Here's an idea! Knowing the intro was filmed at El Mirage, determine the exact spot where the car was driving by looking at the mountain range behind KITT, and re-create the intro at sunset at the correct location in 4k60! Might need to find a wig so the hair silhouette looks correct!
I already did. It's not very difficult because they used the area that is normally frequented by speed, cinema and photography enthusiasts. There is no secret about that.
I was just going to say that too. How cool would that be? It would also be cool if the one that owns the original hero car were to bring out that KITT and both cars be used to recreate the intro at the same location.
Things like this are why I'm a fan of your channel. Been going through the "not a Director's cut" episode commentaries and love all the details you've been pointing out, several I've never noticed while watching the actual episodes. Just wanted to say thank you for what you do.
There is one more clue that helps reveal the time of year the Intro was filmed: the position of the sun. Whether the sun is rising or setting, the position changes throughout the year but this is more difficult to identify than using the details of the cars. And in this case, the details on the dashboard and the Knight 2000 label on the voice box were crucial. Good job!
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial It’s enough. Bunch of people know how to do this. Used to be done with 3D Studio Max, but there have to be a dozen ways to do it now.
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial How closely do you know where KITT was during the shoot? Try the SunOnTrack phone app. It has an AR mode so if you have your local scout guy drive out to the spot he can hold the phone up to the terrain and adjust the date until the sun position matches. Not sure how close this will get you but it will be a pretty good additional data point.
I grew up with this show. The fact that there’s so much history behind a TV show that lasted four seasons which still remains popular to this day is heartwarming. Even the original Star Trek I believe only has three seasons, yet is one of the biggest phenomenons of the millennia.
You guys must be so proud to own one of these cars. AND another car at that. The car in the Peterson is my favorite car in the world. Not KITT, but that specific KITT car. The only reason for that is because it was the car pulled out of the sand as KARR in KITT vs. KARR. That scene somehow did something to me.
that makes sense , just before the titles were edited and the soundtrack session in September at Universal. Follows a standard TV series pattern of the era. The title sequence was nearly always done last. Certainly that was the case for the British TV shows like "The Professionals" and "The Sweeney" from when I interviewed the creators. Good work guys.
Hello comments, looking for someone who might be watching this channel. The guy building the Kitt replica in the town of Renfrew in Scotland. I spoke to you once in a carpark with ur in progress replica and would just like to talk some more about it.
Great vid, thanks. One general observation that I have about the actual filming ..... if we look at 2:28 there are additional tramlines to the right of the car where they clearly drove the car down before. For years, I've always thought this a bit sloppy of the production team to show previous runs and it would look a lot nicer and cleaner with no other tramlines. These are clearly practice runs but don't know why they didn't move the camera and do them a few feet to the left or right of the actual final shot to practice.
Joe watch the scene in the Pilot when Michael first drives up to the sunrise house right after the scene where he fell asleep at the wheel. Then look at the dashboard also the voice box is white and it says Knight 2000 I think
I'd think you could figure out when based on the position of the sun on the horizon. Also, probably worth noting that it was a little windy on the 20th and 21st (14 and 10 MPH avg) but the 22-24th it was averaging over 20 MPH. The rest of that window looked calmer.
Oooo....never thought of looking at the weather on those days! Great thinking! Although I am not sure how much the position of the sun would realistically change in the couple week span we are looking at.
It'd also be REALLY interesting HOW it was filmed. The camera work, the lighting, the hue shift (back then you couldn't just fire up DaVinci Resolve and adjust your footage to your liking!), etc. Maybe a topic for a potential future interview?
It was very cool. Always great to see these investigations. Thank you and, by the way, love this sound track in the end. Always reminds the final battle KITT vs KARR.
I *think* I may have spotted another way to help pinpoint the date of at least one of the main title scenes. I'll look into it (I love researching subjects) and get back to you if I get results!
As a six year old boy, it was that intro that framed the entire series for me. Mysterious, dangerous, and high tech. Now, as an adult, when I watch the episodes, I see how hokie they were. But the intro still gives me that same feeling in my gut.
You should be able to determine when the intro was filmed from the position of the sunset. The sun is exactly at the horizon and that position changes throughout the year.
I love stuff like this regarding Knight Rider. One thing I've always wondered was why did they decide to go with a purplish tone of filter for the intro? What was their reason behind? I love it tho. It's iconic and nostalgic.
OMG! I have all black SUV and I have been wanted to mimic the intro for a long time! I actually went to the same dry lake twice to take the video, with my drone but both time failed. The bed was closed one time, and the other time it was too windy for me to fly the drone
I think you can narrow it down further. It was probably filmes during the few days of interval between that episode and the previous one. A second unit probaly took the car to the desert, which would make it unavailable for filming the episode. And after the episode, it looks the car was at the shop for modifications. So, it was certainly filmed on the days before it, inbetween episodes.
Interesting detective work :) I wonder if that purple tint is done with some image filter or does sunset really colour everything in purple in that location at certain time of the day? Looks very impressive and futuristic regardless :)
In the pilot when Michael falls asleep and KITT takes over the voice box is red with the Knight 2000 text. I wonder if there is any test footage out there….🤔
Well I was going to say it was around the time of Deadly Manoeuvres I think the others mentioned had a production period of what about 8 days or so, while Deadly Manoeuvres had a production window of about 10 days, along with another one, probably took a few days off to sneak off to El Mirage lake bed to film it!
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial Come on, would you have snuck off to the desert with the car and then done a few passes to create that opening, if I was Jack Gill back then, I would have!
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial Second unit? Do you have any of the schedules? And when were those two cars not on the first unit set during the time period?
Thats very awesome. The white voice box always threw me off. I always assumed it was early 1982 before they had their minds made up on what the colors would be on the dash. Never would have thought it would of been far after the pilot. The detective insight on this is awesome. So many details I always overlooked.
I’m surprised the pilot had the title sequence. Many pilots for series don’t include the titles and I would have thought they would have kept KITT under wraps until the reveal in the episode. BTW your new intro is AWESOME 👍👍👍
Haha, imagine this : Michael gets into KITT.. He must've had so many thoughts running in his head : "Something's not right. I could've sworn the voice box was red." 🤔
At 7:25, the stuntman on Kitts bonnet, that indentation of the plexiglass indicator cover was most likely caused during this scene, also does any of the intros have a Kitt featuring the John Ward nose, interesting video this
I think I saw some photos floating around with the redid the opening for SPM... Do you have any BTS photos during the opening filming? If the film was time stamped or dated that could help pin point when the opening was filmed. Great episode!
I am not bored & I'm very awake. 🧐 So filming in August in the desert... In a black car. 🥵🫠 I would have picked dawn or dusk for shooting. On a side note I always wondered how David survived with his leather jacket. 80's heroes were built different. Thanks for sharing. You guys rock.
I don't think the bumper is actually drooping but rather the thin plastic panels that were attached to cover the factory turn signals and make the front end look even more aerodynamic. However, if they were attached only on the sides with no support in the middle, the heat from the sun and possible wind resistance would have made them droop. I believe this was remedied later with a nose that was all one piece covering the original turn signal area.
Awesome detective work. Couldn't stop watching. That intro footage is amazing. Haunting, mysterious, cool, futuristic. Whoever came up with the idea to film that was brilliant. So now we know they put a little extra effort into patching up the hero car interior so it looked better for those shots. Too bad Michael S. dash had already been mangled by the studio or else they could have shot more footage of it for those scenes. It never looked anywhere near as good once the studio took it apart for molds and hastily reassembled it
Doesn't Glen Larson mention that Wayne Fitzgerald spent "a weekend" filming the car in the desert in the DVD commentary? Does that mean it was either the weekend 22-23rd or 28-29th?
And this is exactly what separates the men from the boys! Good work detective! Now, if you could narrow it down to which of those 10 days it was filmed based off of their shooting locations per scene...🤔 Perhaps they were filming and someone said, "ok we just got word, NBC needs us to film an intro" "Oh the El Mirage is just a few miles out. get-a-hold film team B and have them go out to that location before it gets dark." "Which car do we have available right now?" "The backup for now, the hero is still with team A filming a few final scenes for an episode." "Good, tell so-n-so to bring the hero car after their done, it's got the new bumper we can use for closeup shots and the better dash."
Not sure if thrilling would be the word i would use, Buuuuuuuuuuuut i do find these dives to find the tines and places fascinating as someone who has only done milled sleuth work in my area for missing cars in such, the way you guys brake down finding dates times places and so on just off of maybe a single frame in a shot or so on really enlightens me on how to improve my work as well, but also just knowing more about Knight Rider is fun to
Its the chrome plate frame. The shot is just above the frame. The white sunshine plates stated in 1983. The KNIGHT plate stayed in blue the whole show.
It would be great to see call sheets for the timeframe in question. Just to see if they had any time near that area. Odds are they did some other filming in the area that day. Even if it was just driving around shots.
The only question I have is why they waited so late to film the intro. The show premiered less than a month later. They could have filmed the intro after they received confirmation the show was picked up. They filmed the pilot and two full episodes before they decided it was time to film the intro. That was cutting it a bit close in my opinion.
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial Possible, in fact, the most likely reason they delayed filming the intro is they wanted to have footage from different episodes to edit in which was standard for show intros back then. The only problem with this theory is most of the footage used in the season one intro was taken from the pilot. The only non pilot footage is the scene used for Patricia McPherson's name credit. I believe that was taken from 'Deadly Maneuvers.'
I always thought that white "Knight 2000" voice box in the title sequence was some early production thing before they finally decided how it was supposed to look like. But they deliberately changed during production for the shooting of the title sequence?! 🤔🤯😅
Is it really the bumper itself sagging or the blackouts sagging? Looks like when they “sag” the other side is pushed up. Plus the edge of the nose beside the scanner looks all the way up to the hood. I’m glad they eliminated them in future seasons.
It seemed the blackouts kept getting more sagged/warped until replaced - likely from heat, I imagine the body of the car would get scorching hot under California sun.
On the set of dvd discs they show are in this order. On disc 1 of season 1. 1) PILOT, which they named Knight of the Phoenix, part 1&2. 2) Deadly Maneuvers. 3) A Good Day at White Rock. 4) Slammin' Sammy's Stunt Show Spectacular. On disc 2 of season 1. 5) Just My Bill. 9) Inside Out. On disc 3 of season 1. 11) A Plush Ride. I think that they aired in this same order.
Hmmmm could you narrow it down even more precisely? For example is it possible for them to have had those cars on location in Deadly Maneuvers AND El Mirage during Aug 20-30? OR Possibly were those cars in El Mirage August 18 and 19, 1982? (After all, Plush Ride was filmed directly the next day after the completion of Deadly Maneuvers whereas there is a 2 day gap between Aug 17 an 20 (between White Rock and Maneuvers)) How long would it take to transport those vehicles and do set up, etc, to El Mirage and back to the Maneuvers location? Just a thought :)
Unfortunately, for those early episodes, we don't have as much granularity with regards to which cars were on set which days, so for now this is as detailed as we can get! Appreciate your thoughts!
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial Fair enough! It would be cool to have that information, but as you said in the video, later half of August, 1982. Great sleuthing and thanks for the video!
I thought I had a great idea of another data source-weather satellites, but it’s not clear the data is available. The few scenes with clouds might make it possible to correlate if the imagery could be acquired. California would have been covered by GOES-3 in 1982, but that’s one of the few GOES satellites that there aren’t any image archives for. There’s a chance the data is available but hasn’t been converted into images yet.
With my level of laziness, if I was narrating this video all the viewer would get is, "well, the pilot was aired in 1982, and the first vehicles were made in the early 1900s, so I'm guessing this was shot sometime during the 20th century." :-)
I thought you would use the sun's position to calculate the exact day. You know where the scenes were shot so it should be possible to do that. However, it looks like you don't need to do that!
Here's an idea! Knowing the intro was filmed at El Mirage, determine the exact spot where the car was driving by looking at the mountain range behind KITT, and re-create the intro at sunset at the correct location in 4k60! Might need to find a wig so the hair silhouette looks correct!
I second this!
I already did. It's not very difficult because they used the area that is normally frequented by speed, cinema and photography enthusiasts. There is no secret about that.
Could have used the position of the sunset to determine the time of year.
The Knight Rider Historians should recreate the Intro with the Back up to Hero Car on Location
Perifractic did it with Kitt-esla on the retro recipes channel
He converted a Tesla model 3 into a modern day version of K.I.T.T.
Stay tuned.... :)
Considering that that was one of 2(or 3) cars we see in the intro...
I was just going to say that too. How cool would that be? It would also be cool if the one that owns the original hero car were to bring out that KITT and both cars be used to recreate the intro at the same location.
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Things like this are why I'm a fan of your channel. Been going through the "not a Director's cut" episode commentaries and love all the details you've been pointing out, several I've never noticed while watching the actual episodes. Just wanted to say thank you for what you do.
Thank you so much for watching!
I don't know who is worse, you for spending time making an episode that covers this topic, or me for watching the whole darn thing.
Thanks for spending the time with us!
They were only back at El Mirage once after this, and that was to film the Super Pursuit Mode shots.
You got it!!
Great detective work brother
I intend just to have this one in the background while I occasionally looked at the screen, but I ended following along.
Thank you!
Me, too!
There is one more clue that helps reveal the time of year the Intro was filmed: the position of the sun. Whether the sun is rising or setting, the position changes throughout the year but this is more difficult to identify than using the details of the cars. And in this case, the details on the dashboard and the Knight 2000 label on the voice box were crucial.
Good job!
Great thought! Although I am not sure how much the position of the sun would realistically change in the couple week span we are looking at.
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial It moves enough to discern. The problem would be finding the exact spot it was filmed from, which would be impossible.
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial It’s enough. Bunch of people know how to do this. Used to be done with 3D Studio Max, but there have to be a dozen ways to do it now.
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial How closely do you know where KITT was during the shoot? Try the SunOnTrack phone app.
It has an AR mode so if you have your local scout guy drive out to the spot he can hold the phone up to the terrain and adjust the date until the sun position matches. Not sure how close this will get you but it will be a pretty good additional data point.
I grew up with this show. The fact that there’s so much history behind a TV show that lasted four seasons which still remains popular to this day is heartwarming.
Even the original Star Trek I believe only has three seasons, yet is one of the biggest phenomenons of the millennia.
Been following the channel for a long while now and gotta say I love the new opening credits with the recently found theme tune.
Thank you!!!
me too😊
Agreed.
This theme tune is now my phone ringtone..
You guys must be so proud to own one of these cars. AND another car at that. The car in the Peterson is my favorite car in the world. Not KITT, but that specific KITT car. The only reason for that is because it was the car pulled out of the sand as KARR in KITT vs. KARR. That scene somehow did something to me.
We totally understand!!
That's how KITTs AND KARRs are hatched!
that makes sense , just before the titles were edited and the soundtrack session in September at Universal. Follows a standard TV series pattern of the era. The title sequence was nearly always done last. Certainly that was the case for the British TV shows like "The Professionals" and "The Sweeney" from when I interviewed the creators. Good work guys.
Hello comments, looking for someone who might be watching this channel. The guy building the Kitt replica in the town of Renfrew in Scotland. I spoke to you once in a carpark with ur in progress replica and would just like to talk some more about it.
Great vid, thanks. One general observation that I have about the actual filming ..... if we look at 2:28 there are additional tramlines to the right of the car where they clearly drove the car down before. For years, I've always thought this a bit sloppy of the production team to show previous runs and it would look a lot nicer and cleaner with no other tramlines. These are clearly practice runs but don't know why they didn't move the camera and do them a few feet to the left or right of the actual final shot to practice.
Right, however we didn't use to obsess over these things in the '80s 😅
I was only 6 years old at the time this was filmed. Hopefully I will get to LA one day to see this very car - it's on my bucket list!!
Joe watch the scene in the Pilot when Michael first drives up to the sunrise house right after the scene where he fell asleep at the wheel.
Then look at the dashboard also the voice box is white and it says Knight 2000 I think
Nice work, Joe, this is impressive! And Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to my favourite KR Historians!
Interesting! My birthday is on the 21st, so it might have been filmed on my 2nd birthday!
Love it, I enjoy the forensics you dip into now and again. We appreciate it.
I'd think you could figure out when based on the position of the sun on the horizon.
Also, probably worth noting that it was a little windy on the 20th and 21st (14 and 10 MPH avg) but the 22-24th it was averaging over 20 MPH. The rest of that window looked calmer.
Oooo....never thought of looking at the weather on those days! Great thinking! Although I am not sure how much the position of the sun would realistically change in the couple week span we are looking at.
Your detective work is superb. Yes, I enjoyed it.
Appreciate the kind words!
Detective Joe indeed! Great work as ever! Never fall asleep to your videos. Hope you and the family have a lovely a Christmas. All the best.
Merry Christmas to you, too!
Very funny that as a kid I totally didn't notice any of these things. I was just so caught up in the storyline that it didn't matter. :)
Love is blind and we were all drooling over the car and or the driver. I plead insanity your honor! 😅
Awesome and great to watch all the evidence unfold. Thanks Joe for another great video 😎👌
Thank you for bringing us this very special channel, it means alot to me and I'm sure others as well. Brings back good memories and that's priceless.
Glad you enjoy it!
It'd also be REALLY interesting HOW it was filmed.
The camera work, the lighting, the hue shift (back then you couldn't just fire up DaVinci Resolve and adjust your footage to your liking!), etc.
Maybe a topic for a potential future interview?
Love it!
Maybe filmed from the back of a film truck, the same used for filming the racing scenes of the 1986 movie "The Wraith".
I sat in kit when i was a kid(85)during a toys r us promo..david hasslehoff was there and we all waved to him
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8:02 that curve connects to an old steel bridge that appeared in a couple Dukes of Hazzard episodes, most notably Luke's Love Story from season one.
Absolutely amazing detective work. So cool to know within a week or so when this was filmed.
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I wish we had some behind the scenes footage of the intro filming!!
Same!
It was very cool. Always great to see these investigations. Thank you and, by the way, love this sound track in the end. Always reminds the final battle KITT vs KARR.
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Thank you for watching!
Great job Joe!!
AUGUST 1982
I was a freshman in high school!
I *think* I may have spotted another way to help pinpoint the date of at least one of the main title scenes. I'll look into it (I love researching subjects) and get back to you if I get results!
Wonderful!
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial I've just emailed you details to the KRH address
Excellent detective 🕵️♂️ work.
Awesome work
7:33 could be the reason of the sag on the driver side, the man on the car shoul surely be pushing with his right foot to the place of our lovely sag
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As a six year old boy, it was that intro that framed the entire series for me. Mysterious, dangerous, and high tech. Now, as an adult, when I watch the episodes, I see how hokie they were. But the intro still gives me that same feeling in my gut.
You should be able to determine when the intro was filmed from the position of the sunset. The sun is exactly at the horizon and that position changes throughout the year.
Some astronomer physicist surely can tell you exact day in august by sun position relative to mountains and filming geolocation and lens distortion.
I was thinking that too.
Find me that person!
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial You can try asking Angela Collier, she is Astronomer physicist and into sci-fi. She would find interesting I think
@@dukenukem8381 Forensic astronomers settle court cases by determining, often within a minute, when pics were taken.
I love stuff like this regarding Knight Rider. One thing I've always wondered was why did they decide to go with a purplish tone of filter for the intro? What was their reason behind? I love it tho. It's iconic and nostalgic.
Don´t I have anything else to watch? No.
Good work KRH... ;-) Things I never knew or even thought I want to know.
OMG! I have all black SUV and I have been wanted to mimic the intro for a long time! I actually went to the same dry lake twice to take the video, with my drone but both time failed. The bed was closed one time, and the other time it was too windy for me to fly the drone
I think you can narrow it down further. It was probably filmes during the few days of interval between that episode and the previous one. A second unit probaly took the car to the desert, which would make it unavailable for filming the episode. And after the episode, it looks the car was at the shop for modifications. So, it was certainly filmed on the days before it, inbetween episodes.
Inside Out started filming the same day my brother was born. He's a big Knight Rider fan.
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Somewhere the Hoff is going "damn, this guys good"🤣
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I appreciate that!
Interesting detective work :) I wonder if that purple tint is done with some image filter or does sunset really colour everything in purple in that location at certain time of the day? Looks very impressive and futuristic regardless :)
It was a filter for sure.
In the pilot when Michael falls asleep and KITT takes over the voice box is red with the Knight 2000 text. I wonder if there is any test footage out there….🤔
Well I was going to say it was around the time of Deadly Manoeuvres I think the others mentioned had a production period of what about 8 days or so, while Deadly Manoeuvres had a production window of about 10 days, along with another one, probably took a few days off to sneak off to El Mirage lake bed to film it!
Maybe!
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial Come on, would you have snuck off to the desert with the car and then done a few passes to create that opening, if I was Jack Gill back then, I would have!
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial Second unit? Do you have any of the schedules? And when were those two cars not on the first unit set during the time period?
Thats very awesome. The white voice box always threw me off. I always assumed it was early 1982 before they had their minds made up on what the colors would be on the dash. Never would have thought it would of been far after the pilot. The detective insight on this is awesome. So many details I always overlooked.
Thank you sir!
I’m surprised the pilot had the title sequence. Many pilots for series don’t include the titles and I would have thought they would have kept KITT under wraps until the reveal in the episode.
BTW your new intro is AWESOME 👍👍👍
Thanks so much! I was hoping someone would comment on the new intro!
Haha, imagine this : Michael gets into KITT.. He must've had so many thoughts running in his head : "Something's not right. I could've sworn the voice box was red." 🤔
At 7:25, the stuntman on Kitts bonnet, that indentation of the plexiglass indicator cover was most likely caused during this scene, also does any of the intros have a Kitt featuring the John Ward nose, interesting video this
I think I saw some photos floating around with the redid the opening for SPM... Do you have any BTS photos during the opening filming? If the film was time stamped or dated that could help pin point when the opening was filmed.
Great episode!
I can't wait to watch all episodes again sometime next year while knowing ALL THESE THINGS :)
I am not bored & I'm very awake. 🧐
So filming in August in the desert... In a black car. 🥵🫠
I would have picked dawn or dusk for shooting. On a side note I always wondered how David survived with his leather jacket. 80's heroes were built different.
Thanks for sharing. You guys rock.
I don't think the bumper is actually drooping but rather the thin plastic panels that were attached to cover the factory turn signals and make the front end look even more aerodynamic. However, if they were attached only on the sides with no support in the middle, the heat from the sun and possible wind resistance would have made them droop. I believe this was remedied later with a nose that was all one piece covering the original turn signal area.
❤ love this
El Mirage is also the title of a great 1977 Jimmy Webb album.
When the intro was being filmed, my sister was being born, small world.
Awesome detective work. Couldn't stop watching. That intro footage is amazing. Haunting, mysterious, cool, futuristic. Whoever came up with the idea to film that was brilliant. So now we know they put a little extra effort into patching up the hero car interior so it looked better for those shots. Too bad Michael S. dash had already been mangled by the studio or else they could have shot more footage of it for those scenes. It never looked anywhere near as good once the studio took it apart for molds and hastily reassembled it
Doesn't Glen Larson mention that Wayne Fitzgerald spent "a weekend" filming the car in the desert in the DVD commentary? Does that mean it was either the weekend 22-23rd or 28-29th?
Hmmm…..I will check that out!
Fantastic detective work🏆
Thank you kindly
I honestly thought you were going to use the position of the sun 😂
Interesting...however locations is also important.. Mirage desert.... but where?????
El Mirage in California
@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial no. No.. actual replay ..location from the set
And this is exactly what separates the men from the boys! Good work detective! Now, if you could narrow it down to which of those 10 days it was filmed based off of their shooting locations per scene...🤔 Perhaps they were filming and someone said,
"ok we just got word, NBC needs us to film an intro"
"Oh the El Mirage is just a few miles out. get-a-hold film team B and have them go out to that location before it gets dark."
"Which car do we have available right now?"
"The backup for now, the hero is still with team A filming a few final scenes for an episode."
"Good, tell so-n-so to bring the hero car after their done, it's got the new bumper we can use for closeup shots and the better dash."
Not sure if thrilling would be the word i would use, Buuuuuuuuuuuut i do find these dives to find the tines and places fascinating
as someone who has only done milled sleuth work in my area for missing cars in such, the way you guys brake down finding dates times places and so on just off of maybe a single frame in a shot or so on really enlightens me on how to improve my work as well, but also just knowing more about Knight Rider is fun to
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Pretty slick detail noodling
I know that it is a bit early.... but.... merry Christmas & a happy new year to all......
Am I crazy or at 9:40 does the car have a white CA plate and not a blue one?
Its the chrome plate frame. The shot is just above the frame. The white sunshine plates stated in 1983. The KNIGHT plate stayed in blue the whole show.
Watching from El Mirage. Arizona. 🤔👍 1982: Grad from H.S...join military.
19:00 Ghostbusters borrow KITT?
when i look at the zoomed in shot at for example 20:30, i wonder how by the allmighty smoke release button can you get such a high resolution image ^^
Blu Ray!
It would be great to see call sheets for the timeframe in question. Just to see if they had any time near that area. Odds are they did some other filming in the area that day. Even if it was just driving around shots.
Isn’t this discussed/revealed/answered in the Universal dvd Larson/Hasselhoff commentary?
Nope!
The only question I have is why they waited so late to film the intro. The show premiered less than a month later. They could have filmed the intro after they received confirmation the show was picked up. They filmed the pilot and two full episodes before they decided it was time to film the intro. That was cutting it a bit close in my opinion.
You have a valid point. Maybe they were so busy getting some episodes in the can that they delayed it?
Or they may have assembled an intro strictly from already filmed sequences and decided it needed something else?
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial Possible, in fact, the most likely reason they delayed filming the intro is they wanted to have footage from different episodes to edit in which was standard for show intros back then. The only problem with this theory is most of the footage used in the season one intro was taken from the pilot. The only non pilot footage is the scene used for Patricia McPherson's name credit. I believe that was taken from 'Deadly Maneuvers.'
I always thought that white "Knight 2000" voice box in the title sequence was some early production thing before they finally decided how it was supposed to look like. But they deliberately changed during production for the shooting of the title sequence?! 🤔🤯😅
Dammit! I had to scroll back because i dozed off.
(I got 4 hours of sleep last night. Honest. 😅 )
Knight 2000 was on the voice box in a scene in the pilot I'm sure
It was but with the red voice not white
Is it really the bumper itself sagging or the blackouts sagging? Looks like when they “sag” the other side is pushed up. Plus the edge of the nose beside the scanner looks all the way up to the hood. I’m glad they eliminated them in future seasons.
Yes, its the blackouts, not the bumper. I misspoke!
It seemed the blackouts kept getting more sagged/warped until replaced - likely from heat, I imagine the body of the car would get scorching hot under California sun.
On the set of dvd discs they show are in this order.
On disc 1 of season 1.
1) PILOT, which they named Knight of the Phoenix, part 1&2.
2) Deadly Maneuvers.
3) A Good Day at White Rock.
4) Slammin' Sammy's Stunt Show Spectacular.
On disc 2 of season 1.
5) Just My Bill.
9) Inside Out.
On disc 3 of season 1.
11) A Plush Ride.
I think that they aired in this same order.
That’s airfare order, not the order they were filmed.
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial I have that when you list the order that the episodes were filmed the order of them being aired is different.
Hmmmm could you narrow it down even more precisely? For example is it possible for them to have had those cars on location in Deadly Maneuvers AND El Mirage during Aug 20-30? OR Possibly were those cars in El Mirage August 18 and 19, 1982? (After all, Plush Ride was filmed directly the next day after the completion of Deadly Maneuvers whereas there is a 2 day gap between Aug 17 an 20 (between White Rock and Maneuvers)) How long would it take to transport those vehicles and do set up, etc, to El Mirage and back to the Maneuvers location? Just a thought :)
Unfortunately, for those early episodes, we don't have as much granularity with regards to which cars were on set which days, so for now this is as detailed as we can get! Appreciate your thoughts!
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial Fair enough! It would be cool to have that information, but as you said in the video, later half of August, 1982. Great sleuthing and thanks for the video!
now can you find when they filmed the super pursuit intro
You can rerelease the 1983 Trans Am in 2025 and it would still look contemporary.
Such a sleek beautiful design.
when are we going to see more semi tractor its been a few weeks
Deadly maneuvers was always my 2nd favorite after the pilot...now for another reason.
I always wondered what the filming speeds where guessing the into speed was between 40 and 60
I hope it was a year to the day before my birth! August 23, 1982!! 🙏🏻 😂
I would be more interested in how his watch suddenly appeared in the 4th episode.
I thought I had a great idea of another data source-weather satellites, but it’s not clear the data is available.
The few scenes with clouds might make it possible to correlate if the imagery could be acquired.
California would have been covered by GOES-3 in 1982, but that’s one of the few GOES satellites that there aren’t any image archives for.
There’s a chance the data is available but hasn’t been converted into images yet.
As someone said, it's simpler to desume when it was filmed by matching the Sun's position behind the mountains.
With my level of laziness, if I was narrating this video all the viewer would get is, "well, the pilot was aired in 1982, and the first vehicles were made in the early 1900s, so I'm guessing this was shot sometime during the 20th century." :-)
Wow...perhaps you'd like to be a special contributor to the channel...you've clearly got it!! :)
I wonder who the mystery man driving the car in the intro?
I'm only 2 mins in but I'm sure you've already done a video on this?
but now you know the opening was filmed between 3:30pm and 4:45pm
Dont think so!
I thought you would use the sun's position to calculate the exact day. You know where the scenes were shot so it should be possible to do that. However, it looks like you don't need to do that!