HARDCASTLE AND MCCORMICK DROVE A COYOTE X AS QUICK AS KITT COULD TALK

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Catching the bad eggs action TV shows were in plentiful supply back in the macho and politically incorrect 80`s.

I hardly ever missed an episode of Knight Rider, featuring David Hasselhoff, who of course would become better known as the bloke who got to perv on Pamela Anderson and all the hot and scantily clad babes down at Baywatch Beach, and KITT, the talking car that use to drive him and all the viewers nuts because it wouldn`t shut up. 

I will always remember KITT, who I don't 
want to confuse as a person, it was in fact a make believe car that had a robot in the thinktank (not the petrol tank, that`s
gasoline tank for my american readers), going ballistic when Michael Knight (David Hasselhoff) antagonised him and got on his goat by not doing what the cyborg on four wheels told him to do. 

One minute Michael would be driving along minding his own business in cruise control, the next minute he would be jumping this heavily modified pontiac trans-am onto the
back of a semi trailer by doing a rocket jump off the ground through mid air to pay his mentoring boss Devon (Edward Mulhare) a visit. 

The shows premise is based on the aftermath of when Michael Long, an undercover police officer who gets shot in the head and nearly dies but is brought back to life miraculously thanks to the efforts of Wilton Knight, gets some plastic surgery and the new identity of Michael Knight and goes around catching crims with KITT the talking car.

Knight Rider of course has been regurgitated as a new incarnation in recent times, but the new series (without all the old characters) just didn`t have the charm of the original series that ran from 1982 to 1986. 

While on the subject of go-get-em action TV shows, who could ever forget the classic satirical inspired odd couple action show Hardcastle and McCormick.

Brian Keith starred as the retiring judge Milton C. Hardcastle who wants to settle a few scores by trying to pinch a heap of the bad guys that he didn`t get to put away in
the courtroom, and he enlists the help of a greasy `ol car thief, Mark McCormick (Daniel Hugh Kelly) and one car he stole, a red convertible Coyote X, to get the job done.
Judge Hardcastle stitched up a plan to spare McCormick from a long stint in the clink and in return McCormick becomes a servant and enforcer under his command. 

They end up breaking a few noses and whipping up some bulldust every time the wild child McCormick takes the Coyote for a spin.

The shows original storyline is based on the premise that his best friend is murdered and that the Coyote X was designed by his best friend, and that murderer is one who escaped punishment in the courtroom of Judge Milton C. 

The show went from there and in the end it lasted for three years, from 1983 to 1986. A good action TV show, equal to Knight Rider as far as the car chases and action sequences go, but probably better for the fact that it was more believable and the satire was a bit more amusing. 

Both shows are responsible for all the good traits which I have today. All the love scenes
I saw on Miami Vice, when Crocket and Tubbs scored some `mmmm`, must have been my moral undoing.