There can be only one…
Yes. The ever fabulous Knight Rider. I happened to catch an episode last week and it was a smorgasbord of cheesetastic loveliness. And my car still doesn’t do all that stuff…
Now bear in mind that when Knight Rider aired when I was a kid growing up in England, most cars looked like this:
(the trusty Fiat 126)
or this (my first car):
(the Renault 4)
or, if you were really lucky, this:
(yay Austin Maxi)
So looking like this:
was a turbo-boosted ride to amazing…
That ever-trusty bastion of trivia, wikipedia, says that 90 episodes were created and they aired in more than 30 countries. Did you know the crazy Swedes called it "Knight of the Night", and for the terribly literal German market, it was titled "Knight Rider – a car, a computer, a man – A man and his car fight against injustice". And in Hungary, KITT had the "S-P-M-Fokozat". Have you ever wondered what the Fokozat?
Fantastic! And just try not humming that theme tune all day after you watch the video clip…