May 2004 Archives

Just a friendly reminder to all our United States visitors and elsewhere where Sci-Fi might be able to be viewed... Starting tomorrow June 1st at 9 am EST M-F Knight Rider returns to the Sci-Fi channel with the first hour of the Series Pilot aka Knight of the Phoenix.

The conclusion airs on Wednesday with regular episodes following in the month of June:

01-JUN-04 KNIGHT OF THE PHOENIX - PT 1

02-JUN-04 KNIGHT OF THE PHOENIX - PT 2

03-JUN-04 DEADLY MANEUVERS

04-JUN-04 GOOD DAY AT WHITE ROCK

07-JUN-04 SLAMMIN'S SAMMY'S STUNT SHOW SPECTACULAR

08-JUN-04 JUST MY BILL

09-JUN-04 NOT A DROP TO DRINK

10-JUN-04 NO BIG THING

11-JUN-04 TRUST DOESN'T RUST

14-JUN-04 INSIDE OUT

15-JUN-04 THE FINAL VERDICT

16-JUN-04 A PLUSH RIDE

17-JUN-04 FORGET ME NOT

18-JUN-04 HEARTS OF STONE

21-JUN-04 GIVE ME LIBERTY...OR GIVE ME DEATH

22-JUN-04 THE TOPAZ CONNECTION

23-JUN-04 A NICE, INDECENT LITTLE TOWN

24-JUN-04 CHARIOT OF GOLD

25-JUN-04 WHITE BIRD

Universal announced the official list of extras for the Season 1 box set:

Disc 1 Run Time: 6 Hours 28 Minutes MPAA Rating: Not Rated

Bonus Materials
"Knight of the Phoenix" Commentary with David Hasselhoff and Writer/Creator Glen Larson

Technical Information
Audio
English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Captions: English
Subtitles: French, Spanish
Picture: Full Frame (1.33:1)
Color

Disc 2
Run Time: 6 Hours 29 Minutes
MPAA Rating: Not Rated

Technical Information
Audio
English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Captions: English
Subtitles: French, Spanish
Picture: Full Frame (1.33:1)
Color

Disc 3
Run Time: 4 Hours 52 Minutes
MPAA Rating: Not Rated

Bonus Materials
Knight Moves
Knight Sounds

Technical Information
Audio
English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Captions: English
Subtitles: French, Spanish
Picture: Full Frame (1.33:1)
Color

Disc 4
Bonus Disc

Bonus Materials
Knight Rider 2000
Knight Rider: Under the Hood
Photo Gallery
Blueprints Gallery
K.I.T.T. Owner's Manual

Thanks for Michael Pajaro for the spot!

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Recently the artwork for the season 1 box set was revealed:

view 3d rendering here

And yes, in the top right corner is the text to the spoken opening of Knight Rider.

Please not that it is possible that this image can change from the final release.

When the news of the Knight Rider DVD Season 1 broke last month, there was some question about an extra mentioned on the set. There was an item listed as "Knight Rider 2000", which caused some confusion around the various communities as to wether it was the Knight Rider 2000 movie or a Documentary by the same name. I was able to get an answer from Universal, and they had this to say:

Knight Rider 2000 is definitely going to be in the set and it is the TV movie (not a documentary).

It doesn't make much sense for a TV movie that took place after the last season would be on a set of the first season, the forth season collection would make more sense. But as a beggar, I'm not going to be a chooser. As to other extras and specifications they have yet to be determined. For the most current information, you can always check back here or visit Universal home video.

Michael Pajaro of knightridermovie.com was fortunate to have the oppurnity to meet with the developers of Davliex at this years e3 conference. He had this to say about the experience:

I visited Davilex at the E3 gaming convention today. The new game definitely looks like a great improvement over the original. They told me several times how much they listened to comments (complaints) about the first game from fans.

The new game gets away from the kind of boring "search and exlpore" model of the original. Instead, it is much more combat-oriented. This is a bit of a deviation from the actual series, but it should help game-play a lot. The reflection mapping on KITT looks really good, and the world textures are much better.

I have more screen shots and a preview movie to post later, but for now here are the list of features taken from their marketting presentation:

New interactive fighting system
KITT has access to 3 different type of weapons
Laser
Plasma gun
Missiles

Fight spectacular battles against enemies
Garthe and Goliath
KARR
Different types of robots
Choppers
Turrets
Laser protecting system

KITT has an electric shield to protect himself from enemy attacks
Use KITT’s Micro Jam to open gates and control elevators and Laser protecting systems
Interact with the environment and solve puzzles
11 new story based missions
New in-game animation system
Improved visual effects
Improved controls
Energy recharge system

You can find more info about the game, as well as screen shots and game trailer at knightrideronline.com, knightridermovie.com and at Davilex's official website knightridergame.com (although it still contains information about the previous game)

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pavanbadal was amazing enough to send us this copy of the dvd trailer! check it out!

the video doesn't have any universal tags, but it looks pretty authentic. the quicktime video itself contains some tags to universal. it doesn't mention any of the extras either, but a nice selection of the greatest bits

SEASON 1 TRAILER!!