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''Code of Vengeance'' is the umbrella title for a series of American television programs, produced by Universal Television, that aired on NBC in 1985 and 1986. Charles Taylor stars as David Dalton, a Vietnam veteran who has become a drifter, travelling across the United States in a camper van with only his dog for company. Dalton gets involved in the personal lives of the people he meets and uses his fighting skills to help them win justice. The Dalton character was created for ''All That Glitters'', a planned spin-off series from ''Knight Rider'', and a backdoor pilot aired as a second-season episode of that series in 1984. The character, originally a suave government agent, was retooled as a lone drifter for a new pilot, which aired as the television movie ''Code of Vengeance'', to surprise ratings success in June 1985. A subsequent series, to be called ''Dalton'', was ordered by NBC for midseason, then production was cancelled after just four episodes were completed. These aired in the summer of 1986 as a television movie titled ''Dalton: Code of Vengeance II'' and as a part of a fill-in series called ''Dalton's Code of Vengeance''. ==Origins== The David Dalton character was originally created by writer Robert Foster and executive producer Glen A. Larson for a proposed series titled ''All That Glitters''. The show's two-hour backdoor pilot aired on April 8, 1984, as a special double-length episode of ''Knight Rider'' titled "Mouth of the Snake".〔 The production featured Charles Taylor as David Dalton, an action-oriented government agent, and Joanna Pettet as Joanna St. John, the widow of a murdered lawyer, fighting crime and accepting secret missions from Archibald Hendley (played by George Murdock) on behalf of the United States Department of Justice.〔 In this pilot episode, Dalton and St. John work with ''Knight Rider'' stars Michael Knight (David Hasselhoff) and KITT (voice of William Daniels) to locate Eduardo O'Brien (Pedro Armendáriz, Jr.), a master criminal who has stolen a prototype rocket launcher.〔 This backdoor pilot was written by Robert Gilmer and Robert Foster, directed by Winrich Kolbe, and produced by Robert Gilmer, Gian Grimaldi, and Tom Greene. Cinematography was handled by H. John Penner with art direction by Russell Smith and music by Don Peake. Both Glen A. Larson and Robert Foster were credited as executive producers on the project.〔 Noting the limited roles of Michael and KITT in the episode, the authors of ''Knight Rider Legacy'' state that "()any fans consider this to be one of the worst episodes of ''Knight Rider'' ever produced during its four-year run" and that it posted a season-low in the Nielsen ratings.〔 Feeling the format was too similar to ''Cover Up'', a show Larson had created for CBS that began airing in September 1984, NBC declined to pick up ''All That Glitters'' as a series.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Code of Vengeance」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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