"Knight Rider" Redemption of a Champion (TV Episode 1986) Poster

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5/10
Average. No loners.
schitlipz14 October 2020
I always found it strange how the title sequence calls the Michael Knight character a loner when there is basically a big family called the Foundation for Law and Government.

Anyways, this is a totally average episode. Nothing particularly great. So why am I compelled to write this? It's being aired too often -- I'm not kidding. It's not the episode's fault or anything.

Sometimes I think whoever at the station knew somebody in a show and keeps re-airing it. Well I'm sick of it. Doesn't matter what day of the week or time of day, the episode is aired. THAT episode.

Same thing happened about a decade or two ago when A Knight's Tale was almost exclusively showed on a station back-to-back for months, if not over a year. I don't understand these quirks in the entertainment media industry.

So this is just an ordinary episode of Knight Rider. There are so many that are better. Airing it more often doesn't make it better, and, in fact, makes me and other (probably) start to dislike it. Such as it is with anything forced upon somebody over and over again... like so many other things we see in society.
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5/10
Okay Boxing Based Episode
hypestyle14 October 2020
Warning: Spoilers
The plot for this episode is kind of formula. Specifically it involves a journalist who was about to expose a crooked boxing promoter with mob ties. The journalist is killed in a mysterious explosion at his home, and Michael is called in to investigate. The investigation leads him to a middle-aged Boxer named Keeler (played by real life boxer Ken Norton) . Keeler has some well publicized health issues (e.g., brain damage) but somehow he is enticed to come back for a major match with a huge purse. Additionally, Keeler has been led to believe that he accidentally killed his last opponent. Michael investigates, tries to get close to Keeler and his wife, and happens.

The boxer vs mob storyline has been done any number of times on other shows and movies. But there is an intriguing danger sequence when an aqueduct is flooded and Michael and Kitt have to somehow escape. Norton isn't a great actor but obviously he's not the first athlete to get a guest star role on a TV show or movie, loosely based on their (former) profession.
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5/10
Lame
Calicodreamin28 December 2021
Lame storyline that didn't even attempt to be a mystery, just laid it all on the line in the first five minutes. Michael needs to take the hint, he's never gone in an aqueduct and made it out unscathed.
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