From TATT to KITT to KARR: The Rise & Fall of Knight Rider
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- Опубліковано 3 бер 2021
- Knight Rider is an American action crime drama television series created and produced by Glen A. Larson. The series originally rand for 90 episodes on NBC from 1982 to 1986.
Knight Rider stars David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight, a high-tech, modern crime fighter assisted by KITT, an advanced, artificially intelligent, self-aware, and nearly indestructible car.
Through the TV movies, spin-offs and sequels Knight Rider and KITT have endured to this day as a beloved icon of 80's TV.
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I waited in line 5 hours as a kid at toys r us to meet David Hasselhoff and sit in the car for 10 seconds. Best five hours and half a minute of my life.
I got to sit in the car at universal studios
Still waiting for me.
Chris
I waited 6 hours to get into the first McDonald's to open in Russia in 1990.....time I will never get back! At least the big Mac was made with real meat back then.
😂💯
I don't know about anyone else, but as someone who grew up with Knight Rider, I don't want a comedic parody movie, I want a gritty, badass movie in keeping with the spirit of the original series.
Yes please.I am still mad at those parodies. So disrespectful.
Amen to that
Ending with the required cameo of the Hoff, of course...
Unfortunately in today's media Hollywood seems to love having comedy in everything, the original Knight Rider had comedy but it always was well placed and never took over the shows main plot.
Ya dig
_"A car is just a sexy horse"_
I'm in the wrong part of the internet again.
They are steel horses, and metallurgic horses are hot.
This show is one of the many reasons why 80s entertainment was great.
Hearing the theme song brought tears to my eyes. Such a nostalgic part of my childhood! It showed that a show can be kid-friendly, mature enough for adults, and just be super COOL! Everyone loved KITT!
Agreed
And we still do!!
Everyone wanted a kitt
I have the theme song on my ipod. Still searching for the tv version mp3 .... which I might as well download from youtube as we speak.
@@dellshonewilson6187try😮thugs tryf for
Now that I'm 41 years old, and being a veteran Knightrider fan, I have never ever known that KITT was actually a cylon on four wheels. No surprise if Michael Knight were a resurrection of Gaius Baltar :)
The KARR episodes were my absolute favorites growing up. Especially when he was found alive buried in the sand.
I just got my KARR replica on the road, last sept. two years. not finished yet. but more than half done. been a FUN build. the black n silver, Paul Freese version.
@@poesraven1985 Sweet. I'm not a big car guy, but that sounds pretty awesome and brings me back to my childhood big time. What about the interior? Is the dashboard gonna look like it too?
@@Jesus_equals_LOVEnForgviness yes sir!!!! Dash is insalled , steering wheel, switchpod behind it, with the buttons turbo boost, oil slick all that. just need wire up flat touchscreen monitors, put lower console in n upper console. the computer printer, n chem analyzer. n inside is done. outside whats left yet is, door LED's with sound. working License plate flipper, Functional oil slick and hook up the fog lights. he will have onboard computer, that wil by Voice command, put windows up/down open rear liftgate, headlights on/off, scanner on/off, n open driver/pass door. as well as have preprogrammed voice response. one big rolling prop. lol
Same! KARR was my favourite part of the show, especially in KITT vs KARR when he was voiced by Pail Frees and took on a more calculating and evil personality rather than the more naive one from Trust Doesn't Rust.
It's criminal that he only appeared in two episodes.
I always assumed that Garthe Knight would find his still-active CPU and rebuild him as he was the only one outside the foundation who knew how to make the molecular bonding shell material.
“The power cycle comes with spin out lever. Your parents will have to put it together..” Lolololol. Those were the days.
The days of "some assembly required" meaning "parents, you're putting this thing together on Christmas Eve while the kids are asleep!"
That was a hint for me that such a toy was likely a no-go.
@@joelellis7035 Usually swearing at the incomplete instructions.. Or thinking that there is a missing part or two.
@@gorillaau 😂😆😂
My uncles friend created kitt’s interior vocal light bar. It was his first tv gig. Now he’s owner of Crew FX in Singapore, making huge animatronics for theme parks. He also made Doc Brown’s telepathy helmet and Biff JR’s Pittbull hoverboard.
That's freaking rad!!! Hell yeah
Wow! Cool man!
OK, that’s pretty cool. But do they work for real? That would be SUPER cool!
@sage spirtos Were you referring to "Core Crew FX", that makes puppetry?
@@poilapan yep, sorry just thought it was called Crew FX.
Knight Boat: The crime solving boat...as long as there’s a canal, or an inlet or a fjord.
Hoff would sing the theme song -- "𝙻̶𝙾̶𝚅̶𝙴̶ Tech... Exciting and Newwwww...."
Yea, they made that bruh, it's called Thunder in Paradise and it stars Hulk Hogan and was on TNT. The boat didn't talk, but look it up it exists.
Is no one else getting that Simpsons reference? "You don't have to yell, Michael. I'm all around you." Geez, I feel old.
Faster, Knight Boat! We've gotta catch those starfish poachers!
Quiet! I will not hear another word against the boat!
The kid waiting for Kitt to talk that never comes is killing me in the commercial.
Yes, if you listen really closely, you can hear KITT say : "I hate you"
"And let it run on loop in your head for the rest of your life"... Damn right it did.
I actually got to meet KITT as a kid. He was at universal studios in California and i happened to be there, got to take photos in his driver's seat. I was wearing a pale green shirt and he made a joke asking if i was sick, cuz i was looking a little green.
I got to meet KITT as well, but I don't remember what he said to me when I sat inside. I do remember it being a little snarky, though. 😁
KITT travelled up here to Canada on some sorta farewell tour (after the show ended, either before it ended up in, or after it left universal studios).
My sister didn’t fork over the $15 bucks for me to get the privilege of getting a Polaroid; that was the price of the full meal deal from domino’s or the family combo bucket of chicken from KFC! 😂
I met KITT in 86, I asked him if they were going to make new episodes and he told me probably not. Such an odd mixture of happiness and sadness at once, it was.
I meet Kitt, in my garage everyday
@@12pawsinn Ha! Score, dude; that’s awesome! I either wanted to be driving KITT, the A-Team van, or the General Lee from the Dukes of Hazzard as my whip. Was that a production vehicle, or your own custom job?
It was just a great time growing up as kid with all these shows.
Knight rider
Airwolf
Street hawk
A-team
V
Tj hooker
Chips
Hardcastle & McCormick.
Battlestar Galactica
Buck Rogers
That's just a few off the top but there were many more, not to mention all the classic cartoons as well. Great days.
Hardcastle and McCormick was great.
Then my mum would say turn it over as I wanna watch knots landing,Dallas or the love boat 😅
@@RccarsrUs lol, just like everyone else mom
@@RccarsrUs Falcon Crest.😏
MacGuyver, Fallguy, Remington Steele, Magnum PI, Sledgehammer, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Tour of Duty, Wonder Woman, Incredible Hulk
Hero characters of the 70s and 80s were always made to "Vietnam Veterans". If this came out in the 90s, Michael would have also had ninja training.
He might not be a ninja but he still can throw the gun out of your hand with his leg
Knight Rider captured my every imagination. I remember as a 5yr old seeing KITT for the first time..smh it totally blew my mind, and the story behind the K2000 was very believable. Devin Miles added so much dignity & class to the FLAG & to the show overall.
DEVON!!!, like the county
The MAD Magazine parody of Knight Rider was priceless. Michael looks over the 200 different controls on the dashboard and says, "Boy, I sue do miss having a glove compartment!"
as a child, Knight Rider was the only reason I was allowed to stay up past 8pm
yep me too. Mum would even make dad let me watch it. Oh the days of 1 tv in the house.
Knight Rider, Greatest American Hero, Simon&Simon, Street Hawk, Airwolf were the shows that I was allowed to stay up to watch.
I was four years old when I started watching Knight Rider as the fourth season aired (then caught reruns). I became enamoured with it and my grandfather bought me a child sized leather jacket, which made me a hero at school. No one else had a leather jacket. I changed my last name to Knight as an adult.
This guy has quite the presentation style and lung capacity. The brevity of presentation is outsanding. The passion for the material is evident.
BRAVO and kudos, good Sir!
I actually liked this
"when I was a kid, being able to PRETEND our toys were talking to us was a feature" is the new "walked to school barefoot in the snow"
The part where the kid was talking to his big wheel and all the kids bent over to "listen" I was like really?! really?! Imagination is great but that was a bit much.
When commercials were actually addressing the parents, informing them that their children (us) can now pretend that the toy car can talk.
True story I used walk five miles to school. In the snow and it was uphill both ways. It was character building
@@unstoppableExodia
Exactly. It was a simpler time full of simpler people.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu kids today with their thousand dollar smartphones have it too easy. They don’t know real hardships like the ones 80s kids had to endure like when mom and dad refused to buy a fortress Maximus or USS Flagg because it’s too big and too expensive, I’m still bitter about that after all these years.
Knight Rider is a timeless classic. Who doesn't love it?
🤚. Don't hate it but def don't love it
Okay.
My mom didn't like it. 8 year old me wanted to watch the show so bad but she said it was corny so we had to watch the girly mom shows.
My dad doesn't XD
In all seriousness though, you're crazy if this didn't at least bring you one smile
Or have you shed at least one tear over one of KITT's destruction scenes... Or how Michael (David) treated him at the beginning of the series XD
Or have you laughing at least once.
@@dannydaw59 girly mom show's? That's just wrong. KR corny? That's just clueless
I absolutely love Knight Rider, KITT is a major comfort character of mine and he always makes me happy whenever I see him!
Me too.
They can introduce a new generation certainly... but Knight Rider has never worked without Hoff, Daniels... and the Trans Am. Needs all three!
Ur right the show's never been successfully duplicated or spun off. The original had sci fi elements and creative license (in making KITT's AI more human like) the later incsrnations KR 2008 especially didn't use enough creative license and the repores between the charactrrs wasn't there. Early in it's run classic KR was a little stiff. But 13 episodes in the elements started gelling and really working together. KR 2008 may have had KR's componets to a degree. But no spin off ever had it's soul
I loved this show as a kid and wanted my own KITT. I half-believed that I would grow up to be like Michael Knight. There were so many shows in the 80s about cool dudes that go around helping others and solving all their problems in sixty minutes, and I wanted to be like that. If only life was that simple.
All right Star-Lord. settle down..
It was just pretend. Your Dad wasn't really Zardu Hasselfrau.
Love you op!
Too true and definitely could come back from The Incredible Hulk hitchhiking and A-Team bringing a plan that comes together.
When I was a kid, in the early 2000's, my dad would rent us some of the best 80's action shows including this, The A-team, and The Dukes of Hazard. Good times.
Your Pops was cool for doing that
Yeah your pops was cool. That’s when tv was the best
I was a Fall guy fan and Simon & Simon. But Knight Rider was in the top 3.. top 3 No.1 favorite tv, But Karr was my favorite character on the show.
did you watch 'Hardcastle and McCormick?' in the line up?
All I know is Knight Rider had the BEST intro of any 80s TV show LOL
I remember Knight Rider. I was little too old for it, but my youngest brother LOVED it. Posters and all. We took him to Universal Studios to see KITT. He saw KITT and stopped in amazement he said, "Hi KITT. "
Peter "If I don't voice it, it isn't canon" Cullen
Actually, in the original series he only voiced KARR in one episode, the other episodes were voiced by someone else.
He voiced him in 'Trust Doesn't Rust' and 2008's 'Knight to Kings Pawn.' Paul Frees voiced him in 'KITT vs. KARR.'
You forgot to talk about David and kitt was in the WWE
@@BishopTJH I prefer the voice of Paul Frees; in fact when I first heard the voice of KARR I thought it was Frees and when I saw that it was voiced by Peter Cullen I thought he had based the voice on Paul Frees' Ghost Host voice from The Haunted Mansion.
The Paul Freese version of KARR had more personality.
What always got me about Knight Rider is you had this dude with virtually unlimited resources and the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence at his disposal, and he used it to, like, save small traveling carnivals from corrupt sheriffs and whatnot.
yeah... but if you start to overthink and look at the Risks of a FLAG-like Organization taking on 'Bigger Problems'... not only would it inevitably lead to corruption but from a Doyle-ist perspective it would require the show to become serialized, rather than episodic where the Case is closed once the Blind Orphan Saves the Nun at the Dynamite Factory, and Michael gets his kiss from the Nun and more from the Orphan's older sister
@@TJ52359 Not to mention, government response.
Well,Micheal and KITT went up against global terrorists,illegal waste disposal group,Gathe Knight and Goliath(twice) and so many colorful villains who operate above the law.
LOL......thats awesome...and true...sometimes it would be high-tech...sometimes
@@TJ52359 Man, that Orphan's Older Sister was something else, am I right?
Still One of the Greatest Series from the 80‘s .
A masterpiece of modernized television entertainment....this show's legacy is eternal...(because it's concept is brilliant)
KITT going into the vat of acid was traumatizing to me as a kid.
Junkyard dog episode
Holy crap, I thought it was just me that felt that way when I watched it as a kid! It was heartbreaking watching his “friend” essentially die....horribly!
No kidding right? For real! I'm a car guy and one of the first few time I went to a wrecking yard as a kid I had a mini-panic attack. I saw an old 80's that had caught fire and friend said "It looks like KITT from that acid episode!" . And it did, that thing burnt to the ground. So I'm kind staring at it and legit felt like I had to get away from there and not look at it too long... Yes..it was stupid lol. Amazing how that stuff seep into your brain when your young lol
I still have all my Knightrider toys . Turbo booster, the crash set with the semi. The talking kitt still works. Even the wind up Street hawk motorcycle .
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Imagine being the guy hired to be Michael Long before the surgery. Landing the lead part for all of ten minutes, lol.
Yea. Who was that guy? You'd think he'd have turned up in some other Glen A Larson production. Maybe he was some background Colonial pilot on Battlestar Galactica.
And your voice is even overdubbed :P
Larry Anderson is the name of actor who played Michael Long in the pilot episode(his lines were redubbed by David Hasselhoff) prior to the surgery that changed him into Michael Knight.
@@robzilla730 Except Battlestar Galactica was BEFORE Knight Rider (late 1970's).
The actor's name is Larry Anderson, and looking at his IMDB page, he's actually had quite a career as a character actor in Hollywood. He's also apparently a magician.
Great video. I just wanted to point something out. Peter Cullen does voice KARR in the season 1 episode 9 Trust Doesn't Rust. But in the season 3 episode 6 KITT VS KARR, KARR is voiced by Paul Frees. Just wanted to give him the credit he deserves as KARR as well.
I bought the Diamond Select Knight Rider toy a few years back. It fits my GI Joes perfectly, and looks dope with Mercenary Wraith driving with his arm gun hanging out the window.
A buddy of mine was a massive fan of the show and a few years ago he bought a 2nd hand purple trans-am. He rebuilt the engine, changed the bodywork and stripped and repainted the car into glossy black. Everything was perfect right down to the red flashing light and the interior. We drove to a motor show from Dublin to the Irish midlands. Got some crazy looks every time we stopped. Not super comfortable (felt every bump in the road) but damn if it wasn't fun as hell! :)
When Universal Studios had "KITT" on display for visitors to sit inside and ask questions, I remember hearing a little kid asking the car, "Are you ticklish?" Made me giggle to hear KITT trying to explain, as technically simple as possible, why cars are not sensitive to tickling.
"Hey, you forgot" Peter Parros. He played Michael's mechanic/sidekick RC3 during season 4.
No he didn't. We all wanted to forget him. Unnecessary character. I remember an episode where he simply rode into a collapsing building on a motorcycle to ostensibly "help" Michael, but Michael was already on his way out. RC3 just jumped into KITT and he and Michael exited as the building collapsed. The casualty was RC3's motorcycle. Otherwise no reason for him to even be in the scene.
@@joelellis7035 I remember Devon's reaction upon seeing the remain's of RC3's motorcycle in the Semi, "Oh! It IS it ISN'T it?" then he does a rev motion with his hands. I just about fell off the couch laughing as a kid
Thanks. We were trying hard to forget him. He was a one-episode bit-parter who just never went away.
If sony made a Knight Rider game that took place in the 80's I would preorder it immediately.
My mom found my old Kenner KITT car and Michael figure cleaning out the house clutter last year. They are currently displayed proudly on my Blu-Ray shelf.
When I was 5 yrs old I was a huge Knight Rider fan. That year Toys R Us opened their first store in my hometown & at the grand opening they were going to have KITT & Micheal Knight (the Hoff himself) there. My Mom said I was gonna get to go with my 2 best friends, I was super excited. Then we all got grounded for ticky tack stuff & we were not able to go anymore. I was devastated & still bear the emotional scars to this very day. Later I heard that Hasselhoff was an early investor in Toys R Us.
Another Great video Dan & Greg
"Man, parents just don't understand."
I like how even though the show takes place in the 1980s the car is still way more advanced than anything in the 2020s.
What are you talking about? My car came stock with Turbo Boost (including the whoosh sound effect) and self-driving technology.
@@csn6234
But does it have a Turing level AI for people who don't have human friends? That's what I really wanted.
Yeah, if they want a best-selling self-driving car, they already have the car to build.
@@csn6234 But is it bullet proof?
The future has been pretty disappointing.
Knight Rider was an awesome show when I was a kid. Cool theme music, cool agent, boss who grew to respect said agent, pretty and intelligent mechanics and an awesome car that was ahead of it’s time. I remember being stationed in Hawaii as a young sailor. There was a man who had working replicas of KITT, the Mystery Machine, the 60s tv show Batmobile, Ecto-1 and Street Hawk. KITT stole the show.
Friend: Yeah, I like Knight Rider. What about you-
Me: I bought the entire series on dvd for $50, and I love it!
Friend: Who still uses dvd-
Me: I DO!!!!!!
@@bladerunner3314 Yep!
David Liston, I do too! Sadly, though, I only have season 1 on DVD, so far.
Apparently so do 22 other people who liked your comment.
I got the Blu-ray set for Christmas. Physical media will always be the best
I only don't have the blu-ray version because I bought the dvd version of the whole series the day it came out.
Before they released it, I got my hands on the series by buying a vhs collection off of someone who taped them all off tv, but took the time to edit out commercials and whatnot. It was like 15 or 20 tapes.
My childhood best friend and I have a running thing, if we need each others help on something we'll call and say "KITT, I need you buddy". And then we laugh for the next 20 minutes. Haha! Thanks, Dan & Greg.
My own memory of the show, aside from being a very very young fan, was having a pedal-car KITT that had a button to make the sweep-light go back and forth on the hood and to make KITT say a few stock lines. I loved that thing far longer than I could fit into it to pedal it.
I have forever been disappointed by EVERY SINGLE RIDE-IN CAR TOY that makes you "walk" it rather than having pedals.
I just finished rewatching the complete original series on DVD. First time I had rewatched it since it first aired-and I’ve never binged anything like I binged this show. It never got boring. Plus, I saw a number of episodes I missed when it was originally on, so it was a great experience.
I’m currently working my way through Team Knight Rider. Suffice to say, it’s definitely a low rent version of its predecessor, but I decided to watch anyway, out of curiosity, since I skipped it when it was originally on back in the ‘90s.
Fun Fact: Kung-Fury's car pays homage to KITT, and the almighty Hoff sang the main theme for Kung-Fury.
2 more examples that ably showcase Kung Fury as one of the greatest things that has ever happened in the history of ever.
@@corvus1970 agreed
How scary would it be to get busted by Tricera-Cop, though?
@@corvus1970 That movie is one of the single greatest things that have ever been committed to film! “Those are epic pecs man!” “Thanks Bro!” 😂😂😂
Edited: forgot it was pecs and not biceps! 😂
I loved kung fury on netflix and the movie is now free on steam. Its a great indie film it feels so 80s.
When I was a student, we had a local hardcore band called "Evil Michael Knight" they always came on to their own version of the theme tune.
Good times.
Meantime “Michael Knight” David Hasselhoff is a major rock star in Europe...
Germans love David hasselhoff.
Shoulda just called themselves Garthe. Snappier.
@@ScooterBond1970 no one remembers Evil Michael Knight's name, just his facial hair.
@@kildogery tsk. Kids these days.
Man, the nostalgia for this show. One of my absolute obsessions as a kid. I had both the too-big-scale KITT and Michael, *and* the little hotwheels one with the launcher - in addition to having a beach-airbrushed KITT t-shirt. In the 90s, I went out a couple times with a girl who had a black 80s trans-am, and even that spoke to my nostalgia brain.
I remember in school during the 80s, in the playground all of the boys would gather around to talk about Knight Rider and see who could make the best KITT scanner sound...
I'd take that over soccer and Pokemon
First of all, you guys totally made my day with the Knightboat reference. That was awesome. I have only been to Universal Studios once, but I waited in line to have my picture taken sitting inside KITT.
Anyone that gets that reference gets my respect. The people that get it I know are on my same wavelength.
The criiime solving boat
There’s always a river, or a stream, or a fjord! 😀
My sister and I reference that anytime we're clicking channels and see Knight Rider on TV.
Group 🤗 I love this comment section.
I appreciate that you guys did Airwolf first, that shows real class.
Hell yeah.
Hear, hear
How so?
@@Hyde_Hill Knight Rider is expected, Airwolf is the choice of a truly sophisticated 80's connoisseur. I appreciate when they go deep with shows like Automan.
@@kharilester automan was my fav. Cursor can kick kitt's ass
I LOVED this series as a kid growing up in the 80's. I never knew about the KITT tricycle, or I would have wanted one then.
I loved this show as a kid growing up in Zimbabwe. I remember the a Knight Rider car being shown at a shopping mall and queueing for hours to sit in it and talk to KITT. When I got in it I star struck and couldn’t think of anything to say!!! Was so gutted!!
As soon as i heard about it I wanted to work with computers. Here I am 40 years later working in cloud tech in IT! My car has sat nav , I talk to Siri but still no turbo boost option! Thanks for taking the time and effort in doing such a concise and informative episode!!
KITT is almost like a Swiss Army Knife on wheels with the many types of gadgets they built into him...
They never seemed to get that KITT was a character and that you can’t just make him look like ANYthing. The transam was lightning in a bottle. You can’t just make KITT an F-150 and expect it to be received the same way.
F-150 Raptor would have worked
I dunno...a talking Airwolf might have worked!
If KITT made a smartass remark about feeling fat when turning into the F-150 I think it would still have been fine. Issue is they forgot KITT was actually a main character of the show and not just a mode of transportation that talked sometimes.
a vital character at that, his j.a.r.v.i.s.
17:19 lol, "...that unfortunately did not combine into a giant robot." Hats off to you sir!
Very comprehensive mate, well done!!!! I am actually re-watching the entire 3 seasons right now and loving it!!!!
Nice series recap, I wrote/published "The Knight Rider Companion" in 2008, a 680 page full color guide book to the original series. Glen A. Larson was a dear friend of mine. Michael's Scheffe's last name is pronounced "Sha-faye". I also assisted Diamond Select Toys with their 1/15 scale lights/sounds (I provided the sound clips for KITT) and Minimates Knight Rider toy lines. I did a two page spread of the new KITT's dash for the Knight Rider: Knight Strikes Vol 2 TBD by Lion Forge Comics. I've been keeping the spirit of Knight Rider alive since 2005 and chances are you've seen my work in some form or another, especially in google image searches.
I've literally ate, slept, and breathed Knight Rider and still do today. Really love your videos! Keep up the great work!
Dang!
That’s pretty awesome.
Cool thing to be a part of.
@@TheBrendon67 I totally agree!
What a lovely and fascinating post. If it’s the same publication, it appears it is about to be republished? Look forward to reading it. Being a kid in the 80s was just the best imho.
@@PrinceBarin77 - Thanks! Actually the newly released KRC "Abridged Edition" is more of a remastered version, but is called "abridged" because I had to cut some things out due to changes in licensing and publication requirements. But for everything I had to cut, I added just as much and more back in. It's shorter in some ways, and longer in others! Check out my channel for more info!
I am always touched by how warmly The Hoff always speaks of Edward Mulhare. David admits that Mulhate was added to give the show an air of gravitas, given Mulhare's acting c.v.
Mulhare was sort of like the Alec Guiness of TV. One thing I always liked about 80s tv was seeing all those stars from the 50s and 60s pop up. Sort of like Lifetime network today with Meg Ryan and Mira Sorvino popping up.
@@robzilla730 I was really surprised (and happy) to see Winona Ryder in Stranger Things tbh :)
@@RSProduxx I'm happy with the whole 80s revival that is going on right now. There are so many different covers of the NeverEnding Story song now, mainly due to that series.
My God! My childhood!
FIRST THING that came to mind when I remember stuff I had: my treasured Knight Rider Big Wheels! I love you Dan.....
Oh, and I had the "push car" Kitt AND my other treasure the lunch box. Greatest time in my history. Thanks for the memories Dan & team.
Another great review as usual! Knight Rider was a good show. Some good dramatic episodes, good music, fantastic stunts and a lot of fun. Certainly had some lackluster eps too and dumb elements but we have to remember how long ago it was. Came out at just the right time. The timeless new Trans Am practically looked like a spaceship compared to most production vehicles at the time. The 80s was a time of "high tech" and amazing car chases. Knight Rider helped forge it.
It wasn't a Trans-Am...it was a Firebird..
@@valjeanlee7060 Thanks for sharing. You are correct they did use a few cars that were regular Firebirds modified to look like Trans Ams in addition to the cars that were actual Trans Ams. Pontiac offered numerous model versions through the years: there was the base model Firebird, Firebird SE etc..and then the high performance Firebird versions such as Firebird Formula and Firebird Trans Am. So all Trans Ams are Firebirds but not all Firebirds are Trans Ams. Kind of like there was a base Camaro, Camaro Berlinetta, Camaro Z28, Camaro IROC-Z. Or Mustang and Mustang GT. :)
Dude this was fantastic. Took me all the way back to when I was a kid.
The 80's were the best decade for awesome high concept shows!
I was born in ‘78.
I’ve really enjoyed your channel over the last couple years.
Cheers to nostalgia!
Knight Rider is and always be one of my top favorite 80's tv shows from my childhood that to this day I still watch on The Charge Channel. Kitt voiced by "Mr. Fenny" from Boy Meets World is the perfect voice ofr Kitt and when kitt becomes Super, i was on the floor in awwe. The Knight Rider Movie was filmed from my old home city of San Antonio, Texas (which i was around on one of the days they were filming a scene at the River Boat Mall) It was exciting to see Kitt the Car there with David aka Michael Knight there.
I laughed so hard at the McCloud reference. Pod People is still the best MST3K episode of all time.
I'm just ready for the Transformers Crossover with some cheeky connection between KARR and Optimus, and maaaybe Goliath and Motormaster.
Fingers crossed get one next year for its 40th anniversary
The Knight Industries transport truck could be a redeco of Optimus, Goliath a redeco of Motormaster, and they would propably use either Sideswipe or Runamuck/Runabout for KITT and KARR.
Well, now I wanna grab a modern Motor master and repaint him as Goliath, then he can take over the Stunticons. War For Cybertron G2 Sideswipe makes a decent stand-in for KITT.
@@LightGuard That could make a lot of sense. The exclusive Punch/Counterpunch that came out a couple of years ago for the Titans Return series could have made a modern day version of KITT, but I can understand WFC G2 Sideswipe being used instead. Maybe the P/CP one could be used for the crossover with the Val Kilmer reboot version?
I know I watched Knight Rider as a kid, but the only episode I remember is when KITT was destroyed/rebuilt. KITT was scared to use something/go faster. The episode you mention in this very video.
God, the Acid episode... I cried. Every "death" of KITT just really traumatized me X'D
Yeah it is heartbreaking when K.I.T.T gets hurt
Junk Yard Dog is the title if you want to look it up ;)
Yes, the ram jet I think. Lol
As a 80s teen and a Knight Rider fan...you did an amazing job on this. Bravo!
The fact that this could have been "6 hours long" despite being mainly about a show that only ran for 4 seasons says a lot
mentions everything the car can do.
me: wheres the cup holder?
"All these gadgets..You'd think they'd give me a cup holder.."
People in the 80s didn't seem to believe in the posiiblity of drinking in they're vehicles
Wow, perfect timing; I just bought the blu-ray collection of this. How coincidental.
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I grew up watching Knight Rider, and I loved the 2008 series. I really wish it didn't get cancelled, or at least not ended the way it did.
I remember watching the episode of BJ and the Bear with that Police cruiser as a kid and thinking about how cool it was (for the 70's anyway). I never even thought about the connection to Knight Rider. Pretty cool historical context. Elements from two shows into Knight Rider being BJ and the Bear and Battlestar Galactica with the Cylon eye and Kitts scanner.
Does anybody else remember talking to KITT at universal studios in Hollywood?
my brother has picture of himself sitting in KITT at Hanna Barbara Land(the park no longer exsist...shame.) in Houston Texas.
One thing often overlooked is the fact that Peter Cullen only voiced KARR in the Trust Doesn't Rust episode of the original series and the 2008 series.... Legendary voice actor Paul Frees voiced him for the KITT vs KARR episode
There was another pedal-powered car with four-wheels that actually had doors, a sway-bar light on the front, and a voice box that used a small record to play the voice of KITT.
Yep and I had one - Pedal car lasted a few months for me (Broke) but my dad took the light out of the car and attached it to my bicycle
Had that and the general lee
Lol "There's a snake in my boots!" Laughed till I choked
Reminds me of the quote,
""there's a choke in my throat"
but from where? Space Ghost?
As a 5 year old my Knight Rider big wheel what's the talk of the cul-de-sac
- I legit remember being just a little too old for that... And being upset that it hadn't come out when I was a little younger. 😄😄😄
Lol, I just made a comment about mine.
Man, we used to spin out til the wheels wore out!
I had one, too.
I loved the hand break, but could never get it to spin.
Knight Rider....My favorite TV show as a kid.
One of my favorite shows growing up ⬆️ Being a kid/teen in the 80 was sweet! I wouldn’t trade it for any of today’s technology
So true
I grew up in early 90s but my toys were mostly 80s by choice. Heck even the new stuff was the likes of G2 Optimus Prime, basically a recolour of G1 plus few extra accessories.
I say this about the 90's lol.
True
Agree. I always loved The Fall Guy too! Back then there were some distinctive vehicles in those shows. General Lee, Fall Guy truck, KITT, Street Hawk cycle, Daisy's jeep, A Team van, and Magnum's Ferrari to name a few.
What we really, really need is a KITT, KARR and Goliath set of Transformers!
Given their recent Crossover line, I'm surprised Hasbro hasn't done so already.
me who customizing Seige Sideswipe and Animated Lockdown to look like KITT and KARR respectively "ON IT"
Hasbro should make a set of combiners that individually transform into iconic 80s vehicles (except the general lee)
@@unstoppableExodia what you got against the general lee? (except for the Confederate flag of course thats one thing i hate about it now as well)
@@chaoticproductions3922 what do I have against the general lee? ....... everything
Knight Rider was a must-watch in my household. We never missed an episode. I would be lying if that interest didn't carry over to the blatant homage series, "Viper", which was pretty much Knight Rider, but used to plug Mopar's supercar. It lasted four seasons; Of course, some of the concepts in that show were "borrowed" for the Knight Rider Reboot, like the ability to morph into different vehicles. While not part of the Knight Rider series, Viper could almost be considered an ad-hoc part of the franchise. Oh, and I liked Knight Rider 2010! nice one shot. I'm a bit of a gearhead, so shows and films with fast cars always appeals to me. awesome video!
Viper, exactly. That was the real Knight Rider 2000.
Im so glad toy galaxy covered this! Knight Rider forever!
I'll always remember the line "it looks like Darth Vader's bathroom" when Michael sees KITT's cockpit for the first time.
Ain’t gonna lie. If he keeps putting out quality content like this, I all for Evil Dan!
LOVE that you did a jab at Cullen's return as K.A.R.R. in the 2009 series. Taking the "roving robot" thing literally was one of the worst choices in the new series.
There's a guy in Puerto Rico driving a Knight Rider car all over the island.
I have actually sat in that car, and as a fan of the show a a child of the 80's I'm proud to say I got to do it!!
I was 6 years old when this came on the air. It was at the time the coolest thing possible.
That spin out lever looks amazing
Thank you for the MST3K “McCloud!” reference from the “Pod People” episode! Lovely episode all around!
Trumpy! You can do Stupid Things!
"There I was, on my Knight Rider Big Wheel, tooling around like a miniature version of The _Paper Chase_ Guy..."
Where did MST3K got it from... just some random name?
@@jjwubs1638 I think they copied something a character said on “McCloud” and purposefully exaggerated it for comedic value.
@@MrShoward73 Ah, I see. Thanks for getting me on track. Looked it up, didn't know about 'McCloud' being a TV series, but its wikipedia page indeed refers to MST3K in the 'popular culture' section.
HOLY CRAP I HAD THAT KNIGHT RIDER BIG WHEELS WHEN I WAS 6! My mom also bought me some cheap crappy black members only jacket and told me it was Michael Knight's jacket. I wore it always. Knight Rider was my favorite show hands down, I was obsessed with it.
That big wheel commercial was fantastic.. the 80s were magic !!! 😆 🤣 😂
3:01 I lived within walking distance of that intersection jump. When I found a static image of the leap with the background still recognizable at the time in 2016, I never looked at that intersection the same way ever again.
Also: major props for using MST3K’s titular “McCloud!” joke.
I thought he was Dale! 😜
Love this show as a kid, had a bunch of the toys. I always felt like the "VIPER" show was kind of a Knight Rider 2.0.
I'd love to see a mash up of Knight Rider, Airwolf, and a few of the other "supermachine" type shows all teaming up to take on some super baddies.There were some other supercar type shows, one was a show where the car could change shape. We live in an "enlightened age", so the drivers/pilots could be like the new Charlie's Angels. Pull as many of the old 1989s shows in all together.
You talking about Viper
There was a super car show called Automan too.
Don't forget about streethawk!
No, if an "80s supervehicle" shared universe were to be created, leave Automan out of it. Sure all these shows had their hokey elements but Automan was hokey through-and-through. If we had to add a fourth show to the Big Three of Knight Rider, Airwolf and Street Hawk, my vote would be for A-Team, even though they didnt have a supervehicle. The van was iconic and the characters would probably fit in well in the stories of a universe with the first three
Loved the show back when I was much younger.
Now decades later all 4 seasons on DVD. 1/32 scale K.I.T.T and K.A.R.R on a shelf. Both versions of K.I.T.T hot wheels in their original packaging hanging up.
The show was a big part of my childhood, really enjoyed the breakdown!!!