That it was, back in the day when i had no idea what "Bad Acting" meant ... whatever night it was on, i was sitting there, ready for the new episode. Its almost as good as him drunk and talking to a cheeseburger.
Apparently that passive laser restraint system works really well lol. Was that ever actually explained? On Star Trek you have inertial dampeners.... Maybe he was vacuumed into the seat...organic magnatism...
Yeah ... it's so classic. I love how KITT can track a car across town but then lose the car a scene or two later in a chase. or... Gather pictures inside another car when no where close to the vehicle (or city ). So fun to watch.
they also did the camera following the car from behind trick but zooming out to add the effect the car was getting farther away and smaller in view due to its high speed lol
When KITT was dumped in the toxic pit, it took the same scientists that designed him to rebuild. In the 4th season, KITT was smashed up and it took a bunch of street mechanics from Chicago to rebuild him. That's so awesome 👌
The acid pit destroyed everything. The street mechanics didn’t have to redesign and rebuild every computer system. All they did was rebuild his structure.
Yeah, these guys did bodywork at best while Bonnie repaired KITT's systems. Kitt doesn't even get his mb shell back until the next episode. I'm not sure what's so hard to get from that lol
Good thing these street mechanics were metallurgists and entrusted with the 3 secret compounds to the outer shell : "The shell is actually a combination of three secret substances referred together as the "Knight Compound". It was developed by Wilton who entrusted parts of the formula to three separate people. Each individual knows only two pieces of the formula, ensuring that any two of them could make more of the Knight Compound in an emergency situation and that no one person would be able to make it."
@@Patrick-c8x Yeah...except KITT did NOT have his shell for the rest of the episode after he was rebuilt. So all those guys did was rebuild the body, the same way it would've been done at any old body shop.
I remember back in commie times of Czech rep. we would watch this show tapping to Austrian TV signal (luckily we lived close to Austrian border)... was in German language so I couldn't understand anything but it was still better than commie propaganda.
1:01 Travelling east on the corner of S Morgan & W Monroe St, Chicago, Illinois. 2:11 Still Travelling east on the corner of S Morgan & W Monroe St, Chicago, Illinois. What are you lost KITT? You're going round in circles. 2:29 Made it one block to the corner of S Morgan & S Sangamon St I'm starting to think Super Pursuit Mode not all it's cracked up to be.
Lol! I used to think that this show must've been a lot of fun to make but then I realised that all the setting up they had to do for those short takes/drives, clean the car inbetween, drive to a separate location, more setup and short take, swap out the cars, do the Hoff's hair, etc. Not as fun as it looks. :p
They sure did. If there ever was a season 5 of Knight Rider, I would love to see Devon Miles hire them all to work at the Foundation for Law & Government as a reward for repairing KITT.
@@muhammadnaim418- I could see that happening. RC3 could have put a good word in for his buddies. That is exactly what helped RC3 get his job with the foundation in the first place!
I like how Michael announces SPM every time as if he is telling KITT to go into SPM but then pushes the button to manually begin. "Super Pursuit Mode!"
So I learned in this episode, if an elevator is stuck, first shoot the door to see if it helps. Also I learned that a few little wings and a front spoiler will speed up a vehicle and allow KIT to drive on inner city urban environment roads around 300mph. Even though I thought he could already do that without “super pursuit mode.” And lasers applied to the face can make anyone look exactly like anyone they want.
i'm pretty sure it was the rockets in the back that brought it to those high speeds, while the wings and spoilers worked to keep it on the ground. that's how cars work, don'tcha know. my training is not in lasers, so i'll have to take your word on the face thing.
@@dcdrew3 Hypocritical of KARR, given that his original incarnation was voiced by Optimus Prime/Peter Cullen and his later (third) incarnation 20 years later transformed into an actual robot (who was once again voiced by Peter Cullen). ;) Even the "laser version" of KARR in his second incarnation was voiced by Paul Frees, whose voices (such as the Ghost Host in the Haunted Mansion at Disney) after his death are often supplemented/imitated by Corey Burton- who (among his many, many credits) was the original voice actor for Shockwave in the original Transformers cartoon. KARR just can't seem to avoid that Transformers connection no matter which way you shake it! ;)
Super Pursuit Mode and Convertible KITT as previously discussed on Knight Rider Historians.👍 Joe will be so amazed to see this episode once again today!💗💗
1:47 - They're a block and a half away at most and K.I.T.T. suggests Super Pursuit Mode . . . on Chicago city streets. I wonder just how many times they circled the block and Turbo Boosted over traffic off screen before Michael had enough fun and actually arrived at the vault.
I remember watching this as a kid and my father commenting that all the drag they added to the car with super pursuit mode would actually reduce its top speed. LOL
The concept was cool, but the way it was done in the show was just a little bit over the top, and they REALLY overused it. A little subtlety would've gone a long way here in making it look better.
As storm park says, the concept was cool but lacked on implementation. Was over done massively I felt with the visuals and the speed difference was imperceptible especially compared to turbo boost.
@@AngyaliNo. Christopher Nolan is just like any other director nowadays, he would make a 2024 movie that sucks. I saw his Batman movies and other movies and he just SUCKS.
Love seeing these Knight Rider clips though with this one I wish it started just a bit earlier. “Even if he is only at fifty percent that’s fifty percent more than I’ve got now!” Best line of the episode!
Miami Vice was cool for the Ferraris and other cars, boats and planes. Its fun to watch it now and see the big names that appeared on the show when they were nobody.
I remember the promos NBC was advertising as a build-up to this episode. They were touting a new surprise for KITT and made this episode must-watch TV. And every episode after, you were glued to every minute waiting for that moment that was just the right time for SPM. If you were watching it with your friends you’d start calling it out “time for SPM!!” And when he’d hit it there were high 5s all around! Man I miss being a kid 😢
Knight rider will always be one of my favorite shows. I am a late 80’s/90’s child but still watched this show on reruns. Brings back so much nostalgia. There was and never will be a time like the 80’s and 90’s
I was born in 1984, so I grew up watching it rerun many times in the 90's, and the 90's were not even close to the 80's, the only great thing in the 90's, were the reruns of the 80s', after that not anymore.
I loved super pursuit mode as a kid. Only when I was a little older it dawned on me that the car should become a lot _less_ aerodynamic when going into super pursuit mode with all those parts sticking out :)
I think the idea is, at least partially, to evoke an F1 racer or something to that effect- in other words, the parts are less about aerodynamics for speed (although that's obviously part of the idea too) and more about preventing the car from flipping over by directing the air to push down on the car (instead of creating lift like with an airplane). But, even then, it's not exactly real science- just a silly, fun cool factor :).
"Hey man, banging on this elevator control doesn't seem to be working, maybe you should try shooting the door 2 or 3 times with your revolver, that should loosen it up."
@@AlphaTrion92 cant disagree but it was a nice way to go down lol unlike the new KITT with the ford mustang that even turned into a goddam transformer... I loved that first pilot episode - nanotech was actually pretty cool - but other than that... meh
I remember the promos NBC was advertising as a build-up to this episode. They were touting a new surprise for KITT and made this episode must-watch TV. And every episode after, you were glued to every minute waiting for that moment that was just the right time for SPM. If you were watching it with your friends you’d start calling it out “time for SPM!!” And when he’d hit it there were high 5s all around! Man I miss being a kid 😢
pressure LED indicators on the foot pedals ! wow, what a great feature... i always looked at my feet while am driving and thought something was missing.
I always loved this show but watching it now shows how cheesy it could be; Michael is desperate to get KITT in order to rescue Devon at the beginning of the clip but then just before SPM is as casual as if it is a Sunday drive. 80's TV!
@@blaze2001 But it was fun to watch. Show you looked forward to watching each week. Entertainment with out all the preachy teachy social politics. Just mind numbing fun times. There is a reason why so many cable TV channels are pooping up that show nothing but old TV shows and movies.
Love Knight rider still and I still get the same buzz from watching it as I did as a kid! I used to be glued to the TV at 5.15pm on itv on a Saturday evening That's when we had exciting vehicle related tv programmes like the A-team/ dukes of hazard/ air wolf/miami vice the 80s was the best era for TV in the UK and all over the world + i Wish I could relive that majical exciting era again as today we got nothing sadly 😢
I envy you. My last big wheel was a Masters of the Universe powercycle, sometime between 83 to 85. Got it as a surprise B-day gift but I really wish I would have been able to pick out the one I wanted. It would have been the KR big wheel hands down.
How any criminal prosecution happened with Hasselhoff’s tight trousers pulled up so high is astounding. I remember this exact episode but only flashes of it (I was around 4 or 5 years old) the battering ran on the tank and ‘super pursuit mode’ definitely stored in my mind vault and reviewing them has released tons of endorphins and happy memories of a simpler time, I completely bought the physics of this show despite how absurd it looks now
0:30 _"I developed two new systems. They won't make up for the loss of his molecular bonded shell. But they may help..."_ I presume after this episode KITT eventually got his molecular bonded shell back to become an invulnerable car again. Haven't watched this series in a long time.
Yes, he did. Devon and one other gentleman knew the key components and could reproduce it. It was only absent in this episode because of Devon being held hostage and unable to supply the needed information.
Too bad they've wasted time, added a lot of weight, and weakened overall vehicle structure by adding convertible mode. Even my grandmother remarked 'this is just stupid' when season 4 came out.
EBS stops KITT in 1.5s, and Michael is sitting in his seat with no belt. Advanced technology! I also love how the vehicle the bad guys have clearly doesn’t fit in the van, so they just cut as the top is about to hit! Never change, 1980s! ❤
@@andrewblanchard2398 since when? 160 horsepower, if that, in the standard Trans Am of the early 80's ... 295mph? never ... not if you threw it out of an airplane with a downward tailwind behind it.
@@user-roninwolf1981 we're lead to believe that he died when Goliath went over the cliff. although, it is a bit vague that he did die, it isn't really clarified that he did die when the truck went over.
I wonder how the viewers reacted to seeing SPM for the first time back in the days. I know I was going crazy when I saw Knight Rider for the first time in 2002.
Knight Rider aired from 1982-86 so I would have been 1-5 years old, I definitely remember watching it before the last season and the appearance of SPM. Where I lived, we kept getting reruns until I was 9 so must have been 1990.
I was about 13 years old, and loved it. I can appreciate it more now (despite the flaws and the bulky look) as a good gimmick. I actually got a touch of the goosebumps just now when the ETA reduced by almost half. And the look of speed is pretty decent (yes, i know it isn't accurate). The only bit that i continue to dislike is how the EBS is used. It's never used in an Emergency. It's always discussed first.
When I was a wee lad in the 80's, I loved super pursuit mode. Loved it. Looking at it now...I find myself beset by the cheesiness of it... such is life I suppose.
Guard 1: The card key won't open the door. Guard 2: Shoot the door. Guard 1: Oh sure, because bullet holes in doors automatically unlock AND open them.
Lol, nice catch, that boom mic. These shows old shows were Never intended to be viewed raw on today's TVs. Let alone online. The framing is outside of the old TV 4:3 format safe zone. You probably wouldn't have seen that mic watching on TV in the 80s.
My favorite episode of Knight Rider was entitled "Race for Life" where Michael and KITT had to race to find the donor of the bone marrow to save the life of Becky, April's niece and KITT'S favorite friend!
Liked this series when you were young. Since it is recorded in Chicago. Recognized the Sears Tower, now it's called the Willis Tower. A lovely city to be in, yes even other parts of America.
7:41 Michael seems to have a habit of not ungagging women who'd not been making things easy for him. Like in Season 1's "Give Me Liberty... or Give Me Death" when he wouldn't remove Liberty's gag after saving her from getting blown up. "You know, this is the first conversation I've ever had with you where I get a word in edgewise?" lol
Kitt’s tires must have been made out of the most stickiest substance known to man to keep him from sliding around at turns doing 300mph in a city street Also, Michael knight is probably not a real human because his internal organs should have been liquified with the lateral g forces required during such high speed turns 😂
The reduction of about six minutes doesn't seem to warrant the 'altered configuration' in my opinion, why would anyone want to alter K.I.T.T? The '82 Trans Am had lovely lines and is definitely not harmed by changing the nose and adding the scanner. Although I will say the only good thing to come from K.I.T.T's rebirth is the C button, but like I said, in my opinion that is a valid reason for a 'altered configuration'.
A few years after this show Banks would build a twin turbo 1800 horsepower trans am GTA that would set and hold the record for passenger car top speed at 287mph at Bonneville.
you have to love the TV time world... 47 second and Michael saves everyone with 1 second to spare...........real world the bomb would have exploded before he even got into the tunnel
"Michael, watch out for the guy with the stupid hand." "Why Kitt? Does it have a screwdriver built in, or a corkscrew?" "No, Michael." "Or a jack hammer, or an egg whisk?" "No, Michael, It's just really heavy" "Thanks, pal. Any tactical advice?" "Yes, Michael. When he lifts it up, move back."
They did however I think the transformation sequence wasn't plausible, they needed to make fewer parts move because other than that kitt will just turn into little pieces and this despite having nano technology...
Knight Rider, Airwolf, A-Team, Quantum Leap, MacGyver all just classic shows! 🙏🏻👍🏻
Thats one of the best. Quantum leap. I just wanna leap to my childhood or teenager time right now. Just like a sam
What was the show that the guy turned into animals, I remember a black panther mostly…?
@@TheFrogfeeder It could be manimal?
@@Wildan.Hyundai that’s it!! Yeah thanks man I couldn’t remember for the life of me, it I just seen the intro on here and that’s the one.
@@TheFrogfeeder U're welcome bro ..
All that tech in the car and no Anti lock brakes! 😂
How will KITT drift on ice listening to Christmas music?
It was so much fun watching this TV show when I was a kid.
That it was, back in the day when i had no idea what "Bad Acting" meant ... whatever night it was on, i was sitting there, ready for the new episode. Its almost as good as him drunk and talking to a cheeseburger.
yeah me and my 2 big brothers used to watch this series just to see the super pursuit mode.
yeah, and i had no clue what they were talking cause it was not in my language and not even english
@@Phil454LSX i think it was weds nights?
Still fun watching as an adult
250mph to 0mph in a second. Not only did Michael not need scraped off the windscreen, but his hair was perfect! God I miss the 80’s!
And it all would have been impossible without those tiny flaps extending out of the car.
Must be that inertial dampening system. 🤣 I wish I could do 250 down city streets.
Actually, that’s the laser passive restraint system, instead of, you know, seatbelts.
The magic of 80s hair spray
Apparently that passive laser restraint system works really well lol. Was that ever actually explained? On Star Trek you have inertial dampeners.... Maybe he was vacuumed into the seat...organic magnatism...
Kitt: Shall I try my new super pursuit mode?
Proceeds to go 250 miles an hour in a city with traffic lights.
LOLerz! :)
Also making 90degree turns with no affect on Micheal.
Michael Knight: Why Not? If We Ever Needed An Edge, It's Right Now.
Screw the traffic laws 😂xd
That would be a lot of red light and speed camera tickets today.
I don't think we've ever seen KITT so giddy over one of his new extras. 😎
You don't know what he feels 😅
Watching the speedometer go over 260mph on a city back street hits different watching this in your 40’s. 🤓
That and that mode created over double the drag coefficient by having all those parts extend our from the vehicle.
@@Rob774 It was always fun watching Michael magically make 90 degree turns at 260 mph as well
40s
Yeah ... it's so classic. I love how KITT can track a car across town but then lose the car a scene or two later in a chase. or... Gather pictures inside another car when no where close to the vehicle (or city ). So fun to watch.
260MPH on any US city street would be next to impossible. You'd crash or go way to fast even in KITT!
I like how the super pursuit mode applies to all the car nearby
they also did the camera following the car from behind trick but zooming out to add the effect the car was getting farther away and smaller in view due to its high speed lol
Except they don't have the Autozone addons.
They're being pulled along in his draft...
Yeah the director should have made the other cars drive slower to make the sped up shots look more realistic.
@@ryanvacation7319 Woah!
That....is...big...BRAIN stuff!
5D chess
When KITT was dumped in the toxic pit, it took the same scientists that designed him to rebuild. In the 4th season, KITT was smashed up and it took a bunch of street mechanics from Chicago to rebuild him. That's so awesome 👌
LOL.
The acid pit destroyed everything. The street mechanics didn’t have to redesign and rebuild every computer system. All they did was rebuild his structure.
Yeah, these guys did bodywork at best while Bonnie repaired KITT's systems. Kitt doesn't even get his mb shell back until the next episode. I'm not sure what's so hard to get from that lol
Good thing these street mechanics were metallurgists and entrusted with the 3 secret compounds to the outer shell :
"The shell is actually a combination of three secret substances referred together as the "Knight Compound". It was developed by Wilton who entrusted parts of the formula to three separate people. Each individual knows only two pieces of the formula, ensuring that any two of them could make more of the Knight Compound in an emergency situation and that no one person would be able to make it."
@@Patrick-c8x Yeah...except KITT did NOT have his shell for the rest of the episode after he was rebuilt. So all those guys did was rebuild the body, the same way it would've been done at any old body shop.
This show was great! Never thought I would appreciate the show even more in 2022.
I remember back in commie times of Czech rep. we would watch this show tapping to Austrian TV signal (luckily we lived close to Austrian border)... was in German language so I couldn't understand anything but it was still better than commie propaganda.
@@tz3841 Actually what you just said still holds true today!
Me too～
2023
1:01 Travelling east on the corner of S Morgan & W Monroe St, Chicago, Illinois.
2:11 Still Travelling east on the corner of S Morgan & W Monroe St, Chicago, Illinois.
What are you lost KITT?
You're going round in circles.
2:29 Made it one block to the corner of S Morgan & S Sangamon St
I'm starting to think Super Pursuit Mode not all it's cracked up to be.
Ahah..Never noticed that, it's funny.
You'll be surprised at how little driving there is.
Lol! I used to think that this show must've been a lot of fun to make but then I realised that all the setting up they had to do for those short takes/drives, clean the car inbetween, drive to a separate location, more setup and short take, swap out the cars, do the Hoff's hair, etc. Not as fun as it looks. :p
You gotta be from Chicago!
Bonnie did say some of KITT's programs still were not working. I'm guessing there was an issue with his GPS.
Michael Knight was such a badass that he could use EBS after SPM and never have to use a seatbelt
Lmao!! Michael doing almost 300 mph without a seat belt, badass indeed.
The cannon explanation for no seatbelts was KITT's laser restraint system...
Yes..... it's different era than today.... really sweet time
@@GRIMEYtheFATMAN yes. Lasers. So 80s.
His abs were seat belts.
The first time ever seeing super pursuit mode was one of the highlights of my childhood
I love how easily Michael jumps over the car. Hasselhoff was fit as hell back in the day
Ikr.
I couldn't have done that, even 20 years ago.
It was probably a stunt man/body double
He also did Baywatch
bet money they used a springboard.
Those guys in the garage really did a terrific job repairing KITT
They sure did. If there ever was a season 5 of Knight Rider, I would love to see Devon Miles hire them all to work at the Foundation for Law & Government as a reward for repairing KITT.
@@muhammadnaim418- I could see that happening. RC3 could have put a good word in for his buddies. That is exactly what helped RC3 get his job with the foundation in the first place!
Gyus am searching for series like this one of 80 hero have legs of steel and he run fast the name of series if some one remmber
@@2dgamecity- The 6 Million Dollar Man?
@@pinball541 thank you so much man yessss .. what a great memory ..of my childhood
It's crazy how you watch this thirty years later and see it was even better than you remember
I like how Michael announces SPM every time as if he is telling KITT to go into SPM but then pushes the button to manually begin.
"Super Pursuit Mode!"
It's only polite ;-)
Well KITT does have to open the compartment panel to reveal the SPM and EBS buttons after all. lol
Anyone find out what the "C" is for??
@@wheelie642 convertible
Its a Super Pursuit kind of day.
Watching this makes me even prouder to be an 80's kid.
I was born in 1978 so i was right up there when this play. Although in sep 1985 when Thundercats came on i lost interest in this show as a kid.
Being proud over things you had no choice about is lame.
So I learned in this episode, if an elevator is stuck, first shoot the door to see if it helps. Also I learned that a few little wings and a front spoiler will speed up a vehicle and allow KIT to drive on inner city urban environment roads around 300mph. Even though I thought he could already do that without “super pursuit mode.” And lasers applied to the face can make anyone look exactly like anyone they want.
i'm pretty sure it was the rockets in the back that brought it to those high speeds, while the wings and spoilers worked to keep it on the ground. that's how cars work, don'tcha know.
my training is not in lasers, so i'll have to take your word on the face thing.
It's mercury weighted. He runs right up and yanks it off the wall and twists the plastic explosive off the detonator lol 🤣
In under 45 seconds!
Never mind that KITT disabled a very similar timed explosive device in previous season's Lost Knight with no harm or risk to anyone.
@@darkmift KITT said 47 seconds not 45. With just one second remaining when Michael disarmed it, those extra two seconds clearly mattered
Ikr!!!!😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's a Hasselhoff thing...
Funny thing is, that KITT looks more aerodynamic without all those wings and flaps 😂
KARR would be somehow laughing, & saying: I'll take the laser, as opposed to being a Transformer!
@@dcdrew3 Hypocritical of KARR, given that his original incarnation was voiced by Optimus Prime/Peter Cullen and his later (third) incarnation 20 years later transformed into an actual robot (who was once again voiced by Peter Cullen). ;)
Even the "laser version" of KARR in his second incarnation was voiced by Paul Frees, whose voices (such as the Ghost Host in the Haunted Mansion at Disney) after his death are often supplemented/imitated by Corey Burton- who (among his many, many credits) was the original voice actor for Shockwave in the original Transformers cartoon.
KARR just can't seem to avoid that Transformers connection no matter which way you shake it! ;)
People just keep driving and walking. Lmao.
Luv how he goes 260+ in the city and casually looks around the car lol
Passive laser restraint system.
80's TV Show reality ... they all had it.
Super Pursuit Mode and Convertible KITT as previously discussed on Knight Rider Historians.👍 Joe will be so amazed to see this episode once again today!💗💗
Knight Rider is the ever favourite
@@alikazmi8100 This is truly amazing, don't you think so?😄
Wow! Almost 265mph on speedometer, but it looks like 65 in reality 😂. Still love the show 10/10!
65?
The camera was sped up.
It’s amazing to do almost 300 miles an hour without a turbo charger
1:47 - They're a block and a half away at most and K.I.T.T. suggests Super Pursuit Mode . . . on Chicago city streets.
I wonder just how many times they circled the block and Turbo Boosted over traffic off screen before Michael had enough fun and actually arrived at the vault.
I remember watching this as a kid and my father commenting that all the drag they added to the car with super pursuit mode would actually reduce its top speed. LOL
Super persuit mode was so cool, it made kitt even more special.
The concept was cool, but the way it was done in the show was just a little bit over the top, and they REALLY overused it. A little subtlety would've gone a long way here in making it look better.
Super Persuit mode was great my favorite part of Kitt's abilities.
As storm park says, the concept was cool but lacked on implementation. Was over done massively I felt with the visuals and the speed difference was imperceptible especially compared to turbo boost.
All the S.P.M. cars were destroyed by the show's producers (who had a contractual obligation with Pontiac).
Turbo Boost was better
That's what I like. No CGI. Pure real transformation.
I wish Chris Nolan would make a trilogy out of Knight Rider too.
The golden age of TV series and cinema.
@@Angyali He would ruin it.
@@alfredodistefanolaulhe2212 No, he would give it rebirth.
@@AngyaliNo. Christopher Nolan is just like any other director nowadays, he would make a 2024 movie that sucks. I saw his Batman movies and other movies and he just SUCKS.
Love seeing these Knight Rider clips though with this one I wish it started just a bit earlier. “Even if he is only at fifty percent that’s fifty percent more than I’ve got now!” Best line of the episode!
When I was a kid, Knight Rider and Miami Vice were everything.
**KNIGHT VICE** OR **MIAMI RIDER**
Don’t forget Airwolf, A-Team and Thunder in Paradise too.
@@projektxent Airwolf and A-Team for sure. I never watched Thunder In Paradise, though.
Miami Vice was cool for the Ferraris and other cars, boats and planes. Its fun to watch it now and see the big names that appeared on the show when they were nobody.
I remember the promos NBC was advertising as a build-up to this episode. They were touting a new surprise for KITT and made this episode must-watch TV.
And every episode after, you were glued to every minute waiting for that moment that was just the right time for SPM. If you were watching it with your friends you’d start calling it out “time for SPM!!” And when he’d hit it there were high 5s all around!
Man I miss being a kid 😢
Knight rider will always be one of my favorite shows. I am a late 80’s/90’s child but still watched this show on reruns. Brings back so much nostalgia. There was and never will be a time like the 80’s and 90’s
I was born in 1984, so I grew up watching it rerun many times in the 90's, and the 90's were not even close to the 80's, the only great thing in the 90's, were the reruns of the 80s', after that not anymore.
I loved super pursuit mode as a kid. Only when I was a little older it dawned on me that the car should become a lot _less_ aerodynamic when going into super pursuit mode with all those parts sticking out :)
I think the idea is, at least partially, to evoke an F1 racer or something to that effect- in other words, the parts are less about aerodynamics for speed (although that's obviously part of the idea too) and more about preventing the car from flipping over by directing the air to push down on the car (instead of creating lift like with an airplane).
But, even then, it's not exactly real science- just a silly, fun cool factor :).
Она удлиняется, и становится стабильнее на скорости
Its all about the stability
"Hey man, banging on this elevator control doesn't seem to be working, maybe you should try shooting the door 2 or 3 times with your revolver, that should loosen it up."
SPM was literally what we all were always looking for once it came out for the first time! Iconic!
Big Facts!
@@AlphaTrion92 cant disagree but it was a nice way to go down lol unlike the new KITT with the ford mustang that even turned into a goddam transformer... I loved that first pilot episode - nanotech was actually pretty cool - but other than that... meh
I remember the promos NBC was advertising as a build-up to this episode. They were touting a new surprise for KITT and made this episode must-watch TV.
And every episode after, you were glued to every minute waiting for that moment that was just the right time for SPM. If you were watching it with your friends you’d start calling it out “time for SPM!!” And when he’d hit it there were high 5s all around!
Man I miss being a kid 😢
@@xbadjokerx This is way more realistic then the nanotechnology cgi junk.
Who needs Google Maps when you have KITT
Funny to see the 1983 Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone vehicle repurposed as the Juggernaut in Knight Rider.
I guess Nordstrom stole it from the studio 😂
pressure LED indicators on the foot pedals !
wow, what a great feature... i always looked at my feet while am driving and thought something was missing.
I always loved this show but watching it now shows how cheesy it could be; Michael is desperate to get KITT in order to rescue Devon at the beginning of the clip but then just before SPM is as casual as if it is a Sunday drive. 80's TV!
You can't beat 80s TV.
You had to put logic on hold and just be entertained.
80s had some of the best TV and movies.
@@DocMicrowave yeah, knight rider, street hawk and airwolf. I watched them all as a young teenager. They were all cheesy but had good theme tunes.
@@DocMicrowave Lol yeah even a kid growing up I knew some of the character's behaviors were unrealistic.
@@blaze2001 But it was fun to watch. Show you looked forward to watching each week. Entertainment with out all the preachy teachy social politics. Just mind numbing fun times.
There is a reason why so many cable TV channels are pooping up that show nothing but old TV shows and movies.
Agreed .
I am amazed by how little potholes and lack of traffic and traffic lights in the city.
This show was way beyond its time 👌
Lol, nope. This show is as 1980s as 1980s can be.
I love the 1980s GPS
@@flybeep1661 I meant the concept of self driving smart car was futuristic in 1980. Yes show was as 1980s 😀
This was a huge step from season 1 omg, 3D graphics and a way more believable dash 👌
“How much time’s left?!”
“47 seconds.”
“GOODBYE!”
Oh God!! Those corny dumb lines he used to say!! 🤧
I'm glad someone else thinks that as well!
Love Knight rider still and I still get the same buzz from watching it as I did as a kid! I used to be glued to the TV at 5.15pm on itv on a Saturday evening That's when we had exciting vehicle related tv programmes like the A-team/ dukes of hazard/ air wolf/miami vice the 80s was the best era for TV in the UK and all over the world + i Wish I could relive that majical exciting era again as today we got nothing sadly 😢
And all of them had iconic theme music
Did you get Street Hawk? It featured a motorcycle
@@joeno-say5504 i remember watching Murphy Brown and thinking, "hey it's the guy from Street Hawk!" (Joe Regalbuto)
also Blue Thunder, which i always saw as kind of a grittier, non-pretty boy Airwolf.
This video makes me miss my Knight Rider Big Wheel ,I had so much fun tearing around my neighborhood in pursuit mode on that thing...
I envy you. My last big wheel was a Masters of the Universe powercycle, sometime between 83 to 85. Got it as a surprise B-day gift but I really wish I would have been able to pick out the one I wanted. It would have been the KR big wheel hands down.
Those were the beautiful days on my old TV :-)
Thank you for making such a good series ...
I love how Michael just flat out says that he doesn't want to hear Jennifer say anything again, out of pure (and harmless at this point) spite.
She had issues with Michael because he has her brother Garthe's face.
@@BrotherDerrick3X I know.
For those wondering, the "C" button turned the car into a convertible.
In an alternate universe, the "C" button would turn the car into a cat 😸
mine was 1983 firebird
Thank you. I was thinking it was for when Michael was low in vitamin C!!!
Would the convertible also go to super pursuit mode?
@@nighthawkvc25a That would be Manimal!
How any criminal prosecution happened with Hasselhoff’s tight trousers pulled up so high is astounding. I remember this exact episode but only flashes of it (I was around 4 or 5 years old) the battering ran on the tank and ‘super pursuit mode’ definitely stored in my mind vault and reviewing them has released tons of endorphins and happy memories of a simpler time, I completely bought the physics of this show despite how absurd it looks now
Funny everyone else talking about the car, spm and what the c button for, Only you got an eye for the Hoff bootie. Had to rewatch, u are right 😍
0:30 _"I developed two new systems. They won't make up for the loss of his molecular bonded shell. But they may help..."_ I presume after this episode KITT eventually got his molecular bonded shell back to become an invulnerable car again. Haven't watched this series in a long time.
Hi
Had the same question.
Yeah KITT gets the molecular bonded shell back.
Yes, he did. Devon and one other gentleman knew the key components and could reproduce it. It was only absent in this episode because of Devon being held hostage and unable to supply the needed information.
Too bad they've wasted time, added a lot of weight, and weakened overall vehicle structure by adding convertible mode. Even my grandmother remarked 'this is just stupid' when season 4 came out.
How much adoration this series was as a kid! But now it’s pretty funny at 260+ mph on 7 ”-8” wide tires and it turns like a TGV.
The driller was from Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone. Loved it and Knight Rider
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When KITT leaves the garage, everybody piles out into a little cheering line and the one dude starts dancing.
🤣😂🤣
1:58 the first ever SPM
“I’m knocked out”
Still love this scene
I love green light up chain light bars on the gas pedal when Kitt hit the gas
EBS stops KITT in 1.5s, and Michael is sitting in his seat with no belt. Advanced technology! I also love how the vehicle the bad guys have clearly doesn’t fit in the van, so they just cut as the top is about to hit! Never change, 1980s! ❤
KITT was making sonic booms like he broke the sound barrier in Super Pursuit Mode
the standard trans am
was taken to a famous
straightaway race track
and reached 295 mph
without modifications
@@andrewblanchard2398 wheres proof or aint true.
@@andrewblanchard2398 since when? 160 horsepower, if that, in the standard Trans Am of the early 80's ... 295mph? never ... not if you threw it out of an airplane with a downward tailwind behind it.
"Ah, in the knick of time as they say!" *still puts detonator on top of the C4*
I hate when they speed up episodes and everyone sounds like they're on helium lol! But, love SPM! :D
"Supper in the back seat, Mamma's home hungry!" I honestly love that quote. Thanks RC3.
"I haven't got a key..."
Just made me smile. Always the gentleman
You are all missing the big moment at the end... he ain't no simp. He left a dime tied up that he could have rescued first.
She spent her previous screen time working against Michael, so he was justified in not really liking her.
Don't forget the fact that the true reason she hated Michael was due to looking exactly like her dead brother Garthe.
@@user-roninwolf1981 we're lead to believe that he died when Goliath went over the cliff. although, it is a bit vague that he did die, it isn't really clarified that he did die when the truck went over.
@@user-roninwolf1981 I guess that killed any romantic conquest by the Hoff! 🤣🤣🤣
I miss Chicago in the 80s 😍🥰🥰🥰🤷♂️
I miss everything in the 80s
I miss the whole world in the 80s born 1980
I miss the 80s in NYC.
Best double episode ever in american and british history!! 😉👍
I wonder how the viewers reacted to seeing SPM for the first time back in the days. I know I was going crazy when I saw Knight Rider for the first time in 2002.
I was 5 years old when I first saw it and my reaction was laughing my head off 🤣
5 years old, and loved it
It seems we all started watching at 5 years old lol 👍
Knight Rider aired from 1982-86 so I would have been 1-5 years old, I definitely remember watching it before the last season and the appearance of SPM. Where I lived, we kept getting reruns until I was 9 so must have been 1990.
I was about 13 years old, and loved it.
I can appreciate it more now (despite the flaws and the bulky look) as a good gimmick. I actually got a touch of the goosebumps just now when the ETA reduced by almost half. And the look of speed is pretty decent (yes, i know it isn't accurate).
The only bit that i continue to dislike is how the EBS is used. It's never used in an Emergency. It's always discussed first.
When I was a wee lad in the 80's, I loved super pursuit mode. Loved it. Looking at it now...I find myself beset by the cheesiness of it...
such is life I suppose.
Guard 1: The card key won't open the door.
Guard 2: Shoot the door.
Guard 1: Oh sure, because bullet holes in doors automatically unlock AND open them.
Merica! If it doesn’t work, then shoot it! That’ll make it start working!
The story goes that that particular elevator door insulted his momma and he was just waiting for an excuse to shoot it.
Perhaps the book mic at the bottom would help.😁
LOL, caught that also.
Lol, nice catch, that boom mic.
These shows old shows were Never intended to be viewed raw on today's TVs. Let alone online. The framing is outside of the old TV 4:3 format safe zone.
You probably wouldn't have seen that mic watching on TV in the 80s.
1:58 - Super Pursuit Mode
4:59 - Emergency Braking System
My favorite episode of Knight Rider was entitled "Race for Life" where Michael and KITT had to race to find the donor of the bone marrow to save the life of Becky, April's niece and KITT'S favorite friend!
Great episode which starred a very young Robin Lively, Blake Lively’s older sister.
I got a goosebumps all over with KIT put on a super persuit mode in city roads. Pedestrian could get kill.
Notice how michael does a jump over the roof of kitt like the duke boys from dukes of hazzard. 🤣🤣
He always did that!
Dukes of Hazzard sucks
*them Duke boys
Liked this series when you were young. Since it is recorded in Chicago. Recognized the Sears Tower, now it's called the Willis Tower. A lovely city to be in, yes even other parts of America.
When Michael said that he was knocked out...K.I.T.T. should have said..."Actually... you're fully conscious..."...lol!
lol
That would have been hillairious! 🤣🤣
Imagine if KITT then activated his oxygen vent lol
😆
I used to RUN home from school to watch re-runs of Knight Rider on USA. Happy memories.
KITT was like a kid playing with his new toy in this scene
I like when Michael and kitt get ready for super pursuit mode.😊
The way the security officer fires his gun cracks me up.
They are so clever. Shoot the elevator door when the button doesn't work. - Employee of the month, right there.
@@FirstDan2000 high school drop outs
Definitely Rent-A-Cop, or Mall Cop material right there!👨✈️🚔
@@pinball541 paul blart's dad there lol
I love how he was doing 257 on the city streets and didn't hit a single thing.
What's the worst that could happen? He could get a civilian killed and blame KITT..
That's nothing. Back then, The A Team could be in the middle of a gunfight, multiple clips emptied and not a single person will get shot.
Why not? I regularly do that all the time ...
Or picked up by a Police unit parked on the side. 🤨🙄
7:41 Michael seems to have a habit of not ungagging women who'd not been making things easy for him. Like in Season 1's "Give Me Liberty... or Give Me Death" when he wouldn't remove Liberty's gag after saving her from getting blown up. "You know, this is the first conversation I've ever had with you where I get a word in edgewise?" lol
They deserved it for doubting the hero
And on this one she literally suspended Mike because of his so called James Bond Stunts, I don't blame him at all
Looks to me like she could have removed the tape a lot earlier herself.
3:20 Wait, wait, wait... Randomly shooting an elevator door _DIDN'T_ open it?! My 80s inner-child is shattered to the core.
#2 greatest moment next to Garthe’s 1st appearance
Kitt’s tires must have been made out of the most stickiest substance known to man to keep him from sliding around at turns doing 300mph in a city street
Also, Michael knight is probably not a real human because his internal organs should have been liquified with the lateral g forces required during such high speed turns 😂
😂😂😂😂
80's TV reality trumps everything you just pointed out ...
It must be all that down force from those little fins.
and no seat belts! just the "Laser restraint system" 😆
His internal organs have absorbed his hair product over the years. The hair doesn't move- and neither do his organs.
There is only ONE TIME where a wide body kit on a Pontiac Trans Am of that vintage is acceptable.
This is the one time.
Lol the car would be 40% slower with all that extra drag 😂
The reduction of about six minutes doesn't seem to warrant the 'altered configuration' in my opinion, why would anyone want to alter K.I.T.T? The '82 Trans Am had lovely lines and is definitely not harmed by changing the nose and adding the scanner. Although I will say the only good thing to come from K.I.T.T's rebirth is the C button, but like I said, in my opinion that is a valid reason for a 'altered configuration'.
Dyyhnoooomite I'm hungry !!! Nice gps system ! Thanks for keeping it from us all !! You're the Devil Knight Ryder!!!
The "C" Button Turns KITT into a Convertible
Like t top wasn't perfect enough
So the C Button on the N64 controller turns the N64 into one as well
Now we can see this car with new driver.. Dominic Toretto 😂
Pursuit mode faster than a bugatti veyron not bad for an 80's pontiac.. 😂😂👍
A few years after this show Banks would build a twin turbo 1800 horsepower trans am GTA that would set and hold the record for passenger car top speed at 287mph at Bonneville.
@@DrewLSsix For about the same kinda money that it costs to buy a Bugatti Veyron ..... You forgot that part ....
you have to love the TV time world... 47 second and Michael saves everyone with 1 second to spare...........real world the bomb would have exploded before he even got into the tunnel
Bonnie's the greatest!!😂😂 Lol!! April couldn't have done this!!😂😂
I always had the hots for Bonnie. April, not so much!
@@pinball541 Yeah, same here. Lol!!😂
@@pinball541 What??? April is Hot ! She made kitt ride on water & a Lot of others & projectory mode
KITT faces off against trucks, missals, hot lava, quick sand, you name it. And a battering ram on a make shift car destroys him. CLASSIC!
Surprised that a "prototype" hasn't been featured in "Fast And Furious" movies............... Yet, there's time!.
Makes me wonder what all those cops that saw 300mph on their scanners were thinking 🤔 🤣.
"Michael, watch out for the guy with the stupid hand."
"Why Kitt? Does it have a screwdriver built in, or a corkscrew?"
"No, Michael."
"Or a jack hammer, or an egg whisk?"
"No, Michael, It's just really heavy"
"Thanks, pal. Any tactical advice?"
"Yes, Michael. When he lifts it up, move back."
Ha ha not
I loved this show as a child but man; seeing this for the first time in YEARS.....................................wow was this cheezy!
SPM was such an adrenaline rush. I know in newer Knight Rider series, “Attack Mode” may have been a homage to SPM.
I agree,but I was confused when the guy said "KITT can't attack in attack mode".
So what's the purpose of attack mode?
@@jariusfoster2083 Maybe the word 'time' was silent...?
They did however I think the transformation sequence wasn't plausible, they needed to make fewer parts move because other than that kitt will just turn into little pieces and this despite having nano technology...
Kitt = The first car with google maps!
Love that a security guard tried shooting the elevator doors 🤣
Then surprised shooting them didn't magically make them open. That made me laugh too.
They probably do the same thing when the soda machine malfunctions.
While the other guy is pushing the button 16 times in a row
It is so so lovely watching it in 2022....in Spain is on tv now and is the greatest remember.....David Hasselhoff did a nice job.....👏👏👏🤗
@ 7:13 KITT got a telekinesis upgrade! 😹