Knight Rider

Knight Rider is a classic American TV show. It was broadcast on the NBC network & ran from September 1982, to August 1986. David Hasselhoff played Michael Knight (originally Michael Long). An ex police officer injured in the line of duty. After reconstructive facial surgery he is officialy proclaimed as deceased. He is given a new identity & recruited by the Knight Foundation to drive KITT (standing for Knight Industries Two Thousand). A Black Pontiac Trans-Am which is sentient, able to talk & equiped with artificial intelligence. Michael & KITT travel the country fighting crime of many different varieties & forms. All the time proving that ...  Read the complete review

Creators: Glen A. Larson. Producers: Glen A. Larson, Robert Ewing and Robert Foster. Writers: (Various, including) Glen A. Larson, Robert Foster, Gerald Sanford and Peter Allan Fields. Stars: David Hasselhoff, Edward Mulhare, Patricia McPherson, Rebecca Holden, Peter Parros and the voice of William Daniels as KITT. Released in September 1982 and running until August 1986, making 90 forty five minute episodes into 4 series ** THE SHOW ** Michael Long, (played by David Hasselhoff) is a detective working on a case when he is injured in the line of duty... so with a new identity, together with a new face, he ...  Read the complete review

Knight Rider was an American TV action adventure series that ran from 1982 to 1986. It featured Michael Knight as a modern day 'knight', righting wrongs and targeting criminals who acted as if they were above the law. The plot seemed quite simple: ex-law enforcement officer Michael Long suffers a near death experience after a bust goes wrong. He is recruited by FLAG (Foundation for Law and Government) by Devon Miles and is given facial reconstruction. He then is equipped with KITT, a highly sophisticated car, high tech in every fashion, and fitted with personality too! Renamed Michael Knight, he proceeds to accept missions from FLAG regarding criminals and ...  Read the complete review

The man who was filmed drunkenly eating food off his kitchen floor not only got to do the cross chest tow on Pamela Anderson is Baywatch he also got to drive around in a cool talking car. David Hasselhoff was the human star of Knight Rider playing the have a go hero Michael Knight however the true star, and the more animated actor was his talking car KITT a high tech vehicle with a mind of its own thanks to its onboard computers. This was one of those glossy American programmes that were made in the eighties such as the A-Team in which the heroes managed to thwart the bad guys without causing them too much harm despite lots of bullets flying ...  Read the complete review

Last night I watched the first ever episode of Knight Rider. I'd not seen the series for many years despite having watched it every week when it was first shown. However I've got quite into the habit of late of watching cheesy 1980s American adventure shows as they are becoming more and more available on DVD. My girlfriend previously watched all the episodes when they were shown on satellite and recommended it to me as good 'brain-in-neutral' kind of TV so I thought I'd give it a go. The DVD box set of season 1 is put together quite strangely. There are eight discs, but the first episode doesn't actually appear on disc 1, instead it's found on disc 7. Then as ...  Read the complete review