a5c7b9f00b Michael Long is a policeman, while investigating someone, he was shot and left for dead. But a millionaire, Wilton Knight finds him and saves him and gives him a new face. It seems that Knight wants to wage a war against criminals who operate above the law. And Michael is the man he has chosen to wage that war. He has created the ultimate car, the Knight Industries Two Thousand or KITT, which is laced with a virtually indestructible alloy, and is also capable of moving on its own and also talks. He gives the car to Michael, and gives him the new identity of Michael Knight. Michael is assisted by one of Knight&#39;s associates, Devon Miles. Bonnie is the mechanic who takes care of KITT. During the second season Bonnie was replaced by April,the new mechanic. The folowing season she left and Bonnie returned. The next season they acquired a new member, Reginald Cornelius III or RC3. A lone crimefighter battles the forces of evil with the help of a virtually indestructible and artificially intelligent supercar. Oh, how I loved this show!! Kitt was the greatest. I wanted to have my very own Kitt, and remember back in the 80s you could go to Universal Studios and they had a sort of mock-up Kitt there that you could sit in and talk to and stuff? I was always flattering that car, lavishing compliments on him… Ahhh.. what a terrific show that was. It&#39;s the kind they don&#39;t make anymore, one of those moral-pusher quasi-law enforcement shows. Even if they weren&#39;t about cops, they were about some millionaire-funded, hushhush do-gooding organization that had people going out and just looking for problems to solve. In the 80s you had shows like &#39;Highway to Heaven&#39; and &#39;Scarecrow and Mrs. King,&#39; and yeah, Scarecrow *was* a federal agent, but he wasn&#39;t like the &quot;Lee Stetson! FBI!&quot; kind of agent that Mulder is. Because in the 80s it was more cool to keep things mysterious and like, hide an elevator in a coat closet and a secret laboratory inside a semi truck and stuff like that. And they were really GOOD guys… almost like superheroes. Well, in Knight Rider, the hero was Michael Knight- a regular guy who did get paid (I guess), but you always got the feeling that he was out there every day because he really did just want to help people. And that&#39;s the kind of TV program that you don&#39;t see any more. These days the good guys aren&#39;t just *out there* cruising around looking for bad guys; the shows are more like &#39;The X Files&#39; and &#39;NYPD Blue,&#39; about realistic, work-a-day people who have trouble getting up in the morning and go through divorces and drug problems and whathaveyou. And they are good shows, but they lack that fantasy escapism that made the 80s so magical. <br/><br/>Knight Rider was one of the best 80s offerings because it was one of the most unique. Sort of &#39;Dukes of Hazzard&#39; meets &#39;Miami Vice&#39; meets &#39;Highway to Heaven&#39;, but with the futuristic technology and a smart-mouthed car that made it work. And of course the requisite hero, a cute guy in a leather jacket. (Who didn&#39;t even carry a gun! How often do you see that?) And how can that go wrong? It just can&#39;t. &quot;Knight Rider&quot; has everything you want in it, not only action, but also character and classic themes like male heroics and happy endings, and even if you didn&#39;t care for Michael, Kitt was irresistible. Knight Rider is somewhat timeless in that Kitt was the first talking car (muchMister Ed was the first talking horse), and that was done so well that the genre is now untouchable. There will likely never be another show about a talking car, because Kitt was the best, the one and only. Even his voice (William Daniels) ismuch a part of Knight RiderMichael himself. <br/><br/> If they ever remake the series properly, it will only be successful if they stick to the same old formula of One Guy and His Car… none of this &quot;Team&quot; stuff. (Kitt never needed a team.) And they would have to avoid casting a bunch of famous names, because everybody knows the best shows are built on unfamiliar actors. <br/><br/>&quot;Knight Rider&quot; was a great one. I miss it terribly. I am not against a remake, but I do think all of these sorry, half-ass attempts at it sully the original series considerably.*** Kudos to Hasselhoff and Daniels for being one of the best character duos on TV, and bringing us this wonderful program. My score: A<br/><br/>Me: (petting the dash.)&quot;Kitt, you&#39;re gorgeous. Do you know how beautiful you are?&quot;<br/><br/>Kitt: &quot;Why thank you. You have very good taste.&quot; Ask anyone who grew up during the early 1980&#39;s what their favorite non-animated show wasa kid and they&#39;ll probably say &quot;Knight Rider&quot; (unless they&#39;re from the south, then they&#39;d probably say Dukes of Hazzard) KR,its affectionately called by some fans, may seem quirky and obscure nowadays with its Atari Centipede sound effects, poofie aqua-net hairdo&#39;s, over-acting and &quot;sooo not the original artist&quot; synthpop covers, but we didn&#39;t care… To us this was the best thing on TV besides Smurfs and He-Man and it appealed to our parentswell.<br/><br/>KR was James Bond meets Herbie the Love Bug. While our mothers drooled over the blue-eyed hunky Hasselhoff, we were captivated by the ominous-looking but friendly talking black Trans Am, K.I.T.T. (Knight Industries Two Thousand) we giggled at the odd-couple banter between Michael and KITT, we smiled every time thieves tried to steal KITT and failed, and we cried when KITT got destroyed (but they -always- managed to fix him) From 82 to 86, this was the coolest show on TV.
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