Knight Rider Knight of the Phoenix | 
 enlarge | Actors: David Hassellhoff, Edward Mulhare
Studio: Columbia House \ Universal
Category: DVD
Buy New: $12.80
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 40914
Format: Ntsc, Color, Full Screen
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 105 Minutes
UPC: 022496060009
EAN: 0022496060009
ASIN: B00030DIQK
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Product Description
The Pilot Episode.. Knight of the Phoenix Airdate September 24, 1982 With Guest Stars Phyllis Davis, Richard Anderson, Vince Edwards and Richard Basehart
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 Where It All Began to Make a Difference -- in Mr. H.'s Life & Ours June 21, 2007
Sandra Schaub (Rockville Centre, NY USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had never seen the original TV pilot movie when it was first televised. It certainly brought back memories of that wonderful Knight Rider series.
The cast, including Richard Basehart and Edward Mulhare, was excellent; and the effects quite good, even by today's computerized standards. And to give credit where it's long overdue, William Daniels was the perfect choice as the voice of K.I.T.T. and the main reason I watched the series. The dialogue between Michael Knight and K.I.T.T. (thanks to the work of an excellent film editor) was always sharp and fun in each episode. It's nice to see the origin of that relationship. The story for the pilot kept moving at a good pace.
No one could have envisioned at that time how the phrase about One Man Making A Difference would eventually impact on Mr. Hasselhoff's life personally as well as on the lives of the many young people who watched the show or met him later (through car shows, hospital visits, concerts, etc.). Many remain his fans today and have, in their own way, incorporated that credo into their lives.
Long live the Knight Rider!!
Great program but put your money to better use July 10, 2005
Eric Pregosin (New Carrollton, Maryland United States)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I won't go into my usual big review of the show as someone already has. I will just say, that this episode is included with Set 1 of 4 (most of which I bought here at Amazon), so what could there possibly be in this single disc that is not in the opening 4 bagger (whose 4th disc by the way is the sequel movie from 2000)? Buy the sets, and ignore the single entries you see on this page, you'll be 1,000,000% better off. In this case (to paraphrase Wilton Knight as played by Richard Basehart) "THIS ONE DVD DOES NOT MAKE A DIFFERENCE.:-)
 A big honkin' slice of '80s boob-tube cheese July 8, 2005
Zagnorch (Terra, Sol System)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Fair warning: this episode and the rest of the first season of `Knight Rider' is available in a nice, compact, and convenient DVD box set complete with bonus extra features, which can be found at www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005JLG4. Needless to say, it's a much better value than this obsolescent Columbia House release!
And now, on with the review...
Along with `The A-Team' and `Airwolf', `Knight Rider' was one of the few live-action prime time shows I bothered to tune in to on a regular basis when I was but a wee `Norch. And along with the other aforementioned shows, `Knight Rider' was a major contributor to my development into the 80s-trash-culture maven that I am today. No situation was too silly, no plot hole was too big, no gimmick was too hackneyed, none of the fight scenes were too Shatnerian, and not one word of `witty' banter between the show's star and his driver (heh) was ever too corny for this young'un. `Course, when one takes into account the insipidness of the Saturday morning & weekday-afternoon `toons I used to veg out to at the time, the plots and dialogue of `Knight Rider' were a big step up on the intelligence scale...
Anyhoo, on with the show. This is where the madness started-- the 2-hour pilot that established the amazing trash-TV career of the hunky David Hasselhoff. Without his extraordinary thespian efforts in this show (heh), `Baywatch' probably would have... pretty much been the same I imagine. Sure, he wouldn't have been the executive producer... but it's not like that's a particularly challenging job for such a show....
But I digress. This two-part series premiere established the origin of central character Michael Knight (Hasselhoff), originally an undercover agent who was betrayed and left for dead in a botched bust attempt. He ends up being rescued by the secretive Foundation for Law & Government, nursed back to health, given a new face & identity, and is offered the chance to help bust criminals "who operate above the law", as the opening-credits narrator would state in subsequent episodes. Initially, our would-be hero doesn't wanna get too caught up in things, and declines the foundation's offer. Besides, he's got a score to settle with the folks who tried to do him in. So he hits the road in a brand new Trans-Am provided by the foundation, a car that looks a lot like the one he used to own, only with a Cylon-looking scanner dealie between the headlights and a buncha dashboard controls that make the driver's seat look like "Darth Vader's bathroom", as one lady put it. Oh yes, it also talks to him in a voice that sounds a lot like that one teacher from `Boy Meets World'. Or was he on `Saved by the Bell'? Eh, same difference...
Anyway, Michael's off to mete out his horrible vengeance, and goes about doin' so. After avenging his near-death-- and after a bit of out-loud soul-searching in front of the Knight Foundation's director (Devon Miles, played by the late Edward Mulhare) prior to the closing credits roll-- our hero decides to join the foundation in the fight against the worst elements of the criminal underground...
Thrown into the mix in this initial adventure are a few of KITT the car's neato features, including the turbo boost setting that gets him & his driver over and through a few tough obstacles. Also demonstrated are ejector seats, oil slicks, smoke screens, and a nigh-indestructible body that deflects bullets and withstands the impact of bustin' through several doors and walls in the course of the show. And what would an eppie of `Knight Rider' be without the staple comic relief moment featuring KITT interacting with an unsuspecting passerby? In this instance, the unsuspecting passersby are a pair of would-be car burglars who get more than a hot ride when they attempt to steal the highly modified T-top...
Overall, the first `Knight Rider' adventure is pretty good for what it is-- a fairly vapid action-oriented TV escapist adventure whose antics were slightly less preposterous than those of `The A-Team'. Don't be expectin' any deep thinkin' here, just a nice hour-and-a-half of the kinda mindless fun that only a wonderfully cheesy 80s high-tech boob-tube action series can deliver...
Happy motoring!
`Late
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