Sherry Howell And I still enjoy it. I was a senior in high school when this show premiered. Yes, it is absolutely campy, and of course it is not believable, but maybe that's why I like it so much, even today. This show reminds me of Star Trek,the original series in some ways. It's so over the top that you can forget about any idea of anyone getting hurt. You know before the episode even begins that Michael is going to come through, and good will triumph over evil and the bad guy is going to get it in the end. Just like Trek. But that's what I love about it. If I wanted to see reality, I can find another show, or simply walk out the front door. But this kind of show let's you just take your mind off the hook for a while and pretend that everything always comes out right in the end. If that's what you want, you're in the right place.

Atreyu_II 'Knight Rider' is one of those classic 80's TV show I grew up with. It deserves all the classic status it gets. It is a great and nostalgic TV series, a symbol of those good old times (the 80's). TV series of reference like this is something that doesn't exist in modern times. When I was a kid, I never missed a single episode of this. I had a great time watching this TV series over and over as a kid. This TV show was inspiring for me and offered me lots of fun. I miss this great TV show. As a kid, I'd get stick like glue to the screen watching the adventures of Michael Knight and his loyal KITT.This memorable TV show is solid in entertainment and combines the ingredients that make the nostalgic and unique 80's atmosphere, like classic humor, fun, some action (but without exaggerating) and lots of adventure. But the 80's trademark doesn't end here: this is all combined with a dressing style and hairstyles typical from the 80's and the music is also a "must". Who can ever forget that fantastic opening song? It is so expressive, so timeless, so fresh, so 80's.Michael Knight is the role that made David Hasselhoff a superstar. This role was a landmark for him, the pinnacle of his career.Michael Knight's adventure partner is KITT, a modified 1982 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, equipped with artificial intelligence (as a kid, I always thought it was a Ferrari or a Chevrolet Corvette C4). KITT can talk through a supercomputer aboard and is brilliantly voiced by William Daniels. His voice is calm and pacific, reminding the voice of the HAL 9000 computer from "2001: A Space Odyssey". KITT means Knight Industries Two Thousand. Like Herbie, KITT is not an ordinary car. Both are very special cars, but KITT is more extraordinary than Herbie. KITT is a highly-advanced machine with a massive number of special equipments and technologies that would ashame any modern car. The car's futuristic interior is still light-years ahead of any modern car. It is 'space age' design at the highest sense (which includes a very unusual steering-wheel), something like a plane's cockpit or a spaceship. KITT can do everything, even things that could make my jaw hit the floor. KITT is one heck of a car, a gorgeous and fine piece of machinery. KITT is a dream under wheels and it was my dream car as a kid (together with Herbie). Who wouldn't want to drive and own that "out-of-this-world" car? In fact, to a degree, KITT exists in real life. There are replicas of KITT, which are Pontiac Firebird Trans Am models that were modified to look exactly like KITT, both outside and inside. These replicas have everything (the functions, buttons and all) KITT has, except the William Daniels's voice and a button for the cars to give spectacular jumps like KITT does.

Bats_Breath Crooked small town cops, evil business men in three piece suits, roundhouse karate kicks, these are the trademarks of any number of 80's action adventure TV shows. You also know you are dealing with an 80s TV show if there are a lot of stories about revolutionaries in Mexico or some unknown Latin American country, cattle rustlers, or if there are plenty of car chases using cheap looking 1970s styled cars. Nearly every TV show from 1977 to 1986 featured these plot devices. Knight Rider may very well have been the silliest of the bunch.Before David Hasselhoff became an embarrassing alcoholic, and even before his Baywatch years with Pamela Anderson in the 90s, the man played Michael Knight back in the early-mid 1980s. Teamed up with a talking super car named KITT, the two battled evil forces in California and it's nearby surrounding states. Distinguished actor Edward Mulhare brought some respectability amid all the stupidity. The episodes tended to be consistently formulaic, with next to zero continuity between episodes, characters often said and did things that directly contradicted the previous week's episodes. One episode had Knight's boss Devon tell us that Michael better be careful because he is about to tangle with the man that ordered the hit on Knight when he was previously known as "Michael Long". Yet in the pilot episode of Knight Rider, Michael Long was merely an unlucky police officer who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time out in the desert, thus why he was murdered. There was no "hit" ordered on him. Does anyone remember that episode of Knight Rider where Hasselhoff's character orders a hamburger and then just leaves? Germans love David Hasselhoff, but he was a star for NBC from 1982 to '86.

juella90 I like this show a lot. Not as much as, say, The A-Team, but it was great fun! As others have pointed out, some people get a real stick up the butt and complain that its corny, implausible, some of the acting is dodgy etc... So if we agree, whats the problem? lol But seriously, what do you expect from a show like this? A new Shakespeare? Does everything have to reach that standard of excellence? Surely there's nothing wrong with some light-hearted fun. If you're still not convinced that this was from the golden age of TV, turn on your TV set and just see how things have improved since those awful 80's. Have a look at the horse doo doo passing for entertainment THESE days. "Reality" TV shows featuring half-wits sleeping, sitting on sofa's or getting drunk and talking rubbish (Big Brother, anyone?). Tons of similar, generic sit-coms that need to have laugh tracks to let you know when to laugh (ever sit there and think "was that the funny part?"), propaganda channels posing as news, MTV is a shadow of what it used to be... Yeah, thank God the 80's are over and Knight Rider is a thing of the past, huh? The trouble with comedies these days is that they take themselves too seriously. There always has to be a serious love story alongside the "comedy", always some feigning of intelligence and seriousness going on. I wish the people making TV shows these days would realise that you don't need that boring rubbish. Shows like Knight Rider were corny, implausible, but GREAT fun!