User blog:ARTaylor/35 Years of Knight Rider

Today marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of the premiere of Knight Rider. The series premiered on this date in 1982 and lasted four seasons for a total of ninety episodes. The series follows Michael Knight who fights crime for Foundation for Law Government, FLAG, along with his artificial intelligence controlled, technologically advanced Pontiac Firebird Trans Am known as Knight Industries Two Thousand, KITT. The series was popular with audiences with KITT becoming a popular figure in culture. The series led to a short-lived spin-off, sequel movie, movie adaptation, two sequel series, and planned theatrical film.

The series featured the talents of Edward Mulhare as FLAG leader Devon Miles, Peter Cullen and later Paul Frees as the voice of the evil KARR, Alan Oppenheimer as General Duncton, John Vernon as Cameron Zachary, Ed Gilbert as Charles Acton, James Cromwell as Curtis, Chuck McCann as Bombo The Clown, Thomas F. Wilson as Chip, Phil Morris as Perata's lieutenant, Richard Epcar as a guard, Joseph Ruskin as Bubba, and Peter Mark Richman as Kleist and Dr. Klaus Bergstrom.