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Get ready for more explosive, edge-of-your-seat adventure in all
21 Second Season episodes of television's hottest crime show,
Knight Rider. Ride with mysterious crimefighter Michael
Knight (David Hasselhoff) and the baddest car on four wheels,
K.I.T.T., as they chase more elusive criminals in each
action-packed episode. Available on DVD for the first time ever,
the heart-pounding Second Season of Knight Rider packs in even
more thrills and more high-speed chases. It's full-throttle
excitement with Michael Knight and K.I.T.T. in the action series
that left all others in the dust.
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No one in the 1980s had his finger on the pulse of gizmo-crazy
adolescent boys like producer Glen Larson, creator of Battlestar
Galactica and Manimal. But the peak of Larson's particular genius
has to be Knight Rider, the love story of an absurdly handsome
man and his absurdly indestructible car. Former detective Michael
Knight (David Hasselhoff, later to achieve worldwide media
dominance with Baywatch) zooms across the U.S. in K.I.T.T., a
supercharged talking Trans Am with an impenetrable shell and the
catty voice of William Daniels (St. Elsewhere). From the Las
Ve desert to the Louisiana bayou, Michael and K.I.T.T. solve
crimes and help the downtrodden with the aid of a
multi-million-dollar corporation run by dapper Devon Myles
(Edward Mulhare) and mechanic/secretary/nanny April Curtis
(Rebecca Holden, who took over from Patricia McPherson for the
second season only).
The first season was goofy camp from the start, but the second
turned even more giddily ridiculous: K.I.T.T. developed
supersensors, telekinesis, and the ability to drive on water;
plots included amnesia, super attack helicopters, a desperately
needed trans for a girl, and a supremely cheesy
evil-twin storyline featuring Garthe Knight, son of the
multimillionaire who gave Michael his identity-changing facial
surgery, played by Hasselhoff with a mustache, soul patch, and
even more luxuriant hair. In one episode, Michael goes
"undercover" as the lead singer of a rock band, allowing
Hasselhoff to flaunt his beloved-in-Germany vocal stylings. Of
special note is an episode featuring Geena Davis (future
O-winner for The Accidental Tourist) as the daughter of a cat
burglar, perhaps the only episode with a love interest as
cartoonishly good-looking as Hasselhoff himself. This is
definitive t television, the kind of empty calories that, for
some viewers, are irresistibly tasty. For Knight Rider fans,
Season Two is a feast. --Bret Fetzer
Knight Rider--Season Two Trivia
Although David Hasselhoff plays both Michael and Garthe Knight
in one of the episodes in this season, he is only credited
on-screen for playing Michael.
For this season, Rebecca Holden plays April Curtis, KITT's new
technician. She was brought in after Patricia McPherson (Bonnie)
pushed the show's writers and producers to give her character
more to do, possibly including a romance with Michael. Although
April was not unpopular, many fans missed Bonnie and wrote in to
ask for the character to return, which she eventually did at the
start of the third season.
The writers were torn between two songs to use for Garthe
Knight's theme "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Gimme Shelter,"
both by the Rolling Stones. The episode uses "Gimme Shelter".
When avoiding pursuers, K.I.T.T. rotates its license plate,
James Bond style, from KNIGHT to KNI 667.
The producers toyed with the idea of making K.I.T.T.'s
water-driving ability a reoccurring function, but it was dropped
due to it proving to costly.