What could have been in season 2: from Propmaster Steve
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:59 pm
Sue and I met up with "Knight Rider Archivist" AJ Palmgren and had lunch with Steve Whiteside. Steve was a prop-master on both the original series and the 2008 show and is a great story-teller with tales of his experiences on the set.
Here are some of the things he told us about what they wanted to do if the new series had a second season:
The Semi would have come back. They were going to get rid of the CDC and just have a mobile command center. The series would become more of a "road show". When they were filming the last scene of "Exit Light, Enter Knight", with the reunited family saying goodbye in front of the hospital, they had the last-minute idea (I think it came from Steve) to have a black semi trailer parked in the background. It would have been a little teaser of what was to come. But they couldn't get a truck quickly enough.
Graiman would return. The plane crashed, they never found the body, and "the Devon character" would be back in season two.
KITT would get a new license plate: 82KR209. 82 for the year of the original series, KR for Knight Rider, 209 for the year 2009. Or in the context of the show, the year of the first KITT and "Knight Research". In 2010, the plate would be updated to 82KR210. And so on.
Maybe they should have put Steve in charge of the show: originally, KARR was just going to be a robot, but they later decided to turn him into a Mustang. Steve argued with the writers that KARR should have
turned into a Trans Am. I don't know if Ford or Pontiac would have allowed it, but it would have been awesome.
My general impression is that Steve felt that the new series missed the mark with the early episodes, improved a lot with the reboot and would have been even better with the direction they wanted with season two. A shame we didn't get to see it.
A Goliath-Sized thank you to Steve for sharing his stories with us, and to AJ for setting up the meeting while he was visiting L.A.
Here are some of the things he told us about what they wanted to do if the new series had a second season:
The Semi would have come back. They were going to get rid of the CDC and just have a mobile command center. The series would become more of a "road show". When they were filming the last scene of "Exit Light, Enter Knight", with the reunited family saying goodbye in front of the hospital, they had the last-minute idea (I think it came from Steve) to have a black semi trailer parked in the background. It would have been a little teaser of what was to come. But they couldn't get a truck quickly enough.
Graiman would return. The plane crashed, they never found the body, and "the Devon character" would be back in season two.
KITT would get a new license plate: 82KR209. 82 for the year of the original series, KR for Knight Rider, 209 for the year 2009. Or in the context of the show, the year of the first KITT and "Knight Research". In 2010, the plate would be updated to 82KR210. And so on.
Maybe they should have put Steve in charge of the show: originally, KARR was just going to be a robot, but they later decided to turn him into a Mustang. Steve argued with the writers that KARR should have
turned into a Trans Am. I don't know if Ford or Pontiac would have allowed it, but it would have been awesome.
My general impression is that Steve felt that the new series missed the mark with the early episodes, improved a lot with the reboot and would have been even better with the direction they wanted with season two. A shame we didn't get to see it.
A Goliath-Sized thank you to Steve for sharing his stories with us, and to AJ for setting up the meeting while he was visiting L.A.
,now I wish we had a season 2 even more 
.