Team Knight Rider
- Brixton Karnes: Kyle Stewart
- Nick Wechsler: Kevin " Trek " Sanders
- Kathy Trageser: Erica West
- Christine Steel: Jenny Andrews
- Duane Davis: Duke DePalma
- Rick Copp: Clayton ( head of Sky One )
- Tom Kane: Dante
- Kerrigan Mahan: Beast
- Nia Vardalos: Domino
- Andrea Beutner: Kat
- John Kassir: Plato
Team Knight Rider ( TKR ) is an American series from the year 1997. Though it served the series Knight Rider as a template, Team Knight Rider has little in common with Glen A. Larson's original series. Where in the 1980s, a man and his car is sufficient in the 1990s, a team of specialists with a small fleet of vehicles wonders for the Foundation for Law and Government hunting criminals.
Team members and Specialist Vehicles
Instead of the semi-trailer from the original series used in TKR a huge jet plane named " Sky One ", a converted C -5 Galaxy, but the wave their nozzles vertically downwards and thus can take off vertically, as a mobile headquarters.
Each team member (except Clayton ) drives a vehicle equipped with the latest computer technology vehicle. In particular, there
- "Dante", a Ford Expedition SUV, which is driven by Kyle.
- "Beast ", a Ford F-150 which is controlled by Duke
- Ford Mustang GT "Domino" ( with a female personality), driven by Jenny and
- The two motorcycles "Plato " and " Kat", with instructions from their drivers Trek and Erica can be coupled together to a vehicle also.
Although the vehicles of Team Knight Rider KITT certainly are inspired and represent probably technically also a development of it, there are still a significant difference. The vehicles were all equipped with a stronger artificial personality and characterological " quirks " that are sometimes quite be represented as a hindrance for the job. So Beast provides regular verbal duels with Duke to make his authority in question, while Domino ever neglected their duties because she has just to take care of " woman things ". The most striking difference to K.I.T.T. could any of the vehicles from TKR use the " Turbo Boost", so neither accelerate quickly, even off the ground and "jumping".
References to the original series
" Michael Knight" appeared in TKR only as mysterious figure believed dead. It has been shown in the isolated sequences in which he played only from the back, so that you never saw, whether it was David Hasselhoff - who embodied the character in the original series.
KITT was seen also as part of the central computer of "Sky One", but you never heard speak the red - flickering LEDs on the computer, so that was never clear whether the technology shown is actually KITT's central computer.
There was also K.R.O. ( = Knight Reformulation One), a black Ferrari F355. He should replace along with his driver Michael and KITT, after they had left the service to the Foundation, but due to faulty programming and unsuitable because the task mentally not grown driver Martin Jantzen, also KRO " mentally " ill and attacked human life was what made him a dangerous opponent.
Premature end
Although created greater TKR never made it beyond the first season. Many fans of the original series interfered with the humorous nature of the offshoot, who seemed not to be taken too seriously themselves. Simple dialogues and a joke that seemed to be designed for children or more youthful audience, coupled with fairly complex plots, the solution of which came at the end of the consequences for the inexperienced viewers often too sudden to be followed can concentrate. So it was that many adult viewers who the old Knight Rider flair from her youth hoped, were disappointed by the series, while many young people who did not know the old series, and thus the background, with the subject to talking cars and FLAG ( " Foundation for law And Government" - English title of the " Foundation for Law and Government" in the original) could not do much. In the following TKR was discontinued early due to lack of success after 22 episodes.