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Though engineered for the delectation of boys who are too old for Hot Wheels and too young for learner's permits, Knight Rider (NBC, Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET) arrives tricked out with just enough eccentricity to avoid utterly craven stupidity. That level of near-competence is perhaps all we can expect from NBC, given the network's recent record of reviving vintage TV. Last year, someone over there took Bionic Woman—which began its brief life as the best new show of the season: tense, menacing, existential, and foxy—and sucked all the bio- out of it within three episodes. "They did something really dumb with that show," Bill Carter observed to Charlie Rose that fall. "They decided that the pilot was too dark, and they made it as pedestrian as they could."