Behind the Scenes....NBC Spends Big $$$ on 4th Season Premiere

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Knight Rider included the renovation of the Knight Industries 2000, including a super pursuit mode that allowed for 40% more increased speed and a convertible mode. The episode itself was filmed in Chicago in the summer of 1985. The cost of getting KITT to look this way was over $250,000 dollars and that frightened the network. Dallas had huge ratings and Knight Rider was airing between Friday and Sunday nights. NBC felt that the show was not going to make it, hoping for huge ratings and more fans. Writers who had been with the show from the first season went their own ways and Glen Larson became interested in other projects. Demolishing a good KITT had its price as David put it, "They had to smash at least 4 good cars to get those scenes in the first half to look realistic. NBC was going over budget and that did not fair well for future episodes." Knight of the Juggernaut ended up costing the network as much as 1/2 of the third season to produce and that to NBC higher-ups rose the cost of the show and its non-value to the network lineup. Knight Rider had gone from the Top 10 towards the end of season 3 and NBC figured it was on its last leg. While the episode ranks in the top 10 of the best Knight Rider episodes, it signals the decline of the best TV show ever made and produced, and that in itself is a major disappointment....KITTNAP however is one of the better 4th season Knight Rider episodes after the premiere aired in September of 1985.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="157cadf0.gif" border=0 width="202" height="223" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>KITTNAP</B></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>