Knight Rider on BBC TWO's "I Love 1983" . . .

[DJGM]

Here's something I encoded almost three years ago, when Knight Rider was featured on
the 1983 episode of BBC TWO's "I Love The 1980's" documentary series. I've encoded
both the opening sequence and the main section featuring KR, as seperate videoclips.

The opening title even features an animated version of KITT. As for the choice of the
presenter of the program, a puppet known as Roland Rat . . . errr, don't ask . . . !

The filesize of the opening clip is about 5.6MB, while the main clip is just over 31MB.

To download the videoclips, right click, and choose the "Save Link As . . . " option.

I Love 1983 - Opening Sequence - 5,610 KB - 1 min 32 secs
I Love 1983 - Knight Rider - 31,184 KB - 9 mins 38 secs

[neps]

Nice clips DJGM! Yeaa.. interesting choice as host. I almost thought it was just going to be a rehash of the VH1 version that was here in the states, but they did a nice job with it. Thanks!

[whet]

Yeah I rember seeing that, good stuff!

I feel silly asking this, but Did Knight Rider first air in 82 or 83 in uk??

My mind has started to go, it happen's when you hit 30

[DJGM]

KR first aired in the UK in 1983. I dunno the exact date though!

[Knight Rider Archive]

In the London area (Thames TV), Knight Rider premiered on Thursday, February 17, 1983. The first season followed, with several episodes skipped and broadcast between the second and third seasons.

- Paul
- Knight Rider Archive
- http://members.fortunecity.com/knightriders/

[DJGM]

<RANT>
Typical poor ITV scheduling. Why couldn't they have shown episodes in the correct order?!?
</RANT>

[JJSoCrazy]

I tryied right clicking and saving, but it doesn't work, can someone plz help?

[Knight Rider Archive]

Not only that DJGM -- Our actual "third season" began with "Goliath Returns"! The actual running order, from "Goliath", went like this:

SEASON 2:
Goliath
Brother's Keeper
Merchants of Death
Blind Spot
Return to Cadiz
K.I.T.T. The Cat
Ring of Fire
Custom K.I.T.T.
Soul Survivor
Knightmares
Silent Knight
Big Iron
A Knight In Shining Armor
Diamonds Aren't a Girl's Best Friend
White-Line Warriors
Speed Demons
Race For Life
A Good Knight's Work

SEASON 3:
Goliath Returns
Let It Be Me
Mouth of the Snake (two parts)
Not a Drop to Drink
No Big Thing
Knight of the Drones (two parts)
Ice Bandits
Knights of the Fast Lane
Halloween Knight
K.I.T.T. Vs. K.A.R.R.
The Rotten Apples
Slammin' Sammy's Stunt Show Spectacular
Knight In Disgrace

...and on and on like that like.

It's interesting to note that as a result of ITV's different running order, we got "Big Iron" before it's first broadcast on NBC: it was shown on Thames on Thursday, February 9, 1984 -- a full three months before it debuted in the States.

- Paul
- Knight Rider Archive
- http://members.fortunecity.com/knightriders/

[Dave Knight]

the long clip plays for one second then stops, the intro plays for about 5 -6 seconds and then stops

[DJGM]

One other thing about ITV's way of airing KR . . . they always cut the teaser. As soon as the announcer
had finished speaking (or about a second before) it would fade straight into the opening title sequence.

As for the download problems, the web space provider Spymac.net, seem to be very, very slow
indeed lately. Unfortunately, there is nowhere else available, for me to host such large files.

[citizen_x]

the download process is very slow, so i gave up

10x anyway

[DJGM]

The Spymac servers seem to be faster today . . . at least at my end anyway.

Here's how the download progress looks on my 1.5Mb cable connection . . .