"Knight Rider" Let It Be Me (1984)

User Rating:

7.4/10   

Director:

Bernard McEveety

Writers:

Glen A. Larson (creator)
Robert Foster (teleplay) ...

TV Series:

"Knight Rider" (1982)

Original Air Date:

13 May 1984 (Season 2, Episode 20)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Michael investigates the death of Greg Noble, lead singer of the rock and roll band 'Class Action' only to discover the lead singer is his lost love Stevie March. He takes Noble's place in the band to protect Stevie and find the murderer. |

Plot Keywords:

Vhs | Singing | Beautiful Woman | Rock Band | Drugs

Cast

David Hasselhoff	...	Michael Knight (also archive footage)
Edward Mulhare	...	Devon Miles
Rebecca Holden	...	April Curtis
Catherine Hickland	...	Stephanie 'Stevie' March (also archive footage)
Michael C. Gwynne	...	Paul Brock (as Michael Gwynne)
John Patrick Reger	...	Greg Noble
Joseph Burke	...	Ivory
Shanna Reed	...	Barbara Bellingham
Randy Polk	...	Jimmy

Runtime:

USA:49 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Filming Locations:

Universal Amphitheater - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Company:

Glen A. Larson Productions

Trivia:

The episode was supposed to help in launching David Hasselhoff's singing career with the release of his debut album "Night Rocker" featuring Catherine Hickland (his then-wife in real life) on three songs.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): April explains that one column of the decoded binary message is for date, with F19 being for Friday the 19th, but there is also F20, and the subsequent band's live broadcast has F24 and F25, all of which are contrary to her explanation.

Quotes:

April Curtis: But you can't sing... can't you?
Michael Knight: Are you kidding? Before I joined the academy I used to sing all the time. I even had a record company interested in a demo I made.

Soundtrack:

Let It Be Me

This could be our first knight together

This is hands down the best all time episode. Stevie comes back again from the white bird episode from the first season to get Michael to join her band called Class Action. The lead singer dies right off the bat. Stevie is a total Stevie Nicks rip off and the band sounds like Rick Springerfield meets solo Stevie Nicks, minus a teener of coke. They make a music video in a VW Thing and the brakes go out. Sabotage! Michael totally fools the people in Class Action that are looking for a new singer by submitting a demo video tape of him performing in Australia. Flashbacks to White Bird, Stevie and Michael are magical. It's pretty bunk that Stevie knows Michael is her former fiancé back when he was Michael Long and looked more like David Caruso from NYPD Blue.