I always imagined that Knight Compound wasn't indestructible, it was just much tougher than normal metal, so it could still be dented by a strong impact. Presumably, Bonnie or April would repair it between episodes.
@@michaelramsey82 funny you mention that, because at the end of the pilot, Devon says to Michael, that he was the only one to put a dint in the body work.
When I was little I asked my dad, Dad, how do you make Kitt drive himself? He answered me, someone inside is handling it and I didn't believe him. But now I do believe him 41 years later 😂
I asked my father exactly the same question. In response, he told me that the car is remote-controlled (similar to a toy car). However, I think that at the beginning of the eighties this was not yet possible or only possible with difficulty due to the state of the art.
I went to this historic car museum back in the year 2000 in Knoxville Tennessee. It was a job field trip. And K.I.T. car was on display and there's a steering wheel and pedals behind the driver's seat. You had to be a short stunt driver in order to drive it. I thought it was so cool and shocking to see it in real life.
I always laughed when KITT pulled into the trailer, had 2” of clearance on each side, and then next scene there was enough room to open the doors and walk around freely. 😅
6:23 the edges of the frames where you can see part of the set… you couldn’t back in the day because of the curved tube TV’s we all had. Now that we have flat panel TV’s we see more of the frame and thus the “mistakes.”
Awesome compilation! Watching this made me wonder 2 things: - After scrutinizing every episode of the TV show, can you still enjoy watching an episode without ruining the immersion? - With so many variations of KITT's dashboard, which one is your favorite?
I noticed in the pilot episode when the 2 thieves stole Kitt, there was the scene when Kitt was forced to do 180s on the road you can see a regular steering wheel instead of the one we all love in the series. 😅😅
About the intruders you can also see a very nice hand driving the blind drive :) at 15:59. I also remember an episode with KITT on the road and we can clearly see the crane camera and man with the shadow on the road.
@@RichM3000 I still want to know where everyone goes when they go through the door though. I mean...if you compare it to the outside they'd just fall out onto the road.
Another great video. Thank you for sharing. The black & gold Trans Am spotted in Knight Strike may have been Hasselhoff's personal car. You know the 1983 Recaro Trans Am with the gold Gotti wheels. We saw them in the season 2 episode Custom K.I.T.T.
Some of the stuff near the edges would not have been seen on CRT sets of the 80s. The picture extended well beyond the frame around the TV tube. When doing graphics & text overlays you had to adhere to "Safe Title Zones" so your phone number wouldn't get cut off the edge of the screen. There's still a "Safe Title" area option today in many editing packages but it's far less important now.
I thought KR was shot in a 4:3 ratio and that that’s how we would always need to watch it (I can stand stretching 4:3 content to widescreen). Is there a “widescreen” edition?
@@GarretGrayCamera If anything were visible, back in the day, they would have punched it up some for the edit. If something unwanted is in the shot, you can just zoom and reframe.
@@danmurphy9173 You could make a widescreen version by reframing the original and cropping the excess. I think someone was doing this with BSG. The source material is shot on 35mm so you have some original quality to work with that doesn't suffer as much from enlargement as it would if they shot on videotape.
Mistakes like these can happen in any production. Though it's fun to spot them all. I speculate that the production team and editors were aware of some if not most of them and just figured they happen so fast that most people wouldn't notice. Which is pretty much how it usually goes. And seeing as they probably had a strict shooting schedule and budget, reshoots were not economical.
With Knight Rider some things are blatantly obvious though even if you watch it on VHS on a old TV. Like the horrible miniature models of Kitt that either were completely hollow or literally toy cars. 20 years a german website dissected a bunch of episodes and showed each and every mistake, it was hilarious.
One that sprang to mind was the inconsisnt insert shots of KITT (like normal mode instead of Auto Cruise or Michael pressing a different button than he should be) that kind of thing. Considering how many they used in the show, it wasn't one of the glaring errors, but still could be fun to find some of these. :)
I have noticed a high level of detail becoming visible now with everything going digital and TV's actually having hard/software built in to increase detail even further. It's weird to see these shows at higher frames rates and sharpness than when they originally aired.
I always turn that stuff off. On my TV I think you turn on "Filmmaker Mode" to turn off these things. But every manufacturer does it differently and might have a different name for these settings. The "extra frames" is sometimes derisively called "soap opera effect".
When you were talking about filming inside the Semi Truck. Did you ever notice how well the actors stood still when filming because if they were actually driving and filming at the same time The actors would be moving around and losing their balance when filming (Funny How None of the actors fell down when filming in the back of the Semi) because that's what the reality would be. !
Great research into this video. All new to me. I saw every episode back in the day but without a large tv and no VCR to record, you saw what you could see and could not even go back to rewatch what you thought you saw!
One additional point for #4 is one of the last scenes in KITT vs KARR when Michael and John arrive at John's Marine. You can clearly see the red PANP Buttons and one of the small TVs since they used the S1/2 hero car for that shot.
The Prince Brothers Charger was used for additional filming after the pyro was set off under the hood. You can spot it easily as the grille is melted and there are spots of soot or scorched painted on the edges of the hood.
Im loving this! Back when i was young watching this... i saw something and now it's confirmed. It makes me like Knight Rider (the orignal series) even more because it's very much alive and real... because of those mistakes... because Real Life is lotsa mistakes.
In the pilot episode after Michael gets shot leaving the Comtron building, there is a scene of him talking to Devon from Kitt. He was shot in the shoulder but has his hand on the wrong shoulder when the camera cuts to him. This was mentioned on the Audio Commentary track of the Season 1 set.
You missed my favorite KITT blooper. In the episode Knight In Retreat after Michael gets out of KITT and gets on top of the box truck, he sends KITT after the 4x4. KITT turbo boosts over the 4x4 by pressing the turbo boost button with his finger 😂😂😂 Obviously they inserted the wrong stock footage for the turbo boost button but it still counts as a blooper to me.
I need to go back and watch the whole series again. I have not watched it since the show was on air. I watched both.....the dukes of Hazzard and Knight Rider. And I had both match box cars and other models of each. I just loved them. Still do.
I have noticed the damage a few times. It shows no matter how good a production crew is that they’ll mess up too. We’re only human as KITT would say . 🤷😂 Fun video!
Of course the biggest continuity error is KARR blowing up at the end of Trust Doesn't Rust, and then suddenly appearing buried in the sand with only a wiring harness unplugged in KITT vs. KARR.
In Trust Doesn't Rust, when KITT and KARR are having their final show down, when it cuts to KITT, theres a noticeable dent in the hood, right in the middle of the power bulge, but nearer to the front of the hood/nose. Great video, thanks for sharing
I liked this Top 10 too. And I have to confess that I was surprised how many mistakes I missed before! Well, of course, I have always watched the show just to enjoy it and I have never even thought of looking for them. But I do like details and so I did found something funny here and there. But who/what is perfect? My childhood stays intact!Thank you!
One of my favorite goofs is in season 3 episode junkyard dog. When Bonnie is trying to repair kitt after the acid pit, she's repairing the season 2 dash without the gullwing steering wheel in the montage.
Great episode. I am sure there are more mistakes you can find. And the reason for that is, they never expected us to see them. TV was a small screen in standard definition. They never expected us to be watching them on ultra high definition and on 70 inch flat screens. Now we can the mistakes, on our all of our favorite TV shows.
No, when you clearly see the crew, Cams and Lamps at KITT and KITTs windows (and i mean VERY clear)its not by the size of the TV. Thats the reason why in most scenes the windows were moved down at cars, otherwise you will see the Cameraman who films the driver at near distance.
modern CGI has taken all the fun out of modern tv shows!! CGI stunts and no "wheres waldo" for the rouge crew, sets and wardrobe items, and whats better than 1 kitt , 2 or more kitts, you cant argue that one!!!! love the content it reminds me of my grandparents as we would visit them on a Saturday and knight rider was on after lunch, me and my sister would watch as the "grown ups" would have a chat , thanks for all the time you put into the channel !!! congrats on you 100k subs , best wishes from the UK 👍
What a fantastic episode,loved it .Didn't realise there were so many mistakes.I will not be able to watch those episodes again without spotting those faults,but all in all an excellent video.Thankyou Joe.
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial Knight Rider apart Joe,I didn't know you also own a Mustang as well,seen it on one of your videos you did about 10 months ago,want to just say that is a beautiful car too.Are you planning on doing anymore videos on it?Also when is your next video due out?Thankyou Joe for all that you do and for bringing us all fab content.Stay safe and best wishes to you and your wonderful family.
I enjoyed the competition between "Knightride" and "The Dukes of Hazard" Before his wife died John Schiender used to put on a yearly event at his studio in Louisana and one the celebrities that used to show up was Peter Parros
There's also an episode in season 1 where [at the very end of that episode] for no apparent reason a mirror is left on the dash of KITT [whilst Michael & KITT are talking] and you can see the cameraman's boot whilst he sits in the filming-jeep [possibly towing KITT for that particular shot as Michael was meant to not be driving]...In another one from season 1 & 2 there was was some Unmanned-KITT-Shots where you can clearly see the stunt-driver dressed as the driver's seat [with black perspex included to see through the headrest] and as he pulled up and slammed-on we see the hands of the driver covered in KITT's seat-cloth...[really bad]....
It's surprising how there wasn't too much egregious stuff (at least until the crappy final season). I don't even really count the multiple KITTs, as black Trans Ams were fairly ubiquitous in the era (though it was cool to see it in the video). One can pick up small details here and there -- most typically hands on the steering wheel -- but it pretty much flowed fine for a TV show.
I also remember some scenes with bugs where you could see the roll bar (stunt car) in the front of the vehicle between the windshield and the A-pillar when jumping over trucks and vehicles. In addition, I often saw during shooting actions where Kitt was shot at with rockets or bullets, the car was recognizable from the outside with altered gaps between the fender and hood etc.. It actually looked like it was an armored car. In one or two episodes I can even remember when Michael Knight's perspective was shown as if it was not a left-hand drive car but a right-hand drive car (similar to an English vehicle).
Making this series was so much of challenge but being persistent they pulled it off using all the sound effects and fast action. David must be going through a lot to keep changing cars with broken doors and the hot heat of the sun while still trying to look cool 😎 wearing the Black leather jacket.
As a kid in the 80's, I don't recall noticing any mistakes, but indeed crt tv's back then weren't too sharp, maybe they didn't show the full frame either, for example the Semi interior set. I just enjoyed the show :) Of course now it's very interesting to see these details and probably because I now know about them, I can see at least some of them even by watching from vhs & crt tv. Granted my crt is a probably a bit bigger (21") compared to what my parents had in the 80's. Got a brand new 15" colour tv at spring of 1986 in my room, so watched last episodes from that, what a luxury it was as a 11 year old, watching Knight Rider from my own tv in my room :) Maybe also these later crt's (my 21" is from 1999) are a bit sharper than 80's tv's. Same with these later vhs recorders, mine is from 2003 and certainly the image quality is much better than the 80's vhs recorder my parents used to have.
There are several goofs and bloopers in the Knight of the Phoenix, like when Wilton found Michael his position switches through those few scenes. One he's laying toward the driver side of the car and another one he lays to the passenger side of the car. Then near the end after he has gotten shot and he and Kitt are racing to the airport, his "wound" shifts from left to right.
This is a great idea Joe. I did enjoy watching the Dukes from last week. As for the trailer vs the set, because of cameras lights etc it would make sense that the interior would be wider like the TARDIS😎 Malfunctions... Okay I'm a bad boy. Rebecca near the end of " Return to Cadis" well she was wearing Daisy Dukes while sitting on KITT's door.
another reason why we now often see things you should not be seeing on old television productions is the fact that producers took into account that a normal crt television has a border that is not visible on the televistion. The crt tube sits inside a housing and that housing covers up part of the border. It depends on de model and age of the television, but all crt televisions had at least some border. Thats also one of the reasons why old computers and consoles used to have an unused border. Why waste time and pixels on something people won't see? And if you do use it, then some people will not be able to see it.
In the Episode "Trust Doesn't Rust" you can see a small piece of footage seeing KITT with star stickers on it from ("Slammin' Sammy's Stunt Show Spectacular") driving towards the camera. And many times you can see foorage of mismatching seasons mixed up, like for one shot it's summer, next shot it's winter.
When I got the blu ray box set the first thing I noticed was when kitt first pulled up was the two hands pull away from the steering wheel. Another mistake I noticed in this video is when Kitt is jumping over the files of hazard car a stick falls out from under the car
Maybe Goliath's molecular bonded shell would have deflected microwave jammer/microlock back to KITT, like a depth sounder on a boat, and distort himself with his own medicine.
One of my favorite mistakes in movies or shows is the disappearing and reappearing hub cap or caps. And the self removing and mysterious returning hub cap or caps.
I remember an episode where K.I.T.T. was driving through a field or vacant lot, and there was just this wooden ramp for no reason. And K.I.T.T. jumped it. No cars or obstacles to clear, no Turbo Boost button pressing, just a jump. I have no idea which episode. Or why the scene was left in.
Thanks for the episodde name! I'll have to go watch that now. I started to disbelieve my memories over the years (I was about 7 or 8 at the time), and would love to reaffirm it. Good job, man!
04:25 great compilation. Thank you! You missed one dent: in Speed Demons, pretty much at the beginning, a man kicks KITT with his foot at the rear bumper and causes a dent in the bumper. Maybe you wanna verify. :)
If I am not mistaken, you left out one other Dukes of Hazzard connection. I don't remember what season or what episode but there is a scene where Michael and KITT go to the Boar's Nest. Of course all the signage and hubcaps have been removed from the front of the building, but you can tell J.D. Hogg once occupied the premises.
9:08 Actually, that looks like the same coloured shirt Michael was wearing earlier in "Goliath Returns". When they were about to test the parachute, only for it to malfunction. And then when Devon's briefing Michael and April in the semi about Dr. Bergstrom. Wonder if Hasselhoff's stunt double rescuing Bergstrom was shot the same day and forgot to switch shirts.
At around 15:58 you're talking about the left and right hand blind drivers, but your focus is on the two television sets. What you missed is that you can actually see the hands of the hidden driver very briefly at that time. 11 mistakes.
My childhood is not ruined. Most of the mistakes that was shown you would have to have a very keen eye to see them. I already picked up on the stunt doubles for Micheal when he was shot from behind in the Garth Knight scenes
@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial, I remember in Killer Kitt from Season 4 you can see the Driver in the Driver Seat turning the Wheel after Michael was thrown into the Snack Shop
Keep in mind that when these shows were made, VCR's existed, but no one expected anyone to record every episode, and as pointed out, the CRT TV's of the era were very grainy compared to modern 4k and even many mobile devices. I watched all of these new on a 12 and 19 inch TV then. The idea of anyone seeing the dents hands or most shots of extra K.I.T.T's in the background was almost untinkable. People would watch these shows once, maybe twice in a rerun and then likely never again. Maybe some would see them in syndication later, but these little tidbits were just sent and we watched anyway.
Great video,big Knight Rider fan here, two screw ups that always killed me 1 in the episode where they join the stunt show when kitt flips on to his side to go between the cars you can clearly see that the kid in the passenger seat is a dummy 2 the episode were the to homeless guys use karr to commit crimes when they rob the bank karr has the stars on his side from the episode i mentioned earlier
In the late 80's at the Jack Lotan Web convention center I got to sit in a replica KITT, and saw a replica General Lee. The people with the General weren't nice enough to let kids sit in them. lol
With the shots that have stuff on edge of frame, with standard definition broadcast they were in the overscan area and not seen by home audiences, it's only with the advent of digital and HD that we now see those details.
That extra transam with the front hidden behind another vehicle is on e of the standard black and gold colored cars. I got a look at that and the lower section of the door and the panel below as well as those in front and behind are also gold.
I used to and still love Knight Rider. I have always wanted to know, in the front when the scanner goes back and forth, what is the sound that the scanner makes?
There was a scene (in season 1 I think) where Michael is sitting in KITT in the drivers seat on the back of a flatbed truck but when Micheal gets out, he gets out of the passenger side.
One of KITT's less well known features was the ability to mimic damage in order to disguise itself as a perfectly ordinary car.
this is brilliant :)
I always imagined that Knight Compound wasn't indestructible, it was just much tougher than normal metal, so it could still be dented by a strong impact. Presumably, Bonnie or April would repair it between episodes.
@@michaelramsey82 funny you mention that, because at the end of the pilot, Devon says to Michael, that he was the only one to put a dint in the body work.
@@michaelramsey82 The "Molecular-Bonded Shell"....
Forgot about that
It doesn't matter how old you are..... knightrider will remain an awesome tv series!! 😉👍😉👍
Don't think I'll ever get that Theme tune out of my head! Good job I like it!
When I was little I asked my dad, Dad, how do you make Kitt drive himself?
He answered me, someone inside is handling it and I didn't believe him. But now I do believe him 41 years later 😂
I asked my father exactly the same question.
In response, he told me that the car is remote-controlled (similar to a toy car).
However, I think that at the beginning of the eighties this was not yet possible or only possible with difficulty due to the state of the art.
I went to this historic car museum back in the year 2000 in Knoxville Tennessee. It was a job field trip. And K.I.T. car was on display and there's a steering wheel and pedals behind the driver's seat. You had to be a short stunt driver in order to drive it. I thought it was so cool and shocking to see it in real life.
I always laughed when KITT pulled into the trailer, had 2” of clearance on each side, and then next scene there was enough room to open the doors and walk around freely. 😅
Maybe its a KITT Trailer that can change his dimensions, with moving Walls...
Not as bad as voyage to the bottom of the sea. That sub was a TARDIS lol
@@drhkleinert8241they found the original trailer. Wasn't possible. Trailer was a typical car trailer.
TV magic
It's the TARDIS
It's nice to see David messing around with his stunt doubles, always comes across as such a down to earth nice guy behind the facade.
6:23 the edges of the frames where you can see part of the set… you couldn’t back in the day because of the curved tube TV’s we all had. Now that we have flat panel TV’s we see more of the frame and thus the “mistakes.”
Awesome compilation! Watching this made me wonder 2 things:
- After scrutinizing every episode of the TV show, can you still enjoy watching an episode without ruining the immersion?
- With so many variations of KITT's dashboard, which one is your favorite?
Its sad who looks right 😁👍
Great content! Back in those days we didn't notice these things on our small tv.
So true!
Most wouldn't have been visible to begin with.
I watched this series so many time and missed all these gems. 😂
Somehow, seeing all of these mistakes just makes the show that much more enjoyable.
I noticed in the pilot episode when the 2 thieves stole Kitt, there was the scene when Kitt was forced to do 180s on the road you can see a regular steering wheel instead of the one we all love in the series. 😅😅
In that scene fuel also appears to spill out of the gas cap.
That was the case during every stunt scene, you can always clearly see that they had to revert back to a regular wheel
Noticed this one too. A long with the fact Kitt was meant to be driving itself whereas you could clearly see the stunt driver turning the wheel.
I saw that too.
@Scorp308 true,that did really happen.
About the intruders you can also see a very nice hand driving the blind drive :) at 15:59. I also remember an episode with KITT on the road and we can clearly see the crane camera and man with the shadow on the road.
Noticed that too 😉
It was actually surprising to know that the semi set was not that much bigger than the actual trailer. I expected there to be a massive difference.
Same. It always looked to me like the trailer doubled in width on the inside shots. It's interesting they tried to keep it roughly correct.
@@RichM3000 I still want to know where everyone goes when they go through the door though. I mean...if you compare it to the outside they'd just fall out onto the road.
@@StormsparkPegasus 🤣🤣🤣
@@RichM3000Which is kind of ironic because sets are in general 1.5x to 2x bigger than reality to look right on screen...
Another great video. Thank you for sharing. The black & gold Trans Am spotted in Knight Strike may have been Hasselhoff's personal car. You know the 1983 Recaro Trans Am with the gold Gotti wheels. We saw them in the season 2 episode Custom K.I.T.T.
Some of the stuff near the edges would not have been seen on CRT sets of the 80s. The picture extended well beyond the frame around the TV tube. When doing graphics & text overlays you had to adhere to "Safe Title Zones" so your phone number wouldn't get cut off the edge of the screen. There's still a "Safe Title" area option today in many editing packages but it's far less important now.
You're exactly right. I'm surprised they used the full frame for the newer transfers.
I thought KR was shot in a 4:3 ratio and that that’s how we would always need to watch it (I can stand stretching 4:3 content to widescreen). Is there a “widescreen” edition?
@@GarretGrayCamera If anything were visible, back in the day, they would have punched it up some for the edit. If something unwanted is in the shot, you can just zoom and reframe.
@@danmurphy9173 You could make a widescreen version by reframing the original and cropping the excess. I think someone was doing this with BSG. The source material is shot on 35mm so you have some original quality to work with that doesn't suffer as much from enlargement as it would if they shot on videotape.
@@jjdigitalvideosolutionsllc5343 Yeah! And you can tell because of the increased film grain!
Mistakes like these can happen in any production. Though it's fun to spot them all. I speculate that the production team and editors were aware of some if not most of them and just figured they happen so fast that most people wouldn't notice. Which is pretty much how it usually goes. And seeing as they probably had a strict shooting schedule and budget, reshoots were not economical.
Before hd TV, things were harder to spot.
Yes, errors happens, but in Knight Rider there were fails in EVERY episode.
In every episode some scenes have a different kitt that looks like is gonna deintegrate itself
With Knight Rider some things are blatantly obvious though even if you watch it on VHS on a old TV. Like the horrible miniature models of Kitt that either were completely hollow or literally toy cars. 20 years a german website dissected a bunch of episodes and showed each and every mistake, it was hilarious.
One that sprang to mind was the inconsisnt insert shots of KITT (like normal mode instead of Auto Cruise or Michael pressing a different button than he should be) that kind of thing.
Considering how many they used in the show, it wasn't one of the glaring errors, but still could be fun to find some of these. :)
he was pressing random buttons all the time
Wow. To spot all theses is incredible. I've spottet not even half of it. Well done.
I have noticed a high level of detail becoming visible now with everything going digital and TV's actually having hard/software built in to increase detail even further.
It's weird to see these shows at higher frames rates and sharpness than when they originally aired.
I always turn that stuff off. On my TV I think you turn on "Filmmaker Mode" to turn off these things. But every manufacturer does it differently and might have a different name for these settings. The "extra frames" is sometimes derisively called "soap opera effect".
@@KasumiKenshirou I like it, a level of clarity never seen before.
When you were talking about filming inside the Semi Truck.
Did you ever notice how well the actors stood still when filming because if they were actually driving and filming at the same time The actors would be moving around and losing their balance when filming (Funny How None of the actors fell down when filming in the back of the Semi) because that's what the reality would be. !
Great research into this video. All new to me. I saw every episode back in the day but without a large tv and no VCR to record, you saw what you could see and could not even go back to rewatch what you thought you saw!
What about when KARR jumps into the ocean off a cliff and it’s the custom vehicle from the movie The Car that actually sails off the cliff.
I just always thought KARR was stalking KITT when there were two cars
One additional point for #4 is one of the last scenes in KITT vs KARR when Michael and John arrive at John's Marine. You can clearly see the red PANP Buttons and one of the small TVs since they used the S1/2 hero car for that shot.
Wouldn't have noticed all this as a kid...... but as an adult you can see them very clearly!! 😱
You can say what you want, this series rocked my childhood! Long live Mr. Knight and his mount!
The Prince Brothers Charger was used for additional filming after the pyro was set off under the hood. You can spot it easily as the grille is melted and there are spots of soot or scorched painted on the edges of the hood.
Im loving this!
Back when i was young watching this... i saw something and now it's confirmed.
It makes me like Knight Rider (the orignal series) even more because it's very much alive and real... because of those mistakes... because Real Life is lotsa mistakes.
In the pilot episode after Michael gets shot leaving the Comtron building, there is a scene of him talking to Devon from Kitt. He was shot in the shoulder but has his hand on the wrong shoulder when the camera cuts to him. This was mentioned on the Audio Commentary track of the Season 1 set.
You missed my favorite KITT blooper. In the episode Knight In Retreat after Michael gets out of KITT and gets on top of the box truck, he sends KITT after the 4x4. KITT turbo boosts over the 4x4 by pressing the turbo boost button with his finger 😂😂😂
Obviously they inserted the wrong stock footage for the turbo boost button but it still counts as a blooper to me.
The ringtone on my first mobile phone was the theme music of Knight Rider. Always a fan of KITT ❤
I need to go back and watch the whole series again. I have not watched it since the show was on air. I watched both.....the dukes of Hazzard and Knight Rider. And I had both match box cars and other models of each. I just loved them. Still do.
For the ‘mysterious hand’ (#3) i used to say it was from the little known Knight Rider/Addams Family crossover and that was “Thing” inside K.I.T.T.
18:55 They caught it. They just didn't think we'd catch it all these years later. 🤣
I'm not going to worry about that! I love Knight Rider regardless of those "mistakes"! I'm still in love with KITT!
I have noticed the damage a few times. It shows no matter how good a production crew is that they’ll mess up too. We’re only human as KITT would say . 🤷😂 Fun video!
Can't remember the episode where Michael had a broken arm and the sling changed from arm to arm in different scenes
Of course the biggest continuity error is KARR blowing up at the end of Trust Doesn't Rust, and then suddenly appearing buried in the sand with only a wiring harness unplugged in KITT vs. KARR.
I picked up on that also, when I saw that episode. Really big mistake in my opinion.
I wiped my tears but..
Something special about the 80's which will never come back.
In Trust Doesn't Rust, when KITT and KARR are having their final show down, when it cuts to KITT, theres a noticeable dent in the hood, right in the middle of the power bulge, but nearer to the front of the hood/nose. Great video, thanks for sharing
Great work, mate! The extra KITT's at the end got me laughing!! Keep up the awesome vids!
I liked this Top 10 too. And I have to confess that I was surprised how many mistakes I missed before! Well, of course, I have always watched the show just to enjoy it and I have never even thought of looking for them. But I do like details and so I did found something funny here and there. But who/what is perfect? My childhood stays intact!Thank you!
One of my favorite goofs is in season 3 episode junkyard dog. When Bonnie is trying to repair kitt after the acid pit, she's repairing the season 2 dash without the gullwing steering wheel in the montage.
This is a great idea for a series, can't wait for more
Great episode. I am sure there are more mistakes you can find. And the reason for that is, they never expected us to see them. TV was a small screen in standard definition. They never expected us to be watching them on ultra high definition and on 70 inch flat screens. Now we can the mistakes, on our all of our favorite TV shows.
No, when you clearly see the crew, Cams and Lamps at KITT and KITTs windows (and i mean VERY clear)its not by the size of the TV. Thats the reason why in most scenes the windows were moved down at cars, otherwise you will see the Cameraman who films the driver at near distance.
Awesome top 10, cant wait for more.
Thanks 😊
this is pure retro nostalgia, loving it❤
Love these videos. Please keep them coming. Thank you.
modern CGI has taken all the fun out of modern tv shows!! CGI stunts and no "wheres waldo" for the rouge crew, sets and wardrobe items, and whats better than 1 kitt , 2 or more kitts, you cant argue that one!!!! love the content it reminds me of my grandparents as we would visit them on a Saturday and knight rider was on after lunch, me and my sister would watch as the "grown ups" would have a chat , thanks for all the time you put into the channel !!! congrats on you 100k subs , best wishes from the UK 👍
I love Knight rider and kitt they are my favourite. I am jealous of you having kitt.
What a fantastic episode,loved it .Didn't realise there were so many mistakes.I will not be able to watch those episodes again without spotting those faults,but all in all an excellent video.Thankyou Joe.
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial Knight Rider apart Joe,I didn't know you also own a Mustang as well,seen it on one of your videos you did about 10 months ago,want to just say that is a beautiful car too.Are you planning on doing anymore videos on it?Also when is your next video due out?Thankyou Joe for all that you do and for bringing us all fab content.Stay safe and best wishes to you and your wonderful family.
I enjoyed the competition between "Knightride" and "The Dukes of Hazard" Before his wife died John
Schiender used to put on a yearly event at his studio in Louisana and one the celebrities that used to show up was Peter Parros
There's also an episode in season 1 where [at the very end of that episode] for no apparent reason a mirror is left on the dash of KITT [whilst Michael & KITT are talking] and you can see the cameraman's boot whilst he sits in the filming-jeep [possibly towing KITT for that particular shot as Michael was meant to not be driving]...In another one from season 1 & 2 there was was some Unmanned-KITT-Shots where you can clearly see the stunt-driver dressed as the driver's seat [with black perspex included to see through the headrest] and as he pulled up and slammed-on we see the hands of the driver covered in KITT's seat-cloth...[really bad]....
It's surprising how there wasn't too much egregious stuff (at least until the crappy final season). I don't even really count the multiple KITTs, as black Trans Ams were fairly ubiquitous in the era (though it was cool to see it in the video). One can pick up small details here and there -- most typically hands on the steering wheel -- but it pretty much flowed fine for a TV show.
@@RichM3000 Absolutely, it was perfect back then...It still is even being aware of how it's made as an adult...It's nostalgia of happier times....
I also remember some scenes with bugs where you could see the roll bar (stunt car) in the front of the vehicle between the windshield and the A-pillar when jumping over trucks and vehicles.
In addition, I often saw during shooting actions where Kitt was shot at with rockets or bullets, the car was recognizable from the outside with altered gaps between the fender and hood etc..
It actually looked like it was an armored car.
In one or two episodes I can even remember when Michael Knight's perspective was shown as if it was not a left-hand drive car but a right-hand drive car (similar to an English vehicle).
Wow never saw all those other KITTs lol
Awesome content as always :)
Making this series was so much of challenge but being persistent they pulled it off using all the sound effects and fast action. David must be going through a lot to keep changing cars with broken doors and the hot heat of the sun while still trying to look cool 😎 wearing the Black leather jacket.
As a kid in the 80's, I don't recall noticing any mistakes, but indeed crt tv's back then weren't too sharp, maybe they didn't show the full frame either, for example the Semi interior set. I just enjoyed the show :)
Of course now it's very interesting to see these details and probably because I now know about them, I can see at least some of them even by watching from vhs & crt tv. Granted my crt is a probably a bit bigger (21") compared to what my parents had in the 80's. Got a brand new 15" colour tv at spring of 1986 in my room, so watched last episodes from that, what a luxury it was as a 11 year old, watching Knight Rider from my own tv in my room :)
Maybe also these later crt's (my 21" is from 1999) are a bit sharper than 80's tv's. Same with these later vhs recorders, mine is from 2003 and certainly the image quality is much better than the 80's vhs recorder my parents used to have.
This was great to watch, more of this please 😊
There are several goofs and bloopers in the Knight of the Phoenix, like when Wilton found Michael his position switches through those few scenes. One he's laying toward the driver side of the car and another one he lays to the passenger side of the car. Then near the end after he has gotten shot and he and Kitt are racing to the airport, his "wound" shifts from left to right.
This is a great idea Joe. I did enjoy watching the Dukes from last week. As for the trailer vs the set, because of cameras lights etc it would make sense that the interior would be wider like the TARDIS😎 Malfunctions... Okay I'm a bad boy. Rebecca near the end of " Return to Cadis" well she was wearing Daisy Dukes while sitting on KITT's door.
19:51 When K.I.T.T lands both the front and back are damaged it also looks like the window breaks.
Arghhhhhhhhh...why did I watch this...🤣
Joking aside, I appreciate the time and effort it must have taken to put all this together!
another reason why we now often see things you should not be seeing on old television productions is the fact that producers took into account that a normal crt television has a border that is not visible on the televistion. The crt tube sits inside a housing and that housing covers up part of the border. It depends on de model and age of the television, but all crt televisions had at least some border.
Thats also one of the reasons why old computers and consoles used to have an unused border. Why waste time and pixels on something people won't see? And if you do use it, then some people will not be able to see it.
In the Episode "Trust Doesn't Rust" you can see a small piece of footage seeing KITT with star stickers on it from ("Slammin' Sammy's Stunt Show Spectacular") driving towards the camera.
And many times you can see foorage of mismatching seasons mixed up, like for one shot it's summer, next shot it's winter.
As a kid in the 80s i had the same " Talking " watch , a simple radio watch that's all ^^
When I got the blu ray box set the first thing I noticed was when kitt first pulled up was the two hands pull away from the steering wheel.
Another mistake I noticed in this video is when Kitt is jumping over the files of hazard car a stick falls out from under the car
If you can take into consideration consistency mistakes... why never trying microwave jammer/microlock on Goliath?
Maybe Goliath's molecular bonded shell would have deflected microwave jammer/microlock back to KITT, like a depth sounder on a boat, and distort himself with his own medicine.
once, when KITT was stolen in season one, I saw a round wheel when he was coming back. Also I saw hands turning it...
Wow there really is a channel for absolutely everything
One of my favorite mistakes in movies or shows is the disappearing and reappearing hub cap or caps. And the self removing and mysterious returning hub cap or caps.
The effort and time you put into these videos is awesome!.......I want to say a personal Thank You from a UK fan 👍
It was an absolute awesome programme loved it
Great new series idea! Love it!
This is why it’s best to watch these 80’s shows on a CRT.
You guys catch everything. Good job.
I remember an episode where K.I.T.T. was driving through a field or vacant lot, and there was just this wooden ramp for no reason.
And K.I.T.T. jumped it. No cars or obstacles to clear, no Turbo Boost button pressing, just a jump.
I have no idea which episode. Or why the scene was left in.
Chariot of Gold! I always thought that was odd, too!
Thanks for the episodde name!
I'll have to go watch that now.
I started to disbelieve my memories over the years (I was about 7 or 8 at the time), and would love to reaffirm it. Good job, man!
04:25 great compilation. Thank you! You missed one dent: in Speed Demons, pretty much at the beginning, a man kicks KITT with his foot at the rear bumper and causes a dent in the bumper. Maybe you wanna verify. :)
If I am not mistaken, you left out one other Dukes of Hazzard connection. I don't remember what season or what episode but there is a scene where Michael and KITT go to the Boar's Nest. Of course all the signage and hubcaps have been removed from the front of the building, but you can tell J.D. Hogg once occupied the premises.
I love the internet. I needed this from 1982 me.
9:08 Actually, that looks like the same coloured shirt Michael was wearing earlier in "Goliath Returns". When they were about to test the parachute, only for it to malfunction. And then when Devon's briefing Michael and April in the semi about Dr. Bergstrom. Wonder if Hasselhoff's stunt double rescuing Bergstrom was shot the same day and forgot to switch shirts.
At around 15:58 you're talking about the left and right hand blind drivers, but your focus is on the two television sets. What you missed is that you can actually see the hands of the hidden driver very briefly at that time. 11 mistakes.
That was so good thank you KRH.
the wardrobe snaffoos is the reason when Bo and Luke wear the same cloths all the time in Dukes Of Hazzard
In the episode Junkyard dog during Michaels 2.Testdrive with KITT you can see a grey KITT parked in the background.😉
I used to watch it a little bit. All I really remember is "KITT vs KARR." (Thats "Knight Automated Roaming Robot," I think. Evil KITT.)
the hand ... the door closing damper 🤣
My childhood is not ruined. Most of the mistakes that was shown you would have to have a very keen eye to see them. I already picked up on the stunt doubles for Micheal when he was shot from behind in the Garth Knight scenes
The end of Chariots of Gold after the semi crashes KITT pulls up and had a big dent in the roof behind the T-tops. Just my contribution 😂.
@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial, I remember in Killer Kitt from Season 4 you can see the Driver in the Driver Seat turning the Wheel after Michael was thrown into the Snack Shop
Keep in mind that when these shows were made, VCR's existed, but no one expected anyone to record every episode, and as pointed out, the CRT TV's of the era were very grainy compared to modern 4k and even many mobile devices. I watched all of these new on a 12 and 19 inch TV then. The idea of anyone seeing the dents hands or most shots of extra K.I.T.T's in the background was almost untinkable. People would watch these shows once, maybe twice in a rerun and then likely never again. Maybe some would see them in syndication later, but these little tidbits were just sent and we watched anyway.
The most interesting thing about Give me Liberty or Give me Death is The Bates Motel in the background.
In Killer K.I.T.T., the scenes clearly switch between David Hasselhoff and his stand double when Michael is holding on the bonnet of K.I.T.T.
Great video,big Knight Rider fan here, two screw ups that always killed me 1 in the episode where they join the stunt show when kitt flips on to his side to go between the cars you can clearly see that the kid in the passenger seat is a dummy 2 the episode were the to homeless guys use karr to commit crimes when they rob the bank karr has the stars on his side from the episode i mentioned earlier
They know those mistakse, but I think that at that time, on those TVs, they also knew it would be hard to spot those 'mistakes'.
That was a cool review and episode Joe please do more
In the late 80's at the Jack Lotan Web convention center I got to sit in a replica KITT, and saw a replica General Lee. The people with the General weren't nice enough to let kids sit in them. lol
With the shots that have stuff on edge of frame, with standard definition broadcast they were in the overscan area and not seen by home audiences, it's only with the advent of digital and HD that we now see those details.
That extra transam with the front hidden behind another vehicle is on e of the standard black and gold colored cars. I got a look at that and the lower section of the door and the panel below as well as those in front and behind are also gold.
I used to and still love Knight Rider. I have always wanted to know, in the front when the scanner goes back and forth, what is the sound that the scanner makes?
There was a scene (in season 1 I think) where Michael is sitting in KITT in the drivers seat on the back of a flatbed truck but when Micheal gets out, he gets out of the passenger side.