"Force III" - The Forgotten, Never-Aired "Knight Rider" Inspired Action Adventure Show from 1987!

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@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial 4 месяца назад

UPDATE! The Force 3 Trans Am has been FOUND! More details soon...

@leonkernan 4 месяца назад

Well that happened quickly!

@AngelosWorkbench 4 месяца назад

I’m gonna guess it’s in NY since that’s a recently used NY plate on it. 😊

@MegasXLR 4 месяца назад

wow you act fast haha

@SayAhh 4 месяца назад

@@leonkernan Sometimes crowdsourcing works

@microbusss 4 месяца назад

yay

@Graytail 4 месяца назад

Those vehicles look so M.A.S.K I wonder what the badguys would have driven?

@Gangster88232 4 месяца назад

M.A.S.K was actually reincarnated in Team Knight Rider.

@williammitchell4417 4 месяца назад

True... MASK was inspired by that show. What Joe mentioned was a kind of "Charlie's Angels" thing going on.

@northprime_unlimited 4 месяца назад

Took the words out of my mouth 👍🏽

@85Stang331 4 месяца назад

You beat me to it

@scottsutorka6398 4 месяца назад

Giles Mayhem. Twin to Miles. 😂

@mr6johnclark 4 месяца назад

3 vietnam vets and 3 tricked out cars... Did they just do a mashup of Charlies angels + A-team + Knight rider?

@waterup380 4 месяца назад

and mask

@davidcarrol110 4 месяца назад

The A Team only lasted half a season in 1986/87. It fell to 61 in the weekly Nielsen's.

@rayf2145 4 месяца назад

+1. Three Vietnam vets and a boss never seen: A-team and Charlie´s. Only thing missing is a bountyhunter

@w1ll3m. 4 месяца назад

A-team van colors on the Trans Am make it look like Kitt for B.A.

@mikel.7968 4 месяца назад

Sounds so unoriginal and a complete rip-off A-team (season 5) with tricked-out vehicles. No wonder it was never green-lit.

@scottyktho 4 месяца назад

The scanner was added after production - you are correct it is indeed the JCW scanner. Paul Sher Jr owned this car as recently as 2002, he brought it and a few other cars (a convertible KITT, the Black Beauty from Green Hornet, and some MegaForce dune buggies) to a car auction at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas where I met him there. If I recall correctly, he mentioned to me that the scanner was installed sometime between production and before he acquired it.

@KasumiKenshirou 4 месяца назад

I noticed the scanner wasn't present in some of the artwork shown in this video.

@Spamsmoothie1701 4 месяца назад

When I saw it for sale on eBay, I don't recall seeing the scanner but it must have had it as I probably saw it around 2011 or 2012. (Rough estimate.)

@vprjls102075 4 месяца назад

three vietnam vets - A-Team .. driving tricked out vehicles - Knight Rider .. that receive assignments through a liaison - Charlie's Angels .. it's like an 80s mashup of action adventure shows

@jeffreybower5959 4 месяца назад

the A Team always drives the van

@thaknightryda4971 4 месяца назад

Wow, Force 3, that show became the blueprint for Team Knight Rider.

@Rogueshollow 4 месяца назад

I'm pretty sure Doc Lon Tan is Jeff Imada who is a stunt coordinator that worked on The Golden Child back in the 80's as well as countless other films and series.

@mathuetax 4 месяца назад

Certainly looks possible.Looking at IMDB he did the acting rounds of shows such as Air Wolf, Knight Rider, T.J. Hooker. Not to mention doing stunts on a tons of other shows in Knight Rider's era. 👍

@davepine5068 4 месяца назад

Hi, I know where the hero Transam car is, have done a bit of work on it a few years back and can put you in touch with the owner of you want to know more.

@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial 4 месяца назад

We would love that, please email us at knightriderhistorians@gmail.com. thanks!

@idletime 4 месяца назад

G'Afternoon from the high desert of southwest ID 🤠 . I'm a 49 yr old 80's kid, fellow archiveist & an 80's & 90's TV junkie 🤓 . I clearly remember watching the promo / intro for the F3 trailer. After Knight Rider, the A-Team, Airwolf, Hardcastle & McCormick, The Master, the Dukes, Macloud, banacek, Colombo Cannon & many other tv legends, even for me Force lll was just too much & seemed so goofy at the rime I couldn't get behind it & apparently no one else did either. I remember the Jeep sliding to a stop and the cowboy dude jumping out with a Lariat in hand and the ninja car but not so much the other. After the martial arts guy pulled a katana out of the grill and a sai out of a front wheel well I started laughing hysterically and I'm not surprised it went over about as well as a screen door on a submarine but that's just my 02¢ 🤓 ..

@davidcarrol110 4 месяца назад

Paul Robinson from Neighbours had a cool Mitsubishi Starion.

@nascargas 4 месяца назад

Now that you mention it... ..hmmmmm. My memory aint what it used to be. 🤦‍♂️

@georgeerhard1949 4 месяца назад

@@davidcarrol110 The Mitsu Starion was the "Supercar" that Japan entered into the second Cannonball, crewed by Jackie Chan and Richard "Jaws" Kiel.

@davidcarrol110 4 месяца назад

@@georgeerhard1949 I didn't know that. The Starion was only made in the 1980s. No new models were made in the '90s!

@deluxepressure 4 месяца назад

@@georgeerhard1949 that was ugly car

@TheRealMrCods 5 месяцев назад

I would have loved this in 1987, What a shame it didnt happen.

@andrewdyton580 4 месяца назад

Well why don't you simply ask Jack Gill, this does ring a bell with somebody I knew in universal a long time ago, something to do with digitising old programs, I have no idea if they're still alive. But I have no idea it was derived from Knight Rider. Worth a phone call. Who knows.

@RedPolarBearRanger 4 месяца назад

The plane reminds of me the homing robot that's in the Mach V from Speed Racer, if it is Jack Gill Joe you and the other historians should reach out to him and talk about Force III with him. This is a piece of tv history that needs to be unearthed and shown to the public for the first time ever.

@ChrisSmith-po3zu 4 месяца назад

As you and others have stated, this looks suspiciously close to M.A.S.K. My guess is that they got into a copyright or trademark lawsuit, since M.A.S.K came first in 1985, and they had to destroy all of the filmed Force 3 episodes. I'm hoping it still exists because that show sounds awesome.

@KasumiKenshirou 4 месяца назад

I guess that's possible. There was a cartoon in the 1980s called Mighty Orbots that had its accompanying toyline cancelled due to legal action from Tonka, claiming that the name Mighty Orbots was too similar to their GoBots' tagline, "Mighty robots, mighty vehicles". The cartoon still aired, though, so maybe there's hope for Force III.

@rafaelfiallo4123 4 месяца назад

Another forgotten car show I just learned about was 1966-67's T.H.E. Cat with Robbert Logia where he plays reformed cat burglar that is now helping the downtrodden get justice. He has a modified Corvette in the show, someone said the majority of the episodes have been lost.

@geoff1971 4 месяца назад

I remember reading about " Force 3 " in an issue of High Performance Pontiac in 87 or 88.

@DiabLow0 4 месяца назад

The actor portraying "Joe Willis" bears a resemblance to the late Brad Johnson. Notably, Brad Johnson's filmography shows a gap between his 1986 "Dallas" appearance and the 1989 film "Nam Angels," potentially allowing for him to have filmed part or all of a series.

@cyberhawk99 4 месяца назад

This is who it looked like to me as well, but couldn't remember his name or what he played in. Thanks for saving me from pulling out all of my hair trying to figure it out.

@thomasbentley4757 4 месяца назад

Didn't Brad Johnson star in a show called The Gemini Man? I know it's unrelated to Force 3 but I'm just curious.

@iblackfeathers 4 месяца назад

entities involved with the show: edward j. lasko - producer, writer stanford blum - producer avi arad - creator, supervising producer chuck bail - pilot director fm entertainment, inc. - edward s. feldman and charles r. meeker the saul group - neil b. saul, president lewis galoob toys, inc. mask came before force iii. maybe they ditched the show to avoid potential lawsuits? could be a question to ask them if any of them are contacted for more info about this show. cowboy could be brad johnson, who passed away on feb 2022.

@johnbigboote8900 4 месяца назад

One small note: The M134 itself is not a "chain gun." Maybe the creators of the show have invented a variant that is, but it would be a major redesign. Oh, and to answer your question, we would say "Wow, Joe, that's amazing. Once again you've found a Knight Rider related topic that is both fascinating and entertaining. Thank you." Or words to that effect.

@WyteXLighting 4 месяца назад

Woah never Aired someone needs to put it out this is legend this is like a whole new show from the 80s time I wonder how many good 80s shows didn't make it

@LongestRunningSuperHeroRPG 4 месяца назад

As I was watching I was thinking of M.A.S.K. and then a second later you mentioned it, lol. great minds think alike! The jeep also reminds me of Gator from M.A.S.K. and the TransAm (aside from the obvious associations with K.I.T.T.) reminds me of a TranAm toy I had in the 80's, where you pushed a button and wings popped out the sides. I think it was black, blue, red, and silver... but I could be remembering it wrong.

@johnnyforriester7325 4 месяца назад

The M.A.S.K. Camaro.....was well....a IROC Camaro.

@bluecollarbuddha948 4 месяца назад

Switch Force was the toy you're thinking of.

@darrell9832 4 месяца назад

For MASK toys, there was a camero that the doors would flip up like wings and the exhaust side pipes looked like guns and something flipped on the back to reveal exhaust jets, meaning it was to take to the sky's.😁

@LongestRunningSuperHeroRPG 4 месяца назад

@@bluecollarbuddha948Yes! Thank you! I couldn't remember what it was called. Now I'll have to hunt one down on eBay, lol

@PeterVC 4 месяца назад

Strange that a press kit would not mention the names of the actors.

@EmperorKonstantine01 4 месяца назад

Assuming Legal Conditions. Disclosure statement would of got them payed out up front before the show got advertised or even went to air. ie. We never heard of you, you never worked here.

@danmurphy9173 4 месяца назад

And in pilot world, the show isn’t a thing till it’s a thing…why promote unnamed actors when you might change them anyway (if the show gets picked up)? My guess is they filmed a pilot and that’s it. No network bought it, Kenner (toy company for MASK) was pissed, end of story.

@Ecosse57 4 месяца назад

I seriously would have been interested in this show. Great investigative work! Something I would have absolutely loved to have seen done, and maybe still could be done, is a Knight Rider prequel where Devon was the first K-R and drove around in a gadget filled but pre-compter KITT 1960s black Trans Am. Imagine a young Devon in a 1968/69 setting!

@1977TA 4 месяца назад

Prequels have a way of diminishing things. Do we really need to know how FLAG started? We got enough backstory in 'Knight of the Phoenix.' It has been well established that KARR was the first vehicle FLAG developed. Creating a protype that existed before KARR just for the sake of seeing a young Devon Miles as the first FLAG driver fighting crime in the late 1960s is fool hearty. The established canon told us Michael Knight is the first FLAG driver. The Foundation for Law and Government was not operating as we know it in the 1960s. It is possible the project that became KITT was being developed during that decade and continued through the 1970s. Anyway, my point is prequels are never a good idea when you have a story that is already established.

@user-mi4wv5yi5d 4 месяца назад

@@1977TA, I ask you this respectively what was the inspiration for flag, what led up to oldman knight (sorry forgot his first name) what was the insperation, the previous op maybe has a thing there yes we know the story of flag,KITT& KARR, But maybe Devon was the original avenging driver of a analogue car, with manually operated gadgets something similer to lets say James Bonds Aston for instance, but in a 72 Trans-Am, maybe itcould of been the precurser for Flag and old man knight saw what the future could be and how flag could be developed in to what it was, every great oak tree starts as an acorn

@KasumiKenshirou 4 месяца назад

@@user-mi4wv5yi5d If it was done well then I would watch that. But if it were made today they would screw it up.

@1977TA 4 месяца назад

@i4wv5yi5d I don't like prequels because they not only create plot hole conflicts, but they also create a bunch of unnecessary events that were not mentioned in the existing canon. For example, Princess Leia never mentioned meeting Kenobi when she was a little girl. The Kenobi series made a mess of what was established in 'A New Hope.' I don't want to see Knight Rider ruined with a dump of made-up information we did not need to know. What we need is a creative way to bring Knight Rider back that continues the legacy, building on what has been established in the original series.

@saferiderrules 4 месяца назад

One thing never explained was did the foundation use Michael Longes car to build KITT or was it a coincidence that Michael Judy happened to have an 82 Trans Am when he was recovered from the desert. KARR was an 82 Trans Am and was in development before Michael Longe was shot.

@gnws6 4 месяца назад

Interesting. Like a cross between Team Knight Rider and MASK. If Jack Gill is still alive, definitely reach out to him. Odd that they shot up to 65 episodes worth of footage, and never aired one. Sixty-five episodes is roughly 3-4 seasons with of shows.

@waterup380 4 месяца назад

they did that back then but they shot one or two shows then someone backs out last minute and nothing is ever seen again

@gnws6 4 месяца назад

@@waterup380 usually, just a pilot. They'd shoot a pilot episode, it wouldn't get picked up for whatever reason, then that would be it. To shoot a pilot, then another 64 episodes to never air it is asinine to me. Then for them to do car stunts and all of that, there would have to have been SEVERAL copies of each of the vehicles. Everyone's time, pay, production costs, etc... 3-4 seasons worth of episodes is 3-4 years worth of content. They typically would renew one year after another, depending on ratings of the previous season, and THEN shoot the episodes.

@KasumiKenshirou 4 месяца назад

It was actually quite common back then for CARTOONS to have 65 episodes created for their first seasons to run every weekday in syndication. MASK's first season had 65 episodes, as did many others. Even cartoons for toys that weren't successful still ended up with a 65 episode season, like Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors.

@MrMan-ol4ic 4 месяца назад

Yes, Mask! I had the C.O.E. KW! THE cab flipped back, tuned into a tank! It was blue! I had to cut 3 yards to get that truck. But there was also a red KW Tractor, too! Mask was the shit back in the day!

@chrisgoffe5048 Месяц назад

Bulldog was its name

@tryksta7247 4 месяца назад

Reminds me of The A-Team meeting Team Knight Rider. The Trans Am had a NY license plate on it, at least before its auction. Also in the promo photos for some reason it doesn't have the scanner. I figure NBC made their typical boneheaded decisions to axe a sci-fi show. Those 65 episodes gotta be sitting in a vault somewhere.

@mwjones71 4 месяца назад

Unlikely NBC had anything to do with it. In the 1980's the big three networks had very limited in-house production, typically only producing studio shows (The Tonight Show, game shows, soap operas, etc). Everything else was dependent on the dozens of production houses to produce. Shows like Knight Rider and A-Team came from Universal, Dukes of Hazzard from Warner Brothers, and so on. Now NBC is part of Comcast, which also has Universal, just like CBS is part of Paramount and ABC Disney. Even though each network now has their own studio, they still rely on the other production houses for content. Being this was slated for Syndication and was already in production, something else had to scuttle the program. Orbis Communications has gone through a number of hands (including being acquired in 1987 - a possible clue to the reason the show got yanked) but most of the programs they produced is now owned by NBCUniversal. Could somebody with inside knowledge at NBCU search the archives?

@FrankKnight8846 22 дня назад

Three amazing adventure cars, That’s AWESOME!!!!!…Its a shame that they didn’t air it at the time. Now I really wanna see this show.

@rafaelfiallo4123 4 месяца назад

MASK was the first thing that came to mind to when I saw the cars.

@janna-renee 4 месяца назад

This was a fascinating video! Thanks, Joe.

@KRHExclusives 4 месяца назад

11:26...AH, Code One...thank you, Paul Sher for this gem!

@FirstDan2000 5 месяцев назад

At first it sounded lile a cross between Team Knight Rider and The A Team (ATKR ?) Until i saw that Trans Am. That thing is awesome. I would love to see this show. The guy on the left resembled Jim Carrey.

@chris-townson 4 месяца назад

This is absolutely fascinating! Well done for finding out as much as you have already. I hope the recordings survived.

@darrell9832 4 месяца назад

After reading the comments, I do remember seeing a particial episode of Team Knight Rider. Though these episodes were regulated to the Saturday afternoon time slot back then. Wouldn't have known of it, but just so happened to be flipping channels and came upon it.

@vijayantgovender2045 4 месяца назад

Very interesting thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge watching from South Africa

@arcticfox6808 4 месяца назад

8:44 Whoa! Drone technology back then? Prophetic.

@mmaldonadojr Месяц назад

Prophetic? This is literally a rip-off from the 60's anime Speed Racer. The hero's car, the Mach-5, had exactly this contraption.

@mmaldonadojr Месяц назад

In a way, Speed Racer was the precursor of much we see in KITT: a super-fast, nearly indestructible car that can jump obstacles, that bears lots of exuberant tech. However, the Mach-5 didn't talk, she was more of an equipment than a real character.

@nathanm8242 4 месяца назад

I was today years old learning about this show 😅😂. I hope Knight Rider Historians can find out more about it, thanks for sharing this!

@ClarkeMarek 4 месяца назад

Force III Historians.

@TeChM4NuAloJuNkiE 4 месяца назад

11:33 i love that tow bar still there 😂😂😂

@HangoverTelevision 4 месяца назад

that female actor looks familiar to me.... COULD BE: Marcy Walker, later known as Eden Capwell in Santa Barbara!

@Mu-podcast 4 месяца назад

I would have absolutely watched this show, and probably loved it. The idea of a live action M.A.S.K. is right up my alley. Thanks for sharing this little glimpse into what might have been.

@CadillacM 4 месяца назад

It would be awesome if it was k.i.t.t, airwolf and A-team van.

@BrianKitching-wv5nh 4 месяца назад

Never knew about this tv show Joe,it would have been great if this show had aired,i would have loved to have seen it.Thanks for another interesting video.That trans am looked amazing.

@Spamsmoothie1701 4 месяца назад

I saw this car on eBay Motors many years ago. The listing mentioned it was built for some unaired pilot, but didn't go into any real detail. I can't recall what it ended up selling for.

@Mythbuster3808 4 месяца назад

Alright internet get to work. We need to find this stuff.

@WyteXLighting 4 месяца назад

Get it from the producer I bet he got it he needs to put them 65 episodes out.

@chosenman08 4 месяца назад

Would it be too daring to ask Jack Gill...Just thinking. Very interesting and I bet you had to dig very deep to get this!

@davudandrews2665 4 месяца назад

Okay now that was cool and it reminds me of Viper show with the tv camera another cool video Joe

@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS 4 месяца назад

Very super interesting and cool!

@thespicemelange.1 4 месяца назад

I had some of these toys when I was a kid. Man that takes me back.

@l__bug__l 4 месяца назад

This would have been amazing !!

@Jon-bx1ij 3 месяца назад

I remember here in the uk in the 80s there was an animation called Pole Position, that also featured tricked out Vehicles. Theres footage on here. It also had a good theme tune (just like alot of stuff on Tv back then) Pole Position was first shown in 1984.

@LuisVazquez-hx3bk 4 месяца назад

I remember there was a show of talking cars like Night Rider, including a motorcycles and a SUV.

@disappointed5 4 месяца назад

The Jeep in the pictures is a YJ Wrangler. The XJ with no # 7 was the code for the Cherokee SUV at the time. The predecessor to the YJ Wrangler was the called CJ7. Whoever wrote the information on that Jeep did not get it correct.

@dodgeramsport01 4 месяца назад

and you are the final word how?

@disappointed5 4 месяца назад

Because I have several jeeps over the last 40 years. There was never an XJ7. @@dodgeramsport01

@chrislongbeard 4 месяца назад

All easily looked up online. And common knowledge to a Jeep guy. @@dodgeramsport01

@lexx2847 Месяц назад

Well this was certainly an eye-opener! I just trawled through what details I could find on ProQuest, and it’s even less than you have. Normally I can find cast and crew information in old issues of Variety and The Hollywood reporter, but I can’t even find that. There are a handful of syndicated television state of play articles in Variety around 87-88 which mention the show as being available for airing with 24 episodes completed. The later reports list the show as “Force III (Three Vets Right Wrongs)”, and one article mentions a lot of interest from international buyers. Maybe it got sold to a few countries outside the US? From what I understand, the productions of Orbis (later part of Carolco) are now controlled by a Paramount subsidiary called Melange Pictures. If I can find out how to contact them, I’ll let you know. Thanks for sending me down this rabbit hole!

@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial Месяц назад

Great info! We'd love to hear of any leads you may find!

@Loner2012AT 4 месяца назад

Always interesting learning about lost media. Neat show! I think the cowboy Jeep guy is the actor, who played in that TV movie, about that thing, that they made that time.

@thedude8046 4 месяца назад

They should make a real life M.A.S.K tv show.

@alman54 2 месяца назад

Force 3 looks like a TV show designed just to sell toys. If I watched the show, I might have wanted the jeep or car. And the action figures! What fun playing Force 3 at home.

@jasonmitchell5392 4 месяца назад

I would love to see this in its entirety 🤙

@duyahnwalker5646 4 месяца назад

I don’t know if you’ve ever spoken about the show on this channel or should I say movie. It was a spinoff from Knight Rider. It was called code of vengeance and it was originally aired on ABC. The gentleman who played David Dalton was supposed to be kind of like a Michael Knight. I wonder why the show was never released with the Nightrider box sets.

@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial 4 месяца назад

The full movie is on our channel!

@mdeslaur 4 месяца назад

The red joystick is from a Super Zaxxon arcade game.

@dadgurt5430 4 месяца назад

also Tron

@freddymentos8378 4 месяца назад

The guy with the Trans-Am is kinda like Matt Tracker from M.A.S.K mixed with the main character from the TV show Viper. The show also has a bit of a reverse Charlies Angles vibe too This is pretty interesting. It's not just a pilot episode that was filmed either. Sounds like an entire season was filmed then canned. 65 Episodes was required to put a TV series into syndication back in the day.

@SuperHaunts 4 месяца назад

I REALLY want this now... !!

@xheralt 2 месяца назад

As a teen of the 80's I just want to note that the "blades" fired by MASK's Raven 'Vette look like repurposed disks from the Star Trek Phaser toy gun aka Rayline Tracer Gun

@jonmyers8046 4 месяца назад

Well that certainly was interesting!! Kinda like Charlie's Angels in reverse. With a little bit of an A-Team feel to it also. I have a feeling you may have opened another Pandora's box on this one. I'm betting there's going to be another follow up video to this. Good luck with the hunt. 👍

@19chucki74 4 месяца назад

From 1982 to '86, that was my show as a kid. Wonder how successful Force III would have been back then, yet it sounded similar to the cartoon M.A.S.K. Ahhh the 80s.

@MrJeep75 4 месяца назад

This so cool

@boboso7238 3 месяца назад

There was another show in the early 80's about a fancy car and a race team (not sure) that didn't even last half a season. The car wasn't fancy like KITT but I can never recall the name or seem to find anything on it. I want to say it was on ABC when it debuted. It wasn't Hardcastle & McCormick, but the car stood out like the Coyote. I want to say the car opened like a Sterling Nova or some other unique way like a Lambo.

@emmour9288 4 месяца назад

Never heard of this but my God it looks great!!!!!!

@CCDM6988 4 месяца назад

Awesome 0️⃣ 1️⃣ 🏁 I remember team Knight Rider.

@Guyver50005 4 месяца назад

sounds like a cross between Knight Rider and Charlies Angels meet the A Team

@EmperorKonstantine01 4 месяца назад

Exactly, And all those Shows would of wanted their Royalties and their copyright permissions from Force III, which is why they axed the show before it even went to air.

@alecj3454 4 месяца назад

The whole show reminds me of MASK. That cartoon with vehicles that were all tricked out like the Force III cars. I wonder if the toys got repurposed into MASK toys considering how close some of those designs seem to be. The best part of the MASK cartoon was the character who spoke in a Jack Nicholson voice and rode a motorcycle...it was very memorable. He would say "Stiletto Fire!" in an exaggerated Jack Nicholson impression that was seemingly common with lots of mediocre comedians in the 90's.

@FallGuy467 4 месяца назад

Sly Rax/Piranha

@D.S_Productions 4 месяца назад

It Remembers me a little bit on the Trans Am that was used in the Japanese Action TV Series called Metal Heroes

@taso3429 4 месяца назад

機動刑事ジバンですね、憧れの三代目ファイヤーバードトランザムが使われてました、後番組のいくつかにはカマロ、カラーロ、トージャン、コルベットc4c3当時日本では特撮にスタイリッシュなアメリカ車が沢山使われてました、とてもかっこよかったです

@D.S_Productions 4 месяца назад

『コブラ11への警報』で、高速道路警察が実際にそれをK.I.T.T.と呼んだことは想像できます。レプリカは追跡中にセミルとベンによってなんとか大破された

@halko1 4 месяца назад

Geeat find. Someone knows more about It and hopefully we will too one day.

@robertpresley6414 4 месяца назад

It would really be something if those vehicles still existed

@EmperorKonstantine01 4 месяца назад

Would of also been a legal Knightmare, Becasue G.A LArson and Universal Pictures owned the designs and the copyrights to KITT

@Rex_Stuph 4 месяца назад

I think I might of seen an advertisement for this in a Marvel comic about that time. I wish I could back this up, but that Jeep and the Trans Am and name are really familiar.

@kimjongoof5000 4 месяца назад

I also wanna mention that Toei also make a Knight Rider-like show called Jiban back in 1989. Despite taking olace in Japan, it actually uses a 1987 Trans Am in KARR colors

@Phoenixknight79 4 месяца назад

watching this video, those vehicles reminded me of the cartoon MASK where the cars and trucks transformed into battle mode

@DaisyLynn-ho8gj 4 месяца назад

I really hope that you get more information about this show and do a future update video.

@benjaminhunt2395 4 месяца назад

I remember watching some of this on a local TV station

@dark_dashy_VOD 4 месяца назад

6:43 i used to own this car when i was younger if i knew it was from this show back then i would had never got rid of it

@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial 4 месяца назад

Any pics from your time owning it?

@Screamers85 4 месяца назад

Reminds me a lot of the "Switch Force" toy line by LJN.

@soulstep967 4 месяца назад

Cool

@NicolasCorte 4 месяца назад

Sorry, I skipped the warning but it has to be said. WOW! That's some pro level production.

@RiderRated18 4 месяца назад

This would of been awesome 😮👍

@markc5111 4 месяца назад

It sounds like it could have been an awesome series ❤. The elements sound like they were incorporated into the short lived Highwayman tv series which starred Sam jones. Also the chain guns are very similar to the ones installed in the 2008 KITT Mustang. This series needs to be found 😁❤😎

@jediknightjairinaiki560 4 месяца назад

I bet Funko will make a 4-pack of POP! figures.

@ernestthomas3965 4 месяца назад

That TV show sounds like it's a mixture of the A Team and Knight Rider.

@ericdefrancesco6089 4 месяца назад

I would love to see the shows . looks interesting.

@matthewholzinger1042 4 месяца назад

The character of Barbara Wales sounds like Bosley from Charlie's Angels. The plane in the hood reminds of Speed Racer.

@xheralt 2 месяца назад

It does sound like gender-swapped Charlie's Angels, doesn't it?

@mikekozi-lester3887 4 месяца назад

Hi Joe talk to KITT Nice video 📹 and workmanship!!!

@thebandit7408 4 месяца назад

That car was on ebay alot in the 90s,extremely low miles too if I remember correctly

@IowaBudgetRCBashers 4 месяца назад

I’m pretty sure I remember a pilot being shown, but nothing more. I remember that car

@EthanDolan61101 4 месяца назад

This reminds me of an idea i have about an adventure series that centered around a trio who drive a car known as The Ecto Time Rider 2000 a vehicle that is the result of a three way collaboration between The Knight Foundation for Law and Government, Doc. E.L. Brown Enterprises, and The Ghostbusters Corporation. The three members represent one of the three parties who developed and constructed the car. From The Foundation there is Michelle Knight, Daughter of Michael Knight, From Brown Enterprises comes Jules son of founder and pioneer, Doc Brown, and finally from The Ghostbusters, Patricia Venkman, daughter of Peter Venkman. These three are a team who use their unique skills to run and maintain their vehicle. Michelle is the muscle of the group, she is the one who handles most of the private investigation procedures and maintains K.I.T.T. himself, who is installed into the car. She developed her fighting style from her father, but her technological knowhow from her mother, Bonnie. Jules Brown is a wizard when it comes to science, he is the brains of the team, he looks after all the time travel elements of the car. He also is a explorer and enjoys learning from the beautiful surroundings he ventures to. Finally Patricia is a. Paranormal lore fanatic Goth, she is definitely inspired by Egon and Ray, but she is also inspired by her father, what with her occasional dark humour. She sometimes argues with Michelle with Jules usually in the middle of the situation. These three fight crime travel through time and hault paranormal threats. The do it using their vehicle who has the capabilities of all the three vehicles of the three corporations. The car can also split into three separate smaller vehicles for when they need to deal with several problems at once. Their car can even talk as it contains the real CPU of Knight 2000 or K.I.T.T., K.I.T.T. is a member of the team too and he assists the trip with all their assignments. So guys what do you think of this idea? I'm thinking of turning it into a comic.

@rickb8353 4 месяца назад

The cowboy I think that’s actor Brad Johnson

@1977TA 4 месяца назад

They would have been better off getting the license to make this a M.A.S.K. live action series. The brand recognition from the cartoon was already in place along with the toy line. Force 3 looks to have been inspired by M.A.S.K., not Knight Rider. This could be the reason the decision was made to pull the plug on it to avoid potential lawsuits. The studio spent money building the custom vehicles and went as far as filming several episodes. Something serious must have happened for production to just shut down without a single episode airing. It is almost as if an attempt was made to erase Force 3 from existence. My theory is someone from M.A.S.K. got a hold of them and issued a cease-and-desist order.

@claytonthomas1980 4 месяца назад

That would have been a great series to watch on TV, but time will tell if that will ever happen down the line.

@kall3467 4 месяца назад

It also has a team knight rider air about it along with the MASK vibe.

@naysmith5272 4 месяца назад

Interesting view under the door skin to lift up @8:32

@jay-quinthunder7967 4 месяца назад

👋😳😲 Sounds like The A Team + Knight Rider + M.A.S.K = Force 3!

@Renserin 4 месяца назад

Oh, it definitely sounds like a mashup of Airwolf and MASK to me. I love a good mystery though, and this one sounds like a doozy. The only thing I can speculate is that for a production company to eat that much time and effort, whoever or whatever killed Force III had to come from very high in the entertainment industry.