Knight Rider - The Complete Series [DVD]

I grew up watching NightRider. When I found it here I was egar to buy it, and I'm no disappointed. I have watched it several times since I got it. Looking forward to match it again.

One of the best 80s shows of all time and it’s a great throw ride for any generation X person!

Great

All the episodes

Like all of the modern released of "Knight Rider," this set lacks the original pop and rock songs heard when the series was originally broadcast. Younger viewers probably won't notice this, but people who remember watching it during the original television run and later syndication should. Basically, it's as if a talented karaoke band were recreating the songs. By no means is this a deal-breaker, because the as-broadcast episodes with their original soundtracks literally cannot be purchased today, unless you're a VHS fan. The video quality in general is quite good, though obviously not on par with a modern 1080p release. Bright scenes (which are the majority) have very good detail and color, but I found that very dark scenes seem to have had some sore of artificial "film grain" filter applied to them. The discs' authors evidently thought that this would maintain the illusion of the series as having been in Full-HD all along; to me, it just looks like a cheap digital attempt at enhancement and I would rather that they had left the old analog blurriness in. Overall, I'm glad that I bought the set. The soundtrack is not what I remember from childhood, but the video quality more than makes up for that. Please be advised that there are no extras at all, no additional audible language tracks, and not even any subtitles. This is a completely bare-bones Blu-Ray set. So if you are hearing-impaired, or if English is not a language with which you are comfortable, you will not enjoy this set.

KNIGHT RIDER was a cool show about an ex-police officer that nearly gets killed in the line-of-duty who is now a recluse freelance crime-fighting investigator with a new face and a new identity and given a supercar with spectacular capabilities beyond imaginination that could talk and was virtually indestructable that was given to Michael by a dying eccentric millionaire Wilton Knight(Richard Basehart)to combat criminals who operated above the law that even the police couldn't touch, at least not without loner Michael Knight(David Hasselhoff) and KITT's help, yet no criminal was ever too scary or violent nor even killed by Michael or KITT on this show either. Therefore, Michael and KITT specialized in impossible situations where most other people wouldn't dare along with the fact that Michael and KITT were like a James Bondish type duo of heros, except KITT was also a talking car with a cynical, but concerned and sweet personality with a slight sense of humor unlike any car James Bond ever drove. Something else I noticed about this show was if you take a real close hard look at each episode throughout KNIGHT RIDER's whole 4-year run on NBC, you'll notice that KITT's 1st Season obviously used more Trans Am stunt cars for KITT look alike cars in about half the scenes per episode, because if you look very closely in the pilot episode, the "Good Day At White Rock" episode, the "Slammin Sammys" episode, the "Not A Drop To Drink" episode, the "Inside Out" episode, the "Forget Me Not" episode, the "A Plush Ride" episode, the "Chariot Of Gold" episode, etc., you'll notice that in a lot of scenes when Michael & KITT are about to do a stunt or drives in a far distance or on rugged terrain that KITT had a regular round steering wheel instead of the fancy pilot type steering wheel with the fancy dashboard since the producers of KNIGHT RIDER actually used a total of 4 Trans Ams to do the show, not just one Trans Am, in order to avoid too many costly repairs on the main KITT with the fancy dashboard & steering wheel. As a matter of fact, KITT was not only a snazzy '82 Pontiac Trans Am with souped up features and accessories, the Trans Ams they used for the Knight 2000 were also the first '82 Trans Ams sold off the assembly lot by General Motors, according to creator(Glen Larson). In other words General Motors had specifically sold the first four '82 Trans Ams to Universal before General Motors even started selling '82 Trans Ams to the public. In addition to that David Hasselhoff even stated in a TV Guide article back in the Summer of 1983 that in real life behind the scenes whenever they'd do a stunt on the show that sometimes the KITT look alike stunt cars would actually break in half and they'd have to repair them and/or replace them by replacing the outershell with a newer outer shell underneath whenever any of the Trans Ams got banged up kind of like when you peel the skin off an onion, which was very similar to how the producers ran THE DUKES OF HAZZARD since they'd use numerous stunt cars for the General Lee, especially in the stunt scenes which often racked up and/or broke the General Lee stunt cars as well, & just like the producers of STREET HAWK would do by using at least 14 different motorcycles with stuntmen to do the stunts on STREET HAWK as well. As a matter of fact this show takes me all the way back to memory lane to when THE DUKES OF HAZZARD started getting a big decline in ratings when KNIGHT RIDER made its debut on NBC back in September of 1982 since the Dukes were starting to lose a lot of viewers through KNIGHT RIDER, due to the fact that the Knight 2000 had outclassed the General Lee along with the fact that Bo Duke(John Schneider) & Luke Duke(Tom Wopat)had been replaced by the new Dukes Coy Duke(Byron Cherry) & Vance Duke(Christopher Mayer) in the Autumn of 1982 along with the fact that KNIGHT RIDER & THE DUKES OF HAZZARD were both shown on the same night since THE DUKES OF HAZZARD was shown on CBS at 8PM and KNIGHT RIDER was shown on NBC at 9PM during KNIGHT RIDER's First Season and THE DUKES OF HAZZARD'S Fifth Season, which made it quite inconvenient for the Dukes since KNIGHT RIDER had K.O.'d THE DUKES OF HAZZARD in the ratings leaving the Dukes with no real chance or way of competing with Michael & KITT, especially in Bo & Luke's absence from THE DUKES OF HAZZARD on top of that, at least until the old Dukes returned to the show in the Spring of 1983 and when NBC had moved KNIGHT RIDER to Sunday nights at 8PM back in August of 1983, which got more people to tune in to watching KNIGHT RIDER more every week since Friday nights are usually family night as opposed to Sundays since most people have to go back to work on Mondays along with the fact that it helped CBS to get more people to start tuning in to watching THE DUKES OF HAZZARD again in the Fall of 1983 and Spring of 1984 since KNIGHT RIDER didn't interfere with the Dukes time slot on Friday nights anymore, even though KNIGHT RIDER still had twice as many viewers than THE DUKES OF HAZZARD did during the Dukes last 3 seasons since KNIGHT RIDER had already stole the Dukes thunder since the Knight 2000 was able to 10 times more than the General Lee could ever do, which nearly killed the Dukes and nearly prompted CBS to cancel THE DUKES OF HAZZARD in 1983. Therefore THE DUKES OF HAZZARD probably would've ended up cancelling by the Summer of 1984 if NBC hadn't moved KNIGHT RIDER to Sundays instead of keeping KNIGHT RIDER on Fridays, especially if NBC would've just moved KNIGHT RIDER to the 8PM time slot on Friday nights instead of the 8PM time slot on Sunday nights since it would've interferred and conflicted with THE DUKES OF HAZZARD's 8PM time slot on CBS every Friday night, especially since THE DUKES OF HAZZARD would've ended up losing even more Duke fans through KNIGHT RIDER if NBC had shown KNIGHT RIDER at 8PM on Friday nights since that was the same time slot THE DUKES OF HAZZARD was shown on CBS at the time. The truth is this KNIGHT RIDER-THE COMPLETE SERIES DVD may seem highly unnecessary, but it's really worth it even if you already have the whole collection of all 4 seasons of KNIGHT RIDER on DVD like I do that were all released season by season one at a time between the Summer of 2004 and the Spring of 2006 which contain every single episode throughout it's whole 1982-86 run on NBC since this DVD box set doesn't have all the flaws from the double sided disc that the individual season box sets had, which is probably why Universal doesn't make their DVD box sets with 2-sided disk anymore and perhaps why they haven't made double-sided DVD discs in nearly 3 years either. Therefore Universal is probably trying to compensate and make up for messing up on some of the DVD's on all 4 Seasons of the individual KNIGHT RIDER DVD box sets that were released between the Summer of 2004 and the Spring of 2006, since they all had double sided discs in each individual season box set, but had some skipping and freezing up in some episodes, especially in the episodes "Knightmares", "Knight Song", "White-Line Warriors", "Ring Of Fire", "Deadly Knightshade", etc., which is what prompted me to get this KNIGHT RIDER Complete Series DVD box set so I can watch all those episodes without any freezing or skipping since its so exasperating trying to watch the episodes "Knightmares", "White-Line Warriors", and "Deadly Knightshade" stalling and skipping over everytime like they did on the KNIGHT RIDER-SEASON 2 DVD box set that was released in April of 2005 and on the KNIGHT RIDER-SEASON 4 in April of 2006, despite the fact that times are tight right now, but getting this KNIGHT RIDER-The Complete Series DVD was so worth it since all the episodes were redone very well on single-sided discs instead of on a dual-sided disc. In addition to that; this KNIGHT RIDER-The Complete Series DVD box set even provides a brief summary posting their original air dates exactly like they did on the individual season box sets of KNIGHT RIDER from Knight Rider's Season 1 thru Season 3, since the KNIGHT RIDER-SEASON 4 DVD box set didn't show a brief summary posting their original air-dates on them, unlike the first 3 season box sets did. Overall, this KNIGHT RIDER-The Complete Series DVD takes me all the way back to memory lane when I used to watch this show religiously every weekend on NBC every Friday during its 1st Season and then every Sunday night during its 2nd and 3rd Seasons, since this DVD contains every single episode complete & uncut exactly like they were shown throughout KNIGHT RIDER's whole 4-year run on NBC as opposed to how they were shown in reruns in syndication and on cable TV since USA, WGN, the Sci-Fi Channel, and TV Land deleted too many scenes and added too many commercials in between, since cable networks and local TV stations unfortunately cut parts out of each episode on every TV show in order to allot for more commercial time. Therefore I was able to watch each episode without any freezing up or skipping and I was able to watch the episodes from the 3rd Season that had some sound effects taken out on the KNIGHT RIDER-SEASON 3 DVD box set that Universal released in January of 2006 like the "Knight Of The Chameleon" episode did for instance, but I was able to hear all the sound effects on this DVD that were missing on the KNIGHT RIDER-SEASON 3 DVD and I was able to watch the episodes "Knightmares", "White-Line Warriors", "Deadly Knightshade", and "Knight Song" without any freezing or skipping since I was never able to watch those episodes most of the time on the individual season DVD box sets, which was probably due to the fact that all 4 of the individual season box sets had double sided discs, but with this KNIGHT RIDER-THE COMPLETE SERIES DVD box set I don't have to worry about that anymore since each DVD case now has 2 seperate disk in each DVD case instead of 1 double sided disc per case that Universal with all 4 seasons of KNIGHT RIDER that they sold and released individually. Therefore, this KNIGHT RIDER: Complete Series DVD box set shows us every episode that takes us all the way back to memory lane to when this show became an instant smash wiping everything out in the ratings when it ranked at number 3 in the Nielsen ratings when it made its debut on NBC on Sunday September 26, 1982 all the way to when this show tanked in the Summer of 1986 after its 4-year run, due to a severe decline in ratings. In addition to that, this DVD box set also takes us back to memory lane to when STREET HAWK stole KNIGHT RIDERs thunder back in the Winter of 1985 nearly killing this show when STREET HAWK made its debut on ABC on Friday January 4, 1985 when Jesse Mach(Rex Smith)and STREET HAWK had stole "The Man, The Machine" motto away from Michael & KITT nearly leading to this shows cancellation since STREET HAWK had K.O.'d KNIGHT RIDER in the ratings until STREET HAWK was cancelled in the Spring of 1985 after its brief 3 1/2-month run on ABC. Something else I found quite intriguing about KNIGHT RIDER was the fact that even though I now realize that KITT couldn't really talk that the voice of the car was William Daniels, which played the pompous hard-nosed(Dr. Mark Craig)on ST. ELSEWHERE and the lonely Mr. Feeney on BOY MEETS WORLD just like body-builder(Lou Ferrigno)played the Hulk on THE INCREDIBLE HULK, which both just so happened to be Universal distributions that were both filmed at Universal Studios in Hollywood, which make both William Daniels and Lou Ferrigno intriguing memorable icons to me for memory lane when KNIGHT RIDER was on NBC and when THE INCREDIBLE HULK was on CBS. This show also takes me all the way back to memory lane to the days when TV was a lot cleaner and a lot simpler before sex, excessive violence, and profanity took over television on every other TV show and cartoon, but fortunately KNIGHT RIDER had no sex or nudity or cussing in it throughout its whole 1982-1986 run on NBC. This DVD box set also takes me all the way back to memory lane to my childhood days since I was living in my hometown(El Centro, CA) at the time throughout Knight Rider's whole 4-year run on NBC along with the fact that I used to sometimes watch this show twice on the same night every Sunday since I used to watch it between 6PM & 7PM on KYEL, which was the NBC affiliate for Yuma, AZ and then I'd watch Knight Rider again at 8PM on KNBC, which is the NBC affiliate for Los Angeles, which I used to do frequently since the whole Imperial Valley is such a small remote community with nothing to really do for fun or social activity. So now that Universal has made a complete series DVD of KNIGHT RIDER, MIAMI VICE, and THE INCREDIBLE HULK; I'm curious to see if Universal makes a MAGNUM, P.I.-The Complete Series DVD, THE ROCKFORD FILES-The Complete Series DVD, and AIRWOLF-The Complete Series DVD, since MAGNUM, THE ROCKFORD FILES, & AIRWOLF were also 2 popular TV classics by Universal as well just like KNIGHT RIDER, MIAMI VICE, & THE INCREDIBLE HULK all were. By the way, I just got word that the Shout Factory will be releasing the short-lived supercycle drama STREET HAWK with Rex Smith out on DVD on Tuesday July 13th, 2010 which shall give us something else to look forward to.

Loved the show

Knight rider is a action pack and fast moving! Great car kitt is! Thanks again

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The theme tune starts then the words, "Knight Rider, a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist. Michael Knight, a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless, in a world of criminals who operate above the law." Those few lines and the theme music used to stop a young hyperactive child in his tracks back in the 80's and 90's. As soon as i saw Kitt the world stopped for me, i used to love watching Knightrider I think my parents loved the fact i used to just shut up sit down ( i really was a nightmare child! ) and give them an hour break, once or twice every week. I was glued to the TV as soon as the music and KItt was on. I adored that showed and vowed oneday i would have a car like Kitt which talks. It never happened obviously ( although i do talk to my car !) To the boxset ..... What an awesome DVD boxset containing the best 80's show ever. The new Knight rider has nothing on the Original, even the women in the original were very pleasing ( although i only remember kitt ! ) Enough about how awesome Hoff and KITT were, we all know they are an all time great combo. If your doubting to buy this boxset dont, just purchase it, its worth every penny. The first time i watched a dvd from my boxset, i could not stop smiling like the little child i used too, what a great feeling. For that reason alone its worth every penny it costs, and the fact its under £50.00 is just an unbeleivable bargain. Now to the pro and cons of the boxset PROS : - -ALL the episodes in proper DVD cases. -Bonus features -The DVD ends creates a picture of kitt inside the box -The lid contains like a contents of every episode, so you know which episode you can watch if theres a particular one. -Decent qaulity video and sound ( remember this is nigh on 25 years old ! no HD here ! ) Cons ( not really but for the sake of giving a review ) :- The boxset is big, (its 26 DVD cases what did you expect!) Like one reviewer said the PILOT episode is on DISC 7 and not DISC 1. It will remind you how great the old days were !!! This is a rare boxset that everyone will love to watch no matter what age or gender. i regularly watch this with my mum and cousin sisters. press TURBO BOOST and buy it NOW !! hope that helps make your mind up !

Was soll man sagen? Knight Rider eben. Musste mich echt zusammenreißen als ich die erste Season hier auf DVD gesehen hab. Gott haben die viele Fehler gemacht. Z.B. sitzt, wenn K.I.T.T. aleine und lehr fährt, da doch tatsächlich einer in nem Sack oder sowas ähnlichem mit Sehschlitz. Der Sack oder whatever hat annähernd die gleiche Farbe wie der Sitzbezug und mit annähernd meine ich man sieht den Unterschied mehr als offensichtlich. Und wenn kitt auf zei Rädern fährt, sieht Micheal Knight so aus als hätter mal eben 50-60 Kilo zugelegt. Aber das macht die Serie so gut, denn in der zweiten Season haben sie dann doch den ein oder anderen Trick gelernt, auch wenn man bei den großen Stunts, z.B. als Goliath durch einen anderen Laster fährt und K.I.T.T dann danach drüberturboboostet (das Wort hab ich mir ausgedacht :-) )sieht das sie mit Spielzeugen gedreht wurden. Aber he was solls, es ist Knight Rider und verdammt es sind die 80Žs von denen wir hier reden. Überrascht war ich, dass die 2te Season bis auf die Folge White-Line Warriors, komplett auf deutsch verfügbar war, denn das hier is ja eigentlich ein U.K. Import und auf der Box steht davon nix. Season 1+3 sind auf English und irgendwie haben die Damen und Herren bei der Zusammenstellung gemacht, denn S1E20 ist der K.R. Pilot und auf der letzten DVD von Season 1 (DVD 8) ist zusätzlich Knight Roder 2000, der Knight Rider Film drauf. Also erst DVD / rein, da die Folge Knight of the Phoenix gucken. Dann die Serie schauen und dann nochmal disc 8 rein und den Film gucken. Bissl Kompli aber passt schon. Was Season 4 angeht, ich weiß nicht ob sie in Deutsch verfügbar ist, da ich auf der hälfte von Season 3 diese Rezension geschrieben habe. Ich weis etwas früh. ABER: ES IST KNIGHT RIDER!!! Wie kann man da was schlechtes sagen. Es sei denn man ist nicht mit dieser Serie aufgewachsen. Und jede noch so schlecht aussehende (aber nicht gemachte Folge) dieses Kult Klassikers ist 1000 mal besser als dieses 08/15 Remake von 2008. Was nicht verwundert, denn da gabs ja nur eine Season mit nur 16 Folgen wenn mich nicht alles täuscht und wenn doch wen scherts. Fazit: Allein schon wegen der überkrass nervigen Originalstimme von unserem geliebten Knight Industries Twothousand ein absolutes Must Have. Dazu kommt die bravuröse schauspielerische Glanzleistung sämtlicher Charaktere und insbesondere David HasselhoffŽs :-) (Sorry aber der musste sein). Kurz gesagt kauftŽs euch! Habt Spaß und macht ne Reise zurück in die 80Žs. PFLICHTKAUF!!!!!

最近子供の時に良く観ていたナイトライダーがとても懐かしくとてつもなく観たくなり、既に購入していた全シーズンのDVD -BOXとナイトライダーコンプリートBlu-ray-BOXを観ている日々。ふと、knight rider Complete Series Blu-rayが気になり、違いはあるのかなぁ、と情報を見てみると各話のオープニング前のディーザーが全て入っているような他の記事の情報と収録総合分数も違うようなので、今回思い切ってBlu-ray版を購入しました。英語音声しかなく、字幕もない為、既に持っているDVD -BOX やコンプリートBlu-ray-BOXを観て理解してます。(吹替の日本語と日本語字幕を頼っている自分には大変ですが) 発売当初どうだったかは不明ですが、まだ観始めたはがりではありますが、シーズン1のオープニング前のティーザーが入っており、ある意味既に購入しているDVDにもBlu-rayにもないティーザーが入っていたのでとても良かったです。 もう私も40代後半で50代に近い歳ですが、ナイトライダーはとても思い出が深く、大切な宝物の１つになると思います。購入出来て良かったです。

It is my childhood dream come true... All the episodes of Knight Rider whenever I want and in great quality too! It is in 3 by 4 format, but otherwise a very good conversion to DVD.