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** There were several to ''Series/KnightRider'', to which this series clearly owed a lot.
*** KITT's most recent appearance before ''Viper'' was made was in ''Knight Rider 2000'', where he was installed in a Dodge Stealth that [[http://kr2k.com/bts1.html the studio customized to look like a Pontiac Banshee]]. One could interpret the events of the pilot episode to mean Joe wrecked KITT to upgrade to the Viper.
*** The Season 2 opener "Winner Take All" features the main villain, Colonel Dekker, committing robberies using a custom-built heavily-armored semi-truck carrying an army inside. ''Knight Rider'' season 2 opener "Goliath" and later episode "Goliath Returns" featured a semi-truck named "Goliath" driven by Garthe Knight. Goliath is armed with 4 missile pods on the cab, and an African mercenary army riding in its trailer; and coated with KITT's Molecular Bonded Shell coating, making it indestructible.
** The Season 1 episode "Wheels of Fire" is also a twofer:
*** The episode involves the Baxley, a legendary concept car that Julian states was his inspiration for the Viper. It was depicted as a red Lincoln Futura, the same model of car used for the [[Series/Batman1966 1960's Batmobile.]] The German dub made this more obvious in case people didn't know that this was the Batmobile, as in it Joe says to Frankie "Did you change your car for the Batmobile?". Speaking of Batman, Season 1 overall had a comic book feeling. One could interpret Joe as Batman, Metro City as Gotham City, the Viper as the Batmobile, and the power station as the Batcave. Also in some ways, Julian as Alfred Pennyworth and Frankie as Robin.
*** The Baxley's designer is named Preston Baxley. In 1948, Preston '''Tucker''' had designed a new car way ahead of its time, before he was indicted for stock fraud, a story that was turned into the film ''Film/TuckerTheManAndHisDream''. There's speculation that the Big Three automakers were afraid of him coming on strong on their old pre-[=WW2=] designs, and are implied to have had a role in Tucker's demise. Similarly, Baxley's car was very economic for its time, having a high mileage of 60 mpg. An oil company executive, concerned about it, then managed to convince Baxley's backers that the car was unsafe, which killed Baxley Motors.
** In "Cold Warriors" a retired secret agent appears to fight the bad guys. He is driving a Ferrari 250 GTE which does look similiar to an [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Aston Martin DB5]].[[note]]In fact, Ferrari was among the cars considered to be Bond's car of choice before Aston Martin was chosen.[[/note]] Everytime this secret agent appears a ''Film/JamesBond''-like music is played in background and its also mentioned that it has some gimmicks, labeled as "Head lights", "dashboard lights" and "fog lights" (but only a secret storage under the seat is revealed).
** There were several to ''Series/KnightRider'', to which this series clearly owed a lot.
*** KITT's most recent appearance before ''Viper'' was made was in ''Knight Rider 2000'', where he was installed in a Dodge Stealth that [[http://kr2k.com/bts1.html the studio customized to look like a Pontiac Banshee]]. One could interpret the events of the pilot episode to mean Joe wrecked KITT to upgrade to the Viper.
*** The Season 2 opener "Winner Take All" features the main villain, Colonel Dekker, committing robberies using a custom-built heavily-armored semi-truck carrying an army inside. ''Knight Rider'' season 2 opener "Goliath" and later episode "Goliath Returns" featured a semi-truck named "Goliath" driven by Garthe Knight. Goliath is armed with 4 missile pods on the cab, and an African mercenary army riding in its trailer; and coated with KITT's Molecular Bonded Shell coating, making it indestructible.
** The Season 1 episode "Wheels of Fire" is also a twofer:
*** The episode involves the Baxley, a legendary concept car that Julian states was his inspiration for the Viper. It was depicted as a red Lincoln Futura, the same model of car used for the [[Series/Batman1966 1960's Batmobile.]] The German dub made this more obvious in case people didn't know that this was the Batmobile, as in it Joe says to Frankie "Did you change your car for the Batmobile?". Speaking of Batman, Season 1 overall had a comic book feeling. One could interpret Joe as Batman, Metro City as Gotham City, the Viper as the Batmobile, and the power station as the Batcave. Also in some ways, Julian as Alfred Pennyworth and Frankie as Robin.
*** The Baxley's designer is named Preston Baxley. In 1948, Preston '''Tucker''' had designed a new car way ahead of its time, before he was indicted for stock fraud, a story that was turned into the film ''Film/TuckerTheManAndHisDream''. There's speculation that the Big Three automakers were afraid of him coming on strong on their old pre-[=WW2=] designs, and are implied to have had a role in Tucker's demise. Similarly, Baxley's car was very economic for its time, having a high mileage of 60 mpg. An oil company executive, concerned about it, then managed to convince Baxley's backers that the car was unsafe, which killed Baxley Motors.
** In "Cold Warriors" a retired secret agent appears to fight the bad guys. He is driving a Ferrari 250 GTE which does look similiar to an [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Aston Martin DB5]].[[note]]In fact, Ferrari was among the cars considered to be Bond's car of choice before Aston Martin was chosen.[[/note]] Everytime this secret agent appears a ''Film/JamesBond''-like music is played in background and its also mentioned that it has some gimmicks, labeled as "Head lights", "dashboard lights" and "fog lights" (but only a secret storage under the seat is revealed).
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** There were several to ''Series/KnightRider'', to which this series clearly owed a lot.
*** KITT's most recent appearance before ''Viper'' was made was in ''Knight Rider 2000'', where he was installed in a Dodge Stealth that [[http://kr2k.com/bts1.html the studio customized to look like a Pontiac Banshee]]. One could interpret the events of the pilot episode to mean Joe wrecked KITT to upgrade to the Viper.
*** The Season 2 opener "Winner Take All" features the main villain, Colonel Dekker, committing robberies using a custom-built heavily-armored semi-truck carrying an army inside. ''Knight Rider'' season 2 opener "Goliath" and later episode "Goliath Returns" featured a semi-truck named "Goliath" driven by Garthe Knight. Goliath is armed with 4 missile pods on the cab, and an African mercenary army riding in its trailer; and coated with KITT's Molecular Bonded Shell coating, making it indestructible.
** The Season 1 episode "Wheels of Fire" is also a twofer:
*** The episode involves the Baxley, a legendary concept car that Julian states was his inspiration for the Viper. It was depicted as a red Lincoln Futura, the same model of car used for the [[Series/Batman1966 1960's Batmobile.]] The German dub made this more obvious in case people didn't know that this was the Batmobile, as in it Joe says to Frankie "Did you change your car for the Batmobile?". Speaking of Batman, Season 1 overall had a comic book feeling. One could interpret Joe as Batman, Metro City as Gotham City, the Viper as the Batmobile, and the power station as the Batcave. Also in some ways, Julian as Alfred Pennyworth and Frankie as Robin.
*** The Baxley's designer is named Preston Baxley. In 1948, Preston '''Tucker''' had designed a new car way ahead of its time, before he was indicted for stock fraud, a story that was turned into the film ''Film/TuckerTheManAndHisDream''. There's speculation that the Big Three automakers were afraid of him coming on strong on their old pre-[=WW2=] designs, and are implied to have had a role in Tucker's demise. Similarly, Baxley's car was very economic for its time, having a high mileage of 60 mpg. An oil company executive, concerned about it, then managed to convince Baxley's backers that the car was unsafe, which killed Baxley Motors.
** In "Cold Warriors" a retired secret agent appears to fight the bad guys. He is driving a Ferrari 250 GTE which does look similiar to an [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Aston Martin DB5]].[[note]]In fact, Ferrari was among the cars considered to be Bond's car of choice before Aston Martin was chosen.[[/note]] Everytime this secret agent appears a ''Film/JamesBond''-like music is played in background and its also mentioned that it has some gimmicks, labeled as "Head lights", "dashboard lights" and "fog lights" (but only a secret storage under the seat is revealed).
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* ShoutOut:
** There were several to ''Series/KnightRider'', to which this series clearly owed a lot.
*** KITT's most recent appearance before ''Viper'' was made was in ''Knight Rider 2000'', where he was installed in a Dodge Stealth that [[http://kr2k.com/bts1.html the studio customized to look like a Pontiac Banshee]]. One could interpret the events of the pilot episode to mean Joe wrecked KITT to upgrade to the Viper.
*** The Season 2 opener "Winner Take All" features the main villain, Colonel Dekker, committing robberies using a custom-built heavily-armored semi-truck carrying an army inside. ''Knight Rider'' season 2 opener "Goliath" and later episode "Goliath Returns" featured a semi-truck named "Goliath" driven by Garthe Knight. Goliath is armed with 4 missile pods on the cab, and an African mercenary army riding in its trailer; and coated with KITT's Molecular Bonded Shell coating, making it indestructible.
** The Season 1 episode "Wheels of Fire" is also a twofer:
*** The episode involves the Baxley, a legendary concept car that Julian states was his inspiration for the Viper. It was depicted as a red Lincoln Futura, the same model of car used for the [[Series/Batman1966 1960's Batmobile.]] The German dub made this more obvious in case people didn't know that this was the Batmobile, as in it Joe says to Frankie "Did you change your car for the Batmobile?". Speaking of Batman, Season 1 overall had a comic book feeling. One could interpret Joe as Batman, Metro City as Gotham City, the Viper as the Batmobile, and the power station as the Batcave. Also in some ways, Julian as Alfred Pennyworth and Frankie as Robin.
*** The Baxley's designer is named Preston Baxley. In 1948, Preston '''Tucker''' had designed a new car way ahead of its time, before he was indicted for stock fraud, a story that was turned into the film ''Film/TuckerTheManAndHisDream''. There's speculation that the Big Three automakers were afraid of him coming on strong on their old pre-[=WW2=] designs, and are implied to have had a role in Tucker's demise. Similarly, Baxley's car was very economic for its time, having a high mileage of 60 mpg. An oil company executive, concerned about it, then managed to convince Baxley's backers that the car was unsafe, which killed Baxley Motors.
** In "Cold Warriors" a retired secret agent appears to fight the bad guys. He is driving a Ferrari 250 GTE which does look similiar to an [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Aston Martin DB5]].[[note]]In fact, Ferrari was among the cars considered to be Bond's car of choice before Aston Martin was chosen.[[/note]] Everytime this secret agent appears a ''Film/JamesBond''-like music is played in background and its also mentioned that it has some gimmicks, labeled as "Head lights", "dashboard lights" and "fog lights" (but only a secret storage under the seat is revealed).
** There were several to ''Series/KnightRider'', to which this series clearly owed a lot.
*** KITT's most recent appearance before ''Viper'' was made was in ''Knight Rider 2000'', where he was installed in a Dodge Stealth that [[http://kr2k.com/bts1.html the studio customized to look like a Pontiac Banshee]]. One could interpret the events of the pilot episode to mean Joe wrecked KITT to upgrade to the Viper.
*** The Season 2 opener "Winner Take All" features the main villain, Colonel Dekker, committing robberies using a custom-built heavily-armored semi-truck carrying an army inside. ''Knight Rider'' season 2 opener "Goliath" and later episode "Goliath Returns" featured a semi-truck named "Goliath" driven by Garthe Knight. Goliath is armed with 4 missile pods on the cab, and an African mercenary army riding in its trailer; and coated with KITT's Molecular Bonded Shell coating, making it indestructible.
** The Season 1 episode "Wheels of Fire" is also a twofer:
*** The episode involves the Baxley, a legendary concept car that Julian states was his inspiration for the Viper. It was depicted as a red Lincoln Futura, the same model of car used for the [[Series/Batman1966 1960's Batmobile.]] The German dub made this more obvious in case people didn't know that this was the Batmobile, as in it Joe says to Frankie "Did you change your car for the Batmobile?". Speaking of Batman, Season 1 overall had a comic book feeling. One could interpret Joe as Batman, Metro City as Gotham City, the Viper as the Batmobile, and the power station as the Batcave. Also in some ways, Julian as Alfred Pennyworth and Frankie as Robin.
*** The Baxley's designer is named Preston Baxley. In 1948, Preston '''Tucker''' had designed a new car way ahead of its time, before he was indicted for stock fraud, a story that was turned into the film ''Film/TuckerTheManAndHisDream''. There's speculation that the Big Three automakers were afraid of him coming on strong on their old pre-[=WW2=] designs, and are implied to have had a role in Tucker's demise. Similarly, Baxley's car was very economic for its time, having a high mileage of 60 mpg. An oil company executive, concerned about it, then managed to convince Baxley's backers that the car was unsafe, which killed Baxley Motors.
** In "Cold Warriors" a retired secret agent appears to fight the bad guys. He is driving a Ferrari 250 GTE which does look similiar to an [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Aston Martin DB5]].[[note]]In fact, Ferrari was among the cars considered to be Bond's car of choice before Aston Martin was chosen.[[/note]] Everytime this secret agent appears a ''Film/JamesBond''-like music is played in background and its also mentioned that it has some gimmicks, labeled as "Head lights", "dashboard lights" and "fog lights" (but only a secret storage under the seat is revealed).
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** Played straight in the episode "Thief of Hearts," where a dying Outfit boss becomes so obsessed with stealing an '''artificial''' heart to extend his own life that he doesn't care he's sentencing the IllGirl it was actually designed for [[MoralEventHorizon to death.]]
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** Played straight in the episode "Thief of Hearts," where a dying Outfit boss becomes so obsessed with stealing an '''artificial''' heart to extend his own life that he doesn't care he's sentencing the IllGirl ill girl it was actually designed for [[MoralEventHorizon to death.]]
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Season 1 takes place [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture in the near future]], where the fictitious Metro City is being overrun by a [[TheMafia mafia]]-like organization of {{cyberpunk}} thieves called the Outfit. The only thing that ''should'' be standing in their way is the Viper, but one thing is stopping the project from coming to fruition: The car is so powerful and requires such quick reflexes to control that every commissioned police driver to date has failed their field test. With funding running out and no hope of success remaining, the program is on the verge of cancellation.
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Season 1 takes place [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture in the near future]], where the fictitious Metro City is being overrun by a [[TheMafia mafia]]-like organization of {{cyberpunk}} thieves called the Outfit. The only thing that ''should'' be standing in their way is the Viper, but one thing is stopping the project from coming to fruition: The the car is so powerful and requires such quick reflexes to control that every commissioned police driver to date has failed their field test. With funding running out and no hope of success remaining, the program is on the verge of cancellation.
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Meanwhile, Michael Payton (James [=McCaffrey=]), the Outfit's lead getaway driver, lies in a coma after wrecking his [[EverybodyOwnsAFord Dodge Stealth]] in a botched heist. Seeing this as a final chance to save the Viper Project and promote his own political career, [[BigBrotherIsWatching Big Brother]]-type Councilman Strand (Creator/JonPolito) secretly orders for Payton to be pronounced dead and have a microchip surgically implanted in his brain to erase his criminal persona. After the operation, Payton wakes up with total amnesia and is told he is Officer Joe Astor, a false identity invented by Strand to explain why a supposed expert pursuit driver was transferred to Metro's police district just in the nick of time. Astor proves to be a suitable driver, but things quickly turn sour.
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Meanwhile, Michael Payton (James [=McCaffrey=]), (Creator/JamesMcCaffrey), the Outfit's lead getaway driver, lies in a coma after wrecking his [[EverybodyOwnsAFord Dodge Stealth]] in a botched heist. Seeing this as a final chance to save the Viper Project and promote his own political career, [[BigBrotherIsWatching Big Brother]]-type Councilman Strand (Creator/JonPolito) secretly orders for Payton to be pronounced dead and have a microchip surgically implanted in his brain to erase his criminal persona. After the operation, Payton wakes up with total amnesia and is told he is Officer Joe Astor, a false identity invented by Strand to explain why a supposed expert pursuit driver was transferred to Metro's police district just in the nick of time. Astor proves to be a suitable driver, but things quickly turn sour.
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Meanwhile, Michael Payton (James [=McCaffrey=]), the Outfit's lead getaway driver, lies in a coma after wrecking his [[EverybodyOwnsAFord Dodge Stealth]] in a botched heist. Seeing this as a final chance to save the Viper Project and promote his own political career, [[BigBrotherIsWatching Big Brother]]-type Councilman Strand secretly orders for Payton to be pronounced dead and have a microchip surgically implanted in his brain to erase his criminal persona. After the operation, Payton wakes up with total amnesia and is told he is Officer Joe Astor, a false identity invented by Strand to explain why a supposed expert pursuit driver was transferred to Metro's police district just in the nick of time. Astor proves to be a suitable driver, but things quickly turn sour.
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Meanwhile, Michael Payton (James [=McCaffrey=]), the Outfit's lead getaway driver, lies in a coma after wrecking his [[EverybodyOwnsAFord Dodge Stealth]] in a botched heist. Seeing this as a final chance to save the Viper Project and promote his own political career, [[BigBrotherIsWatching Big Brother]]-type Councilman Strand (Creator/JonPolito) secretly orders for Payton to be pronounced dead and have a microchip surgically implanted in his brain to erase his criminal persona. After the operation, Payton wakes up with total amnesia and is told he is Officer Joe Astor, a false identity invented by Strand to explain why a supposed expert pursuit driver was transferred to Metro's police district just in the nick of time. Astor proves to be a suitable driver, but things quickly turn sour.
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Meanwhile, Michael Payton, the Outfit's lead getaway driver, lies in a coma after wrecking his [[EverybodyOwnsAFord Dodge Stealth]] in a botched heist. Seeing this as a final chance to save the Viper Project and promote his own political career, [[BigBrotherIsWatching Big Brother]]-type Councilman Strand secretly orders for Payton to be pronounced dead and have a microchip surgically implanted in his brain to erase his criminal persona. After the operation, Payton wakes up with total amnesia and is told he is Officer Joe Astor, a false identity invented by Strand to explain why a supposed expert pursuit driver was transferred to Metro's police district just in the nick of time. Astor proves to be a suitable driver, but things quickly turn sour.
Parts of Astor's previous memories begin surfacing in the form of dreams and bizarre flashbacks, and he quickly puts together he's not exactly who the police say he is. He ultimately accepts his MindRape as a second chance to live a clean life and, upon realizing both sides of the law are corrupt, he hijacks the Defender with the help of its civilian inventor, Julian Wilkes, and a sympathetic Metropol motor pool officer, Franklin X. Waters. The three crime fighters spend the rest of the season working out of a [[ElaborateUndergroundBase secret base]] converted from an abandoned power station. This course of action regularly puts Astor up against his old allies (and enemies) within the Outfit, who all easily recognize him despite being total strangers to him.
Parts of Astor's previous memories begin surfacing in the form of dreams and bizarre flashbacks, and he quickly puts together he's not exactly who the police say he is. He ultimately accepts his MindRape as a second chance to live a clean life and, upon realizing both sides of the law are corrupt, he hijacks the Defender with the help of its civilian inventor, Julian Wilkes, and a sympathetic Metropol motor pool officer, Franklin X. Waters. The three crime fighters spend the rest of the season working out of a [[ElaborateUndergroundBase secret base]] converted from an abandoned power station. This course of action regularly puts Astor up against his old allies (and enemies) within the Outfit, who all easily recognize him despite being total strangers to him.
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Meanwhile, Michael Payton, Payton (James [=McCaffrey=]), the Outfit's lead getaway driver, lies in a coma after wrecking his [[EverybodyOwnsAFord Dodge Stealth]] in a botched heist. Seeing this as a final chance to save the Viper Project and promote his own political career, [[BigBrotherIsWatching Big Brother]]-type Councilman Strand secretly orders for Payton to be pronounced dead and have a microchip surgically implanted in his brain to erase his criminal persona. After the operation, Payton wakes up with total amnesia and is told he is Officer Joe Astor, a false identity invented by Strand to explain why a supposed expert pursuit driver was transferred to Metro's police district just in the nick of time. Astor proves to be a suitable driver, but things quickly turn sour.
Parts of Astor's previous memories begin surfacing in the form of dreams and bizarre flashbacks, and he quickly puts together he's not exactly who the police say he is. He ultimately accepts his MindRape as a second chance to live a clean life and, upon realizing both sides of the law are corrupt, he hijacks the Defender with the help of its civilian inventor, JulianWilkes, Wilkes (Creator/DorianHarewood), and a sympathetic Metropol motor pool officer, Franklin X. Waters.Waters (Joe Nipote). The three crime fighters spend the rest of the season working out of a [[ElaborateUndergroundBase secret base]] converted from an abandoned power station. This course of action regularly puts Astor up against his old allies (and enemies) within the Outfit, who all easily recognize him despite being total strangers to him.
Parts of Astor's previous memories begin surfacing in the form of dreams and bizarre flashbacks, and he quickly puts together he's not exactly who the police say he is. He ultimately accepts his MindRape as a second chance to live a clean life and, upon realizing both sides of the law are corrupt, he hijacks the Defender with the help of its civilian inventor, Julian
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* [[FantasyForbiddingFather Fantasy-Forbidding Mother]]: The kid in "Safe as Houses" idolizes Joe as a superhero and often calls ''him'' the Defender. His mother doesn't believe in the rumors about a top secret crime fighting vehicle roaming the streets and scolds him for believing in what she thinks is pure fantasy. [[spoiler: She finds out she was wrong.]]
* FiveManBand: The Outfit's Highwaymen division is a corrupt version of this.
** TheHero: Michael Payton
** TheLancer: Alec Connor
** TheSmartGuy: Yuri
** TheBigGuy: Nichols
** TheChick: Andi
* FiveManBand: The Outfit's Highwaymen division is a corrupt version of this.
** TheHero: Michael Payton
** TheLancer: Alec Connor
** TheSmartGuy: Yuri
** TheBigGuy: Nichols
** TheChick: Andi
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* [[FantasyForbiddingFather Fantasy-Forbidding Mother]]: FantasyForbiddingFather: The kid in "Safe as Houses" idolizes Joe as a superhero and often calls ''him'' the Defender. His mother doesn't believe in the rumors about a top secret crime fighting vehicle roaming the streets and scolds him for believing in what she thinks is pure fantasy. [[spoiler: She finds out she was wrong.]]
* FiveManBand: The Outfit's Highwaymen division is a corrupt version of this.
** TheHero: Michael Payton
** TheLancer: Alec Connor
** TheSmartGuy: Yuri
** TheBigGuy: Nichols
** TheChick: Andi]]
* FiveManBand: The Outfit's Highwaymen division is a corrupt version of this.
** TheHero: Michael Payton
** TheLancer: Alec Connor
** TheSmartGuy: Yuri
** TheBigGuy: Nichols
** TheChick: Andi
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* GeniusCripple: Julian Wilkes.
* HandicappedBadass: Julian Wilkes in "Ghosts".
* HandicappedBadass: Julian Wilkes in "Ghosts".
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* CaliforniaDoubling: After Season 1, the filming was moved to Canada, Season 2 was filmed in Calgary, Alberta, and Seasons 3-4 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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The first season aired as an NBC exclusive from January to April 1994 and disappeared from the network after completing its first run. The show came back for a syndicated second season in the fall of 1996. It retained this format up through its concluding fourth season.
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The first season began filming in 1993 in [[UsefulNotes/LosAngeles LA area]], and was planned to originally premiere on CBS in Fall 1993. However, it was delayed, first because [[Creator/StephenJCannell Stephen Cannell]] also chose to name his new show "Viper", but after a lawsuit by Chrysler Corporation, he changed it to Cobra. Secondly, CBS deemed the series to be too violent and was about to bury it, but due to backing from Chrysler Corporation, the show proceeded on, instead it was aired as an NBC exclusive from January to April 1994 and disappeared from the network after completing its first run. The show came back for a syndicated second season in the fall of 1996. It retained this format up through its concluding fourth season.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: After Season 1, the filming was moved to Canada, Season 2 was filmed in Calgary, Alberta, and Seasons 3-4 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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* PutOnABus: Former with both drivers of the Viper:
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** The latter with Julian Wilkes. When Season 2 filming was moved to Calgary, as Dorian Harewood had just become a father, he chose not to return for the show. Also he didn't want to be in a wheelchair, but the writers were not able to think of a way to write him out of the wheelchair. In Season 2 opener, it's explained that Julian took a post in Washington, DC. Julian would later return in Season 4, now walking normally. However, as his duties were taken over by Frankie (and to some extent, Allie) during Season 2-3, there was no place for him to return full-time, so he would make only three Special Guest Star appearances during the season. In show, Julian had taken a job with NASA for Season 4.
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** The latter with Also Julian Wilkes. When Season 2 filming was moved to Calgary, as Dorian Harewood had just become a father, he chose not to return for the show. Also he didn't want to be in a wheelchair, but the writers were not able to think of a way to write him out of the wheelchair. In Season 2 opener, it's explained that Julian took a post in Washington, DC. Julian would later return come back CommutingOnABus in Season 4, now walking normally. However, as his duties were largely taken over by Frankie (and to some extent, Allie) during Season 2-3, there was no place for him to return to full-time, so he would make only three Special Guest Star appearances during the season. In show, Julian had taken a job with NASA for Season 4.
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** In "Cold Warriors" a retired secret agent appears to fight the bad guys. He is driving a Ferrari 250 GTE which does look similiar to an [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Aston Martin DB5]]. Everytime this secret agent appears a ''Film/JamesBond''-like music is played in background and its also mentioned that it has some gimmicks, labeled as "Head lights", "dashboard lights" and "fog lights" (but only a secret storage under the seat is revealed).
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** In "Cold Warriors" a retired secret agent appears to fight the bad guys. He is driving a Ferrari 250 GTE which does look similiar to an [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Aston Martin DB5]]. [[note]]In fact, Ferrari was among the cars considered to be Bond's car of choice before Aston Martin was chosen.[[/note]] Everytime this secret agent appears a ''Film/JamesBond''-like music is played in background and its also mentioned that it has some gimmicks, labeled as "Head lights", "dashboard lights" and "fog lights" (but only a secret storage under the seat is revealed).
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*** The episode involves the Baxley, a legendary concept car that Julian states was his inspiration for the Viper. It was depicted as a red Lincoln Futura, the same model of car used for the [[Series/Batman1966 1960's Batmobile.]] The German sub made this more obvious in case people didn't know that this was the Batmobile, as in it Joe says to Frankie "Did you change your car for the Batmobile?". Speaking of Batman, Season 1 overall had a comic book feeling. One could interpret Joe as Batman, Metro City as Gotham City, the Viper as the Batmobile, and the power station as the Batcave. Also in some ways, Julian as Alfred Pennyworth and Frankie as Robin.
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*** The episode involves the Baxley, a legendary concept car that Julian states was his inspiration for the Viper. It was depicted as a red Lincoln Futura, the same model of car used for the [[Series/Batman1966 1960's Batmobile.]] The German sub dub made this more obvious in case people didn't know that this was the Batmobile, as in it Joe says to Frankie "Did you change your car for the Batmobile?". Speaking of Batman, Season 1 overall had a comic book feeling. One could interpret Joe as Batman, Metro City as Gotham City, the Viper as the Batmobile, and the power station as the Batcave. Also in some ways, Julian as Alfred Pennyworth and Frankie as Robin.
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* MythologyGag: Two big ones in Season 1
** KITT's most recent appearance before ''Viper'' was made was in ''Series/KnightRider 2000,'' where he was installed in a Dodge Stealth that [[http://kr2k.com/bts1.html the studio customized to look like a Pontiac Banshee]]. One could interpret the events of the pilot episode to mean Joe wrecked KITT to upgrade to the Viper.
** The Season 1 episode "Wheels of Fire" involves the Baxley, a legendary concept car that Julian states was his inspiration for the Viper. It was depicted as a red Lincoln Futura: The same model of car used for the [[Series/Batman1966 1960's Batmobile.]]
*** The German synchro made this gag more obvious in case that people didnt know that this was the Batmobile. Joe says to Frankie "Did you change your car for the Batmobile?".
*** The car's designer is named '''Preston''' Baxley. In 1948, [[Film/TuckerTheManAndHisDream Preston Tucker]] had designed a new car way ahead of its time, before he was indicted for stock fraud. There's speculation that the Big Three automakers were afraid of him coming on strong on their old pre-[=WW2=] designs, and are implied to have had a role in Tucker's demise. Similarly, Baxley's car was very economic for its time, having a high mileage of 60 mpg. An oil company executive, concerned about it, then managed to convince Baxley's backers that the car was unsafe, which killed Baxley Motors.
** Speaking of Batman, Season 1 overall had a [[{{Franchise/Batman}} comic book]] feeling. One could interpret Joe as Batman, Metro City as Gotham City, the Viper as the Batmobile, and the power station as the Batcave. Also in some ways, Julian as Alfred Pennyworth and Frankie as Robin.
** The Season 2 opener "Winner Take All" features the main villain, Colonel Dekker committing robberies using a custom-built heavily-armored semi-truck carrying an army inside.
*** Knight Rider season 2 opener "Goliath" and later episode "Goliath Returns" featured a semi-truck named "Goliath" driven by Garthe Knight. Goliath is armed with 4 missile pods on the cab, and an African mercenary army riding in its trailer; and coated with KITT's Molecular Bonded Shell coating, making it indestructible.
** In "Cold Warriors" a retired secret agent appears to fight the bad guys. He is driving a Ferrari 250 GTE which does look similiar to an [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Aston Martin DB5]]. Everytime this secret agent appears a ''Film/JamesBond''-like music is played in background and its also mentioned that it has some gimmicks (but only a secret storage under the seat is revealed).
*** Aside from this gag it could be also mentioned that the controls for the gimmicks we see are labeled as "Head lights", "dashboard lights" and "fog lights". We do not see what the rest of the gimmicks are labeled so this could just be an inside joke.
** KITT's most recent appearance before ''Viper'' was made was in ''Series/KnightRider 2000,'' where he was installed in a Dodge Stealth that [[http://kr2k.com/bts1.html the studio customized to look like a Pontiac Banshee]]. One could interpret the events of the pilot episode to mean Joe wrecked KITT to upgrade to the Viper.
** The Season 1 episode "Wheels of Fire" involves the Baxley, a legendary concept car that Julian states was his inspiration for the Viper. It was depicted as a red Lincoln Futura: The same model of car used for the [[Series/Batman1966 1960's Batmobile.]]
*** The German synchro made this gag more obvious in case that people didnt know that this was the Batmobile. Joe says to Frankie "Did you change your car for the Batmobile?".
*** The car's designer is named '''Preston''' Baxley. In 1948, [[Film/TuckerTheManAndHisDream Preston Tucker]] had designed a new car way ahead of its time, before he was indicted for stock fraud. There's speculation that the Big Three automakers were afraid of him coming on strong on their old pre-[=WW2=] designs, and are implied to have had a role in Tucker's demise. Similarly, Baxley's car was very economic for its time, having a high mileage of 60 mpg. An oil company executive, concerned about it, then managed to convince Baxley's backers that the car was unsafe, which killed Baxley Motors.
** Speaking of Batman, Season 1 overall had a [[{{Franchise/Batman}} comic book]] feeling. One could interpret Joe as Batman, Metro City as Gotham City, the Viper as the Batmobile, and the power station as the Batcave. Also in some ways, Julian as Alfred Pennyworth and Frankie as Robin.
** The Season 2 opener "Winner Take All" features the main villain, Colonel Dekker committing robberies using a custom-built heavily-armored semi-truck carrying an army inside.
*** Knight Rider season 2 opener "Goliath" and later episode "Goliath Returns" featured a semi-truck named "Goliath" driven by Garthe Knight. Goliath is armed with 4 missile pods on the cab, and an African mercenary army riding in its trailer; and coated with KITT's Molecular Bonded Shell coating, making it indestructible.
** In "Cold Warriors" a retired secret agent appears to fight the bad guys. He is driving a Ferrari 250 GTE which does look similiar to an [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Aston Martin DB5]]. Everytime this secret agent appears a ''Film/JamesBond''-like music is played in background and its also mentioned that it has some gimmicks (but only a secret storage under the seat is revealed).
*** Aside from this gag it could be also mentioned that the controls for the gimmicks we see are labeled as "Head lights", "dashboard lights" and "fog lights". We do not see what the rest of the gimmicks are labeled so this could just be an inside joke.
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* MythologyGag: Two big ones in Season 1
ShoutOut:
** There were several to ''Series/KnightRider'', to which this series clearly owed a lot.
*** KITT's most recent appearance before ''Viper'' was made was in''Series/KnightRider 2000,'' ''Knight Rider 2000'', where he was installed in a Dodge Stealth that [[http://kr2k.com/bts1.html the studio customized to look like a Pontiac Banshee]]. One could interpret the events of the pilot episode to mean Joe wrecked KITT to upgrade to the Viper.
*** The Season 2 opener "Winner Take All" features the main villain, Colonel Dekker, committing robberies using a custom-built heavily-armored semi-truck carrying an army inside. ''Knight Rider'' season 2 opener "Goliath" and later episode "Goliath Returns" featured a semi-truck named "Goliath" driven by Garthe Knight. Goliath is armed with 4 missile pods on the cab, and an African mercenary army riding in its trailer; and coated with KITT's Molecular Bonded Shell coating, making it indestructible.
** The Season 1 episode "Wheels of Fire" is also a twofer:
*** The episode involves the Baxley, a legendary concept car that Julian states was his inspiration for the Viper. It was depicted as a red LincolnFutura: The Futura, the same model of car used for the [[Series/Batman1966 1960's Batmobile.]]
***]] The German synchro sub made this gag more obvious in case that people didnt didn't know that this was the Batmobile. Batmobile, as in it Joe says to Frankie "Did you change your car for the Batmobile?".
Batmobile?". Speaking of Batman, Season 1 overall had a comic book feeling. One could interpret Joe as Batman, Metro City as Gotham City, the Viper as the Batmobile, and the power station as the Batcave. Also in some ways, Julian as Alfred Pennyworth and Frankie as Robin.
*** Thecar's Baxley's designer is named '''Preston''' Preston Baxley. In 1948, [[Film/TuckerTheManAndHisDream Preston Tucker]] '''Tucker''' had designed a new car way ahead of its time, before he was indicted for stock fraud.fraud, a story that was turned into the film ''Film/TuckerTheManAndHisDream''. There's speculation that the Big Three automakers were afraid of him coming on strong on their old pre-[=WW2=] designs, and are implied to have had a role in Tucker's demise. Similarly, Baxley's car was very economic for its time, having a high mileage of 60 mpg. An oil company executive, concerned about it, then managed to convince Baxley's backers that the car was unsafe, which killed Baxley Motors.
** Speaking of Batman, Season 1 overall had a [[{{Franchise/Batman}} comic book]] feeling. One could interpret Joe as Batman, Metro City as Gotham City, the Viper as the Batmobile, and the power station as the Batcave. Also in some ways, Julian as Alfred Pennyworth and Frankie as Robin.
** The Season 2 opener "Winner Take All" features the main villain, Colonel Dekker committing robberies using a custom-built heavily-armored semi-truck carrying an army inside.
*** Knight Rider season 2 opener "Goliath" and later episode "Goliath Returns" featured a semi-truck named "Goliath" driven by Garthe Knight. Goliath is armed with 4 missile pods on the cab, and an African mercenary army riding in its trailer; and coated with KITT's Molecular Bonded Shell coating, making it indestructible.
** In "Cold Warriors" a retired secret agent appears to fight the bad guys. He is driving a Ferrari 250 GTE which does look similiar to an [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Aston Martin DB5]]. Everytime this secret agent appears a ''Film/JamesBond''-like music is played in background and its also mentioned that it has some gimmicks (but only a secret storage under the seat is revealed).
*** Aside from this gag it could be also mentioned that the controls for the gimmicks we see aregimmicks, labeled as "Head lights", "dashboard lights" and "fog lights". We do not see what lights" (but only a secret storage under the rest of the gimmicks are labeled so this could just be an inside joke.seat is revealed).
** There were several to ''Series/KnightRider'', to which this series clearly owed a lot.
*** KITT's most recent appearance before ''Viper'' was made was in
*** The Season 2 opener "Winner Take All" features the main villain, Colonel Dekker, committing robberies using a custom-built heavily-armored semi-truck carrying an army inside. ''Knight Rider'' season 2 opener "Goliath" and later episode "Goliath Returns" featured a semi-truck named "Goliath" driven by Garthe Knight. Goliath is armed with 4 missile pods on the cab, and an African mercenary army riding in its trailer; and coated with KITT's Molecular Bonded Shell coating, making it indestructible.
** The Season 1 episode "Wheels of Fire" is also a twofer:
*** The episode involves the Baxley, a legendary concept car that Julian states was his inspiration for the Viper. It was depicted as a red Lincoln
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** The Season 2 opener "Winner Take All" features the main villain, Colonel Dekker committing robberies using a custom-built heavily-armored semi-truck carrying an army inside.
*** Knight Rider season 2 opener "Goliath" and later episode "Goliath Returns" featured a semi-truck named "Goliath" driven by Garthe Knight. Goliath is armed with 4 missile pods on the cab, and an African mercenary army riding in its trailer; and coated with KITT's Molecular Bonded Shell coating, making it indestructible.
*** Aside from this gag it could be also mentioned that the controls for the gimmicks we see are
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* TimePassageBeard: As opposed to his clean-shaven look in Season 1, in Season 2 and 3, Frankie has grown a goatee. The clean-shaven look then returns in Season 4, after Joe Nipote had shaved it off for another DeMeo/Bilson production ''It's True!''.
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* TimePassageBeard: As opposed to his clean-shaven look in Season 1, in Season 2 and 3, Frankie has grown a goatee. The clean-shaven look then returns in Season 4, after Joe Nipote had shaved it off for another DeMeo/Bilson [=DeMeo=]/Bilson production ''It's True!''.
