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Knight Rider (1982) was nominated for the following awards:
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 In many of KITT`s jump scenes, the screen jumps to another angle (such as Michael driving) before landing. This is because more often than not, the front end of the stunt car is totaled upon landing.
The narrator of the show`s opening credits was Richard Basehart who played dying benefactor Wilton Knight in the pilot episode, "Knight Rider: Knight of the Phoenix (#1.1)" (1982).
You never see a long shot of KITT changing into Super Pursuit Mode, since KITT is not moving at all. A shell of KITT`s body was used when filming the transition to Super Pursuit Mode, since large hydraulic rams were needed to articulate the body panels, and there was no room for an engine or running gear in the car.
Super-Pursuit Mode was introduced as a means of retaining viewers for a fourth season.
David Hasselhoff and William Daniels (voice of K.I.T.T.) meet on the Christmas party after six months filming the season. Until that point, Hasselhoff hadn`t seen the face behind the voice of the car.
The "auto-cruise" car was a right-hand drive car, so that Hasselhoff could get into the car without cutting the scene (only on the last season).
The "jumping car" was a hollow-fiberglass Trans Am Pontiac, who supplied the Trans Am for the series, found itself swamped with customer requests for black Firebird Trans Ams with T-tops, tan interiors, and red lights on the front bumper, just like the show car.
Glen A. Larson borrowed the idea of K.I.T.T.`s hood mounted scanner from one of his earlier projects, `Battlestar Galactica`. The Cylon Centurions in that series had an almost identical scanner that functioned as eyes, and Larson adapted the idea for K.I.T.T. Also, originally K.I.T.T. had a square red light on the dashboard that lit up as he spoke. His more familiar `voice modulator`, with three red lines broken into cells which went up and down as he spoke, was introduced half-way through the first season.
KITT, the Knight Industries Two-Thousand, was a customized 1982 Pontiac Trans-Am. The 1982 model year was the first year of the third-generation (1982-1992) F-bodies (Chevrolet`s Camaro and Pontiac`s Firebird share the same platform), and was a complete redesign of the second-generation (see Smokey and the Bandit (1977) for a 2nd-gen Trans-Am).
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