Knight Rider: Series 2 [DVD]

All 24 episodes from the second season of the popular American television adventure series, following the shadowy Michael Knight (David Hasselhoff) and his sentient car KITT as they fight crime and protect the innocent. In this series, Michael and KITT come up against a super-truck built by the dead Wilton Knight's ex-wife, Michael sustains an injury that makes him revert to his former identity as a policeman, and a computer hacker breaks into KITT's programming and erases his memory.

Episodes are: 'Goliath (Part 1)'; 'Goliath (Part 2)'; 'Brother's Keeper'; 'Merchants of Death'; 'Blind Spot'; 'Return to Cadiz'; 'KITT the Cat'; 'Custom KITT'; 'Soul Survivor'; 'Ring of Fire'; 'Knightmares'; 'Silent Knight'; 'A Knight in Shining Armour'; 'Diamond's Aren't a Girl's Best Friend'; 'White-Line Warriors'; 'Race For Life'; 'Speed Demons'; 'Goliath Returns (Part 1)'; 'Goliath Returns (Part 2)'; 'A Good Knight's Work'; 'Mouth of the Snake (Part 1)'; 'Mouth of the Snake (Part 2)'; 'Let it Be Me' and 'Big Iron'. No one in the 1980s had his finger on the pulse of gizmo-crazy adolescent boys like producer Glen Larson, creator of Battlestar Galactica and Manimal.

But the peak of Larson's particular genius has to be Knight Rider, the love story of an absurdly handsome man and his absurdly indestructible car. Former detective Michael Knight (, later to achieve worldwide media dominance with Baywatch) zooms across the U.S. in K.I.T.T., a supercharged talking Trans Am with an impenetrable shell and the catty voice of William Daniels (St. Elsewhere). From the Las Vegas desert to the Louisiana bayou, Michael and K.I.T.T. solve crimes and help the downtrodden with the aid of a multi-million-dollar corporation run by dapper Devon Myles (Edward Mulhare) and mechanic/secretary/nanny April Curtis (Rebecca Holden, who took over from Patricia McPherson for the second season only).

The first season was goofy camp from the start, but the second turned even more giddily ridiculous: K.I.T.T. developed supersensory, telekinesis, and the ability to drive on water; plots included amnesia, super attack helicopters, a desperately needed transplant for a sick girl, and a supremely cheesy evil-twin storyline featuring Garthe Knight, son of the multimillionaire who gave Michael his identity-changing facial surgery, played by Hasselhoff with a mustache, soul patch, and even more luxuriant hair. In one episode, Michael goes "undercover" as the lead singer of a rock band, allowing Hasselhoff to flaunt his beloved-in-Germany vocal stylings.

Of special note is an episode featuring Geena Davis (future Oscar-winner for The Accidental Tourist) as the daughter of a cat burglar, perhaps the only episode with a love interest as cartoonishly good-looking as Hasselhoff himself. This is definitive trash television, the kind of empty calories that, for some viewers, are irresistibly tasty. For Knight Rider fans, Season Two is a feast. --Bret Fetzer Synopsis One of the most popular action shows of the early 1980s, Knightrider inspired a devoted following because of its high-tech premise and the appeal of star David Hasselhoff.

Hasselhoff plays Michael Knight, a former cop who is paired with KITT, an indestructible car with numerous special functions, including artificial intelligence. Michael and KITT roam the country, righting wrongs and stopping criminal plots. This collection includes all the episodes from the second season.