The History of Knight Rider - The TV show, the toys and the video games documentary 

I didn't plan on posting this video on both of my channels. It started out as just a straight up piece on the TV show but when I realized how many toys and especially video games were available It expanded more and more. I wanted This to reach as many people as possible. This is not going to be a regular occurrence I assure you. Enjoy the video and thank you for your cooperation.

I never knew William Daniels until I saw him in Boy Meets World in the 90’s and then I learned that he was the voice of K.I.T.T the car. Talk about moving on in the world of Hollywood from the 80’s to the 90’s. Thank you for doing this video as I am learning so much about this amazing show and the history behind it.

I was born in 81'. I'm pretty sure Knight Rider was the first show I ever watched. The theme song still bounces around in my head daily!

My cousin was talking about knight Rider and how he remembered how we all use to sit in front of the TV when this came on as kids. The whole family would just watch it. Miss those days.

I’ve been rewatching this on Netflix, what a show! Your content is always a great watch! Thanks!!

Great video. Brought back memories of watching this show when I was child. Never played the nes game. I have it, never played it... but truly the highlight of the video... "Putting too much in, too fast!" "Kinda how I ended up with my daughter"... When it is this good, words cannot describe its value! Priceless 🤣🤣

Grandma had a Knight Rider board game. All I remember is the board had roads all over it with scenes from the TV show. There was a black car looking piece and several different color car looking things. Also check out Knight Rider Historians Official. It's fun watching these guys nerd out over these cars and trucks.

Thank You PatmanQC For The History of Knight Rider The 1980s TV Show And a Whole Lot of Merchandise Like Toy's Video Game's And More And Remember PatmanQC You'll Be Glad You Did!!!!

It's cool to see you reaching out into other media while keeping that nice warm nostalgic feeling fully intact. Good stuff.

The Fall Guy reruns were the most beloved show when I lived ear Hamburg Germany 1984. All the male children wanted to be stuntmen likely due to that show! Great video! Peace!

I have a photo of me as a kid sitting in Michael Knight’s car, what a time to be alive.

i had the knight rider big wheel as a kid in the 80's. possibly the best looking big wheel to ever be made. i would do skids and make that kitt swishing sound and tried to jump off ramps. ah good times.

Such a great channel. Everytime I watch an episode I dream of opening an arcade.

Great! Really enjoyed this. Loved knight rider as a kid. Fond memories of watching this and the A-team with my grandfather every weekend. 👍

And Also Thank You For The Heart The Heart-Shaped Symbol With The Image in The Background of Both of Your RU-vid Channel So Keep Giving to Me For Now On Ok PatmanQC And Remember PatmanQC You'll Be Glad You Did!! ❤️👍

One of my all-time favorite TV shows growing up, and one that I find hasn't aged at all. Thank you so much for talking both about the fantastic series and the crappy games (I remember the CPC version and it was really that bad). You are the best, PatmanQC, no wonder I always look forward so much to your weekly video

@PatmanQC. This is a great deviation to your channel. Love the iconic TV series combined with the licensed and not licensed game releases relating to it. Details about both the series and the games. Great stuff. From a guy who was born in 71 and grew up in the same era and had the same passions growing up during the 80’s and 90’s I thank you for the trips down memory lane.

I remember getting a Knight Rider big wheel for my 4th birthday and feeling like the coolest kid on the block!

This was a super fun episode, thank you :) I think your body of work will be the basis for a college course on historic game design and popular culture - right across the hall from the Ian McCallum class on historical firearms design. A fitting legacy for a dedicated man-child like myself!

Have seen Knight Rider on VHS tapes. But Street Hawk holds a special place for me since it was telecast on TV. Would love to see a Street Hawk remake.

I kept hearing "Let's Go Mr. Driver!" in my head as I watched this, luv your work mate.

Who would thumbs down this video? Must be an envious content creator, lol. Great work as always!

Absolutely loved me some Knight Rider! You gotta admit Pat, the General Lee was a cool car as well, even though it didn't have any special abilities. Edit: I had just noticed you'd shown Fran Drescher. Oh man! Could you imagine the torture of that being KITT's voice?

Please do The A-Team. Oh,and thx for this,all of you’re content,especially The Combatribes vid you uploaded recently. That game was only discovered by myself recently and is right up there with Streets Of Rage as a favourite.

Every time you come out with a video I get an awesome trip down memory lane. I remember watching the first Knight rider when it came on TV, great video!

The music part blew my mind! I had no idea!

Seeing KITT's brother's butt stick out of the beach sand in that episode totally hyped me up, and does so to this day.

Great series, also loved street hawk. Man I miss the 80’s.

This and dukes of Hazzard where my two favorite shows when I was a little kid. I used to record the audio onto cassette tapes, and we listen to episodes while going to sleep. Haven't thought about that memory in a long time, thanks PatmanQC.

Wow I had the talking KITT when I was a child, watched the series with my dad and it was that years Xmas gift , a small trivia , KITTs voice in Spanish was a little more robotic , great video !

- So, how is the Knight Industries 2000 project progressing Doctor? - Well Mr Knight, we´ve managed to make this small modell that can say six different things when you push down on the licence plate. - ......You're fired.

Knight Rider was one of my FAVORITE shows when I was a kid!!!! Found this video VERY informative! Hell of a GREAT job on this one! One thing though.... Why does the driving on the Commodore 64 version sound like the landing sequence in the Top Gun NES game????

I had the Knight 2000 voice car, and the race track that put Kitt against a red tractor trailer!!!! Nostalgia overload! 😭

Thank You For This Episode And Remember PatmanQC You'll Be Glad You Did!!!! Lol 👍❤️👍

Such a rich history for a show that only lasted 4 seasons. I had no idea that the person who created this vehicle created the other iconic ones listed. Awesome job with the vid Pat! 👊

Theres only 1 KITT! Somethings can be done only once ,KITT was sleek and mysterious! And I loved the pop up headlight from the 80's

Love your sense of humor!

I loved that knight 2000 toy. But I was annoyed with my Kitt cars because they said "knight 2000" on the sides which made them less screen accurate. I have a few newer ones now on my shelf

I don't know if it seems hokey or corny to people who weren't around when Knight Rider was current, but I remember that there was nothing cooler than Knight Rider in the 80s. You had to be there! I remember going to Universal Studios and taking pictures with KITT. Good times . . . . . .

Just wanted to clarify that George Barris had NOTHING to do with the creation of KITT or the General Lee. His shop was merely commissioned to make modifications in later seasons as per studio design. 66 batmobile, munsters and monkees were from his shop though.

Remember the quote "One man can make a difference". Loved this show growing up.

Great coverage of the TV series and figures, as well as the game. That was funny about the game at 11:25 , and you're right, it doesn't look very playable with that tiny attempt at a road view. They should've made it a side view of the car like a side scrolling action game. Great video history, thanks Patman!

This show was amazing to me. I loved it! Thank you for sharing this. KITT was the coolest car ever! Lol I never knew Mr. Feeney from Boy Meets World is the voice of KITT!!!

Awesome stuff! This TV show was a ton of fun. Didn't know there was a PCE game - I'm gonna check it out!

Wow! Never knew that about the theme song! Awesome work!

you are a good entertainer with a lot of knowledge, I look forward to all of your videos, thankyou

Another great video

I own all the seasons of this EPIC show! I was just watching season 4 last night :-) PERFECT timing

Knight Rider is The Best TV Show Ever!!!

What a great video, so much information I did not know about the show I grew up with. Thanks

I had the Big Wheel back in 1986...... the red emergency break was awesome!

I love this channel.

You mention the daughter joke twice. Also there was a promotional item for season 2 called a K.I.T.T Kit. It was a basically a one sheet of kitts plans and a list of what he could do. Cool little item. Not in the greatest condition but i have one.

The shows intro was playing in my head as I listened your video; it's that ingrained in my memories 😅 I think a female voiced kit wasn't a bad idea too, it would have been a nice dynamic.

Loved Knight Rider. Never missed an episode and even had the toy.

Takes me back. I remember I knew one kid had a large cardboard death Star,. Was that a thing? Great video, thanks.

Really enjoyed this! I didn't know about the theme music! Very interesting! During your Windows play through you mentioned that the game was never released in North America. Maybe I misheard but the Windows version definitely was as I bought that new back in the day! Definitely the Ps2 versions were not. Maybe that's what you were saying. Anyways thanks for this!

This one is too awesome, my friend!

I was just a bit too young for the show when it first came out, but I watched later reruns and liked it. I never got any of the toys back then, but in recent years I got a few of the Hot Wheels KITT cars and a KITT RC car that talks. Pretty cool.

Is this the chef from a youtube channel they sound the exact same i love his voice im guna look up that channel and link

The theme song still slaps.

Dont forget the Knight 2000 Stunt Set .... I loved that toy as a kid!

St. Elsewhere... huh? So even Knight Rider takes place in the mind of Tommy Westphall ;)

I remember watching this with mom when I was a kid and I owned the NES game. I know mom and I watched Knight Rider 2000 ypgether a few times and I watched Knight Rider 2010 once or twice but I don't think mom ever saw it.

Still love K.R today,since it began back in 1982.

It's true, The Hoff had a lot of Fans here in Germany. Not true is the rumor that he was responsible for the fall of the berlin wall (i heard that a few times here and there) 😅 Great Video as always, Patman. Just like him, you have German Fans...well, at least one. But i'm sure there are and will be more. 👍

When I was 5 or 6, I got to take a picture sitting inside K.I.T.T. at Universal Studios. It was quite a proud moment. I actually liked the reboot w/ the Mustang and Val Kilmer. I was sad it only lasted a short while.

Great video, I loved Knight Rider as a kid. The only negative I noticed was that the GTA series is produced by Rockstar, not Rocksteady.

Great stuff, just so you aware, the first two trans am’s were not used for the show. The show was filmed in 1982, and the 3rd gen F body was made available in late1981.

No. Fucking. WAY! I'm here for it, Michael!

Good stuff glad your branching out some👍👍

Nice!.. One of the coolest shows from my childhood, Kitt was awesome. I saw David once in LA but didn’t get a pic. & I remember watching the show in Spanish back then haha.. & it was called “El Auto Fantástico”. Not sure why, cause it doesn’t translate literally. Never played any of the games but the PC engine game looks pretty good. Anyway cool episode. 👍

"Eating cheeseburgers off the floor" killed me!

Great work Sir thank you

Isn't it funny how in Hollywood it's such a small little community and conspiracy like that only one guy gets to design all of the different cars throughout hollywood?? Like there weren't some young up and comers that could really use the break

“Too much in too fast”, joke so good you had to make it twice! ;). I laughed

Oh yeah, I didn't realize Battlestar Galactica was made by the same producer Larson. I just knew about the light was the same design. Interesting that the Drag-U-La and Koach's Funky design of the Munsters were done from the George Barris that made TATT. I miss the 1980's!!

Omg David Hasselhoff eating cheeseburger off the floor is so funny lmao

Funny how so many of the games load KITT up with weapons when I remember the show going out of its way to have Michael and KITT solving each mystery without using violence, kinda like MacGuyver. EDIT: Oh yeah, KITT also sorta appears in Burnout Paradise in one of the DLCs. It's not perfect but they include an all black car with the iconic scanner on front with sound effect.

My brother and I got to sit inside KITT at Universal Studios. Since we hadn't seen any new episodes in a while, my brother asked KITT if there were going to be any more episodes of Knight Rider. KITT told him that the show was on hiatus. So basically we found out the show was cancelled from KITT himself.

Amazing wonderfull nice one....Now do Airwolf!! >:) The theme was far superior and you know this!

15:20 I Love The Japanese Version of KNIGHT RIDER in KNIGHT RIDER SPECIAL Only For NEC® PC Engine™ it Was Released Only in Japan And Who Cares PatmanQC That We Don't Like The Voice Sample in Japanese Dub it's a Good Game And It's a Better Gameplay And The Best Game's And That's All That Count's in My Opinion And Do Love The Voice Sample in Japanese And in My Opinion And That's All it is to it PatmanQC.

You forgot to mention that William Daniels also portrayed George Feeney the principal on the classic sit-com Boy Meets World

There was a Lego Dimensions Knight Rider set which have a Lego figure of Michael Knight and a buildable mini Lego Kitt, it also came with a small hub world that paid homage to the series.

I still have my knight rider toys from the 80's.😁 Strange thou. I have tried watching the series today, and I can't seem to get into the show now like when I was a kid. 🤷🏻‍♂️ I definitely want to pick up the Knight Rider PS2 game. Even though it's gotten bad reviews the gameplay looks good on RU-vid. Also I met kitt at universal studios in 1983. 😁

Was that Wolfman Jack I heard in the first action figure audio?

8:09 And Yeah There Has to Be KIGHTS RIDER Toys One of Them Was The Toy Company That Makes Good Toy's On The Outside But Also in The Inside is Notorious Company That Makes The Bad Worst Games Ever of All Times in My Opinion is LJN® TOY'S LTD

I in joy your videos

I'm happy to somewhat defend the 2004 PC game. It faithfully recreates the TV show even with the off voice overs. As a Chase HQ ripoff it's absolutely fine. What frustrates me about this game is they had the tools (unfortunately not the money) to do this as a GTA style game with the Chase HQ elements for the driving sections. So close yet so far. 😥

The NES version looks like a jazzed up “Rad Racer”

I loved Knight Rider as a kid in the '80s. But now as an adult it's very hard for me to not notice the blatant continuity errors logic loops sloppy editing & plotholes in every episode. I can still enjoy it for what it was nostalgically but some of it really was laughably bad. My favorite KR "WTF?!?" moment was when KITT turbo boosted straight up and out of a car crusher at a 45 degree angle from a dead stop. Or when KITT had a suitcase bomb in the hatchback and calculated the only safe place to detonate it was 100 miles away from where they were in the parking garage and had only 10 minutes to get there somebody did the math and KITT would have had to average 300+ miles an hour to make it in time. Cue sped up overcranked footage to make it appear KITT was going way faster than it really was which was standard issue in 1970s and 1980s movies and TV shows.

Hey PatmanQC, were you messing with us or did the C64 game sound like Top Gun for the NES?

My favorite TV show of the 80's along with the Incredible Hulk.

1:57 You gotta make sure we are ready before you drop something that manly in our laps.

Ahh, the days of toys coming WITH action figures.

You forgot the the Knight Rider 1 and 2 for the PlayStation 2

I don't think I ever seen it kit on the TV show shoot out missiles and shoot lasers just on the videogame

Mr Daniels is awesome just plain and simple

Never knew about the games until now, the PC Engine game looks definitely fun & it's too bad that they didn't put more effort to the PS2 & Windows game, it could have been awesome!

"The Knight 2000 Voice Car! Sorry, we were too cheap to license any actual voice clips from the show." While I like Bonnie, I thought April was prettier. No, not because her chest was bigger, I like redheads. :) I loved the show, but the one thing that always bugged me was how when Michael drove into the back of the semi, you could see that KITT barely fit in, but once they switched to the inside set, they had tons of room. Yes, I know it's a TV show about a talking car, but stuff like that is a really obvious continuity problem. I mean, imagine if a TV show today showed someone pulling out an iPhone, but then the closeup of the screen showed a iPod.