04-29-2019, 04:15 AM
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KITT's existence is directly related to the General Lee. The Dukes of Hazzard went on air in the fall of 1979, and CBS soon started to make a ton of money selling their vast variety of General Lee merchandise. It didn't take long for NBC to want a huge piece of that pie too, so by 1981 they came up with the character of Michael Knight, a.k.a. Knight Rider.
Oh BTW - the designer and builder of KITT; Michael Scheffe was a former Mattel Toy designer who later designed and built the BACK TO THE FUTURE DeLorean.
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