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Stam Fine Reviews takes a look at the the 1997 syndicated TV series, Team Knight Rider, about five FLAG operatives who swan about in vehicles fighting crimes. That is to say, they fight crimes while swanning about in vehicles while also fighting crimes. State of the Art vehicles... from Ford.
Stars Brixton Karnes, Christine Steel, Duane Davis, Kathy Trageser, Nick Wechsler.
0:00 Introduction
0:27 Knight Rider: The Story So far
1:33 Team Knight Rider
4:03 Main Characters and their Vehicles
9:13 Villainy
10:34 Notable Episodes
12:42 And?
15:37 Whodunnit? - บันเทิง
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.
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.
RIP Brixton Karnes(Kyle). From January 1, 1960 to May 16, 2012.
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 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????
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 😅
Dark Shadows reboot should have gotten at lest 2-3 seasons. It wasn't best series ever, but Ben Cross was excellent as Barnabas Collins, and rest of the cast wasn't too shabby either...same with the other short-lived vampire series from the 90's, Kindred: the Embraced.
You can't beat the original. Miami Vice and the original night rider were my favorites when I was a kid.
Whoa! Blast from the past. I remember this show from the 90s.
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 car that splits into two motorbikes looks much sillier than the prototype version from Malcolm.
"No expense was spared, when it comes to sparing expenses.." - mint!
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"
I enjoyed the effort to create something fresh within the IP.
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.
Is was definetly aimed at me when I was 11 years old watching this show. Loved it.
"By the end I didn't really mind the main characters." Stam, if the TH-cam thing doesn't work out, you've always got a career in diplomacy to fall back on.
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.
A Jack of All Trades clip. I thought I was the only person to ever watch that show.
One of these days, I’d like to see a Knight Rider reboot that has budget above $17 and some actually decent effort
“No expense was spared in sparing expense” - genius
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 have such found memories of this show. I was one of the hundreds of millions who didn't watch it.
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.
This serie is one of the símbols of my lost naivety I hold so much affection for
The one member of the cast who did anything else was Not Christian Slater. Roswell, Revenge and Chicago PD.
Oh dear god no make the pain stop 📺
I enjoyed Team Knight Rider and this video as well🚙🏎🏍🏍🛻
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
I remember this and also remember I was too busy watching other 90s show not to be that interested 😊thanks for the review
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.
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.
I liked this show
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.
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.
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
This show looks like the foundation for the Fast and Furious franchise.
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
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.
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.
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
Oh I vaguely remember this.. it came on at like 2 am where I was.
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!
I did love the KRO episode
I only liked this for its theme tune, and for Kathy Trageser's looks...
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
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 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.
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
18:18 Jackson Roykirk? As in the guy that invented the Nomad Probe in Star Trek TOS “The Changeling”!?
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
Christ! Someone get George Lazenby for a 007 tv series.
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.
I remember this. 😅😂😂😂😂😂😢. The 90s were crazy.
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.
Thanks. Never Knew about this.
I remember this series, with some kind of weird mild fondness.
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.
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.
Attack Beast was awesome.
Nice work. Are you planning to cover the newest Knight Rider series?
yes, at some point down the track.
Which episodes had the best catfights?
Good review on the series. Are you planning to do one for the 2008?
yes
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
I remember this show, not so fondly, though I do really want to know who the bad guy was, and what his story was.
MICHAEL LONG
was LAPD
working on a case in
LAS VEGAS
KRO was the best episode of tkr
The Vehicles personally was intended to reflect the agents true side that was the joke as it was
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 😂
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.
Um yeah. I Tried to watch it once or twice after the debut episode. TRIED.
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.
Where can i watch this please?
How I miss 90s cheese like this.
Ciekawe czy ten knight rider z 2008 roku wróci ? Lub czy będziesz na Netflixie ? Pozdrawiam
Do 1)Robin's Hoods 2) Space Rangers 3) Time Trax 4) The Phoenix 5) Rip Baywatch a New One!
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.
The Ford bashing here is off the charts!
We all know Kro was KARR, Mobius was Garth and Shadow was KITT
This looks like Power Rangers, but instead of alien ninja suits, elaborate creatures, and giant robots… it has Ford cars lol
TKR = Thunderbirds Knight Rider.
As a pretty hardcore original 'Knight Rider' fan, TKR was a series that I felt more duty bound to watch than one I would have naturally have been drawn towards otherwise. It always felt cheap and unmemorable compared to the original; and although the cast were nothing special, Brixton Karnes I found particularly empty and un-engaging for the lead; Duke would have made a far better leader.
Despite this, I actually did stomach TKR slightly better than the two misguided 1990s movies (even if KR2000 did have Hasselhoff) and the frankly dislikeable 2000's one season effort. I always thought the TKR vehicles should c/should've had new versions of KITT's scanner on the front of each vehicle at least, to give them some kind of across-the-board visual connection, and to... y'know... make them look a bit Knight Rider-ish! I don't consider it KR canon (only the original series is, to me), but can't wonder it it would have fared better if simply not branded as 'Knight Rider' at all but as it's own thing .
Oh, and it always struck me that some of the original inspiration felt to have been a cross between 'Knight Rider' and 'The A-Team' - each member has "skills" (con artist Erica is wannabe female Face, etc.), and right down to the "Ten years ago..." opening to the credits. Then again, pretty much everything seems similar to 'The A-Team' in my head...
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how about STREET HAWK
for me i think TKR gives me this feeling like i'm watching power rangers turbo not Knight Rider.
Is the guy saying Law and Government or Lore and Government??
Please please please do Baywatch nights especially season 2
No KITT? No KARR? No way!
Yeah, those operatives look so "highly skilled" as they each peek quite conspicuously around those corners... to, uh... "spy," as operatives do.
It's even sadder when the TLR car's dashes look cheaper amd date faster than KITT's. The original KR was lightning in a bottle. Everything since misses the mark so much...
If 90s shows referencing old shows seem corny now... apart from "The Nanny", which is another show that was lightning captured in a bottle...
I liked Jenny,was she the daughter of Michael Knight
I heared KITT and Michael Knight were to return KITT did return well not his Trans-Am Body but his computer self. and the last episode showed a mystery man who introduced himself as Michael Knight.............the show was not that good aside from Kitt and Michael returning but I loved the intro music and the two women.
Tear Simon & Simon Apart🔪✂⚒🔨🪓🪓⛏
How did I miss this weirdness!? 🤣
sliders
What a worse way to go the orginal knight rider storyline
Team Knight Rider? You got to be kidding.
Man I hated this show for using the Knightrider name. 😂
Stam Fine's getting a lot of mileage out of this barely Knight Rider barely franchise.
"We don't like sarcasm much, either." Well, it's more of a pun. Barely.