By the time of the fourth season, K.I.T.T. While the car’s chassis was reinforced with a ‘Molecular Bonded Shell’ that could resist most conventional weaponry, the vehicle could reach speeds of 300 mph, employ a 'Turbo Boost' to jump over obstacles, and was equipped with numerous gadgets such as scanners, analysers, a grappling hook, a parachute, a flame-thrower, a microwave jammer, and even an ejector seat. The vehicle’s most distinctive feature was its Anamorphic Equalizer, a glowing scan bar that is reminiscent of the eye of a Cylon from ‘Battlestar Galactica’. For most viewers, though, the real star of the show was K.I.T.T., the charismatic artificial intelligence installed in a stylishly cool, black Pontiac Trans Am.
Cast in the lead role of this crime-busting, action-packed show was hunky, bubble-permed beefcake David ‘The Hoff’ Hasslehoff, who later went on to star in ‘Baywatch’ and take up a dodgy singing career that has inexplicably given him a cult status in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, where he has sold some nine million records. – the Foundation for Law And Government…Ĭreated by the ultra-prolific Glen A.Larson (the man who created ‘Battlestar Galactica’, ‘Buck Rogers in the 25th Century’, ‘The Six million Dollar Man’, ‘The Fall Guy’, ‘Magnum P.I.’, and many, many more), ‘Knight Rider’ was originally seen as a modern-day version of ‘The Lone Ranger’ – albeit with a sentient, talking car instead of a horse. (Knight Industries Two Thousand), and offered a job fighting crime for F.L.A.G. With the aid of reconstructive surgery the young officer is given a new face and identity – that of ‘Michael Knight’ – access to an advanced prototype car equipped with an artificial intelligence named K.I.T.T. Knight explains that he is dying from a fatal disease, but hopes that his life’s crusade of helping the helpless will live on in his new protégé. When Police Officer Michael Long is betrayed and shot in the head during a stakeout, his life is saved when the bullet deflects off the metal plate in his skull - the result of an injury sustained in the Vietnam War his face, however, is horrifically damaged… When he comes to, Michael learns that after being officially declared dead, he has been brought under the medical care of the Knight Foundation, a philanthropic organisation owned by billionaire Wilton Knight. Michael Knight: a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless, in a world of criminals who operate above the law." – Wilton Knight
A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist.