Actually...in the days of the show, even THEY couldn’t even make the car transform.

Did you really want to hear it say ‘Your door is ajar. Your door is ajar. Your door is...”?

Stick Siri in. It just may never shut up, again.

Should see some of David’s more recent advertisements. The Kitt portrayed in those most certainly would have placed that drunk hamburger footage onto the net. Kind of a nasty bloke in his old age, that Kitt has become.

Oh...that sure looks like the Dick Tracy two way wrist communicator thingie they used in the show, to me. What can I say? It was the ‘80s. The thing was electronics. It looked downright gaudy and awful. And every kid who watched the show, wanted one.

Yup.

Not really. They went Intellivision, instead.

From a fictional universe perspective, Kitt had ‘future’ technology in all the right ways. ‘Better-then-best handling’ was included. How good was it? For a throw away joke, Kitt and Michael were stuck in L.A. rush hour traffic. To get out of it, Michael gives permission for Kitt to...get this...drive at a ninety…

“Looks like the inside of Darth Vader’s bathroom.” - Knight of the Phoenix.

Reminds me of an interview about the show. Seems that shortly after an episode had been run about bikers banging on KITT’s ‘shell’, a group of kids got to ‘meet’ Kitt. (I believe it was their high end ‘show car’.) Kids just followed the televised example and went to town by punching and kicking upon the car...to the…

That would be show accurate, as well. For the AI’s primary implied function was to save all life forms. Though, I’ve always pondered how Kitt would feel after blasting through a small storm of bugs in flight. Would he morn or need a reset after the wipers removed their ‘splats’ from the windshield?

That mode was really awesome at night. The show rarely showed it with the sun down, though.

This show had some extremely unbelievable moments in it. Yet, that very shot is something to marvel over. Because, if they did that today or anytime in the future, it would almost certainly be done with CG. Back then, they had real stunts and toy models to work with. I do believe this was the former. Meaning they had…

Ironically, Battlestar Galactica did a better job of linking itself to Knight Rider. Because in one episode, Starbuck flies around in a ‘Knight Industries’ Colonial Viper...named C.O.R.A. (Both shows were Glen. A. Larson (Rest in peace, BTW.) productions. Recycled ideas. The man was in love with moving, red lights and…

Heh...April. “I got a high tech, one of a kind car at my fingertips. I know. Let’s make it float on water like a boat.” And thus, Knight Boat was set to be born in the Simpson’s universe.

Alas, those were the early eighties. Before the concept of Anime had ever made an impact on Hollywood. Shows that had long running plots? Those were called Soap Operas. True. KR did have some very thin plot complications. The Stevie love affair. That hard to follow thread in season one about those slightly knowing…

The show really was made for ‘80s television. Lower resolution. Somewhat fuzzy reception with Rabbit Ears on a tube TV. The DVD packages just rip it apart. ‘Thing’ likes to make special appearances at times. The dash board transforms it’s looks about as often as a Transformer changes appearances. The gas cap, that is…

I think a real point was made, there. After all, Knight Rider ‘08 is rather lacking in Turbo Boost scenes. After the pilot, nobody seemed to care about the show and it died in one season. The original jumped all the time and survived four whole seasons. Which is an accomplishment on the television scene.

One of the choices that made the show go with the Trans-Am was the fact that a train accident wound up damaging a few cars during transport and the show could get them for a song. Television Hollywood loves to get bargains where they can. (Well...Movie Hollywood does, too. Makes it real fun to scope out recycled props…