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Popularity in other countries

Knight Rider proved immensely popular overseas, and continues in syndication in various countries today.

Country	Foreign title	Translation	Network(s)	Notes
Argentina	El Auto Fantástico (The Fantastic Car)	Dubbed
Australia	Knight Rider	None	Nine Network TV1	First run on the Nine Network, generally shortly after first runs in the US, Knight Rider never really ran in repeats in Australia until the formation of pay-tv channel TV1.
Austria	Knight Rider	Dubbed	ORF1 ATV	The show's opening text has been changed to: Knight Rider - ein Auto, ein Computer, ein Mann - Ein Mann und sein Auto kämpfen gegen das Unrecht (Knight Rider - a car, a computer, a man - A man and his car fight against injustice). The FLAG was called "Foundation für Recht und Verfassung" (Foundation for Law and Constitution).
Brazil	A Super Máquina (The Super Machine)	Dubbed	SBT (TVS) (1984-1985) Rede Record (1988-1993) Channel 21 (Play TV) (1996-1999)
Bulgaria	Среднощен Ездач (Midnight Rider)	Dubbed	Diema (2008)	KITT remained КИТТ and Michael Knight was Майкъл Найт. Although the false translation of the title, the name remained the same and was not translated.
China	霹雳游侠 (Thunderous Knight (errant))	Dubbed	CCTV (1993)	Michael Knight's name was transliterarily as 麦克柰特("mai-ke-nai-te"). KITT was transliterated as “基特”(ji-te).
Colombia	El Auto Fantástico (The Fantastic Car)	Dubbed	Cadena Uno (1985-1991) Canal Uno (2006-2008)	Knight Rider became a popular series in the 80's. Now run in repeats, as a cult show.
Costa Rica	El Auto Fantastico (The Fantastic Car)	Dubbed	Channel 7 Channel 6
Czech Republic	Knight Rider	Dubbed	TV Prima
Ecuador	El Auto Fantástico	Dubbed	Telecentro (TC) - 1980s, 2008	Telesistema (RTS) - 1990s.
Estonia	Knight Rider	Subtitled	TV3
Finland	Ritari Ässä (Knight Ace)	Subtitled	MTV	The Swedish speaking minority in Finland may use either the Finnish title or Swedish (identical to English) title when talking about the show.
France	K 2000	Dubbed	M6 TF1 NT1 (2006)	K 2000: K for Knight, the intro also reference Michael as a knight and his horse.
Germany	Knight Rider	Dubbed	RTL Super RTL Das Vierte	The show's opening text has been changed to: Knight Rider - ein Auto, ein Computer, ein Mann - Ein Mann und sein Auto kämpfen gegen das Unrecht (Knight Rider - a car, a computer, a man - A man and his car fight against injustice). The FLAG was called "Foundation für Recht und Verfassung" (Foundation for Law and Constitution).
Greece	Ο ιππότης της ασφάλτου (O Ippotis tis asfaltou) (The Knight of Asphalt)	Subtitled		In the late 1980s, a Greek b-movie was produced, based on a Greek version of Knight Rider, called "Psit", starring the comedy actor Kostas Voutsas in the role of Michalis Nichtas (Μιχάλης Νύχτας), a transliteration of the name Michael Night (not Knight).
Israel	Abir al Galgalim (Knight on Wheels)			Most people refer to the series as "Hamechonit Hashchora" ("The Black Car").
Hungary	Knight Rider	Dubbed		KITT was voiced by László Versényi, although much deeper than the original. The reason for such a deep voice was that Hungarian people were not used to a telephonic voice like William Daniels' KITT. Most of KITT's functions were translated in a way that they were named "Mode", for example, "Turbo Boost" was called "Turbo Mode", or sometimes "Turbo Drive". Super Pursuit Mode was translated S-P-M-Stage (S-P-M-Fokozat). During the original airing in 1992, the episodes were disordered and were left in this scrambled way until the latest airing in 2005-2006, when the episodes were aired according to the original episode sequence. FLAG was translated as "Jogért és Igazságért Alapítvány (Foundation for Right and Justice). In Hungary, Knight Rider was one of the first crime fighter series and is still popular among many fans.
India	Knight Rider		Doordarshan Star World
Indonesia	Knight Rider	Subtitled	RCTI
Italy	Supercar	Dubbed	Italia 1	This is widely recognized as one of the most successful series in the history of Italian television. The introduction soundtrack is always the instrumental from the pilot "Knight of the Phoenix", the narrated version is never used. The same way, the ending quote "One man can make a difference, Michael", at the epilogue, is replaced with only the soundtrack, giving the audience the classical image of the venture hero riding away, rather than the one of a person with a mission stated by a dead man. A different character interpretation is present in many lines from KITT, especially from early episodes. Assuming that KITT's behavior while speaking is in between HAL9000 from 2001 and VINCENT from The Black Hole, there are lines (for example, in the pilot, when KITT returns to Michael after having been stolen) where it sounds much more formal and distant (like HAL9000) in Italian than in the original dialogue. The voice was also deeper than the English one, so much that at the beginning of Season 2 ("Goliath") the dubbing actor was changed. The early voice belongs to Adolfo Lastretti and the later one, closer to the original, to Massimo Venturiello. An edition aired in the Italian-speaking Switzerland in 1985 had, for at least a couple of episodes, a different audio mix, with the front scanner "humming" noise removed or heavily lowered. It also sported the original title in the opening sequence.
Japan	ナイトライダー in Katakana (Romaji: Naito Raidā) (Knight Rider)	Dubbed	TV Asahi	The sequence of the episodes was very different from the original. For example, "Voo Doo Knight" was the last episode in the USA, but "The Scent of Roses" was the last one in Japan. Most season two episodes were aired before starting Season One. The following episodes (from Season One unless otherwise indicated) were not aired in Japan, but they are still available in the Japanese version (Region 2) of Knight Rider DVDs: Slammin' Sammy's Stunt Show Spectacular, Not a Drop to Drink, A Plush Ride, Forget Me Not, Hearts of Stone, A Nice, Indecent Little Town, White Bird, Knight Moves, Short Notice, and Silent Knight (Season Two). Season 4 was retitled Shin Knight Rider (新ナイトライダー) (New Knight Rider) to reflect KITT's Super Pursuit Mode upgrade.
Latvia	Ceļojošais bruņinieks (Travelling Knight)	Dubbed	LTV1
Lithuania	Ratuotas Riteris (Knight on Wheels)	Dubbed	TV3
Malaysia	Knight Rider	Subtitled	TV3
Mexico	El Auto Increible (The Incredible Car)	Dubbed	Televisa (1987-2006)	KITT's voice was provided by Germán Robles who, oddly enough, was born in Spain.
Netherlands	Knight Rider	Subtitled
Norway	Knight Rider	Subtitled	TV3
New Zealand	Knight Rider	None
Pakistan	Knight Rider		PTV	The series gained a massive following and even now cars can be seen with a row of red lights imitating KITT's scanner. It remains the most popular American TV show ever broadcast in the country to date.
Peru	El Auto Fantástico (The Fantastic Car)	Dubbed	Frecuencia Latina (1985-1988)	Knight Rider became a popular series in the 80s and 90's, even now it is widely recognize as a good show
Poland	Nieustraszony (Fearless)	Dubbed		The character names and KITT itself have not been changed in the first translation, although in the second one KITT was called "K". Due to bad sound quality in some episodes, many fans were thinking that Michael was driving KARR. Although, in episode 3 or 4 of the first season, KITT says "Jednak wolę być K 2000", which can be translated as "I want to remain as K 2000". That convinced Polish fans that Michael was driving KITT.
Portugal	O Justiceiro (The Bringer/Enforcer of Justice)	Subtitled	RTP1, TVI	Some years after its prime reruns of the show were broadcast, there were the dubbed version from Brazil, which to many made the show unintentionally funnier than the original version (Brazilian and Portuguese people tend to consider each other's pronunciation funny in general).
Romania	K.I.T.T. (Knight Rider)	Subtitled	Tele7abc	This show was one of the most successful series aired on Romanian television after the 1989 Revolution.Teenagers and kids of that period all know who KITT was.
Russia	Рыцарь дорог (Knight of Roads)	Dubbed	STS, DTV
Saudi Arabia	Knight Rider	None	Saudi Aramco Channel 3	One of the few shows that was permitted airtime, despite the fact that many of the female actresses wore short shorts, something unacceptable in Saudi culture.
Slovenia	Vitez za volanom (Knight Behind the (steering) Wheel)	Subtitled	Kanal A TV 3
South Africa	Knight Rider	None
South Korea	전격 Z 작전 (The Blitzkrieg Operation Z)	Dubbed	KBS
Spain	El Coche Fantástico (The Fantastic Car)	Dubbed	TVE (1984-1988) Antena 3 (1991-1998)	"Coche" translates to "car", this is a stylistic difference of the Spanish language, whose vernacular varies from country to country) and FLAG was called "Fundación para la Ley y el Orden". The voice of KITT was dubbed by Carlos Revilla, a fondly remembered actor who later provided the voice of Homer Simpson. Funnily enough, in the Spanish version of the episode The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace, KITT makes an animated cameo and Mr. Revilla dubs both his voice and Homer's.
Sri Lanka	Knight Rider	Subtitled	Rupavahini ITN
Sweden	Nattens riddare (Knight of the Night)	Subtitled		The show has three names, "Nattens riddare", "Riddaren i natten" and "Knightrider".
Taiwan	霹靂遊俠 (Thunderous Knight (errant))	Dubbed and subtitled for first run, bilingual broadcast and subtitled for repeats	CTV	Michael Knight's name was translated to be "李麥克" ("Mike Lee"). KITT was known as "霹靂車" or "Thunderous Car".
Turkey	Kara Şimşek (Black Lightning)	Dubbed	TRT 1	The show was such a big hit that during the years of the initial run, many automobiles and vans were fit with a thin row of red lights that imitated KITT's scanner. It has left such strong memories that stand-up comedian Cem Yılmaz came up with a series of television commercials as recent as 2005, where he had a talking car named GİTT, a 131 Fiat Mirafiori, the cheapest most common car in Turkey, outfitted with the scanner. In one petrol commercial Yilmaz drag races his GITT Mirafiori against a Corvette on the Istanbul Park raceway. They take off together, as the Corvette crosses the line and comes to a halt, the driver steps out to see Yilmaz playing a game of table football, casually proclaiming a 5-0 victory as the driver listens in.
Ukraine	Мандрівний лицар (Knight Errant)	Dubbed	ICTV
United Kingdom	Knight Rider	None	ITV Bravo Virgin 1	No longer airing on ITV.

In Germany and Austria the show was popular enough that it spawned a licensed German audioplay series available on cassettes which re-told the original TV series, only with more accurate translation than can be done for lip-synch dubbing, featuring the series's original dubbing voices but employing their own sound effects and scene music alongside the show's original theme.

In the UK the show was also a massive hit. The show raked in a large audience, even though it was not networked for much of its run, with each region showing episodes in their own selected time-slots and (as was common with imported shows) episodes were often shown out of sequence, sometimes edited for time and/or content as each region saw fit. Many regions had their own quirks with the show - for example, London region Thames split the very late episodes, which were not pulling in as many viewers, into two halves, airing them over Monday and Tuesday in a 5:15 pm slot. After the initial run of the series, many regions ran the unpopular edited half-hour versions in the late 1980s. Various ITV regions also gave the complete episode versions a repeat run in the mid-1990s. Although some regions, such as London's LWT, did not, those that did only showed the first three seasons. In 1997, it was shown by the newly launched Channel 5, who ran most episodes in a Saturday morning slot as part of their youth-orientated strand, first as a double-bill of episodes, then later with one episode on Saturday and one episode on Sunday. Although there was the occasional minor edit here and there, it was the first time that a lot of material (such as the opening trailers, which ITV often edited out) was shown on UK television. They ran the series to near the end of the third season, but did not show the fourth season despite many requests from fans; although they did show the feature-length fourth season opener, "Knight Of The Juggernaut", in a 'one-off' showing (the other feature-length episodes were also given airings in such 'one-off' slots several times). A couple of years later they too also aired the unpopular half-hour edit versions. It is currently being broadcast by Virgin Media owned channels Bravo and Virgin 1, who also broadcast the fourth season for the first time since the episodes were originally shown on ITV in the later 1980s. The show has not been broadcast on terrestrial UK TV for some time now, though the two spin-off TV movies get occasional airings on Channel 5, and ITV broadcast Team Knight Rider in the early 2000s.

In South America, except Brazil, the show was renamed El Auto Fantástico (The Fantastic Car) and is generally known by that title. Incidentally, many shows are renamed overseas to better suit the subtleties of different languages. In this case the play on the word "Knight" in the title (a triple meaning, with Michael Knight, the Knight Foundation, and the classic medieval Knight all playing part of the meaning) was not as effective in Spanish speaking countries, as the word Knight is translated to "Caballero" (meaning both "Knight" and "Gentleman"). El Auto Fantástico also contained slight differences in the naming of certain elements, with the Foundation for Law and Government (FLAG) being renamed FLO (La Fundación de la Ley y el Orden, translated as the Foundation for Law and Order) to suit the audience. Names of the characters remained unchanged, with the only other differences being the voices of the actors who recorded the lines in Spanish. Currently (2007) in Argentina amd (2008) in Colombia the series is still being broadcast.

Knight Rider still has a large following in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, India, Sri Lanka and China, and reruns of the show air across the world to this day.

Re: undiscussed changes to policy pages

See Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 64#Manual of style bitrot which is a related issue, and is in some degree due to a lack of people closely watching a page. —Centrx→talk • 04:02, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

—Centrx→talk • 01:30, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

It would be nice if someone created a subpage of Wikipedia:WikiProject on open proxies to show others how to check for proxies manually (besides web-based CGI proxies, which anyone with average Joe computer smarts can check). I would like to check them, but I do not know how to scan them manually. [1]

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Random funny things

The "Done and Been there person" is a word found on the words of detest section in American Society.

A person who thinks there the PRO of everything, usually calls people noobs. "Hey, dude I hacked into the Pentagon!", Yeah? So? I don't really care, I've done that >.>.

I don't give an American flag!

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For 18 miles, uphill, both ways, in the snow!

On STUMPS!! We didn't even have FEET back then!!!

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(about WikiVoter)

Also, it has a functionality that basically lets you stalk the discussions of everything you've already commented in. -Cyde

I've noticed you do this well enough without WikiVoter, Cyde. Its facetious and irrelevant to bring it up now. SynergeticMaggot 21:13, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

LOL --Cyde Weys 21:24, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

On a Turing-complete template scripting language resulting in Wikipedia becoming sentient:

<centrx> I just saw a great use of #switch

<centrx> I think it justifies the risk of creating a sentient WikiMurderer

<centrx> think if Wikipedia got out into the real world

<centrx> non-notable people would start disappearing

<centrx> Wikipedia would delete everyone

<centrx> except for several angsty teenage musicians with sock-voting fan clubs

At RfA: "Support. Would contribute quality articles to football."

At Talk:Five-pointed star:

Who wants to write article? --evrik

"A five pointed star is ..."

-evrik 16:51, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

"...a star with five points.^{[citation needed]}" —Centrx→talk • 02:22, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

(credits to 08:19, 16 July 2006 User:Lambiam for addition of "needs citation")

At Talk:Allie Sin, a deleted page:

Anyone know why this page was deleted?

Yes. Somebody created a policy (Wikipedia:Notability (pornographic actors)) and somebody followed it. --Easyas12c 20:19, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

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