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[[File:Knight_Rider_2.jpg|frame|[[Hell-Bent for Leather|Cool jacket?]] Check. [[Cool Car]]? Doublecheck. [[They Fight Crime]]!]]
{{quote|''A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist. Michael Knight, a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless, in the world of criminals who operate above the law...''
▲{{quote|''A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist. Michael Knight, a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless, in the world of criminals who operate above the law...''}}
▲{{quote|''Michael Knight. A lone crusader in a dangerous world. The world... of the Knight Rider.''}}
▲A fairly simple concept about [[My Horse Is a Motorbike|a modern cowboy with his horse being the coolest of '80s cars, the Pontiac Trans Am.]] The original series aired on [[NBC]] from 1982-1986.
Police officer Michael Long was wounded when he interfered with criminal activities. His face scarred and everyone thinking he is dead, he accepts an offer by an eccentric millionaire to have his [[Magic Plastic Surgery|identity changed and his face reconstructed]]. In return he becomes a high-tech vigilante dealing with criminals who operate above the law. The man behind this offer is Wilton Knight, the owner of Knight Industries. Wilton strongly believes that one man (Michael) can make a difference.
Accepting the challenge, Michael Long becomes Michael Knight. To aid him, he is given a car -- and what a car it is! So much horsepower it can't be measured, every electronic device imaginable and then some, impervious to anything short of heavy artillery -- and controlled by an Artificial Intelligence with the voice of [[William Daniels]]. The '''K'''night '''I'''ndustries '''T'''wo '''T'''housand -- "KITT" -- was the ''real'' star of the show; [[David Hasselhoff]]'s Michael was simply a plot device used to give the car something to do and someone to banter with. In fact, according to [[Wikipedia|That Other Wiki]], the show was created in response to a perceived lack of leading men who could act, with then NBC president Brandon Tartikoff suggesting that a talking car could fill in the gaps in any leading man's acting abilities.
Backed by the secretive Foundation for Law and Government (FLAG), Michael and KITT pursue a never-ending crusade against, well, just about anybody who seems to be a bad guy that week, defeating them with a turbo boost, a microwave zap, and the durability of a front line heavy battle tank.
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