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    There should really be some sort of war crimes tribunal for people involved in making stuff like that.
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    The A-Team and Knight Rider were excellent!

    Steve, if you don't mind me asking, what age are you? From some of your comments, I'm guessing (Barry aside), you're older than us.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    The A-Team and Knight Rider were excellent!

    Marco.
    I used to watch Kight Rider as well: a talking, self-driving and stylish looking car, what more could one ask?
    Barry

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    The A-Team and Knight Rider were excellent!

    Steve, if you don't mind me asking, what age are you? From some of your comments, I'm guessing (Barry aside), you're older than us.

    Marco.
    I don't mind you asking, I'm sixty eight and a half So yes, I'll be older than most of you. Most of my adult life I've been the oldest, almost all of my mates, also my youngest brother, have all been 11 years younger than me. The latest being Macca I think. Oh and Anita of course. All 11 years. It's uncanny.
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    Lol, thanks for that. You're just as old as the woman you feel, eh?

    Marco.
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    Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry View Post
    I used to watch Kight Rider as well: a talking, self-driving and stylish looking car, what more could one ask?
    Yes, KIT. I've still got a boxed Matchbox model of it

    Marco.
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    CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.

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    Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp, fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.

    Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.

    Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.

    Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.

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    You mean KITT ('Knight Industries Two Thousand'). The car itself was a Pontiac Trans AM.

    There was a later series shown around 2000, for which KITT conveniently stood for 'Knight Industries Three Thousand'. I don't know if it was ever shown in UK.

    Anyway by then the Hoff was busy with another very good-looking partner: Pamela Anderson.
    Barry

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    Yes, KITT

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    Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.

    Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.

    CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.

    Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.

    Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp, fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.

    Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.

    Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.

    Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.

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    There was also a Knight Industries Four Thousand in the Knight Rider 2000 film. Sadly, both film and car were a bit pants.

    As to Portmerion, it's on my list to go although I've never seen The Prisoner. A friend likes it, though, but thinks that Number Six is a bit of a thicko, particularly after one early episode where he's trying to find out where in the world he is. As my friend pointed out - the record player in his room has a Garrard turntable and the mains sockets on the wall are all 13A 3-pin Type G, therefore there's a pretty good chance he's in the UK!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beobloke View Post
    There was also a Knight Industries Four Thousand in the Knight Rider 2000 film. Sadly, both film and car were a bit pants.

    As to Portmerion, it's on my list to go although I've never seen The Prisoner. A friend likes it, though, but thinks that Number Six is a bit of a thicko, particularly after one early episode where he's trying to find out where in the world he is. As my friend pointed out - the record player in his room has a Garrard turntable and the mains sockets on the wall are all 13A 3-pin Type G, therefore there's a pretty good chance he's in the UK!
    Yeah, but they'd made the room a copy of his own, and that kind of attention to detail may have mattered. But from what I remember, it never pissed down in the village, that must have thrown him.

    If he'd checked whether his bathwater went the plug hole clockwise or anticlockwise, be could then have discounted half of the world, which would be a start
    I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in

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