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List Price: $29.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 13117
Released: April 12, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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 shotgun 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.
Description of Knight Rider - Season Two:
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 Vegas 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 transplant for a sick 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 Oscar-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 trash 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.
Knight Rider - Season Two Reviews:
Kitt and Michael Knight 
2009-03-23 - My dad always jokes and says the car is smarter than the man, but Knight Rider has always been a family favorite. The show is clean and interesting. Of course, you always have Michael Knight in his tall pants and wearing some jacket even when it is hot. Must have been in style. Good show. Great for a new generation.
So far so Good
2009-01-25 - I've just bought all seasons and so far I'm into Season 2.
This is a fascinating show because I am looking at my past. When I was a small boy I didn't know how to interprete storylines well let alone American ones. Now I can easily understand and learn the whole story thanks in part due to the subtitles as well. It was also interesting to note that in some episodes there was only one (1) option of language = English and then some had no other language subtitles support. hahaha.. i thought that was funny. The development team didn't bother to hire translators I guess at those times.
I enjoy watching Knight Rider for the stories and for the action too, and there is so far enough action to keep me happy. I was a bit dissappointed though about 'Ring Of Fire' because the story was slow and it was a low budget episode because most of the action was in the bush!. It was perhaps the only time I remember getting up to deliberately stop the DVD player, as I had to do something else. But no worries I shall see that episode again!.
classic 
2008-08-24 - Knight rider was great for its time, the graphics cleaned up well but i just love kitt
Even better then you remember 
2008-04-25 - I'm totally hooked on these DVD's. They're so entertaining and D.Hasselhoff is so underapprecieated as an actor it's rediculous. He carries this show on his charismatic broad shoulders and you can tell he loves this character in every scene. There are also SO MANY episodes per season it's mind blowing. Season One had 22 hour long episodes whereas today's dramas only put out 9-13 tops and not nearly as fun to watch.
I give this show a resounding 2 thumbs up.
C'mon man, WORK!!!
2008-04-21 - I love the show. Always have. I own every season. It is great to own a piece of my childhood again. The problem? Every season has at least one "problem disc" that has trouble playing (if it plays at all) in whatever DVD Player I put it in, even my computer.
