With most talk about TV being about what wasn't going to be on suddenly there was talk about something that WOULD be on. Hey, let's shoot that baby and get it on the air. they had that script for the Knight Rider pilot movie. Very quickly new content on the TV dial was drying up.
Then a crappy break for TV viewers helped spark a little magic for the TV project. Two different Knight Rider projects were in development, one a feature film, the other a proposed new TV series.
That show had a bunch of talking vehicles.Ĭut to 2008.
#Knight rider 2008 series#
Then in 1997 it came back in the form of the syndicated series Team Knight Rider. In the 90s there were two made for TV movies that were really pilots to get the show back on the air: Knight Rider 2000 and Knight Rider 2010. Even after cancellation it was the show that would not stay dead. In the end the show was mainly about Hasselhoff and the car. And they kept trying to bring in tech/mechanic characters but they never lasted. He did have a guy named Devon Miles who every week would give him his missions. The intent in the pilot seemed to be that Michael was part of a team but. Well, beautiful for a cheesy goofy talk car show. The dang thing could talk, drive itself, engage in snarky banter with Michael Knight. The body was impervious to almost all damage. He will be the team's point man driving the Knight Industries 2000, KITT for short, a tricked out Trans Am. Michael Long is officially dead but will be reborn as Michael Knight. He wants to form a unit to go after criminals who are above the law. The head of Knight Industries, the rich but dying Wilton Knight, thinks Michael Long will be perfect for his new project. They give him facial reconstructive surgery and much to Michael Long's horror he comes out looking like Davide Hasselhoff! But he's rescued and revived by Knight Industries. Next thing you know he's out in the desert where he is shot in the face and left for dead. Michael Long is betrayed by one of the people he is working with. The original Knight Rider opened with a police officer named Michael Long working undercover in Las Vegas. The Knight Industries 2000 was a super car! Leading to the premiere NBC even aired ads pimping Knight Rider's car as being way cooler than the General Lee. The show had the Duke boys driving around getting in and out of trouble.īut NBC came up with a car to trump the General Lee on a show called Knight Rider. You know, that doesn't exactly read like the description of a cool car. It was named the General Lee, it was painted orange and had the Confederate flag painted on its roof. It was the story of a couple southern boys driving around in cool car. One of the biggest hits on TV was the Dukes Of Hazzard.
#Knight rider 2008 movie#
See, before the new Knight Rider was picked up as a series, NBC first aired a made for TV movie that. This is actually my second go round on this ride. Even before the new Knight Rider was a series I had already written about it. Revival: "Knight Rider" and "Knight Rider"