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i have the film ... people dont believe me

posted 16 years ago by Andy2411
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Ok. .. i have the movie you know where he is michael Long then becomes michael knight and they turn his car into KITT. why isnt the info on imdb ... people dont believe that it was ever a movie ... ppl are f...ing stupid. but is it on the 1st series as 2 parts?

[–] WilliamsBlair 16 years ago

That's the pilot episode, right -- Knight of the Phoenix?

WB
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[–] dracula_27 15 years ago

COrrect

[–] MikeHunt1075 15 years ago

It is on the DVD of season 1, called Knight Of The Phoenix. It's not a movie, it's just a movie length pilot episode.

The new Knight Rider series has done the same thing, as have many thousands of tv shows.

[–] roundtop_98 15 years ago

There was a movie made called Knight Rider 2000, Micheal Knight has retired, KITT has been dismantled and replaced with the Knight Industries Four Thousand, when a cop is shot and mortaly wounded and helped with the use of one of KITT's chips, Micheal is called back to duty and install KITT main processor unit into his turquiose 2-door 1957 Chevy Bel-Air, solves the cops assault and relaces the KIFT processor with KIIT and turns the keys over to the cop and Micheal returns to his retirment. I come with the box set of the complete first season, at least with the first release of the first season wheather or not it is still included I don't know.

[–] Rob-Slide 15 years ago

Its possible there are two cuts of the pilot, they did the same thing with the pilot for Airwolf, the movie cut of Airwolf is alot more violent than the TV pilot, it managed to get itself and 18 certificate on video release compared to the PG rating for the TV version.

[–] bsteward-2 13 years ago

Yes, I was just looking on IMDB for the original "Movie" too, but couldn't find it.. I suppose it may be considered a "Pilot" today but I'm pretty sure I remember it being aired as a TV Movie, originally... I was only 17 when the first Movie/Pilot aired, so I could be wrong, but I remember the original Knight Rider movie as being darker, in nature, than the weekly TV series ever was...

Bill Steward

[–] ringfire211 13 years ago

but I remember the original Knight Rider movie as being darker, in nature, than the weekly TV series ever was...

Well, that's because it was darker. I mean the hero gets shot point blank in the face.

But I still don't see how being darker automatically means it was a movie. It wasn't released in theaters or anything. It's just a 2-hour pilot for a weekly TV series. And that's how it is presented on the first disc of the Season 1 DVD - as a 2-hour pilot.

Connery, Moore, and Brosnan! Accept NO substitutes!

[–] bsteward-2 13 years ago

But I still don't see how being darker automatically means it was a movie. It wasn't released in theaters or anything. It's just a 2-hour pilot for a weekly TV series.

You're right, being darker than the weekly series doesn't automatically make it a "movie".. However, not being released in theaters wouldn't matter, there were many Made-for-TV movies back then, just as there are today... But I was never trying to make that argument, I was actually writing two separate and independent thoughts.. First, agreeing with the OP, that I too thought it was released initially as a TV movie, that's why I was here looking for the movie and not the first episode... And second, I thought it was "darker" than the rest of the series, as if it had been written for adults and the rest of the series had been written more for kids.. I looked at the first 11 episodes, the first episode was written by the Creator, Glen A. Larson... While episodes 2-11 had different writers.. That could explain the difference in violence between the 1st episode and the rest...

Bill Steward

[–] ringfire211 13 years ago

However, not being released in theaters wouldn't matter, there were many Made-for-TV movies back then

Well, you can call it a made-for-TV-movie if you want. You could pretty much call every pilot episode a TV-movie because most pilots were released in a 2-hour format which was almost always a bit different in tone from the rest of the series. And very often the cast members would change from the pilot to the rest of the series. For instance, in the A-TEAM pilot (or TV-movie, if you will) the role of Face was not played by Dirk Benedict but by a different actor. In the HAWAII FIVE-0 pilot the role of Danno was also not played by James MacArthur but by a different actor. Same with THE ROCKFORD FILES pilot - Rocky was plated by a different actor. This happened quite a bit. The pilot episodes were almost always in a 2-hour format in their initial broadcast but of course in syndication they would always be broken up into 2 episodes - Part I and Part II.

Heck, the season 2 opener GOLIATH was also shown as a 2-hour "TV-movie" back when it first ran in the fall of 1983. Same with the season 3 opener KNIGHT OF THE DRONES and the season 4 opener KNIGHT OF THE JUGGERNAUT. But in syndication they would always be shown in 2 parts. Of course none of this makes these episodes "movies" per se, just 2-hour episodes. I look at the pilot episode in the same way.

Connery, Moore, and Brosnan! Accept NO substitutes!

[–] misgatex 13 years ago

Actually, I have the clip from the original TV guide from 1982. The pilot episode was a 2 hour long broadcast, but the OP is stating that it was a movie because it was advertised in T.V. Guide that way. They really wanted to hype this show up, and they introduced the pilot as a movie. That is where the OP is getting his information from.

[–] millsey72 (9636) a year ago

I don't believe you. Stop lying