It wasn’t only Silk Stockings. Obviously the Knight Rider remake that was to be filmed in San Diego had a tremendous impact on the local housing industry as well:
Wildfires Take Toll on Locations for New ‘Knight Rider’
“Then, just when it appeared that the next best thing, the pilot and 22 episodes of NBC-TV’s “Knight Rider,” a remake of the popular series that ran between 1982 and 1986, was ready to start shooting, the firestorm that swept through the county in late October took a toll on most of the locations where the show was to be filmed, according to Cathy Anderson, president and chief executive officer of the San Diego Film Commission.”
