Knight Rider Series Retrospective Introduction

Knight Rider, a shadowy flight into the dangerous

world of a man who does not exist. TF2 and Mike

and returning to the geek cast a radio network

is Dion the music man. Hello, sir What is going

on? What is going on long time? No see or talk

for that matter? Yes, it's been two and a half

years. I believe since yeah Six episodes of tune

cast. Hey, I'm coming back. I'm coming back And

for you awesome people out there in podcast land

and listen to land you might be wondering what

the hell is beyond the night back in that get

released was it two thousand eight yeah to october

twenty first two thousand eight uh... they released

universal and nbc released the night rider classic

complete collection and i had originally bought

that and i had been watching through the entire

series again of the old uh... nineteen eighties

night rider and i started blogging because at

the time in two thousand eights they had the

the revamp show the two thousand a show with

justin bruning and andy in a row sue ruso and

all that stuff So I'd been watching the old series

along with what little new episodes we got of

the new series fuck you NBC Bastards And I started

blogging and I wrote the blog up as beyond the

night and I started you know giving out theories

as to what would happen if say Garth and Goliath

and car teamed up and who did Michael Knight

really knock up and all this and all that and

I didn't really think about it at the time but

we are turning that into a podcast so the way

this episode is gonna work we're gonna introduce

ourselves we are going to talk about growing

up with Knight Rider and just loving that show

and then we're gonna tell you what we're going

to be covering in this podcast god I'm having

issues tonight so why don't you introduce yourselves

to the listeners sir Well, as TFG1 has said,

I was here for GeekCast for six episodes and

then I disappeared from the face of the earth.

Disappeared from the face of the earth, moved

to two different states. Actually, I was in one

state move back to one state. I was in before

and you know, so now I'm here and I'm helping

TFG one with this and you know, like he said

we grew up with Knight Rider and this is I think

this is gonna be a fun podcast TFG one for both

of us because we are Knight Rider fans and You

know, we're gonna be covering the classic and

and the 2008 and everything else in between and

other stuff that we will rant about I'm sure

Now when you were a kid, when did you first realize

Knight Rider was a show on TV? Because for me

it was, I had three action shows that I watched

as a kid. I watched A -Team, Airwolf and Knight

Rider. I watched all three of those and I didn't

really... Wow, I really caught things in the

middle like Knight Rider but I thought it was

kind of a cool show so I'd say for me, I didn't

catch the very beginning. You know like the very

first pilot yeah, yeah, I didn't either so I

would say somewhere in the middle of like 82

like October to November yeah for me I Where

I really remember it is I? Started watching at

the point when the episode junkyard dog happened.

It was the wall that was it all that's a horrible

episode That's an awesome episode, but it's sad.

It's sad like in the first yeah John by rocking

his fucking acid baths. Oh Yes, and this podcast

will be explicit just like all the other you

cast radio network podcasts are explicit so no

children under 18 Yeah You know really for me

honestly your dog was sad when I saw that I was

like I can't fucking hell Yep, yep. And I think

the funny thing about that episode was that like

the week before, my dad just took me to a wrestling

event at the time, WWF wrestling event with Hulk

Hogan, Roddy Roddy Piper, and Junkyard Dog. Oh,

that's funny. That's funny. Yeah, so I kind of

link those two memories together at some points.

But no, for me, honestly, what I really remember

is majority of the end of season three beginning

of, you know, end of season three and all of

season four. I had seen season one and season

two and like reruns after the show had ended

because it was in syndication all the way up

to like the early 90s. Right. It had been on

several different networks. Yep. It had been

on several different networks and you know overall,

I you know, I really like it I I loved it as

a kid, you know, I mean a Talking car, you know,

you know granted nowadays, you know with GPS

and all that that it's not really that special

but in the 80s When no cars talked and this one

did it was it was just so so awesome And for

me I kind of like where Glen Got the idea from

For Knight Rider, okay, um There was an actual

This kind of links them together this kind of

links things together here He got the idea for

kit from BJ and the bear Because there was a

talking car in it right and He he actually tried

to you know get people in Fox interested in the

show and CBS and ABC I think I think it was ABC

I know Fox he I know it was Fox he said and they

said no nobody's gonna buy this nobody's gonna

know nobody's gonna know and so he goes to somebody

at Universal Pictures You know and I said well

look we understand you've got this show why don't

you try it here and sure enough you know NBC

got into it and That's where kit actually came

from you know now for me I had a very One of

the reasons why Knight Rider is so special to

me is because I had a very awesome experience

as a six -year -old in 1986 you bastard That's

what I'm going to talk about, too. I have the

picture. Yeah, that's true. Actually, it's funny.

Not only do I have two different pictures, I

have a David Hasselhoff... Especially autographed

photo of you know, you know how they give those

like like, you know how if you go to a radio

station and you want to You know a press photo

or something of a radio station personality and

sometimes they'll sign it. It'll be on this like

this glossy paper Yeah, it's all laminated. Yeah,

I have this isn't laminated, but I have a picture

of him that he signed Oh, dude, you better keep

that for some money. Oh It's personalized so

I'll never get rid of right But anyway, in 1986,

I believe it was the Boston Exposition Center,

because I'm originally from Massachusetts. Yeah,

that's where it was. I think it was the Boston

Exposition Center. It was something like the

Budweiser Expo or something like that. I forget

what it was. But it was kind of like what they

have nowadays with like Carl Casper's Custom

Auto Show. It was that kind of show. Ecto one

was there I stood in front of Ecto one I had

you know my Knight Rider t -shirt on and There

was two events that we could do and I got to

do both of them There was two that we could do

we could have our picture taken with with David

Hasselhoff and we can sit in kit and Again, this

was in 86. This was the model After you know

the C button and all this and all that there

was it was it was the 86 model of the car, right?

You know I sat and posed with David and he actually

Because I'm left -handed because the cerebral

palsy he actually put his hand over my cerebral

palsy hand and we're in the picture we're giving

thumbs up because that that was Michael's signature

was doing the thumbs right and you and I shared

the CP thing mine's just in the right Yeah, well,

so is mine mines on my right side. Yeah. Yeah

and the and the and the other portion of that

was Kids could sit in kit and have their picture

taken. I Didn't give a shit about the picture.

I want to drive the fucking car Now did this

kit talk or did they get him to talk? No, no

it had the It had all the the lights and stuff

like that You know it had all the digital readouts,

right? buttons and it had all that and the front

scanner worked and stuff like that but the no

the car didn't talk well no i mean they'd like

because i know sometimes i would have like no

william daniels was not in the trunk like you'd

have a uh... somebody controlling you know somebody

speaking into a mic into the car right through

the loudspeakers or something and you'd see the

lights blink on and off as the person is talking

No, cuz that would have been cool. It would have

been But no just just scanner work The buttons

and the diodes and all that stuff. Everything

was there the sounds No, it didn't do sounds.

No, you just to push that it was just all visual.

Okay? Basically look at the at the season 4 -

yes, that's the season four dashes what was in

the car so that's what i mean by it had all the

lights and the dials all the buttons and stuff

all the all the leds were were lit up but there

was no actual sound and it took the lady trying

to get the picture taken it took her like five

minutes for me to look out to the left side of

the car because i was sitting in the driver's

seat so it was like I'm sitting there six -year

-old kid just flabbergasted and I'm sitting in

kit and you're like oh let me drive this car

and the cool thing was because it's all LEDs

I believe it was season 3 when they added the

LED pedal they lit up they already you didn't

have to press down on the gas pedal they'd already

had it lit up so that so that you can see hey

look this is the actual light up pedal from the

show right uh... so that so that was cool it

was just a really really fun experience a great

great memory uh... you know i'm i'm i'm very

glad that i was able to meet him as a kid and

it's that's uh... a story that i always told

anybody who ever brings up night rider What about

you as far as the classic what really are there

any specific episodes that speak to you or anything

like that there's one I would say from season

two That really actually kind of caught my attention

and it was called blind spot yeah, and I actually

liked that one because You don't see a blind

lady driving a talking car very often. With a

guide dog. Oh, blind spot. I thought you would

tune into the other one. What's the name of the

other one? The one with Charlie Connors. Oh God,

what's the name of that episode? The Blind Piano

Player. I know what you're talking about, and

it's going to be bad, because now I've got to

look it up myself. I am looking it up, but I

don't even remember what season that was. Season

four. Yeah. Because it also featured a new edition.

Yeah, that's right. Night Song. Childhood friend

of RC3 is involved with blockbusting real estate.

Developer who's trying to prevent the opening

of a nightclub. Yeah. I did see that one. Night

Song. I did see that one. I did see Night Song.

They were both good episodes, but the one that

caught my attention first was Blind Spot. Very

cool. I have certain episodes that I absolutely

love and I can watch at any time. And then there

are episodes that it's just a regular... The

way I view it, and I made a list, I'm gonna have

to go back and do this. There is a... Knight

Rider is something that has continuity, but doesn't

have continuity at the same time. It's one of

those shows that has those one -off episodes

that just really don't matter. And then there's

a series of episodes that if you watch them from

beginning to end, that it has... You know, a

resemblance of character continuity between it,

and I don't have to make that list again. Yeah,

but you gotta remember, too, that several...

I mean, the first two seasons were very good.

I'm not saying all of them were bad, but you

also gotta remember the writing style, too. Right.

Well, yeah, I mean, and that's all well and good.

Right. That's true. There are certain episodes

that I can... find ways to tie it all together.

What I kind of find funny is that you know David

aka Michael Knight is getting used to a talking

car and You know He's he's getting used to this

and He's just just getting very like look a car

that drives a car that talks back to me I don't

believe this. Yeah. Well, you know, it's like

technology today. I mean, look how far we've

come since the 80s between iPods and iPhones

and all the other smartphones and GPS and all

this and all that stuff. I am also, when I was

born, besides a cerebral palsy, I also had optic

damage done to my nerve. I have optic atrophy

with nystigmatism, which basically means that

without correction, without glasses or contacts,

I have 2200 vision. With correction, I can have

up to 2060. So technically, according to the

doctors and everything else up in Massachusetts,

I am deemed legally blind. Yeah, you are. You

know being deemed legally blind. I've been to

a you know throughout my life. I had been to

a couple of schools for the blind and just the

technology that Blind people have I mean even

not even iPhone or any of the tech stuff that

we have nowadays Just you know five years ago

six years ago the technology that the that the

that the schools for the blind and you know You

know all kinds of different blind people societies

are in you know not institutions, but services

You know like talking watches like you know talking

clocks You know the you know stuff like that

the sharp calculator back in the day, which I

still have I'm proud of it So I mean technology

has come a long way, but yeah back in 1982 everybody's

like Car that can talk back to you. That's weird

Well, and then you know that Silicon Valley is

not was not known back then I mean they weren't

really it's not like it is today. Everybody knows

about Silicon Valley. Yeah Yes, you know and

they and and actually if he's everybody knows

this Knight Rider was ahead of its time. Oh,

yeah Very much way ahead of its time. Oh, yeah.

I mean because you're you're talking about a

talking car Who you know, you know it has a personality

Yep and it you know You're you're sitting there

and you're you know, you're thinking okay can

can cars do this and it's like you said, you

know We you know, it's you know, like five years

ago you know we didn't have all that now they're

building cars not like it but they're coming

damn close to it yeah and it's just a it's just

amazing how how far technology progresses you

know and I remember as a kid having to deal with

like rotary phones and it was like I don't think

it was, I think it was until, I don't think it

was until like 1988 or 89 did we actually have

a touchstone phone. Yeah, cause we, I remember

the rotary phone. You had to count so many numbers.

Do it again. bringing a little bit of Chris Rock

from Lethal Weapon 4 into the show. When I saw

the touch tones, I was like, yay! Exactly. Yeah,

exactly. So here is what we are going to be doing

with Beyond the Night, the podcast. We are going

to cover every single episode and we're going

to analyze them. We're gonna have stuff that

we like we're gonna have stuff that Doesn't make

any sense. All in all we both really love Knight

Rider in general But the point of our review

podcasts here at geek cast radio network is that

we analyze the hell out of the crap voodoo night

I said voodoo night We are going to be nitpicking

on certain stuff so we're gonna cover every single

episode of Knight Rider classic We're going to

cover the reunion film the 1991 reunion film

Knight Rider 2000 To the much of Dion's dismay

we are going to cover every single episode of

that travesty that is team nightrider What do

you mean my dismay? I can't stand it. That's

what I'm saying. Oh, I Know you don't want to

cover it, but we're no it's not the fact that

I don't want to cover it It's just like the premise

of the show Obviously, we all know is one man

one car Why do you need five vehicles to do the

exact same thing? The only good thing about team

Knight Rider for me was the fact that Don LaFontaine

did the voiceover I will agree So every episode

of team Knight Riders will agree with that but

that after that it was like, okay I don't care.

Yeah. Yep, pretty much And then every episode

of the short -lived Knight Rider 2008 reboot

Stuff that we are not covering because it's not

in canon other than the frigging name, which

makes no sense whatsoever Yeah is Knight Rider

2010 Oh my god. That movie, I mean, once you

told me the premise of the movie, I just, I can't

stand that movie due to the fact that A, the

only thing that it really has to do with is the

name of the actual, you know, franchise. Other

than that, it doesn't have anything to do with

the foundation for long government. It doesn't

have anything to do with kit. You know, it doesn't

have anything to do with that. So. Huge thanks

to the people over at Knight Rider Online because

they have a massive Knight Rider database with

all the info for all the different shows for

everything and So the listeners know Here is

the premise of Knight Rider 2010 the shit that

we will not Did we just okay, so we're not because

I know that we had talked off -air But did we

just decide not to do this one? We're not doing

it it has nothing to do I know except for the

name give the people I want to give the listeners

the reason why we're right I'm just saying that's

what we talked about was that with just because

the name it just whoop -dee -doo We're just skipping

that one. Yeah, because it has nothing to do

with Knight Rider and it was just one little

Rinky -dink film. Yeah. All right. Yeah, let's

get to the premise of this evil movie Uh, yeah.

my fucking god yeah where is another version

of kit or something or you know let's also point

out that this was written by one of the previous

Miami Vice producers I just thought I'd throw

that tidbit of information in there and I'm not

kidding holy crap I actually looked that up before

they took it down so Yeah, not covering that

horrible movie. Don't go see it. Not at all So

basically how we're gonna break this down is

each podcast episode. We're going to be reviewing

three episodes of a TV series We're gonna start

with Knight Rider 82. We're gonna get through

all that We're gonna go to Knight Rider 2000.

That'll be one episode. We're gonna go to team

Knight Rider It'll be three episodes per and

then we're gonna go to 2008 Knight Rider which

again will be three episodes per. We're also

going to have episodes that talk about the merchandising,

that talk about... you know books and movies

and not movies books DVDs music all that stuff

so we're gonna have a bunch of those episodes

as well all of the all of those special merchandising

episodes will happen at the end of the show after

we've done all the TV review after we've done

all the show reviews those special episodes will

happen and then we'll have like a final episode

closing off the podcast wow this is gonna be

one hell of a journey for this shadowy flight

yeah but you know what It's worth it. It's worth

it. It is worth it. It's worth it to go back

down memory lane for those that can remember

the show and for those that have never been introduced

to it, it will make you want to buy the DVD box

set. Yes. We are starting this next year 2012

the 30th anniversary of Knight Rider I believe

we're starting this sometime in September next

year So anything else you want to say before

we close this out? No, that's pretty much it

I think that this is gonna be like you said it's

gonna be a journey for the shadowy flight and

You know everything that we talk about Think

that we're gonna have some good points We're

gonna have some bad points and everybody may

agree or disagree or you know people may send

us feedback Who knows so it's gonna be interesting

to see what the listeners even throw at us that

we even miss Yes, so we will we're gonna head

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