It's solar-powered, it can morph into different types of car to confuse the baddies, and it's got an internet connection. Of course while the show was off-air, thanks to the invention of satnav, everyone got talking cars in real life, so the 2009 incarnation of KITT has to try extra-hard to impress. Now it's back (Tue, 8pm, Sci-Fi), in a vanilla 'reboot' - ie no 'future' nonsense, just the adventures of a new berk (Michael's son) and his talking car. Died after one season.įor years, things were quiet on the Knight Rider front. 1997 saw the arrival of Team Knight Rider: basically Power Rangers on wheels. In 1994, they tried again with Knight Rider 2010, a sort of Mad Max debacle: it didn't feature KITT or David Hasselhoff at all. In 1991, it returned as a TV movie called Knight Rider 2000, which was basically Knight Rider in the future (or rather the past, given our current vantage point), in which KITT came equipped with a built-in fax machine. Knight Rider was cancelled in 1986, but TV execs just couldn't let that brilliant berk-in-a-car concept die. It's fondly remembered today thanks to its cool theme tune and amusingly portentous title sequence, in which a bowel-straining voiceover told us we were about to witness 'a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist' (presumably because being honest and saying, 'Here's a load of made-up shit about a tit in a car which might help you pass another hour before death,' didn't play as well with the focus groups). David Hasselhoff was the berk the talking car was a Trans Am called 'KITT'. It was a show about a coiffured berk in a talking car, and it was awful. In 1983 the original series of Knight Rider hit British TV screens.

You'd die every four seconds, couldn't save your position, and when you got to the end your reward was a stark caption reading 'Well Done', followed by the game starting all over again, except slightly faster.Įighties games weren't fun at all.

The game would consist of you guiding a crudely-animated car mechanic across three screens of irritating peril, collecting magenta spanners and listening to beepy sound effects. I n 1983, if you wanted to play a videogame, you had to wait five minutes while your Sinclair ZX Spectrum loaded it from a tape.

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