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Street HawkĮpisodes Aired Before It Was Canceled: 13 Unfortunately, the show was canceled after nine episodes. Another show created by Knight Rider creator Glen Larsen, the “ultra-high-tech” truck carried weapons, a helicopter and a car. Jones ( Flash Gordon), Claudia Christian ( Babylon 5), Tim Russ ( Star Trek: Voyager) and Jane Badler ( V). This one also had an impressive cast, starring Sam J. Highwayman was Knight Rider with a semi-truck patrolling post-apocalyptic roads of the future. The Highwayman (1987)Įpisodes Aired Before It Was Canceled: 10 That was eighties television casting for you.
It had two ex-football players, Bubba Smith and Dick Butkis, and Saturday night Live’s Dana Carvey for comic relief. NBC agreed and threw in the towel after 11 episodes. The main reason was because the other helicopter show Airwolf came out on CBS in the same year and I loved that show.
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I never saw the 1984 show, but I did see the movie with Roy Scheider and enjoyed it. Blue ThunderĮpisodes Aired Before It Was Canceled: 11 It got as far as producing 13 episodes, but was canceled on the 12th. This was one of legendary Knight Rider creator Glen Larsen’s many attempts to recreate the success of the show. He was supposed to be the “world’s first truly automatic man” which, I guess, meant he had a remote control built into his hand and a beer keg stomach. Most commonly a car that could make 90 degree turns, but he also had a neon-glow helicopter and a boat. He had a sidekick known as “Cursor,” that could transform into vehicles. and Chuck Wagner, was about a sentient computer program that could take physical form. It was as close to virtual reality as we got back then. Automan (1983)Įpisodes Aired Before It Was Canceled: 13 (1 unaired) The show’s ratings were horrible and it was canceled.
#Knight rider 2000 series
It was intended as a sort of spin-off of the original series and even featured a guest appearance by David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight. If one car is good then five vehicles should be five times as popular right? In 1997, the syndicated show Team Knight Rider (TKR) was launched about a group of heroes driving in a variety of high-tech talking cars and motorcycles. I saw one episode and just found it confusing. Team Knight Rider (1997)Įpisodes Aired Before It Was Canceled: 22 Funnily enough the creators tried to distance themselves from the show by avoiding anything hi-tech and renaming the woman from Katherine (or “Kat”which sounds like KITT) to Hanna. The computer is actually the mind of a dead woman and there is no organization backing him as he sets out to bring justice to the desert.
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What do you get when you cross Knight Rider with Mad Max? In the 1995 TV movie Knight Rider 2010 Jake McQueen (Richard Joseph Paul) lives as a smuggler in a post-apocalyptic future. Read on to see the ten Knight Rider knock-offs from copters to cycles that failed. Some were pretty good, but none has ever achieved the success of Knight Rider. The success of the show led to many imitations. It’s a worldwide hit and has been syndicated for decades. Larsen produced a lot of classic television shows, like Battlestar Galactica, but his greatest work was the 1982 hit Knight Rider and there were a bunch of knock-offs.ĭescribed by him as “The Lone Ranger with a car” the show, starring David Hasselhoff as a “young loner” driving the intelligent car KITT lasted four seasons and 90 episodes.
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