Knight rider 2000 series#
Susan Norman as Shawn McCormick was presumably being groomed as a regular for the series if it went ahead although it’s hard to see such an unsympathetic character becoming a favourite with viewers.Īs for the guest cast, Mitch Pileggi makes a pretty sinister master villain. And Edward Mulhare is still there as well, as Devon Miles. There’s a complicated conspiracy which seems to involve just about everybody who works for the city.ĭavid Hasselhoff is again the star which provides some reassuring continuity. She’s just too obnoxious and it’s hard to care very much about her. Making her very difficult to get along with so there’d be lots of tension between the reluctant partners must have seemed like a good idea at the time but it’s overdone. Shawn McCormick ends up working for the Foundation but she and Michael make a very uneasy team. She also now has one of K.I.T.T.’s chips in her brain. But Officer McCormick doesn’t die and now she’s pretty annoyed. Her injuries are not necessarily fatal but Police Commissioner Ruth Daniels (who is already establishing herself as a rather nasty piece of work) orders the doctors to pull the plug on the young officer.
Cops including Officer Shawn McCormick (Susan Norman). Meanwhile cops are getting shot with real guns.
Criminals have been committing crimes using real guns, even though that’s illegal! If you can’t trust criminals to obey the law who can you trust?ĭevon and Michael have a suspicion that there’s more to all this. Fortunately K.I.T.T.’s artificial intelligence still exists so Michael installs it in his ’57 Chevy, much to K.I.T.T.’s disgust. has been disassembled and the parts old off. Michael agrees, on condition that he is reunited with K.I.T.T. Devon wants him back working for the Foundation. look like a Model T Ford but they need that contract with the city.
The Foundation has a new prototype car almost ready for testing, the Knight 4000 (or K.I.F.T.), which will make K.I.T.T. Apparently private vigilante justice organisations are also out of favour in these enlightened times. They had a freelance crime-fighting contract with the city but the city is threatening to cancel the contract. The Foundation for Law and Government is in trouble. Even the police are not allowed to carry guns. Criminals are instead placed in cryogenic suspension. A new enlightened mayor has implemented some daring new crime-fighting initiatives. Knight Rider 2000 is set ten years in the future which makes it the year 2000. Knight Rider 2000 on the other hand has a futuristic setting and is therefore out-and-out science fiction. Knight Rider was science fiction but it belonged to that sub-category that takes place entirely in the present day but with one item of science fictional technology, in this case K.I.T.T. They wanted it to be new whilst still having definite links to the original. They did not want their new series to be just a belated fifth season of the original. I do have to give the developers of Knight Rider 2000 for one thing. He has an alibi and cannot be blamed for the disaster. Larson, creator of the original Knight Rider, was not involved with Knight Rider 2000. Knight Rider 2000 failed to capture anyone’s imagination, was not picked up as a series and seems to be generally disliked by Knight Rider fans. The 1991 TV-movie Knight Rider 2000 was shot as the pilot for what was hoped would be a new series based (a little loosely) on the 80s hit series.
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