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Today would have been Edward Mulhare’s 86th birthday.
The actor, who starred in Knight Rider: The Original Series as Michael Knight’s mentor Devon Miles, passed away in 1997 at the age of 74. Edward is still in the thoughts of Knight Rider fans around the world.
You can read more about Edward, including biographical and filmography information, at his cast page.
Tonight: The Season (and perhaps the Series’) Finale!
Don’t miss the latest shadowy flight into the dangerous world of the Knight Rider at 8/7c on NBC!
“Stronger than is humanly possible — Mike (Justin Bruening) and K.I.T.T. (voiced by Val Kilmer) are trying to track down a stolen serum that maximizes the recipient’s physicality before it gets into the wrong hands. With the help of the lab’s research assistant, Billy (Paul Campbell) learns some information about the serum that will help Mike when he takes on the now powerful thief. Meanwhile, Sarah (Deanna Russo) is overwhelmed with her new duties and quickly learns how much work it will take to reinstitute the Foundataion for Law and Government. Smith Cho stars. Kevin Alejandro and Mini Anden guest star.”
Be there!
This week it’s Matt Pyken contributing to NBC’s Official Knight Writers Blog, and he talks about his episode Knight And The City… an episode that was created in the spirit of The Original Series.
“As a group — the writers, the studio, the network — all agreed that the original KR formula – one man and one car taking on a bad guy, saving a pretty girl, and making things right was a pretty sweet template for a series,” Pyken writes. “When the ‘re-boot’ was contemplated, I immediately decided, with deliberate intent, to tell small stories. By small I mean that Mike and K.I.T.T. don’t need to save the world every week. By small I mean the stories don’t always have to come to the SSC through some quasi-governmental source. By small I mean we see some kick-ass action, unravel a mystery, have a few laughs along the way, and by the end of the episode Mike and K.I.T.T. make a couple of lives a little better, and straighten out their own karma a little in the process.”
But it wasn’t all plain sailing. Pyken’s episode was met with a lot of internal resistance, “but to GST’s credit, it made it to air as the penultimate episode of Season 1.”
Pyken is pleased with the finished result. “If there is a second season,” he says, “these are the kinds of stories I’d like to tell.”
NBC’s Official Knight Rider Website has posted highlights from Wednesday night’s episode, Knight And The City. In this clip, Mike and K.I.T.T. deal with a tough crowd. It’s only available to the Knight Rider fans in the USA, but if you can, check it out!
Today sees the anniversary of another classic Knight Rider show, Goliath Returns. Originally airing as a movie-of-the-week, it was the second of three feature-length adventures of the 1983-84 season.
Garthe Knight (David Hasselhoff) escapes from prison with the aid of Goliath, rebuilt and now completely invulnerable thanks to the efforts of Adrianne St. Clair (Ann Turkel), who has also evaded justice. Together they set about kidnapping a prominent scientist in order to sell him to a foreign power, but not before Garthe has also kidnapped Devon and April to force a final confrontation with Michael and K.I.T.T.
It’s a fan-favourite, and rightfully so. Written during a long lunch at the Hamburger Hamlet in Hollywood by producers and staff writers Robert Foster, Robert W. Gilmer, Janis Hendler and Tom Greene, Goliath Returns was the first show to bring back successful badguys to challenge Michael and K.I.T.T.
Garthe and Goliath previously appeared in the second season premiere Goliath. Their accomplice, Adrianne St. Clair, previously crossed paths with Michael and K.I.T.T. in the episode Soul Survivor — although for that episode she was credited as ‘Adrianne Margeaux’; the name-change isn’t explained, and she is referred to as ‘Margeaux’ in the episode.
If you haven’t seen it, it comes highly recommended and is available on DVD as part of Knight Rider: Season 2.
Don’t miss tonight’s latest adventure for Michael and K.I.T.T. at 8/7c on NBC!
“Nothing like a little Zen in your life to help you relax — Mike (Justin Bruening) decides to visit one of his old haunts, Sonny’s bar, during his decompression time. When Mike arrives, he notices that the crowd has changed for the worse. After learning of Sonny’s death in a car accident, Mike is pleased to hear that his daughter Julie is now running the bar. He offers to lend a hand in order to bring the bar back to its original glory. Meanwhile, Mike gets suspicious when he hears of the recent fires at the bar and discovers that someone has secretly being trying to get Julie to sell the place.”
Be there!
It’s already a year since Knight Rider returned to NBC as a movie-of-the-week. This feature-length pilot was the fourth attempt to revive the Knight Rider concept, after two earlier TV movies (Knight Rider 2000, Knight Rider 2010) and a syndicated series (Team Knight Rider).
The story focused on Sarah Graiman (Deanna Russo), a 24-year old Ph.D candidate at Stanford University, who was 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.
Unsurprisingly, the movie didn’t set the world alight critically, but it did well enough in the ratings for NBC to commission a full season of new Knight Rider adventures.
i-Doodz have unveiled a brand new app for the iPhone and iPod Touch, which is available for download at the iTunes Store for £0.59p!
Knight Light turns your iPhone or iPod Touch into the hood-mounted scanner of K.I.T.T. from Knight Rider: The Original Series, complete with scanner sound effects!
The app is compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch, and requires iPhone 2.2 Software Update.
It’s fifteen years since Knight Rider 2010 was first screened as part of the Action Pack on NBC. Unpopular with most Knight Rider fans, this feature-length story (and pilot for a possible series) made the unprecedented move of dropping all references to Michael Knight, K.I.T.T. and the Original Series, and reinvented the Knight Rider concept from scratch.
The Mad Max-style TV movie followed the exploits of Jake McQueen, a fugitive people-smuggler in an unrecognisable post-apocolyptic L.A. who builds a supercar to avenge the death of his adoptive father and bring down the evil Chrysalis Corporation, which is harvesting human bodies for “spare parts” on the black market. When his girlfriend Hannah is killed in cyberspace, Jake installs her Prism (a crystal containing her downloaded memories) into his dashboard and becomes a new Knight Rider.
More information can be found in the Knight Rider 2010 section of the site.
Treat that special someone in your life to a Knight Rider themed E-card, courtesy of NBC! They have a selection of six available, featuring all the cast members of the show with a humourous message (“You can check under my hood anytime”; “You get my heart racing”; “My work is classified. My feelings for you are not”).