The Following is an article with an interview with Dave on the show from Wayne Walley of the Australian Women's Weekly in July 1983.

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David Hasselhoff, it seems, is living a charmed life. After more then seven years as one of the leading sex symbols of daytime television, the handsome 30 year old decided it was time to try something else. He left the cosy surroundings and steady work of "The Young And The Restless" without any plans or firm job prospects. The next day he was hired to portray Michael Knight in Channel Nine's new detective series hit "Knight Rider". " I have to believe I have a Guardian Angel," says David. "The way everything happened was like a dream come true." In the same breath, however, the young actor also says he was certain "Knight Rider" would be his one-way ticket to stardom. " It was a certain hit," David says, " When I was up for the part of Michael Knight I said, "This is the one...this will make me a star. I've got to get this part." " He was so concerned, in fact, that during the screen test he froze, had to ask for five minutes break, and shouted at himself backstage: " You are the Knight Rider" and walked back in to win the part.

" The show gets reactions out of people and it's just fun to watch." David says. "It's like the Lone Ranger and Silver. I look at KITT (the name of the souped-up Trans-Am with the voice of actor William Daniels) as Michael Knight's sword. He uses KITT when he has to. And it's his friend. Everybody talks to his or her car and this one happens to talk back." Sharing the limelight with a car might be a bother but, after an initial bout with sensitivity, David now takes it in his stride. " In the beginning it was a problem," he says. " At least I thought it was because it was just a show about a talking car and stunts, not about human beings and real emotions. But the car is really all the 007 cars put together, and it's just fun." Now that the novelty of the car has worn off, it has been up to David Hasselhoff and his acting ability to carry the show. With his green eyes, curly brown hair, and lean 193cm frame, he has been up to the task. His fan letters, once lagging behind his one-and-one-half-tonne co-star, now outnumber the car by three-to-one.

Thanks to "Knight Rider" and its enormous popularity, David Hasselhoff's salary has tripled, offers are now plentiful and, to the dismay of his female fans, he plans to marry live-in girlfriend Catherine Hickland, an actress who starred in the daytime soapie "Texas". Catherine, 27, has also starred in a "Knight Rider" episode. The day the episode was completed, the two were, appropriately, engaged. Catherine and David met at the 1981 Daytime Emmy Awards in New York, but didn't hit it off. " She said she wasn't attracted to men who look like Ken dolls." David says with a shrug. He contiuned pursuing, and when she came to Los Angeles for a business trip they went out, and have been together since. The relationship has been a steadying infulence on David as he faces the rigours of stardom. And the children he encounters while making personal appearences and when visiting terminally ill and handicapped children have also helped keep things in perspective.

" Kids will walk up and say, " I love you Michael Knight." Retarded kids, too." David says, " They bring me gifts and when you walk up to a child who has no arms and legs and say. " Who loves you?" and they say " You do." It makes all your problems seem trivial." At age seven, when David played Peter Oan in a school presentation, he decided acting would be his career and set about achieving that goal. In his senior year of high school, he was awarded an apprenticeship with the Troupe of American College Players and worked in Colorado before working in dinner theater productions in Chicago. He later studied at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Michigan and he decided to go to the California Institute of the Arts. While working as a waiter he was "discovered" by the late Joyce Selznick, the legendary casting director.

She became his manager and mentor, directing his career and studies in addition to getting him the role that brought him so much success on "The Young and the Restless." How he hopes "Knight Rider" will lead to films and to production. Anything that involves creativity is paramount importance for David. The programme's popularity is already helping him establish a singing career. He has been preparing a singing/variety act tailored for Las Vegas and he plans to record. If all that weren't enough to keep him busy, David also is one of the founders and owners of the Ideas That Sell Toy Company, and has continuing interest in a roofing company with family and friends. " It would be great if wad had 48 hours to a day," he says. " But what it comes down to is creating things and having fun doing it." " I could do "Knight Rider" and come home and not do anything else but, if you're going for the gold at the end of the rainbow, not really for the gold but for the fun of it all, then you do all these things."

Dave standing in front of his Recaro Trans-Am from the article.

Dave on stage with KITT at a concert in Germany.