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Harker Wade. Producer: Quantum Leap. Harker Wade is known for Quantum Leap (1989), Tequila and Bonetti (1992) and Battlestar Galactica (1978).
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- The Show Was Inspired by An Episode of B.J. and The Bear.
- The Concept “Had to Be Tongue-In-Cheek,” Hasselhoff said.
- Kitt Was Like Hal from 2001: A Space Odyssey — only Altruistic.
- Kitt’s Design Started Off with A Napkin Sketch.
- The Cylon Similarity Is No coincidence.
- Pontiac Wasn’T Sold on The Idea at first.
- Different Kitt Models Performed The Jumping and “Auto-Cruise” Stunts.
- William Daniels Provided Kitt’s Voice.
As Hasselhoff recalled in his autobiography Don’t Hassel the Hoff, NBC executive Brandon Tartikoff had become skeptical about young male talent in 1980s Hollywood and figured there should be a TV show with a male lead who only spoke six words, with the character’s supercar providing the rest of the dialogue. Then, Universal Television’s Richard Lin...
Hasselhoff also wrote that Larson didn’t take the KITT idea too seriously. “It had to be tongue-in-cheek, like Sean Connery did in the James Bond pictures and Christopher Reeve in Superman,” Larson said, per Hasselhoff. “If we had played it straight, it would have been ridiculous.”
“Larson’s inspiration for KITT’s computer was HAL, the evil talking computer in Stanley Kubrick’s phenomenal sci-fi movie 2001: A Space Odyssey,” Hasselhoff revealed of the 1968 film classic. “Unlike the malevolent HAL, KITT has been programmed to protect human life; virtually indestructible inside his molecular bonded shell, he isn forbidden to ki...
John Schinella, former chief designer for Pontiac, dreamed up the original KITT in a napkin sketch. He got the job in a chance meeting with Harker Wade, a producer of the Knight Riderpilot. Schinella recalled that conversation in an interview with Car and Driverlast year. According to Schinella, Wade said, “‘I know you guys got a new car coming. We...
Schinella’s design for KITT features an oscillating red light inspired by that of the Cylon robots of the original Battlestar Galactica, a show Larson created before Knight Rider.
As Schinella told Car and Driver, Pontiac wasn’t sure about letting the Knight Rider team use a Trans Am. The car company was worried that the show would be just as ridiculous as another show with a talking auto, the infamously terrible 1965 NBC sitcom My Mother the Car. But Pontiac executives eventually warmed up to Knight Rider. “I think once the...
In that book, Hasselhoff gave readers behind-the-scenes scoops about how Knight Rider’s production team pulled off KITT’s stunts. For car jumps, producers used a hollow, fiberglass Trans Am, “which crumpled upon landing,” the actor wrote. And for the “auto-cruise” scenes, stuntman Jack Gill would drive a KITT variation with a passenger-side steerin...
TV actor William Daniels, known for his roles as Mark Craig in St. Elsewhere and George Feeny in Boy Meets World, was the offscreen star of Knight Rider, voicing KITT for the entire four-season run. Daniels said in a 2017 Television Academy interviewthat he was able to record an episode’s worth of KITT dialogue in about 50 minutes: “I remember [mee...
Harker Wade. Producer: Quantum Leap. Harker Wade is known for Quantum Leap (1989), Tequila and Bonetti (1992) and Battlestar Galactica (1978).
NBC. Outstanding Drama Series - 1991. Nominee. HARKER WADE. QUANTUM LEAP. NBC. The Television Academy database lists prime-time Emmy information. Click here to learn more. HARKER WADE: bio, photos, awards, nominations and more at Emmys.com.
Feb 14, 2021 · Schinella took off his work belt and went inside to meet with Dahlquist and a man named Harker Wade. Wade would become supervising producer of Knight Rider.
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Jul 3, 2017 · Known for in-class screenings of the Travel Channel’s “Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern,” Wade leads an annual Cultural Cookbook lesson involving students’ parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles.
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