Team Knight Rider

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Television series
German title Team Knight Rider
Original title Team Knight Rider
Country of production United StatesUnited States United States
original language English
Year (s) 1997-1998
Production
company		 MCA Television
Sterling Pacific Films
Universal TV
length 60 minutes
Episodes 22nd
genre Action series , crime thriller , science fiction
music Gary Stockdale
First broadcast October 6, 1997 on NBC
German-language
first broadcast		 October 12, 1997 on RTL Television
occupation

Team Knight Rider ( TKR ) is an American series from 1997. Although it was based on the Knight Rider series , Team Knight Rider has little in common with Glen A. Larson's original series. Where one man and his car was enough in the 1980s, a whole team of specialists hunted criminals with a small fleet of wonder vehicles for the Foundation for Law and Constitution in the 1990s . Although larger, TKR never made it past the first season.

Team members and special vehicles

Instead of the semi-trailer from the original series, TKR uses a huge jet aircraft called “Sky One”, a converted C-5 Galaxy , which can, however, swivel its jets vertically downwards and thus take off vertically , as its mobile headquarters.

Every team member (except Clayton) drives a vehicle equipped with the latest computer technology. In detail there is

  • "Dante", a Ford Expedition SUV that is driven by Kyle.
  • "Beast", a Ford F-150 controlled by Duke
  • the Ford Mustang GT "Domino" (with a female personality), driven by Jenny and
  • the two motorcycles “Plato” and “Kat”, which, on the instructions of their drivers, Trek and Erica, can also be coupled to form a vehicle.

Although the vehicles of the Team Knight Rider are certainly inspired by KITT and are probably also technically a further development of him, there is a significant difference. The vehicles were all equipped with a stronger artificial personality and with character "quirks", which sometimes prove to be a hindrance to the order. Beast regularly engages in verbal duels with Duke to question his authority, while Domino sometimes neglects her duties because she has to take care of "women's things". The most striking difference to KITT was that none of the vehicles from TKR could use the “ Turbo Boost ”, that is, they could neither accelerate at lightning speed, nor lift off the ground and “jump”. But in the last episode, "Dante" asks for an improvement with which the car can repair itself and has a larger air supply under water.

References to the original series

" Michael Knight " appeared in TKR only as a mysterious figure believed to be dead. He was only shown from behind in the isolated episodes in which he was involved, so you never saw whether it was David Hasselhoff - who embodied the character in the original series.

KITT was also seen as part of the central computer of "Sky One", but the red-flickering light-emitting diodes of the computer were never heard, so that it was never clear whether the technology shown is actually KITT's central computer.

There was also KRO (= Knight Reformulation One), a black Ferrari F355. He and his driver were supposed to replace Michael and KITT after they had resigned from the Foundation, but due to faulty programming and the unsuitable driver Martin Jantzen, who was mentally not up to the task, KRO also became “mentally” ill and attacked human life which made him a dangerous opponent.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ IMDb Team Knight Rider. Retrieved October 20, 2011 .

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