In this episode, Michael, and his female (human) Co-Star (Catherine Hickland) are cast as singers. As you know, Hasselhoff (Michael) is the main character and his primary long lost love interest, played by Catherine, was cast as such, but there obviously wasn't any expectations of either of them being used to portray singers.
To be honest, I give almost every episode of Knight Rider 8 stars, and this is no exception, but is there is something very different about this episode.
Normally, part of the fun is the creativity of the Stunt Drivers and Stunt Coordinators who use all sorts of clever tricks pull off both the action sequences as well as the many different ways they manage to hide a driver within KITT.
This episode had very few such sequences so it was very unimpressive in that respect, but the "wizardary" that normally gets created by the Stunt-people, in this episode, was transferred to the director instead!
Most Hollywood actors and actresses are pretty-good singers, and that includes Hasselhoff and Hickland. But their actual voices in this episode weren't good enough, by themselves, to believably pull off the roles of being Rock stars.
The cute trick here was that the director put their true talent, ACTING, into play to make up for the loss... most the singing scenes are done with the two next to each and often touching, using their acting abilities to an extra dimension to those scene to make the musical scenes come through very nicely - in other words, the chemistry is good that, in my opinion, it successfully takes distracts from the lack of superb singing.
In my mind, this was just as much of a "clever stunt" as all the jumping and self-driving, and was pulled off just as well, if not better, than the normal types of "clever tricks."
Worth watching if you're willing to see some car chases replaced by some singing and some (acted out) physical chemistry. :-)
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