I liked this show all right when I was a kid. It had its moments and for the time a really cool car. The show also had some rather bad episodes usually involving evil versions of the people on the show. They had a show where Michael as an evil twin and the car K.I.T.T had an evil twin named ironically car. Funny as the evil Michael just had the typical mustache to show how bad he was, funny as both "Futurama" and "South Park" would have episodes making fun of the evil twin and their mustache. However, most episodes especially the early ones were rather good with Michael and K.I.T.T solving the more usual type crimes and not the totally strange ones. The car though made the show for me as a kid as it was totally sweet and did all those cool things, granted it did the really cool things perhaps once per episode, but what does one expect seeing as how those super jumps usually tear a car to pieces. In later episodes after K.I.T.T is dipped into acid he gets a new upgrade called super pursuit mode which would be way awesome, but would last for twenty seconds are so and was never really used for an extended period of time during the episodes it was used in. So this show could have been better, but it was a solid show of the 1980's and is probably the highlight of David Hasslehoff's career.

What part of "campy adventure show" do some of the posters of negative reviews not understand? Was K.I.T.T.'s Super Pursuit Mode any less realistic than Lost In Space with its 7-foot-tall talking robot? Theatrical greatness, neither show could claim, but both were entertaining! I was 17 when Knight Rider premiered, but the concept of a car capable of driving itself appealed to me on multiple levels.1 -- Being severely nearsighted and thus knowing that driving was forever beyond my ability barring some massive technological breakthrough.2 -- Familiarity due to many years of self-taught electronics knowledge with technologies known as "Loran C" (a precursor of GPS) and an early versions of "Global Hawk" capable of navigating a 4,000-mile flight within an accuracy of +/- 1/4 inch. Such technology required a human operator only to navigate in the presence of other moving objects, but could navigate a fixed path automatically in the absence of other traffic.The 2008 series which I affectionately call "Knight Rider Jr." among fellow fans is also very entertaining. I'm a weekly viewer of "Knight Rider Jr." at 43 just as I was of the original show when I was 18.

That was brilliant as comics, fair as a TV show, and unforgettable as a sci-fi. Actually the idea of six million dollars' car with a free-spirit adventurous man who does not exist is quite catchy and original especially when they made it smartly on a background of the old west and the unique relationship between the rider and his partner which happens to be here his flying horse yet of the 20th century's science as well as fiction.A lot of previous reviews refer to how that was amazing as a childhood's memory, with a sense of disparagement also which describes this series always by traits like "cheesy" ! Well.. guys I think the right word is "cheery" because that was one piece of good entertaining comics where a lot of the adolescence's dreams came true : a friendship between a young man and a super machine, my computer and my car and my only buddy in one heroic form, a special foundation for low's enforcement, you can drive as crazy and jump by your car in the sky (still a thing which takes my breath away in every time !) for the sake of justice and general welfare. Wow ! Put to that a nice brawny chic lead star and some slight comedy, with the best female beauty you can get from the American TV at the early 1980s then you'll have the (Knight Rider) as one of the top outings at the dream world which could capture your imagination, yearning for heroism, and too many of your childish wishes successfully. So when some of the old audience are talking about loving this as one of the childhood's memories then it's just a sincere gesture not for their naivety once or how that was dazzling but artless one.. NO it's their infancy inside which's admitting the real attachment to the creative fancy of that lovely show. And by the way I think the main music theme summarized all of that wonderfully : the electronic future, the simple adventure, and at the end of it you would grasp the childish sense of the whole thing clearly.Yes, on the other hand the grown-up in everyone of us will intervene in to be the nagger but equitable mind's voice : the acting was perhaps the lowest element here. True that (William Daniels) delivered a beloved vocal performance as the very sophisticated intellectual sidekick, but (David Hasselhoff) was just the cute tall handsome who was trying to be as attractive as the car ! Yet gets real spooky whenever he's in anger as he was acting sometimes with passivity makes The Green Hulk looks genius actor ! But despite everything he could give the role its suitable image and sprit. (Edward Mulhare) as (Devon) was something I didn't get accustomed to, simply because he has a face with a little bit evil features, and for the female part (Patricia McPherson) was the wise girl with the scientific clever brain ONLY who personified on TV the new image of the working intelligent American girl at the time who wasn't anybody's doll ! However on the contrary you would find some of the finest babies with the piquant look every episode, and whether an enemy or a friend they were all : extremely delicious, glaringly dressed, and had been filmed from very wicked angles made them all in all a vivid hot dishes…In the seductive classy fashion of the 1980s (I adore it personally), and by the charm's measures of the very era which would choose everyone of them as a (Farrah Fawcett)'s look-alike or at least as ones who were having something of her, yet scarcely with acting talent ! The scripts sometimes weren't that good or to be specific not as ambitious as the personality of K.I.T.T itself, with some exaggerated moments which gave the fans of that (as a high sci-fi) a hard times ! Like How K.I.T.T can assay the gunpowder in someone's gun without even touch it !?, and How it can see (Michael) wherever he was (and not by the hand watch !?) etc.., and I didn't like the forced laughable scene at every single episode's finale, I know that it was one of the old innocent customs but at times it was unbearable.Not to mention the MTV's very obvious effect as we've been listening to the most stylish pop songs in what seemed to be a short video clips during some episodes, along with the fashionable outfits of (Michael) which were too gay (I mean colorful and merry !), yet you may consider it cool if you're a fan of the 1980s... like me.So it was a winning formula for a pastime show which despite its own weak parts it has now even more appeal, because after 20 years we're living the black, repulsive, and the bitter era of : dull supernatural, talking ghosts, bloodsuckers, disgusting forensic medicine, hideous reality TV, and The Shield ! In one word if the TV used to bring the refined, polished, sexy, and dreamy atmosphere from the late 1970s to the start of the 1990s, I think it achieved the satiation completely to turn away form that to its absolute opposites : the ugly, shocking, and realistic atmosphere as horrible as it can be ! Therefore hankering after all the classics of the 1980s from the great (Magnum P.I.) to the plain (Knight Rider) is ordinary desire to watch something well-made, nostalgic for its genuine fans, and a real merciful rescuer from our days of American idols & autopsied corpses !

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!