Knight Rider

The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour continues to explore the weekly cultural abyss of what really goes on After Dark. But as so often with the analysis of horror, the story of what scares us isn't quite as intriguing as what in turn reassures. And for a formative mind in the harsh striplights of the 1980s, there are few things so reassuring as the jet slacks, tousled demi-wave and leatherette blouson of the world's most mysterious techno-vigilante...

Yes, Doctor Velvet and Blackout are joined once again by the loveably irascible Ozzy Bognops, as their attention turns to that doyenne of Saturday teatime adventure, the Knight Rider. Because when things take a theatrically sinister turn on a Hollywood backlot and Michael Knight is sent to investigate, absolutely no nit will be left unpicked back at Mountpeg Towers...

How much money can you save by writing a screenplay set literally in the studio where it's going to be made, so that you don't have to do any set-dressing? How convenient is it to get your star's stuntman to play the star in a thing where your star plays his stuntman? And how many hints does a man have to drop that he just wants a job where he can go to the beach?

Tell your car to press Play, and find out...

WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING:

Programme: Knight Rider: Fright Knight
Broadcast: Friday 07 March 1986 (U.S.)
Production/Channel: Glen A. Larson Productions, NBC Television / ITV Network
Writer: Glen A. Larson, James Byrnes, Samm Smith, Leonard Kaufman
Music: Glen A. Larson, Stu Phillips, Don Peake
Producer/Director: Gino Grimaldi, Gilbert Shilton
Starring: David Hasselhoff, Edward Mulhare, Patricia McPherson, Peter Parros, Robert Englund, Michael Callan, Antony Ponzini

Of note, this week...

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