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"Knight Rider," the iconic 1980's television classic that became a runaway success, returns with a modern day sequel. The update to the David Hasselhoff classic series returned to NBC in hopes of getting picked up for a series to help the network through the writer's strike.

K.I.T.T. returns to the screen as a Ford Mustang this time instead of the Ponitac Firebird Trans Am.

This full episode of the new Knight Rider is the entire show and runs 1 hour, 20 minutes long. Val Kilmer stepped in as the voice of K.I.T.T. (Kilmer was a last-minute replacement for Will Arnett, who allegedly backed out due to corporate sponsor problems. Hint: he does ads for GM)

"Knight Rider" scored big in the ratings with an average of 12.7 million viewers between 9 and 11 p.m. Its 5.0 rating/12 share among adults 18-49 was the best score for a TV movie since March 2005's "Their Eyes Were Watching God." (

It ran over everything in its path at 10 p.m., including CBS' premiere of edited episodes of Showtime's "Dexter" (8.1 million, 2.3/6) and a new episode of ABC's "Brothers & Sisters" (8.5 million, 3.0/7). (source)