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Studio officials responded with a cease and desist order demanding that Barris never again make "misrepresentations regarding any involvement with the 'Back to the Future' films." They called upon Barris to remove images of the flying DeLorean from his company's website and restrict his display of replicas of the gull-winged car used by Michael J. Fox to time travel in the popular 1985 movie and its sequels.

Others, meanwhile, complained that film cars such as the K.I.T.T., the General Lee and the Monkeemobile were not originally designed and built by Barris, either.

For the 1982 "Knight Rider" movie and its 84-episode TV series, Scheffe designed and built the computer-crammed K.I.T.T. car used by David Hasselhoff. Barris was hired to build an upgraded version of the car for the show's third season with concept sketches from Scheffe.

But Barris "kind of makes it sound like he came up with the original concept," said movie car fan Nate Truman, a TV graphics operator who lives in Gardena and owns a replica Batmobile.

"The car guys want to get the story out while George Barris is still alive and can be confronted," Paul said. "I don't personally dislike him. But he's messing up the industry by misrepresenting history."

K.I.T.T. creator Scheffe, a Mar Vista resident who now is an art director for Sony Pictures Imageworks, agreed.

"George is an institution. He's done amazing things. I don't want to step on anyone's toes. But it's good for the people who did the work to get credit for it."

Stu Phillips dropped us a line to give us an update on his latest appearance:

HI FANS,

STU PHILLIPS WILL BE APPEARING IN PERSON AT THE SCI FI CONVENTION AT THE PASADENA CONVENTION CENTER ON MARCH 11TH, 12TH AND POSSIBLY THE 13TH, IN PASADENA, CA. FOR MORE INFO GO TO: www.creationent.com/cal/stgs.htm. THIS WAS A LAST MINUTE INVITE SO YOU WILL NOT SEE ME LISTED. THAT IS WHY I AM POSTING THIS NOTICE.

I WILL HAVE COPIES OF MY BOOK AVAILABLE, AND WILL DISCUSS THE NEW SOUNDTRACK CD OF KNIGHT RIDER WHICH WENT INTO PRODUCTION THIS WEEK. THE SOUNDTRACK WILL CONTAIN THE COMPLETE AND ORIGINAL MAIN TITLE AS WELLAS THE COMPLETE SCORE FROM THE PILOT "KNIGHT OF THE PHOENIX" AS WELL AS MUSIC FROM "TRUST DOESN'T RUST'... "FORGET ME NOT"... "NOT A DROP TO DRINK" AND SOME CUES FROM "INSIDE OUT." THERE WILL BE A BOOKLET AS WELL AS PICTURES AND A MESSAGE FROM GLEN LARSON. THIS IS THE SOUNDTRACK YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR. LICENSED AND BLESSED BY UNIVERSAL STUDIOS.

LOOKING FORWARD TO MEETING AND GREETING ALL KR FANS.

STU PHILLIPS

For three and a half years Don Peake scored the music to Knight Rider, which was a great edition to an amazing career as a composer. A collection of his work from various Knight Rider episodes will be available in a Limited Edition release. We are thankful that he gave us the go ahead to print this information about his upcoming CD:

Hello Everyone,
I have finally been given official Universal Studios permission to release a Knight Rider CD.
I got some transfers from the "Vault" and they sound terrific.
The fans in Germany requested 6 episodes for the Knight Con 2004 limited edition CD. They are:
LET IT BE ME
THE SCENT OF ROSES
WHITE BIRD
JUNK YARD DOG
HALOWEEN KNIGHT
MOUTH OF THE SNAKE
(70 MINUTES OF MUSIC)
I will have some with me at Dayton.
I am very grateful to Universal Studios for this permission.
Best to All,
Don Peake

Don Peake will be appearing at the Knight Con in Germany and the Knight Nationals in Ohio. Both events take place this month. For more info on Don Peake visit his website at donpeakemusic.com.

This news was published on The Foundation prior to our posting.