TRIVIA:

This is the only episode in which Michael and K.I.T.T. utilize S.I.D. (the Satellite Infiltration Drone), a flying radio-controlled robot designed to scan places where K.I.T.T. can't go. Normally seen in the form of a metallic box, here S.I.D. is disguised as a soccer ball. Bonnie is able to camouflage the device as virtually anything. It's also equipped with Audio, Video, Heat Sensors and a Homing Pulse.

Nana Visitor went on to star in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, along with fellow Knight Rider guest star Marc Alaimo (SLAMMIN' SAMMY'S STUNT SHOW SPECTACULAR).

SCRIPT TO SCREEN:

Tess Hubbard was written as "fifty-five, a heavyset, backwoods type; a gruff manner that covers a heart of gold." Sandra Rusk was envisaged as "a chic and yuppie-sexy brunette in a three-piece-suit." Wilson is described as "tough, leathery, an ex-soldier of fortune." He and Sandra Rusk are more than friends  -- a fact that doesn't make it to the episode.

S.I.D. was conceived much more ambitiously than we see him on-screen. Tiny rods telescope out of S.I.D.'s equator and converge to form a gyrostablizing ring. Three metal probes pop up and out of him. He hovers a feet few above the ground. As written, he is slightly more bearable than he is on-screen, although there is still no real motivation for the main characters' love for him.

SCRIPT - 8TH DRAFT - REV. 11/25/85

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