Knight Rider

Knight Rider is a television series created by Glen A Larson. The original series ran from 26 September 1982 to 8 August 1986, although a number of spin-off series' have been aired since. The concept of the show was that a young ex-policeman, Michael Knight and a car fitted with an Artificial Intelligence chip could fight criminals that escaped the legal system.

In 2008, a television movie aired as a pilot for a new series of Knight Rider that would continue the story with the character of Michael Traceur as the driver of the new version of KITT. Traceur was revealed in the pilot to be the son of Michael Knight.

Original Knight Rider cast

The cast of the 1980's series was as follows:

KITT is the computerised car at the center of the Knight Rider series. The name is an acronym for Knight Industries Two Thousand, although this was later changed to Knight Industries Three Thousand for the new series in 2008.

The original 1980's version of KITT was a 1982 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, voiced by the actor William Daniels in the series. In the 2008 series, the Pontiac was out of production and so a Ford Mustang Shelby GT500KR was used as the main car instead.

A prototype version of KITT exists known as KARR. KARR is short for Knight Automated Roving Robot, and while the vehicle uses typically the same technology as KITT, it is rogue and its sole intent is to destroy KITT.