On This Day: 27th October, 1997

Eleven years ago today saw the first airing of the fan-favourite Team Knight Rider episode K.R.O.. TKR are called in to locate a downed aircraft, and learn that it was carrying the "Knight Reformulation One," a Series-1 Knight Foundation vehicle that was planned to replace Michael Knight and K.I.T.T. The virtually indestructible Ferrari escapes and sets about freeing its unstable driver, Martin Jantzen (played by Bill Bumiller) from custody so that they can extract revenge on the Foundation.

On This Day: 6th October, 1997

It's eleven years since the first Knight Rider spin-off to go to series hit the air. On this day in 1997, Team Knight Rider debuted with the episode Fallen Nation. TV Guide ran the following synopsis:

"Five super-intelligent vehicles are driven by five highly-trained operatives who take over when conventional law enforcement agencies fail. In the opener, Jenny tests her loyalty to a former marine commander embroiled in an anti-government plot."

Don LaFontaine Has Passed Away...

Don LaFontaine, whose lengthy career in voiceover led to him narrating over 5000 film and TV trailers, passed away yesterday due to complications from pneumothorax. He was 68.

He will be familiar to fans of Knight Rider as the narrator of the ads for the TV movie Knight Rider 2000 -- "For four years they rode together, a man who did not exist and a car unlike any other!" -- and the opening titles of Team Knight Rider:

"Ten years ago, all it took was one man... and one car... to get the job done. Now, the Foundation for Law and Government has assembled five highly-skilled operatives and paired them with the most advanced, state-of-the-art vehicles to take on a new breed of outlaw."

You can learn more about the man and his work at his website.