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It’s twelve years since the first Knight Rider spin-off to go to series hit the air. On this day in 1997, Team Knight Rider debuted with the episode Fallen Nation. TV Guide ran the following synopsis:
“Five super-intelligent vehicles are driven by five highly-trained operatives who take over when conventional law enforcement agencies fail. In the opener, Jenny tests her loyalty to a former marine commander embroiled in an anti-government plot.”
Many Happy Returns to Justin Bruening, who turns 30 today! Best wishes from Knight Rider fans around the world!
Tonight sees the debut of last year’s Knight Rider TV movie at 8pm on Fiver!
“Sarah Graiman (Deanna Russo) is a 24-year old Ph.D candidate at Stanford University, following in her genius father Charles’ (Bruce Davison) footsteps. But when men attempt to abduct her, Sarah receives a mysterious call from K.I.T.T. (voiced by Val Kilmer) warning her that he’s a creation of Charles, who also invented the first K.I.T.T. 25 years ago — and that her father is in serious danger.
“Sarah and K.I.T.T. track down her best friend from childhood, Mike Tracer (Justin Bruening), a 23-year-old ex-Army Ranger, whom Sarah hasn’t seen since he left home at 18. Having served in Iraq, Mike is now jaded and lost and initially resistant. Eventually he agrees to help Sarah and the two set out to discover who’s behind the attempt to procure K.I.T.T. and find Charles. Along the way, Carrie Rivai (Sydney Tamiia Poitier) plays the agile yet tough FBI agent who has a long-standing friendship with Charles and Sarah. Due to those ties, she is brought into the mix to help in the search.”
Fiver is available as channel 176 on Sky, channel 152 on Virgin, and channel 30 on Freeview! A +1 service is available on Sky channel 177.
All UK fans, don’t miss it!
Actor Henry Gibson, who played Donald Crane in Voo Doo Knight — the final episode of Knight Rider: The Original Series — died on Monday at his home in Malibu after a short battle with cancer. He was 73.
Gibson was perhaps best known for his work on Laugh-In in the 1960s, where he delivered satirical poems while holding a giant flower, but his many TV appearances included spots on 77 Sunset Strip, The Beverly Hillbillies, Bewitched, The Dukes of Hazzard, MacGyver, Simon & Simon, Early Edition, and Glen Larson series Magnum PI, The Fall Guy, Cover Up, and Quincy ME. He portrayed Judge Clark Brown for five seasons on Boston Legal.
Movie appearances included The Long Goodbye, Wedding Crashers, The ‘Burbs, Innerspace, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Switching Channels and The Blues Brothers. He voiced Wilbur in the 1973 version of Charlotte’s Web.
Gibson was born James Bateman in Germantown, Pa, in 1935, and after serving in the Air Force and studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts he created his ‘Henry Gibson’ comic persona — a pun on the name of playwright Henrik Ibsen.
Gibson is survived by three sons and two grandchildren.
Don’t miss the series finale of Knight Rider at 8pm on the UK Sci-Fi Channel!
“Everyone needs a little help — A plane carrying a 10 year-old federal witness has crashed or so it seems. Mike (Justin Bruening) tries to help the DEA Agent Jessie Renning, by informing her that the crash has been faked and that the drug dealer that killed his father has kidnapped the boy. Considering this information for a brief moment, she instead arrests him for hindering her investigation. Meanwhile, Sarah (Deanna Russo) tries to make a deal with the Deputy Director of National Intelligence for autonomy for the SSC’s future cases. Running out of time, Mike and K.I.T.T. (voiced by Val Kilmer) need to find the boy before he is forced to tell where the drugs have been hidden and is killed.”
Sci-Fi is available as channel 129 on Sky, and channel 135 on Virgin. The show is also available in HD.
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The first ever KR revival, the TV movie Knight Rider 2000, is being screened on Sky Movies Action/Thriller tomorrow (Sunday, 6th September) at 11:50am, with an encore showing at 7:10pm.
The movie picks up the Knight Rider story in the year 2000, and the city has banned all handguns. The police now carry ultrasound weapons that freeze rather than kill the perpetrators. However, cops are still being shot by illegal handguns which are being supplied by a mysterious source. Persuaded out of a ten year retirement by his old boss Devon (Edward Mulhare), Michael Knight (David Hasselhoff) resurrects his old friend K.I.T.T. (voiced by William Daniels) and sets about uncovering the most horrifying scandal the city has ever seen.
Sky Movies Action/Thriller is available to Sky customers on channel 304, and Virgin customers on channel 404. Sky simulcast in HD on channel 335.
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Don’t miss the latest shadowy flight into the dangerous world of the Knight Rider at 8pm on the UK Sci-Fi Channel!
“Everyone needs a little help — A plane carrying a 10 year-old federal witness has crashed or so it seems. Mike (Justin Bruening) tries to help the DEA Agent Jessie Renning, by informing her that the crash has been faked and that the drug dealer that killed his father has kidnapped the boy. Considering this information for a brief moment, she instead arrests him for hindering her investigation. Meanwhile, Sarah (Deanna Russo) tries to make a deal with the Deputy Director of National Intelligence for autonomy for the SSC’s future cases. Running out of time, Mike and K.I.T.T. (voiced by Val Kilmer) need to find the boy before he is forced to tell where the drugs have been hidden and is killed.”
Sci-Fi is available as channel 129 on Sky, and channel 135 on Virgin. The show is also available in HD.
Be there!
Don’t miss the latest shadowy flight into the dangerous world of the Knight Rider at 8pm on the UK Sci-Fi Channel!
“Everyone needs a little help — A plane carrying a 10 year-old federal witness has crashed or so it seems. Mike (Justin Bruening) tries to help the DEA Agent Jessie Renning, by informing her that the crash has been faked and that the drug dealer that killed his father has kidnapped the boy. Considering this information for a brief moment, she instead arrests him for hindering her investigation. Meanwhile, Sarah (Deanna Russo) tries to make a deal with the Deputy Director of National Intelligence for autonomy for the SSC’s future cases. Running out of time, Mike and K.I.T.T. (voiced by Val Kilmer) need to find the boy before he is forced to tell where the drugs have been hidden and is killed.”
Sci-Fi is available as channel 129 on Sky, and channel 135 on Virgin. The show is also available in HD.
Be there!
Don’t miss the latest shadowy flight into the dangerous world of the Knight Rider, tonight at 8pm on the UK Sci-Fi Channel!
“Down for the count — Mike’s (Justin Bruening) old Army friend recruits his help to investigate the suspicious death of a tough-as-nails drill sergeant Jack Burber. Mike learns that the drill sergeant was participating in an underground fight club for military veterans for extra money. In order to find out what really happened, Mike has to infiltrate the fight club and try not to get himself killed in the ring.”
Sci-Fi is available as channel 129 on Sky, and channel 135 on Virgin. The show is also available in HD.
Be there!
John Quade, who played Dolan (a Comtron heavy) in the 1982 Knight Rider pilot, passed away on August 9th. He was 71.
Quade had a long and successful career as a character actor, appearing in several Clint Eastwood movies, such as Every Which Way But Loose, Any Which Way You Can, High Plains Drifter and The Outlaw Josey Wales. TV credits included guest spots on Kung Fu, The A-Team, The Rockford Files, CHiPs and Hill Street Blues. He was also a member of the ‘Glen Larson stock company’, appearing in several of the Larson’s other offerings The Fall Guy, Buck Rogers, The Highwayman, Manimal, BJ and the Bear, and Quincy ME. He worked again with David Hasselhoff on Baywatch in 1990.
Most of Quade’s characters were bad guys, but his wife Gwen Saunders said the reality was much different. “He was one of the nicest men you’d ever want to know, but he looked mean and nasty… He looked like he could do murder and mayhem at any moment, but he was a big teddy bear — the kind that he just loved little kids, but they were always afraid of him.”
Knight Rider fans will remember Quade fondly for his performance as Dolan, who laughed when Michael Knight warned him that he was “heavily trained in martial arts”, and was later shocked after Michael and K.I.T.T. turbo-boosted through the side of his semi trailer.