Wednesday, January 24, 2007

"Knight Rider" - Action/Sci-Fi TV Series

A 1982 TV series about a modern day knight crime fighter for law and justice with his incredible advanced super-car with artificial intelligence. The story starts when a dying billionaire philanthropist and founder of Foundation for Law and Government (FLAG) Wilton Knight rescued an ambushed young undercover cop Michael Long who was publicly believed dead. After few surgeries, Wilton change Michael's identity into Michael Knight, a modern knight special type of here with new mission as a crime fighter and armed with super advanced black car named Knight Industries Two Thousand (KITT). The customized armor car equipped with weapons flamethrower, smoke bombs, peevish, capable of accelerating 300 mph, jumping obstacle about 50 feet & other capabilities, and having artificial intelligence by on board computer "Knight 2000 Microprocessor" talking car and deliver sarcastic one-liners to Michael and communicated via a wrist communicator watch "comlink". Together they root out evils that are above the law, avoid violence whenever possible and take adventures with no back up.

In the final season, the KITT was being improved by streetwise mechanics after being neutralized into more powerful car with 40% speed increase (483 km/h), more technical gadgets and prepared to become Knight Industries Four Thousand. Michael is now teamed up with a female cop with a chip of her head and shoulder and take more adventure as the crimes rampant around Seattle.

Knight Rider's Michael Knight starred by David Hasselhoff in the 1982-1986 tv series, completed 4 seasons with total of 90 episodes, written by Tom Greene and Glen Larson. Now available on DVD at TVAddicts.tv