New Episode-Trucks (1997)

Stephen Kingcast

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Tv & Film, Arts, Arts:books, Books

4.7 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

1997 was a prolific year for Stephen King. Not only did he publish Wizard and Glass, but the television world also saw adaptations of The Shining, "Chattery Teeth" (Quicksilver Highway) and the second adaptation of his story "Trucks." A vast tonal departure from 1986's Maximum Overdrive, Trucks strips down the more over-the-top, cocaine-fueled insanity of the original adaptation, leaving behind, well frankly, a car frame without an engine. As always, if you have any thoughts on anything related to Stephen King, write into stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow on Bluesky, Facebook, Tik Tok and Instagram. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com For even MORE Stephen Kingcast content, head on over to patreon.com/stephenkingcast

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King cast one man's musings on the works of Stephen King.
0:05.0	Each week I will review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King in the chronological order of publication and welcome everyone to the show if you are newly
0:15.0	joining us for the first time or if you have been here since the very beginning or in the earlier days.
0:21.3	Welcome, welcome, welcome to the longest running Stephen King podcast on the internet.
0:27.9	So just a little update on what this show is at the moment and how to best enjoy the Stephen King cast.
0:37.4	I'm currently on a
0:39.3	exploration of all of the TV adaptations that I never got around to the first time around
0:47.9	in the podcast. And so today what we're going to be getting, I will be examining trucks.
0:56.4	Have you seen trucks? Probably not. I had not seen trucks up until the need to review it for this podcast, which I'll be talking about in a little bit.
1:05.8	So what we're going to be getting over the next few weeks, I have already done Quicksilver Highway, the Shining on ABC TV.
1:18.5	Coming up soon, you're going to be getting my review of Rose Red, the diary of Ellen
1:23.4	Rimbauer, the 2004 Salem's Lot starring Rob Lowe
1:28.8	Kingdom Hospital
1:31.7	Writing the Bullet, Nightmares and Dreams and Dreams
1:34.9	Dreams and Dreams, Big Driver
1:38.4	and
1:40.9	seasons two and three
1:43.3	of Mr. Mercedes I never did so I'm going to be getting to that,
1:47.2	as well as Lise's Story and Chapelweight and the Institute.
1:53.9	So there's a lot of good stuff coming.
1:55.9	Why am I focusing right now on TV?
1:58.6	Well, I was inspired by It Welcome to Dairy, the fact that this had just come out
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