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Stu recently checked in with us to let us know that the long-awaited Knight Rider Soundtrack CD with music composed by Stu Phillips is finally available for purchase!

You can now buy your personally autographed copies from stuwho.com for $19.99 plus shipping!

As we reported in March, the soundtrack will contain the complete and original main title theme, as well as the complete score from the Pilot, Trust Doesn't Rust, Forget Me Not, Not a Drop to Drink, plus some cues from Inside Out. It will also contain a booklet with pictures and a message from Glen Larson!

This sounds like an amazing collection which is sure to be first rate. Place your order today!

Chris Kerr, the author of As Seen on TV wrote to us to give us an updat that his website chriskerr.co.uk is now active. There you can find out more about the book, it's author, and read a number of excerpts from it.

As Seen on TV is the story of Kirk Rush, a struggling screenwriter in LA, faced with a problem which no one else can help with - how to write The A-Team movie, hit the big time in Hollywood, and save his sister Denise who has gone AWOL from her kidney dialysis treatment in Miami. MISSION: Impossible.

As Seen on TV is a surreal satire of our TV-obsessed culture, shot through with catch phrases, programme titles, and Hollywood look-a-likes. It is dark and terrifically absurd, with echoes of Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon.

It's currently available for £7.69 through Amazon.co.uk.

We originally mentioned this book last month

We got an email in our box earlier this week from Chris Kerr, an Irish author whos new book "As Seen on TV" is a surreal satire about our TV Obsessed culture. One of the infulences from this book is Knight Rider!

Here is a book sample:

I have a problem. No one else can help. Except maybe the likes of Hannibal, Face, BA, Murdock, and hooray for Hollywood feminism, Triple A. Yep, I want to hire The A-Team. Call me ‘Howling Mad’--that’s one better than barking--if this here problem of mine doesn’t raise its bull-ugly head in the middle of Tuesday night, 24th April. There I am, in my Hollywood bed, experiencing a wakeful dream about selling a script to Spielberg himself. I’m pitching the learned-by-rote resume I say to everyone out here, even the people in my dreams. ‘My go-project is The A-Team, Mr Spielberg. The door to this was The Six Million Dollar Man movie--even though they got some A-hole to rewrite me and retitled it The Bionic Dude. The key to that door was my spec script Zombie Moon--it’s all about how Zylon, an experimental space-age gas, makes the international crew of astronauts on Moon Base Alpha die and come back as undead brain-eaters.’

This book is available from Amazon shipping February 10th, 2005.
Click on the link below to read the Press Release

Back in August, Don Peake, the series composer for Knight Rider released a collection of scores from various episodes. This collection was created to be sold at the Knight-Con in Germany, but was also available at the Knight Nationals and in limited qualities online.

Now the disc is available for everyone through Hitchcock Media for $24.99. Mention "Knight Rider" and Don Peake will sign your CD!

The disc contains scores from the following episodes:

1. Let It Be Me
2. Scent Of Roses
3. White Bird
4. Junk Yard Dog
5. Halloween Knight
6. Mouth Of The Snake

The collection is made from the original masters, and by using modern sound techniques it results in the best sound ever. It's over 70 minutes of music!

After fueling much discussion since July the 1/18th model designed by Ertl and released by their JoyRide studio label as well as Aoshima in Japan, has begun to make it to store shelves around the globe.

The first models in the 1/18 scale, and the largest KITT model since the Kenner Voice car of the 80s, this model goes leaps and bounds over any die cast predecessor. This model features a working scanner, detailed dash, opening doors, trunk and hood with detailed engine. Working grappling hook, and a right ejection seat.

We've compiled a small list of Knight Rider items that are available, incase you are looking for a gift for that special Knight Rider fan in your life. We tried to find a location for items where we could, but some you may have to search on your own to find as they haven't saturated the market enough.

For the US:

For the UK

Knight Rider T-Shirts (from 80stees.com)

Die Cast 1/18 Scale replicas; features working scanner, opening hoods, trunk and doors. Ejector Seat, Grapiling hook:
Ertl 1/18 Scale KITT Model
Aoshima 1/18 Scale KITT Model
Aoshima 1/18 Scale KARR Model

Knight Rider Posters (from All Posters)

Also, if you are in the giving mood, Patricia McPherson's (Bonnie) organization Save Ballona accepts donations via their website. David Hasselhoff's (Michael) organization is Wheels for Humanity.

As mentioned in our forums last week Profiles in History is set to host a live auction on eBay where one of the items up for grabs is a KITT used in the filming of Knight Rider:

437. K.I.T.T. (Knight Industry Two Thousand) car from Knight Rider. (Universal TV, 1982-85) This highly-modified 1983 Pontiac Trans Am is an original screen-used hero car used during the second season of the hit TV series. Instantly recognizable with its working scanner in the front and highly futuristic interior, this vehicle was arguably the star of the show! Accompanied with the original ownership certificate listing MCA Universal Studios Inc. as the registered owner. For insurance and liability reasons the vehicle's identification number was removed by Universal (common practice for their film and TV cars) and it was subsequently assigned the in-house inventory control number of "1177" (numbers can be found on the driver-side door and under the hood).

More information on the KITT can be found at the auction page. Also a page detailing the restoration of this car can be found at Mark's Custom Kits restoration page which is a very interesting read in itself.

The estimate is ranging from $40,000 to $60,000

This eBay auction was recently picked up by BoingBoing and engadget.

More info on the Auction below

thanks to hobby link japan for the image

Aoshima, the Japanese company that brought us the 1/28 scale RC KITT and KARR and the 1/28 Knight Trailer, will be releasing 1/43 die-cast models of KITT and KARR. They are set to be released in December of this year.

At Aoshima's website (thanks to a babelfish translation) reveals these details:

Knight 2000 K. I. T. T.

Die-cast mechanic collection No.06
Scale: 1/43 retail price: 3980 Yen The middle of December of 2003 sale schedule

Bar-code: 4905083072264

Horseman " knight rider " of the justice which today revives.
Knight 2000 is appearance with the die-cast mini car.
As for blinking type scanner LED use.

Prototype K. A. R. R.

Die-cast mechanic collection No.07
Scale: 1/43 retail price: 3980 Yen The middle of December of 2003 sale schedule

Bar-code: 4905083072271

Inn enemy K " of knight 2000 ". A. R. R. Is appearance with the die-cast mini car.
As for blinking type scanner LED use.
The body is two ton color paint.

You can purchase them here

Thanks to sarfraz for the heads up!