I'm a big fan of both the original Knight Rider series and the short lived Team Knight Rider(TKR) series. I saw the episode this book is based on, and it was cool. The book was even better. It covered stuff that wasn't in the episode. I hope to see the Knight Rider series back on T.V. soon.

it was similar to the episode trust doesn't rust, but changed a little. it was still very good.

I found this book one day long ago in a used book shop in Frankenmuth, MI. I have been a longtime fan of "Knight Rider" and find that this book is a wonderful adaptation of the KR episode of the same name. Glen Larson writes a wonderfully detailed story that fills in all the gaps that a 1-hour TV episode couldn't provide. More details and inside info about "Knight Rider" and KITT than you ever wanted to know -- just short of a technical manual! I hope to find the other two books in this series eventually. If you plan to write your own KR fan-fiction, you should read these first. Since these books were written by the "Knight Rider" creator himself, this stuff can be considered canonical in my opinion. If you can find it, it's definitely a recommended read!

KNIGHT RIDER takes the popular television series and shows all the backround material missed on the show. Michael Long, an under cover police officer was shot point blank in the face. A mysterious dying millionaire saves his life and recreates a youthful version of himself to not only put the bad guys (and girls) in jail, but to prove that one man really can make a difference. Michael Long becomes "Michael Knight" and is given a futuristic car titled "Knight Industries Two Thousand" or "K.I.T.T." for short. The car resembles Michael's Trans Am but is far from a stock GM car. K.I.T.T. and Michael get off to a rocky start, but by the end of the book, become friends. It is hard to imagine a car as a friend, but the author makes it almost believable.

In February of 2001, it was announced that Battlestar Galactica would be revived as a new TV series. I'm willing to bet within a month this re-issue of the first two Galactica novels was planned as an attempt by Glen Larson, faded TV producer, to cash in on his old series. He didn't write them, but there's his name, first on the cover, ahead of the man who actually wrote them, Robert Thurston. The books are entertaining and explore the Saga of a Star World and Gun on Ice Planet Zero episodes in more depth. Ironically, the Galactica revival that was probably supposed to coincide with the release of this book, is long dead. Fox TV, which was supposed to air the new series, bailed out in November, 2001, when Bryan Singer abandoned the project in favor of X Men 2. Sequels are safer.

This is the companion to the TV episode that starred Jayne Seymour as Serina. It is more in-depth than the episode. they are now in the process of bringing the show back. Sadly it isn't the show I grew up on. However this book is a worthy collectors piece for anyone who loves Battlestar galactica. I highly recommend it.

memory lane time, gents...with a fabulous frazetta cover painting

This is the novelization of the TV episode of "Gun on Ice Planet Zero." It faithfully recreates the story of the daring raid by the Galactica crew to destroy the massive Ravishol Pulsar weapon that is about to destroy the Colonial fleet. Glen Larson and Robert Thurston do a good job in fleshing out the characters and adding in a few twists to the plot of this original 2-part tv episode. The character of Croft, the leader of the criminal demolitions team, really gets the treatment in this book. He comes across as an inidividual who has real depth and emotion. In fact, much of the book is told from his point of view. Of course, fans of the show will recognize what happens in the story except for a few little things that are changed, of course. The biggest thing is the ending, with Croft hanging from a wire attached to a stolen Cylon raider trying to rescue Boxey who is a stowaway in a remote-controlled Cylon ship!!! Unbelievable!!! But it still makes a good read for all of us who knew and loved this late '70's sci-fi show. If you like Battlestar Galactica, get all of these novels and relive the show like you never have before. Great fun.

The book is always better than the movie or the episode

Well very intertaining. I couldn't keep my nose out of it, I found it in the thrift shop, a rare find indeed. Starbuck and Apollo at their best, and of course the normal action of the series. When my Dad saw me reading this book, he said that sometimes he'd watch it on the T.V, and he didn't turn it off. Which means the series were good, because it doesn't take alot for my dad to turn the switch. The plot was entertaining, and the humor was good. Read it, you wont regret it.

Like the preceding nine books in the Battlestar Galactica series, "The Long Patrol" is a rehash of an episode of the series that appeared on ABC-TV during the 1979-80 season. Glen Larson's work on this book makes for an interesting read but it's no page-turner. The plot line revolves around the construction of a new Super-Viper and the loss of Starbuck on a forgotten planet of Colonial decendants while flying it. Mostly, this book will appeal to BG fans. The story is taken from the original script so there are parts in the novel that do not appear in the episode. The precept of discovering a colony of Colonials long forgotten because of war and destruction is a good one and works well. Otherwise, to most it will be a good sci-fi read that will be quickly forgotten. An intersting point: this was the last book in the series to feature redux's of the series episodes. The final four were all new stories.

OK, the big question is why in the world was this episode of Battlestar Galactica chosen to be a novel? I just don't understand. It is the TV episode which was called "The Young Lords" and chronicles Starbuck's adventures on the planet Antila when he gets shot down by a Cylon raider during a patrol. Glen Larson and Robert Thurston try hard to make a good story out of this, but I'm afraid that the original material is just not there. It's OK, as a minimal action-adventure story, but it doesn't light the world on fire. Starbuck is rescued by a band of children who have been fighting the Cylon garrison on the backwater swamp planet Antila. The story centers on rescueing Megan, the mother of some of the children. It is pretty faithful to the TV episode except for three major items: 1) Cylons are really sentient beings who are dying off because of diseases; 2) Spectre, the Cylon base commander, is making his own robotic versions of the centurions and lying about it to the Cylon leaders; and 3) the children ride and communicate telepathically with unicorns!! These points were not in the original TV show. Of course, in the show, the Cylons were already robots! The other interesting thing about this book is that it is told partially in excerpts from Miri's book, a diary of one of the elder children (a beautiful girl who Starbuck eyes, of course). In the end, they save the captured prisoners of the Cylon garrison and Starbuck is rescued. For a fan of Battlestar, you should read it, and I recommend it for anyone who might be interested in this story or TV episode, but I still can't figure out why they tried to make a novel out of this story. It is constantly rated as one of the worst episodes of the series. A much better choice could have been The Hand of God, which was the last episode. Some of the other episodes which were converted into novels are questionable too, but I will get to them when I finish reading those.

I've read books 1 through 9 in this series, and found this one of the deepest and most entertaining of them. It attempts to deal with Starbuck's weariness with war as well as the weariness of the population of the 12 colonies being in the depth of a thousand year war. The telepathic unicorns did not turn me off and I actually thought Starbuck's connection with one of them was carried off very well. Spectre was also a standout. This character was fleshed out more than he was in the tv show (and even in that episode, regardless of how well received it was, Spectre was one of the best guest characters to come along in BG).

The Larson/Thurston novels were by far the best. (The Larson/Goulart novels were terrible, the writing horrible.) And this is the best of the first four Larson/Thurston's. Thurston co-wrote some or all of the books between 11 and 14 also, but I haven't gotten to those yet. But this is definitely the best of the first four.