knight rider online

Hello all! I just found this site and am thrilled to see so many current fellow Knight Rider fans! I wait with baited breath every couple months for the Sci-Fi channel to show the day-long marathons.

Anyway, seeing how many fans the show had from reading sites like this, I can't help but ask, "why only 4 seasons?" What were the reasons at the time for cancellation? Poor ratings? I don't see how that was possible with the multitude of fans I've run into.

Knight Rider should have run as long as 'Dallas' or 'Murder She Wrote' or any of those other decade long running drama/crime shows.

Yeah, I agree with you there, and I think "Baywatch" sure was the long-running one for DH, but somehow I think that show ran 2 seasons too long, and "Knight Rider" should've had more episodes, as in 2 or 3 years' worth of shows left, and I was really upset when "Knight Rider" was cancelled after 4 seasons, because I really was getting into all the action happening on the show, and the show ended too soon.
The half-hour episodes of "Knight Rider" didn't do the show justice when it was in reruns, but the more hour-long sort of thing did do the show justice.
I'm glad for the DVD sets of the 1st and 2nd seasons of the show, since they have entire episodes with no commercials!
Uh, pardon my rambling on like an idiot.....

I always thought that maybe pontiac forced the close of the show due to them not wanting to supply the production/stuunt team with trans ams anymore, by 1986 the shape and design of the trans ams were changing.
possible???
hmmmmmmm

KARR_RULES wrote:I always thought that maybe pontiac forced the close of the show due to them not wanting to supply the production/stuunt team with trans ams anymore, by 1986 the shape and design of the trans ams were changing.
possible???
hmmmmmmm

Actually, the overall shape and design of the 1982 Firebird remain unchanged (except for some wheel, bumper, tail lights, ground effects add-ons and engine upgrades) until the 1993 model year when they totally redesigned the car from the ground up.

Pontiac never forced the closure of the series. The show ended when ratings weren't as high as the earlier seasons. The producers tried to revive the show with the intro of the SPM KITT in the fourth season, but it didn't help much. And the show was canned.

oh thats why,
well thanks for setting me straight.

Also, it was an issue of budget as well. The producers added RC3 to bring in a new face and make new storylines, but that wasn't enough. Then Universal spent over $250,000 building the Convertible Mode car and the Super Pursuit Mode car as well as close-up vehicles used for the transition shots. Ultimately, when all the money spent on these new cars did little to boost the show's ratings like executives hoped, it just wasn't worth it for NBC to grant Knight Rider a 5th season.

I think I They should have just has a break for a couple of years, then made some more.

If they had done that i think it would have boosted the ratings up, thus making more money.

The show end was due to the poor ratings AND the increasing costs of the 4th season.

Hence the reason why they concentrated more on story than stunts in s4.