Editing Knight Rider (1982 TV series) (section)

==Critical reception==
At [[review aggregator]] [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the first season scores 35%, based mainly on archived contemporaneous reviews, with an average rating of 5.60/10. The site's consensus reads: "This car can do anything -- except paper over how tiresomely silly ''Knight Rider'''s concept is."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/knight_rider/s01 |title=Knight Rider: Season 1 |publisher=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date=February 23, 2022}}</ref> [[Tom Shales]], writing for ''[[The Washington Post]]'', commented: {{"'}}Knight Rider' is all revved up but has no place to go, except, maybe, headlong into a large brick wall."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1982/09/25/spoiled-brats-rich-dopes-38/6950a9ea-c15a-4d52-a29a-d3bea3ea91db/ |title=Spoiled Brats, Rich Dopes & Sissy Heroes|last=Shales |first=Tom |author-link=Tom Shales |date=September 25, 1982 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=February 23, 2022|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In contrast, retrospective reviews have been more positive. [[Marc Bernardin]] of ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' called the show "a relic from a simpler time, when audiences demanded less from their TV".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://ew.com/article/2004/08/06/knight-rider-complete-first-season/ |title=Knight Rider: The Complete First Season |last=Bernardin |first=Marc |date=August 6, 2004 |newspaper=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |access-date=January 6, 2024}}</ref>