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.
Youve not only destroyed my childhood, youve destroyed my hopes and dreams of a better future, up until watching this, one man made a difference. But im still amazed this was filmed without any cgi whatsoever
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.”
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. 😅
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.
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. 😅😅
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?
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.
Just goes to show we watched TV a lot differently back in the 80s and 90s, so we were very unlikely to spot such mistakes. Small low quality TV set at the end of the living room. Good enough to follow the story, but not good enough to pick out such detail. Plus we were relatively new to watching TV, so really believed what you were watching, especially as a kid, so you weren't expecting 'real life' to creep in. Good times 🙂
Nah, even back in the day a lot of the flaws and goofs in these shows were very visible if you weren't completely blind. Even on the shittiest CRT TV you were able to notice the die cast toy Firebirds being used in certain "stunts" (like the opening of the second part of the secong Goliath episode with a toy firebird (with white windows) on a miniature parachute, miniature railway toys being used or the car getting annihilated because it landed wrong.
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. !
@@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.
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.
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.
As a kid an older sister of mine got a lucrative sales job, although she still lived at home with me and my parents, she traded in her first car, a Chevette for a brand new black and gold TransAm. I of course lost my shit when she brought it home. Also she drove me to school in it a few times, so other kids were super jealous.
I remember as a kid seeing hands of the stunt drivers driving KITT coming for Michael in scenes so that was no surprise same with seeing stunt doubles in scenes. Though I had a feeling that they used many extra cars for KITT same they did for the General Lee on The Dukes of Hazzard. Though I'm still waiting for the day when John Schneider and David Hasslehoff will challenge each other in a General Lee vs. KITT race😂
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!
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.
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. :)
Imagine having the time to go over these old videos in the great detail that you have. My hat is off to you good sir as I can recognize the patient and painstaking effort. My wife would be shrieking at me "are you on the interwebs again!?!?!?".
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".
Somethings I never understood about the KITT vs KARR episodes. 1) If KARR stood for Knight Industries Roving Robot, why seating for four? 2) If KARR was uncontrollable why not just swap computer modules and reuse the body? 3) If storing KARR in the rear of a warehouse was the only option, then remove the tires so even if KARR gets reactivated he couldn't do anything but rage.
Figures people will point out the semantics rather than offer a valid opinion. Anyway... I never got that either, whether it's KARR or any other nemesis entity in any series. They just keep the evil version around and assume things will be okay. But this is Hollywood. Common sense in TV and movies rarely ever makes for a good episode. Lol Remove the wheels, disconnect the battery / power source, unplug the core memory / personality module (as a technician myself, I know there's no way ALL the electronics within KITT or KARR would be hard wired, and not be easily substituted with plug and play connections), the list goes on... but again... Hollywood. You have to suspend reality and common sense in a lot of what's watched.
@@RollsignGallery They could have easily added a 20s scene where some unaware mechanic with good intentions replaced the battery and put back on the/new tyres for example; that would have made it way more sensible without much overhead.
The other mistake is Knight of the Juggernaught. When KITT is getting destroyed by the battering ram, it is clearly one of the hard-top stunt cars because the roof is buckling with each impact, when it should be T-Tops shattering, but those are too expensive and you don't want glass going everywhere. So maybe that is why they smashed one of the hard top stunt cars instead.
It was a car they specifically brought in and dressed up as KITT for that scene alone, to get destroyed. It wasn't one of the regular stuntcars they used on the show. But yeah, definitely a hardtop for the reason you just described.
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.
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.
I'm currently watching my way through the Knight Rider box set (it's great seeing them again after all these years), and I hadn't spotted most of these 'errors'. To be honest, they're quite charming, and a throwback to how things were done back in the day. It all adds to the magic that was KITT, my childhood hero.
I do the same and the amount of small mistakes is embarrasing. In every episode in some scenes there's a second kitt that almost disassembles itself to pieces. Also Michael looks like he's gonna deintegrate himself if runs too hard.
Hahaha 😆 lol love videos like this. Keep them coming. The crazy thing is that even though we know its flaws, the show is still the coolest. 😂 Thanks for sharing, captain.
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.
I only remember one scene from the entire series. It was when Michael and Kitt jumped from a parking lot into a 10 story building, then Michael quickly gets out and punches some dude right in the face. I don't remember why he did it, but who cares, it was fucking awesome.
I got to see one of the cars at a show in California yrears ago. You are right about the orange peel paint job. Also, they had the dashboard on a table.
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
There is another mistake I recall…there was one episode where kitt got all these silver stars on him to participate in some show. In a later episode where Kitt rushes on cross the screen you can see him, for a few seconds, once again with this stars on.
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!
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 remember a scene (can't remember the episode, though) in which KITT is supposed to show a list of addresses on the screen, but instead of RUNning the BASIC program which shows the addresses, someone decided to LIST the program, so what we see on the screen is something like 10 PRINT "JOHN DOE, X STREET" 20 PRINT "BOB DOE, Y STREET" etc.
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.
I’m currently doing a rewatch of Knight Rider, and I noticed some of the mistakes featured in this video. I was able to see certain things on my own. A mistake not mentioned in this video I found was in the first season episode “A Good Day at White Rock”. In the scene where Michael Knight is rock climbing, he stops and looks down. If you look closely in the upper left, you’ll see another person with the same color helmet and attire at the bottom.
@4:48 you can actually see the edge of the trailer set on the left - the third panel in from the door doesn't exist! (And again on the right @5:01 in the kitchen)
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.
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!
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?
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 have to see the context: Blurry NTSC TV sets with lots of overscan. So many of the mistakes documented here were simply not visible due to the low quality of the CRTs.
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.
If you watch the "chicken" scene in trust doesn't rust there's a very noticeable dent in K.I.T.Ts hood. Also, if you were to look here at 19:52 when K.I.T.T lands, you can see the back bend from the impact.
1:30 that is the sound of Darth Wader’s laser sword. People are decapitated with the sword when they make a phone call, and Bin Laden wants the sword. 2:50 the car is only bulletproof, when the alien sits inside. Similar to the Terminator series.
Also, same thing in The A-Team, stunt vans with different hub caps/rims, jump damage in plain sight, a few shots later everything A-ok... Also very visible insert shots with shadows behind the actors at almost 0° lighting angle...
Once again, interesting background information about the series. I even noticed some once, but they didn't ruin my childhood.. and neither will you. Great work again. 😊
Hey Joe. I grew up with all the 80s "vehicle-sentic" show and I'm a detail oriented artist. To my knowledge the ORANGE CHARGER..IS a "screen used" GENERAL LEE. The front and rear side markers are filled in which was specifically a DUKES OF HAZZARD detail. It doesn't make sense for production to take the extra time to fill the marker lenses on one CHARGER when it doesn't have to look like like a double for another car. On DUKES OF HAZZARD the vehicle department started filling in the CHARGERs marker lenses to streamline production and lessen costs of CHARGER parts. It's a tattle tail way to spot screen used GENERAL's.
Absolutely love Knight Rider I’m 53 and loved it in the 80’s, I watched that episode last night 11/9/2024 “ no big thing “ on legend extra channel and I noticed the extra KITT on the side of the road, kind regards to you and everyone out there 😃😃👍👍
Where did the commercial that compared KITT to the General Lae!? Like the poster… there was a commercial…where the scientist says “ this used to be the fastest car on television “ ??? Would love to see that again.
Some of mine favourite continuity errors are in the first season, where you would see KITT driving down a dirt road, cut to a shot inside KITT with Michael delivering a few lines, and the background in this shot is clearly filmed on a regular tarmac road. Then cut back to the external shot on a dirt road. That and in a few shots you can see skid marks on the road from earlier takes where they did a handbrake turn in the road, but didn't make it round far enough and had to re-shoot. And the occasional sound error, when they forget to dub over the turbine engine noise and you hear the regular V8 the car had.
Check scene with this grey tank with some hit kinetic element on front. There are scenes where damage is done to KITT, and in other scenes it is not visible.
I noticed that in several episodes you can see the same Fiat Mirafiori 132, silver. It's standing, it's driving, but it's the same car in many different episodes :)
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
I watched this series so many time and missed all these gems. 😂
Youve not only destroyed my childhood, youve destroyed my hopes and dreams of a better future, up until watching this, one man made a difference.
But im still amazed this was filmed without any cgi whatsoever
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!
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.”
Knight Rider Will Always Be Number One Show
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.
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.
@@Diamond_Eclipse Both answers could have been valid in mid '80s
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
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.
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 😉
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.
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 😁👍
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.
Just goes to show we watched TV a lot differently back in the 80s and 90s, so we were very unlikely to spot such mistakes. Small low quality TV set at the end of the living room. Good enough to follow the story, but not good enough to pick out such detail. Plus we were relatively new to watching TV, so really believed what you were watching, especially as a kid, so you weren't expecting 'real life' to creep in. Good times 🙂
Nah, even back in the day a lot of the flaws and goofs in these shows were very visible if you weren't completely blind. Even on the shittiest CRT TV you were able to notice the die cast toy Firebirds being used in certain "stunts" (like the opening of the second part of the secong Goliath episode with a toy firebird (with white windows) on a miniature parachute, miniature railway toys being used or the car getting annihilated because it landed wrong.
The ringtone on my first mobile phone was the theme music of Knight Rider. Always a fan of KITT ❤
I have that on my phone at the moment
those additional kitts are proof doc brown hired kitt to save the timeline ,lol my favorite second kitt is the drive by on the highway
I'm so glad I was alive when this series was originally on
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. !
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.
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...
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!
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.
As a kid an older sister of mine got a lucrative sales job, although she still lived at home with me and my parents, she traded in her first car, a Chevette for a brand new black and gold TransAm. I of course lost my shit when she brought it home. Also she drove me to school in it a few times, so other kids were super jealous.
Awesome thank you Joe always enjoy watching your videos watching from South Africa
Wow. To spot all theses is incredible. I've spottet not even half of it. Well done.
I remember as a kid seeing hands of the stunt drivers driving KITT coming for Michael in scenes so that was no surprise same with seeing stunt doubles in scenes. Though I had a feeling that they used many extra cars for KITT same they did for the General Lee on The Dukes of Hazzard. Though I'm still waiting for the day when John Schneider and David Hasslehoff will challenge each other in a General Lee vs. KITT race😂
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!
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.
Arghhhhhhhhh...why did I watch this...🤣
Joking aside, I appreciate the time and effort it must have taken to put all this together!
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
Imagine having the time to go over these old videos in the great detail that you have.
My hat is off to you good sir as I can recognize the patient and painstaking effort.
My wife would be shrieking at me "are you on the interwebs again!?!?!?".
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.
I still do find the episode funny where lots of Gasoline is spilling out of KITT :)
good eye, on screen mistakes are so hilarious to watch lol
Somethings I never understood about the KITT vs KARR episodes. 1) If KARR stood for Knight Industries Roving Robot, why seating for four? 2) If KARR was uncontrollable why not just swap computer modules and reuse the body? 3) If storing KARR in the rear of a warehouse was the only option, then remove the tires so even if KARR gets reactivated he couldn't do anything but rage.
That's "Knight Autimated Roving Robot", not "Knight Industries Roving Robot"!
@@kathrynwatts273 ""Automated""
Figures people will point out the semantics rather than offer a valid opinion.
Anyway... I never got that either, whether it's KARR or any other nemesis entity in any series. They just keep the evil version around and assume things will be okay. But this is Hollywood. Common sense in TV and movies rarely ever makes for a good episode. Lol
Remove the wheels, disconnect the battery / power source, unplug the core memory / personality module (as a technician myself, I know there's no way ALL the electronics within KITT or KARR would be hard wired, and not be easily substituted with plug and play connections), the list goes on... but again... Hollywood. You have to suspend reality and common sense in a lot of what's watched.
@@RollsignGallery They could have easily added a 20s scene where some unaware mechanic with good intentions replaced the battery and put back on the/new tyres for example; that would have made it way more sensible without much overhead.
You got me picturing KARR with no wheels sat on jack stands mumbling angrily 😂
The other mistake is Knight of the Juggernaught. When KITT is getting destroyed by the battering ram, it is clearly one of the hard-top stunt cars because the roof is buckling with each impact, when it should be T-Tops shattering, but those are too expensive and you don't want glass going everywhere. So maybe that is why they smashed one of the hard top stunt cars instead.
It was a car they specifically brought in and dressed up as KITT for that scene alone, to get destroyed. It wasn't one of the regular stuntcars they used on the show. But yeah, definitely a hardtop for the reason you just described.
This is the stuff me and my friends used to point out during multiple viewings of Knight Rider and The A-Team.
When it jumps the Charger the rear quarter and the front fender buckled pretty good on the landing😳 great video.
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.
I’m glad I found this channel. I can remember from about 3 to 8 years old this would watch
Wouldn't have noticed all this as a kid...... but as an adult you can see them very clearly!! 😱
Fantastic analysis of my favourite childhood tv show..lots of facts I didn't know.
You guys are great... honestly i spoted some mistakes myself, but, as a kid, i was so involved in the episode itself that i did care.
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.
I love your videos, they take me back to my childhood which better days than today 😢
I'm currently watching my way through the Knight Rider box set (it's great seeing them again after all these years), and I hadn't spotted most of these 'errors'. To be honest, they're quite charming, and a throwback to how things were done back in the day. It all adds to the magic that was KITT, my childhood hero.
I do the same and the amount of small mistakes is embarrasing. In every episode in some scenes there's a second kitt that almost disassembles itself to pieces. Also Michael looks like he's gonna deintegrate himself if runs too hard.
I wanted to be “the young loaner on a crusade, to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless.”
some times videos like these bring an extra interest to the show, i love them, a behind the scenes we never had before.
This was great. I remember seeing some of this bloopers!
These are brilliant! The best video you have done, and you have done a lot of great ones.
Hahaha 😆 lol love videos like this. Keep them coming. The crazy thing is that even though we know its flaws, the show is still the coolest. 😂 Thanks for sharing, captain.
My friends and I noticed a lot of those mistakes when the series was originally on. We used to make fun of them a lot. But we still loved the show
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.
I only remember one scene from the entire series. It was when Michael and Kitt jumped from a parking lot into a 10 story building, then Michael quickly gets out and punches some dude right in the face. I don't remember why he did it, but who cares, it was fucking awesome.
I got to see one of the cars at a show in California yrears ago. You are right about the orange peel paint job. Also, they had the dashboard on a table.
You can say what you want, this series rocked my childhood! Long live Mr. Knight and his mount!
In the '87s, when we watched these great heroes with our mouths open, we never saw these mistakes. There was only excitement on CRT screens.
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
You guys catch everything. Good job.
I'm not going to worry about that! I love Knight Rider regardless of those "mistakes"! I'm still in love with KITT!
There is another mistake I recall…there was one episode where kitt got all these silver stars on him to participate in some show. In a later episode where Kitt rushes on cross the screen you can see him, for a few seconds, once again with this stars on.
Wow there really is a channel for absolutely everything
As a kid in the 80s i had the same " Talking " watch , a simple radio watch that's all ^^
Awesome top 10, cant wait for more.
Thanks 😊
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!
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.
Great work, mate! The extra KITT's at the end got me laughing!! Keep up the awesome vids!
I loved knightrider,along with dukes of Hazzard 😂❤❤
I remember a scene (can't remember the episode, though) in which KITT is supposed to show a list of addresses on the screen, but instead of RUNning the BASIC program which shows the addresses, someone decided to LIST the program, so what we see on the screen is something like
10 PRINT "JOHN DOE, X STREET"
20 PRINT "BOB DOE, Y STREET"
etc.
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.
I’m currently doing a rewatch of Knight Rider, and I noticed some of the mistakes featured in this video. I was able to see certain things on my own. A mistake not mentioned in this video I found was in the first season episode “A Good Day at White Rock”. In the scene where Michael Knight is rock climbing, he stops and looks down. If you look closely in the upper left, you’ll see another person with the same color helmet and attire at the bottom.
@4:48 you can actually see the edge of the trailer set on the left - the third panel in from the door doesn't exist! (And again on the right @5:01 in the kitchen)
I love Knight rider and kitt they are my favourite. I am jealous of you having kitt.
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.
Great new series idea! Love it!
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 😂.
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!
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?
That was a cool review and episode Joe please do more
I love these videos Joe, Thanks for sharing.
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 have to see the context: Blurry NTSC TV sets with lots of overscan. So many of the mistakes documented here were simply not visible due to the low quality of the CRTs.
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.
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.
If you watch the "chicken" scene in trust doesn't rust there's a very noticeable dent in K.I.T.Ts hood. Also, if you were to look here at 19:52 when K.I.T.T lands, you can see the back bend from the impact.
1:30 that is the sound of Darth Wader’s laser sword. People are decapitated with the sword when they make a phone call, and Bin Laden wants the sword. 2:50 the car is only bulletproof, when the alien sits inside. Similar to the Terminator series.
Also, same thing in The A-Team, stunt vans with different hub caps/rims, jump damage in plain sight, a few shots later everything A-ok... Also very visible insert shots with shadows behind the actors at almost 0° lighting angle...
Love these videos. Please keep them coming. Thank you.
the hand ... the door closing damper 🤣
Once again, interesting background information about the series. I even noticed some once, but they didn't ruin my childhood.. and neither will you. Great work again. 😊
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.)
Hey Joe. I grew up with all the 80s "vehicle-sentic" show and I'm a detail oriented artist. To my knowledge the ORANGE CHARGER..IS a "screen used" GENERAL LEE. The front and rear side markers are filled in which was specifically a DUKES OF HAZZARD detail. It doesn't make sense for production to take the extra time to fill the marker lenses on one CHARGER when it doesn't have to look like like a double for another car. On DUKES OF HAZZARD the vehicle department started filling in the CHARGERs marker lenses to streamline production and lessen costs of CHARGER parts. It's a tattle tail way to spot screen used GENERAL's.
Absolutely love Knight Rider I’m 53 and loved it in the 80’s, I watched that episode last night 11/9/2024 “ no big thing “ on legend extra channel and I noticed the extra KITT on the side of the road, kind regards to you and everyone out there 😃😃👍👍
Where did the commercial that compared KITT to the General Lae!? Like the poster… there was a commercial…where the scientist says “ this used to be the fastest car on television “ ??? Would love to see that again.
That commercial can be found on our channel! Search for "Competition is No Competition"
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficialOMG!!! I’ve been looking for that !! Haven’t seen it since the initial airing! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!
I seem to remember a slightly different version but HELL I was 7 and it aired for a month.
i was 5-6 years old when the show aired in 80s in Turkey. I already noticed the impossibility of filming inside a trailer. i was smart back then.
Great vid. Iv noticed alot of them but not all you noticed 😊
hang on at 15:58 isnt that a hand seeing driving the "blind car"? Amazing video by the way!
Some of mine favourite continuity errors are in the first season, where you would see KITT driving down a dirt road, cut to a shot inside KITT with Michael delivering a few lines, and the background in this shot is clearly filmed on a regular tarmac road. Then cut back to the external shot on a dirt road.
That and in a few shots you can see skid marks on the road from earlier takes where they did a handbrake turn in the road, but didn't make it round far enough and had to re-shoot.
And the occasional sound error, when they forget to dub over the turbine engine noise and you hear the regular V8 the car had.
Check scene with this grey tank with some hit kinetic element on front. There are scenes where damage is done to KITT, and in other scenes it is not visible.
I noticed that in several episodes you can see the same Fiat Mirafiori 132, silver. It's standing, it's driving, but it's the same car in many different episodes :)