35 Years Ago: 'Knight Rider' Runs Out of Gas
On April 4, 1986, Knight Rider aired its final episode, bringing a strange and abrupt end to one of the '80s most popular TV shows. The series was the brainchild of Glen A. Larson, the producer behind such hit shows as Magnum P.I., Battlestar Galactica. The TV veteran viewed Knight Rider - with its crime fighting detective and talking car sidekick - as an updated interpretation of a Hollywood classic. “Michael Knight in a way is prototyped by the Lone Ranger,” Larson once explained to the Hollywood Reporter. “If you think about him riding across the Plains and going from one town t...