Bless. Nearly twenty five years later, and I still love the series. The novelisations, however, are really not a patch on the programme - it takes the magic formula of William Daniels as the voice of KITT, and yes, David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight, for the fantastic premise of the show (a talking car) and the ridiculous plots to really work. Co-author Roger Hill tries to keep up, pacing the dramatic scenes well and padding out the characters, but the dialogue is flat and the mood all wrong.

I love the episode because the resurrection of KITT's evil twin - prototype Knight car, KARR (clever, hey?) - throws Michael and KITT (and Bonnie) closer together as a team, but here, with the action picking up directly after the first book, they are all still finding their feet and getting to know each other. The first couple of chapters are taken up with exposition ('You may remember, Michael ...'), Bonnie actually flirts back with Michael, and KITT is underused throughout (Hill gives most of his lines from the episode to Devon, or 'Mr Devon', as KITT keeps calling him).

A good try, but nothing like the real thing. ( )