plate and was very disposable entertainment, but I still kind of liked it. And it didn't surprise me at all that it never received a second season.
I remember this series, with some kind of weird mild fondness.
I remember this after the original knight rider being the coolest show ever for me as a little boy. Then I rewatched one episode as an adult and couldn't stop laughing about how comically dumb this was. I didn't realise as a kid. Same story as with Sledge Hammer 😂
This looks like Power Rangers, but instead of alien ninja suits, elaborate creatures, and giant robots… it has Ford cars lol
Good review on the series. Are you planning to do one for the 2008?
yes
Megaman. There was a episode in original based on the same idea but that person was not FLAGG. Can't remember the name of the episode.
Thanks. Never Knew about this.
YES I Am a KNIGHT-RIDER Junkie !!!!!!!!!!
Ah, yes. This series. I have always called it 'A fan fiction that found a budget.' And I do believe that you are right about stating that the writing was probably done very quickly. As it does reflect some of my 'favorite' scenes from the show. Like from that fan favorite episode about KRO. In this scene, the whole team is trying to stop KRO from reaching somewhere. On a straightaway, the two forces conflict. They literally have a cut away shot stating how KRO is going to reach his objective. So, they do something. Attack Beast intercepts. KRO fires and does a mild dodging maneuver. *sigh* ...some... how... by forcing KRO to veer around the damaged truck, the motorcycle pair cruise off ahead... take a detour... walk through a house... get back on the road... reach the destination... got to say that I would have loved to see the two hours of scenes left on the cutting room floor to explain that bad bit of timing. Or another scene from a different episode involves one of the cast being rescued from a prison bus. They take the bus out, get her out of the bus... while backup is on the way by the police... and then start having this casual plot moving conversation for quite some time... until the plot realizes that action scene plus stroll through the park doesn't work and starts playing some dog barking sounds from a distant speaker and the cast pick up the pace. This will always be that show that gave us... ahem... KITT, the Folgers Can and Michael Knight's mannequin. And I do love how the history logs about Michael's adventures are just episode listings, as seen in TV Guide. Oh, Action Pack. How they weekly teased us with a new Knight Rider random run episode alongside Smokey and the Bandit and Hercules... only to be tied down in a lawsuit that let them eventually walk away with... A: The name (Knight Rider) and B: The loosest connection to that idea of Man and Car possible. Then getting the very last Action Pack episode to be that promised show. AND THEN thumbing their nose at Universal and getting this show going for their second season that was... at least far closer to the bullseye.
Oh... and I tend to remember the very best episode being when Duke and Attack Beast basically soloed their own episode. I feel that one episode got closest to the feel of Knight Rider of the whole season.
And had this show ever gotten its second season... who knows. They may have even figured out how to fix the problems. I mean, it is said that late into the season, some 'swish-swish' scanner bars were introduced into the cars. J. C. Whitney make... somewhere under the hood. Kind of buried. May be visible inside a dark tunnel.
for me i think TKR gives me this feeling like i'm watching power rangers turbo not Knight Rider.
Sadly they never put this show on blu ray
I'm still shocked that even Stan completely missed the boat on this show. It wasn't Knight Rider, it was actually a live action M.A.S.K. show. Watch an episode of the M.A.S.K. cartoon, then watch this.... Then you'll get it. The tone, main characters, storylines and vehicles are basically identical. TKR was a continuation of the M.A.S.K. cartoon.
16:54 Good God, dude… 😂🤣💀
I had hopes for this show, but once I realized actual Michael Knight and KITT were never gonna show up...that was it for me.
Oh, but they did. KITT played the part of a Folger's can and 'Mannequin' Michael Knight was in the viewfinder for a glorious couple seconds. And I think the cast sacrificed a couple hamburgers to pay for their presentation. Probably as a bribe to find something that worked from the props department to a hungry custodian.
The Vehicles personally was intended to reflect the agents true side that was the joke as it was
I remember this show, not so fondly, though I do really want to know who the bad guy was, and what his story was.