I truly enjoyed listening to this. My husband is a big 80s tv fan and as he was watching this, I was listening to you and how you speak. You corrected yourself often in the video, catching your words, and I loved it. In this era of A.I. and artificial voices, YOURS is true and real. You're a real person talking about something Chuck and I love. You have real emotion and I just was so relieved to hear it! Keep the imperfections!
Love these videos - thanks for all the hard work you put into them! Re: the jackets, don't forget that Michael wore a light green/white jacket in the Season 3 Opening Episode (Knight of the Drones) in San Francisco. Can't wait for your next video!
How about doing an episode showing everytime Michael pushed a button on a big red panel, like "Laser", or whatever. I always think it's funny that no matter how many buttons were already in the car, somehow, they had to add a button that wasn't actually there, but just in closeups! Or, where was the Super Persuit Mode switch cluster located? Things like that. Thanks
Knew most of these, but that's because I've been fully watching every video you guys have released :) Didn't know there was three leather jackets for Michael Knight, and the three versions of KITT's scanner electronics. Talking about KITT's scanner light, I remember my mom thought at the time it's probably made by some mechanical way, some arm would move the red light bulb back and forth, but I didn't believe it, because of the trailing effect, and all-on effect at start :D I was sure even back then it's made by electronics.
@@Juggernaut30 That's interesting, didn't know this before, I was thinking the Cylon eye was also electronic. Thanks :) I remember watching at least some episodes of Battlestar Galactica before Knight Rider began.
Back in the day at computing class in school we were learning how to directly address memory (or a serial port connected to LEDs in this case), we were then tasked with making our LEDs do some sort of pattern....you can guess what mine was...the teacher immediately recognised it...had a big smile on his face and got the rest of the class round my pc to see it. Jeez would be around 1997/8! Still love KITT and the your content!
Knew all of these from watching other videos here. I was also able to identify a specific episode from a single frame a buddy posted a week ago so I may have a problem :P
Glad I found this channel. Growing up Knighter rider was my favorite show. As I got older I bought the DVD set and almost got a trans am as a project car lol. There was alot I didn't know and I appreciate the content. Thanks and God bless
First of all I really enjoy these videos (behind the scenes minutiae). Second, Almost all of it was new to me, except about the tow bar, in general, which I only know about from your previous videos. Third, and final, I feel that I must speak in defense of wire-wrap fabrication; you implied, indirectly, that it led to failures of the scanner bar. In actuality the Apollo Guidance Computer was assembled using wire-wrap. So, if done correctly, it can work quite well.
also not to be mean or cruel was it the way when stevie was taken away in the cop car and then micheal finds something in the ashtray like with a ring that stevie left for micheal to find ?
I watched the Goliath episodes again the other night, and now that im an electrical engineering instructor at a college, i had to laugh at the ESB book! They called it kitts " electrical Schematic blueprints! Lol, schematics and blueprints are the same thing! Lol
I didn't know ANY of the things you pointed out in both videos. When I got into Knight Rider, I appreciated it for what it was, instead of sitting there just watching it for the sole purpose of pointing out all the mistakes and screw up they made in the show. Although some of the stuff you pointed out in the second video was interesting, and we all know Hollywood is FAKE as HELL, when I watch shows like this, I tend to get I to the story and let it take me where it intends to. It's more fun when you do it that way 🙂
I always get quite sad when I hear about people on a show getting actually married and then divorced again because a person met someone else on that same show :X.
I guess I understand why stickers were used on the dash. But in that same picture, the entire roof is missing from the car. I wonder what's up with that.
That car is owned by George Barris, and he made it a convertible for that episode. It got redone after the episode as a show car, but I'm currently not sure what happened to it. These guys are the best knowledge bank for answering that question though.
Hold up man lol, you saying Catherine Hickland divorced David hasselhoff and married Michael E. Knight. ...that's hilarious. I don't mean no disrespect I just think it's funny she married a guy with the same name as Michael. That is crazy, very informative video. I enjoyed it
thanks for the info I loved it, and we were poor back then had to watch KITT on a black and white TV, so the sticker thing was very much unnoticeable and besides I was just 7yrs old I only loved the car chases and KITTS unbelievable feats
Dukes of Hazzard used a lot of rear-projection process for in-car shots, rather than green screen, which would have been more time consuming. Even if they did chroma-keying, it would more likely have been blue screen in the 80s. Green screen didn't become more dominant until profession digital cameras were in use. The sensors on digital cameras are more sensitive to and capture more detail in green, so it provides cleaner digital keying than blue.
Yes croma-keying would have been very obvious because of the sharp black siluetts. Very difficult to minimize that back then, even in high production movies and in TV-shows it would have looked even worse. Only time chroma-keying looked good back then was when done against black backgrounds in space, like Star Wars.
They changed to green in the 80s/90s because blue created too many wardrobe conflicts. Not many wear that shade of green so that’s how they came to change it up.
@@GarretGrayCamera They changed to green because the new digital camera capture greater detail in the green spectrum, so it makes for cleaner chroma-keying.
@@jjdigitalvideosolutionsllc5343 It may be better for digital, but they’ve been using green since the 60s mainly for different shots that require blue for blue clothing or the color was physically in the scene or to provide more contrast depending on what’s in the foreground. It’s the standard today, but not necessarily ideal for all situations, like if you have plants or foliage in the shot, then we will use blue.
@@GarretGrayCamera Blue was initially used for best results with skin tones. Any colour background "could" be used for different situations and needs. Luma keying and other methods are used too. You can also change the foreground object colours to work better with a specific background. Firefox (1982) required some innovation to shoot shiny black miniature models. They used UV paint and reverse blue-screen techniques. You may need do multiple passes with different techniques then composite the layers for the final.
Dukes of Hazzard and Fall Guy didn't use green screen ( or blue screen which is normally used for film). They used rear projection which was far cheaper for all those awful driving shots. Thankfully Hardcastle & McCormick and Knight Rider almost always used mounted cameras on moving cars. DOH did at first but then moved towards almost always using rear projection.
The idea that forty one years after this series aired and we still don't a car even resembling KITT in appearance or functionality is borderline inexcusable. Thank you for the video!
I was a big fan of dukes of hazzard when it was airing for the first time in the early 80’s. Now that I’m middle age, I find so many things wrong it’s hard to watch it without constantly pointing out mistakes. It seems I see less when watching Knight Rider.😂
I knew most of the facts mostly from your previous discussion videos. Here's something funny though when the show originally aired I was 9 and for the longest time whenever they showed a close up of Kitt's voice modulator I thought it was located in the center of the dash. (kinda how nav screens in modern cars are now) I had to watch KR an embarrassing amount of times in rerun before I figured it out.😜
Sounds familiar. I always thought that the voicebox was located on another place, untill I saw photos of the dash itself. My first thought: oh, it’s above the stering…
I have a quick question, not related to this video, but in relation to the FLAG trailer. Was there any other productions outside of Universal Studio productions that the trailer was featured in? I ask because I began to watch some of the episodes of The Fall Guy, and during the opening credits of the show, there is a clip that shows a stunt where it's the inside of a trailer and a car comes rolling up into it in it's montage. Now I know the show proper production used some of the Trans-Ams from the train wreck, but the opening credits of The Fall Guy used stunt clips from various movies (such as the high fall from The Poseidon Adventure) and the one showing the car driving up into a trailer looks to have come from another movie. So, does anyone know if the trailer used for the FLAG semi had any appearances film appearances not related to MCA/Universal TV shows? Or was the clip used in The Fall Guy opening credits was just another trailer that just so happen to have the same kind of drive-up ramp?
I am pretty sure....some kitts were equipped with a diffuser lense scanner and some with a plane clear red .also in kitt vs karr episode you can notice that on karr's scanner scene transitions.
I still cant fathom watching those jump scenes how the stunt car shop could strengthen a F-body enough to not have it be a complete pile of scrap after a jump.
Who would've thought, i have my hub caps bolted on the same way as real kitt crazy how i was able to duplicate their trick with out knowing so, now when people try to tell me i messed them up i can show them this and i guess im screen correct yey
I'm in a sort of negative ave how GM engineers didn't think of the solution used by EVERYONE else; ports for the screws in hubcaps in shaped in such way they would catch just the very tip of the wheel screws so no torque is applied to them, but they can't go off unless you unscrew whole wheel. Engineers are amazing, but sometimes they have amazingly stupid ideas.
I kbow all of these facts.Thankyou for this interesting video Joe.Not wishing to upset anyone but could it be possible David met Pamela on Knight Rider while still married to Catherine and he cheated on her with Pamela and that's why they got a divorce?
Others can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think those sounds were taken from (Universal's) stock sound library, and they are sounds taken from actual jet aircraft. I'll occasionally watch an old movie from the 70s & recognize one of those sounds from growing up on Knight Rider. 😂
Okay that was a awesome video and please do more. I did not know about who David Hasselhoff had married to that was a cool fact .I had heard that he did marry Catherine Hickland and Pamela Bach just did not know the exact time that he had married them .
17:31 gives great details of the early General, wrecker plate and the early paint scheme on the trailer. Look at what looks like a huge burn on the seat at 17:27.
Did they build one of the Stunt KITT’s with a modified rear end for the ski stunts? They had to for the General Lee’s. The rear ends wanted to shift the weight towards the ground and the tires would rub the wheel wells, limiting how far they could travel.
I would love to see them remake Knight rider, and make more than one season because it’s a good show and I love to watch shows like that and I wish it made a lot of shows like that night. Writer show but for some odd reason they’re not making anymore which I don’t get that part, but I’ll keep on waiting for them to make more of night writer show I doubt they ever do though
To be honest never got my eye, this was all new to me. I know that it wasn't all real but he that's why I love to see these shows and truly being amazed !!! Thanks !!!
I always enjoy a list. I didn't know the extent of the sticker dash use. That trailer-convertible sticker dash looks really bad. Like some fan got it wrong. But did I see a line-lock indicator lamp on it?
Another very informative video. I will have seen most of these items but it never really registered especially the sticker dash. You can clearly see that the driver isn't David when you see K.I.T.T 'skiing' in the pilot episode
I knew the most. But the details about the scanner was new for me. Thx for that. Also when you see the insideshot at 17:25 you can see, that the whole switchpod unit between dash an gullwing, is missing - probably because of Hasselhoffs long legs to enter/exit easier.
I grew up with the series (and still love it to that day!) but I have to admit that all these facts had been new to me. Keep up the great work and greetings from Austria.
How did they handle steering KITT while towing behind the camera truck? Did David steer himself while being towed? I couldn't see any connections of the tow bar to the steering rods of the car.
Tow bars are used on many vehicles even today since rope towing has become illegal in our area. If the suspension is not completely pigeon toed or seriously out of chamber the wheels will naturally follow the vehicle through a turn the same a wagon being towed by a Farm Tractor. The steering wheel would of course follow suit since it's still connected to the steering box and arms. So David could easily fake steering the Trans Am while being towed by the film truck. The car mounted on a narrow flatbed truck with steering disconnected and tires removed would later become the new norm in Hollywood for filming such scenes. However now the actor has to fake steering the car during many stunts. Watch the First Fast and Furious movie to spot the many times the actor is not really driving goof ups.
Off the subject, I would like to see Joe complete in the off road games in Utah. Matt from Matt’s off road recovery is a Knight Rider fan and even put a scanner light on one of his recovery rigs. Reach out to them if you are interested.
Isn't it bad for auto transmission cars to be towed without the engine running, or would the engine be idling and shifter in N to keep the box lubricated..? Wouldn't of thought all the camera towed cars would be manual shifters would they?
Really enjoy this showing all the tape & extra bolts holding KITT together. I also have the series on DVD, and in the episode where Michael loses his memory KITT once dud a Turbo-Boost but landed with a (slightly) dented lower body & hood. Like you said, 'not-so-indestructible'. I'm curious about the first photo showing Don Johnson & a black 1983 DATSUN280ZX(btw, you can still see the "280ZX" badge). There was no explanation or comment re. these things; what gives? It was great seeing your video re. K.I.T.T. vs K.A.R.R. Part of that one with John Stanton dropping off his girlfriend was Main St. in Seal Beach, CA, my home town (a sheet of script also had SEAL BEACH typed on it). Thanks again for this.
One thing you didn't mention was that the lights used to change in different shots too. Obvioiusly when he changed cars. Some shots had slats on the lights, and other shots didn't. I love Knightrider. I also spotted the bar at the front too.
Thank you very much for your 10 Facts about KITT and Knight Rider. I really did not know, this Incredible insider Information. I am just a Life time Fan of Knight rider. This was my Friday night treat i used to watch with my Mum and Dad. Some very Happy memories you have brought back for me my Friend. Knight Rider and KITT still live on today on the Television. Thank you very much for sharing. Jonathan. ☺☺☺☺💯💯💯👍👍👍👍
6:11 Yes, for sure --- I am always amazed to learn that after divorcing David Hasselhoff, Catherine Hickland married another Hollywood actor named Michael Knight, which of course was the name of The Hoff's famous character in Knight Rider ---- how's THAT for an amazing coincidence??
Since you interviewed Catherine Hickland, did she confirm these Bach accusations? I was wondering because during the Bach/Hasselhoff divorce, Pamela said in a Daily Mail interview that during the filming of Knight Racer, David sent a pa to tell her to go to his trailer, which she declined. Saying she "knew what that meant", and declined the hookup offer because he was married. I faintly remember the tabloids referring to DH's roving eye and wandering eye back then, but being too young to understand what that meant.
Those cars, especially the stuntones were very crudely patched up. But what surprises me is how GM/Pontiac engineers designed hubcaps that fall off instead of using a solution used by EVERYONE else that prevented it; ports for wheelscrews catching just the very tip of the screws so no torque is applied to the plastic while tightening the screws but the hubcap can't fall off unless you take the wheel off. I admire engineer's skill in maths and physics, but sometimes they have really stupid ideas for no reason.
I truly enjoyed listening to this. My husband is a big 80s tv fan and as he was watching this, I was listening to you and how you speak. You corrected yourself often in the video, catching your words, and I loved it. In this era of A.I. and artificial voices, YOURS is true and real. You're a real person talking about something Chuck and I love. You have real emotion and I just was so relieved to hear it! Keep the imperfections!
I own the leather jacket from auction. Great to own a peace of Knight Rider history!
Great score! Congrats!
Does it smell like the Hoff himself?
Love these videos - thanks for all the hard work you put into them! Re: the jackets, don't forget that Michael wore a light green/white jacket in the Season 3 Opening Episode (Knight of the Drones) in San Francisco. Can't wait for your next video!
How about doing an episode showing everytime Michael pushed a button on a big red panel, like "Laser", or whatever. I always think it's funny that no matter how many buttons were already in the car, somehow, they had to add a button that wasn't actually there, but just in closeups! Or, where was the Super Persuit Mode switch cluster located? Things like that. Thanks
Some of it was done on a sound stage
Knew most of these, but that's because I've been fully watching every video you guys have released :) Didn't know there was three leather jackets for Michael Knight, and the three versions of KITT's scanner electronics.
Talking about KITT's scanner light, I remember my mom thought at the time it's probably made by some mechanical way, some arm would move the red light bulb back and forth, but I didn't believe it, because of the trailing effect, and all-on effect at start :D I was sure even back then it's made by electronics.
The Cylons eye was mechanical. Maybe your Mom thought KITT`s "eye" was also mechanical.🙃
@@Juggernaut30 That's interesting, didn't know this before, I was thinking the Cylon eye was also electronic. Thanks :)
I remember watching at least some episodes of Battlestar Galactica before Knight Rider began.
Back in the day at computing class in school we were learning how to directly address memory (or a serial port connected to LEDs in this case), we were then tasked with making our LEDs do some sort of pattern....you can guess what mine was...the teacher immediately recognised it...had a big smile on his face and got the rest of the class round my pc to see it. Jeez would be around 1997/8! Still love KITT and the your content!
Ah, but did you rig it to play a synchronized audio clip of the "whoosh-whoosh" sound effect? :D
This is a really cool video! Thank you! I used to wait for the days of the week that TV would show KITT!
Knew all of these from watching other videos here. I was also able to identify a specific episode from a single frame a buddy posted a week ago so I may have a problem :P
I like this series. There were some things i didn’t know!
Those were the years..
Growing up in the 80s
Airwolf
A-Team
Knight Rider
Macgyver
youth is missing out with 20 second tiktok vids
The on;y one i didn't know was Stevie actually being David's wife. Also I knew that girl looked a lot like David, didn't know she was his sister
Thank you for doing this. There's always something we may have just missed.
Very informative
Glad I found this channel. Growing up Knighter rider was my favorite show. As I got older I bought the DVD set and almost got a trans am as a project car lol.
There was alot I didn't know and I appreciate the content.
Thanks and God bless
First of all I really enjoy these videos (behind the scenes minutiae). Second, Almost all of it was new to me, except about the tow bar, in general, which I only know about from your previous videos. Third, and final, I feel that I must speak in defense of wire-wrap fabrication; you implied, indirectly, that it led to failures of the scanner bar. In actuality the Apollo Guidance Computer was assembled using wire-wrap. So, if done correctly, it can work quite well.
Am i wrong in thinking that in the beginning Turbo Boost was used to make KITT go faster rather than Pursuit Mood??
Excellent
Thank you for your insight videos, merry christmas from Austria.
also not to be mean or cruel was it the way when stevie was taken away in the cop car and then micheal finds something in the ashtray like with a ring that stevie left for micheal to find ?
I watched the Goliath episodes again the other night, and now that im an electrical engineering instructor at a college, i had to laugh at the ESB book! They called it kitts " electrical Schematic blueprints! Lol, schematics and blueprints are the same thing! Lol
Emergency Schematic Blueprint not electrical.
@@Starbuckin well as I stated "schematics and blueprints are the same thing, so
I didn't know ANY of the things you pointed out in both videos. When I got into Knight Rider, I appreciated it for what it was, instead of sitting there just watching it for the sole purpose of pointing out all the mistakes and screw up they made in the show. Although some of the stuff you pointed out in the second video was interesting, and we all know Hollywood is FAKE as HELL, when I watch shows like this, I tend to get I to the story and let it take me where it intends to. It's more fun when you do it that way 🙂
Joe Chitwood auto thrills did all these stunts every weekend in the 80’s
Great video
I always get quite sad when I hear about people on a show getting actually married and then divorced again because a person met someone else on that same show :X.
Knight. Rider. Historians. Videos
I knEw a lot of them. But whatever happened to the KITT convertible car?
wil there be another one of these
Suprised they didn't have him wearing Members Only jackets..
I guess I understand why stickers were used on the dash. But in that same picture, the entire roof is missing from the car. I wonder what's up with that.
That car is owned by George Barris, and he made it a convertible for that episode. It got redone after the episode as a show car, but I'm currently not sure what happened to it. These guys are the best knowledge bank for answering that question though.
Those hubcaps were UGLY...The alloy rims looked way cooler, unless they were basic steel ones....
I dont know much but I do know Hasselhoff married some young hotties.....
Was there ever a Knight Rider Movie ?
Yoooooooo joe
Hold up man lol, you saying Catherine Hickland divorced David hasselhoff and married Michael E. Knight. ...that's hilarious. I don't mean no disrespect I just think it's funny she married a guy with the same name as Michael. That is crazy, very informative video. I enjoyed it
I know my mom told me that one. Catherine Hickland and Michael E Knight were soap opera stars!
It's too crazy to be made up!!
Michael E. Was on All My Children for years!!!
thanks for the info I loved it, and we were poor back then had to watch KITT on a black and white TV, so the sticker thing was very much unnoticeable and besides I was just 7yrs old I only loved the car chases and KITTS unbelievable feats
Dukes of Hazzard used a lot of rear-projection process for in-car shots, rather than green screen, which would have been more time consuming. Even if they did chroma-keying, it would more likely have been blue screen in the 80s. Green screen didn't become more dominant until profession digital cameras were in use. The sensors on digital cameras are more sensitive to and capture more detail in green, so it provides cleaner digital keying than blue.
Yes croma-keying would have been very obvious because of the sharp black siluetts. Very difficult to minimize that back then, even in high production movies and in TV-shows it would have looked even worse. Only time chroma-keying looked good back then was when done against black backgrounds in space, like Star Wars.
They changed to green in the 80s/90s because blue created too many wardrobe conflicts. Not many wear that shade of green so that’s how they came to change it up.
@@GarretGrayCamera They changed to green because the new digital camera capture greater detail in the green spectrum, so it makes for cleaner chroma-keying.
@@jjdigitalvideosolutionsllc5343 It may be better for digital, but they’ve been using green since the 60s mainly for different shots that require blue for blue clothing or the color was physically in the scene or to provide more contrast depending on what’s in the foreground. It’s the standard today, but not necessarily ideal for all situations, like if you have plants or foliage in the shot, then we will use blue.
@@GarretGrayCamera Blue was initially used for best results with skin tones. Any colour background "could" be used for different situations and needs. Luma keying and other methods are used too. You can also change the foreground object colours to work better with a specific background. Firefox (1982) required some innovation to shoot shiny black miniature models. They used UV paint and reverse blue-screen techniques. You may need do multiple passes with different techniques then composite the layers for the final.
Dukes of Hazzard and Fall Guy didn't use green screen ( or blue screen which is normally used for film). They used rear projection which was far cheaper for all those awful driving shots. Thankfully Hardcastle & McCormick and Knight Rider almost always used mounted cameras on moving cars. DOH did at first but then moved towards almost always using rear projection.
The idea that forty one years after this series aired and we still don't a car even resembling KITT in appearance or functionality is borderline inexcusable. Thank you for the video!
I lorned something today
We do have smart watches though...
The 1982 Trans-Am was kinda close in terms of looks... 😂😂😂
We went to the moon in 1969 and not anymore.
Well we have Teslas which are pretty close. Heck lots of the features in cars nowadays like touchscreens would have been futuristic in the 80s
I was a big fan of dukes of hazzard when it was airing for the first time in the early 80’s. Now that I’m middle age, I find so many things wrong it’s hard to watch it without constantly pointing out mistakes. It seems I see less when watching Knight Rider.😂
I didn't know that Ski mode was named after the actual stunt. I always thought it was a name made up for the series.
Buzz Bundy!!! Woohoo!!!
Funny enough, Slammin' Sammy explained what skiing was in the second episode.
@@johnathin0061892yeah
how
Interesting thing, years ago I saw a Guinness World Record for most cars skiing at 1 time.
I knew most of the facts mostly from your previous discussion videos. Here's something funny though when the show originally aired I was 9 and for the longest time whenever they showed a close up of Kitt's voice modulator I thought it was located in the center of the dash. (kinda how nav screens in modern cars are now) I had to watch KR an embarrassing amount of times in rerun before I figured it out.😜
Sounds familiar. I always thought that the voicebox was located on another place, untill I saw photos of the dash itself. My first thought: oh, it’s above the stering…
I'm pretty sure that DUKES and most other TV shows and films of the time accomplished driver-in-car shots using rear projection.
Including the 4000, and yes AJ owns him as well.
After owning 12+ Trans/Am growing up from watching the show. There were a few things I didn't know.
Thanks Joe.
You never cease the amazement.
I have a quick question, not related to this video, but in relation to the FLAG trailer. Was there any other productions outside of Universal Studio productions that the trailer was featured in? I ask because I began to watch some of the episodes of The Fall Guy, and during the opening credits of the show, there is a clip that shows a stunt where it's the inside of a trailer and a car comes rolling up into it in it's montage. Now I know the show proper production used some of the Trans-Ams from the train wreck, but the opening credits of The Fall Guy used stunt clips from various movies (such as the high fall from The Poseidon Adventure) and the one showing the car driving up into a trailer looks to have come from another movie. So, does anyone know if the trailer used for the FLAG semi had any appearances film appearances not related to MCA/Universal TV shows? Or was the clip used in The Fall Guy opening credits was just another trailer that just so happen to have the same kind of drive-up ramp?
Ah...I was hoping the Catherine Hickland/Michael Knight connection would be talked about here. That was just too crazy to be made up.
Very interesting like everytime,best wishes from André in Germany,a huge Knight Rider an Knight Rider Historians Fan👍👍👍
I am pretty sure....some kitts were equipped with a diffuser lense scanner and some with a plane clear red .also in kitt vs karr episode you can notice that on karr's scanner scene transitions.
I still cant fathom watching those jump scenes how the stunt car shop could strengthen a F-body enough to not have it be a complete pile of scrap after a jump.
Katherine Hickland is born on the same day and month as me just 41 years earlier :)
Who would've thought, i have my hub caps bolted on the same way as real kitt crazy how i was able to duplicate their trick with out knowing so, now when people try to tell me i messed them up i can show them this and i guess im screen correct yey
I'm in a sort of negative ave how GM engineers didn't think of the solution used by EVERYONE else; ports for the screws in hubcaps in shaped in such way they would catch just the very tip of the wheel screws so no torque is applied to them, but they can't go off unless you unscrew whole wheel. Engineers are amazing, but sometimes they have amazingly stupid ideas.
What did you mean by what you said around 17:33-17:40 as far as the sticker dashboard being long gone, exactly?...
I'm always pleased when the channel uploads a video. This is one of two channels i follow almost religiously.
Thank you!
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial yw. :)
I knew most of these things. Some from watching the show and some from the KRH channel
I kbow all of these facts.Thankyou for this interesting video Joe.Not wishing to upset anyone but could it be possible David met Pamela on Knight Rider while still married to Catherine and he cheated on her with Pamela and that's why they got a divorce?
I know its Fake But when we was a kids in 1984 we believed him ..Well thx for your video ..we want the car 1977 behind scenes ..👍😊👍
Knew a lot of those but mind blown Pamela Bach was in an episode. Knew the character but never realised it was her in 30 odd years!!! Awesome video.
I think he met Pamela while still married to Catherine
this is all pretty fascinating stuff! i am curious about how the sound for the 'turbine' propulsion and turbo boost effects were made.
Others can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think those sounds were taken from (Universal's) stock sound library, and they are sounds taken from actual jet aircraft. I'll occasionally watch an old movie from the 70s & recognize one of those sounds from growing up on Knight Rider. 😂
Have you also noticed the shadows of camera equipment on the car at some times?
Okay that was a awesome video and please do more. I did not know about who David Hasselhoff had married to that was a cool fact .I had heard that he did marry Catherine Hickland and Pamela Bach just did not know the exact time that he had married them .
17:31 gives great details of the early General, wrecker plate and the early paint scheme on the trailer. Look at what looks like a huge burn on the seat at 17:27.
I pretty much figuiired all this I was able to see 1 viewing in my home town and a friend built 1
i learned so much stuff from watching these top 10 facts and stuff thanks
knew most of these...we are waiting for, I think, EP4 of filming locations!
Did they build one of the Stunt KITT’s with a modified rear end for the ski stunts? They had to for the General Lee’s. The rear ends wanted to shift the weight towards the ground and the tires would rub the wheel wells, limiting how far they could travel.
I like how David dad thought the actor who played Garthe was a better actor than Michael
Buzz is mainly known for skiing the General Lee.
I love these videos, Always something to learn. 👍
I really want a full size fully operational third season dash with scanner in my room
I would love to see them remake Knight rider, and make more than one season because it’s a good show and I love to watch shows like that and I wish it made a lot of shows like that night. Writer show but for some odd reason they’re not making anymore which I don’t get that part, but I’ll keep on waiting for them to make more of night writer show I doubt they ever do though
great work, i dont know that details before.
To be honest never got my eye, this was all new to me. I know that it wasn't all real but he that's why I love to see these shows and truly being amazed !!! Thanks !!!
Yep knew most but it’s good reinforcement in the know.
Ski mode was better detailed.
As the wedding details. Cool!
Yes part 3 please.
Thank you I always learn so much from you watching from South Africa
Very interesting that Michael wearing the leather jacket in every episode (except one). Love facts like this.
wow as a hardcore fan I really enjoyed this video, thanks!
Ilyen részek jöhetnek még 🙂 There may be more such parts !
While I did know everything on the list, I still enjoyed the video!!! Thanks guys!!!!
I always enjoy a list.
I didn't know the extent of the sticker dash use. That trailer-convertible sticker dash looks really bad. Like some fan got it wrong.
But did I see a line-lock indicator lamp on it?
Another very informative video. I will have seen most of these items but it never really registered especially the sticker dash. You can clearly see that the driver isn't David when you see K.I.T.T 'skiing' in the pilot episode
Learned a lot!
Ok, i bought a bluray set of the show. And i love catching all the gaffs that show up. You guys rock 😊
I knew the most. But the details about the scanner was new for me. Thx for that. Also when you see the insideshot at 17:25 you can see, that the whole switchpod unit between dash an gullwing, is missing - probably because of Hasselhoffs long legs to enter/exit easier.
Learn something new on every one of your videos
Keep em coming
I grew up with the series (and still love it to that day!) but I have to admit that all these facts had been new to me. Keep up the great work and greetings from Austria.
How did they handle steering KITT while towing behind the camera truck? Did David steer himself while being towed? I couldn't see any connections of the tow bar to the steering rods of the car.
Tow bars are used on many vehicles even today since rope towing has become illegal in our area. If the suspension is not completely pigeon toed or seriously out of chamber the wheels will naturally follow the vehicle through a turn the same a wagon being towed by a Farm Tractor. The steering wheel would of course follow suit since it's still connected to the steering box and arms. So David could easily fake steering the Trans Am while being towed by the film truck. The car mounted on a narrow flatbed truck with steering disconnected and tires removed would later become the new norm in Hollywood for filming such scenes. However now the actor has to fake steering the car during many stunts. Watch the First Fast and Furious movie to spot the many times the actor is not really driving goof ups.
@@charliepotatoes001 Thanks a lot! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
@@markusjuenemann Your welcome and I own an '86 Trans Am. 🤣
Great Work. Just watched all 2 Videos. Please keep ruining my childhood 😁. More Things please. And/or maybe a "best behind the scenes?"
Off the subject, I would like to see Joe complete in the off road games in Utah. Matt from Matt’s off road recovery is a Knight Rider fan and even put a scanner light on one of his recovery rigs. Reach out to them if you are interested.
Isn't it bad for auto transmission cars to be towed without the engine running, or would the engine be idling and shifter in N to keep the box lubricated..? Wouldn't of thought all the camera towed cars would be manual shifters would they?
Really enjoy this showing all the tape & extra bolts holding KITT together. I also have the series on DVD, and in the episode where Michael loses his memory KITT once dud a Turbo-Boost but landed with a (slightly) dented lower body & hood. Like you said, 'not-so-indestructible'.
I'm curious about the first photo showing Don Johnson & a black 1983 DATSUN280ZX(btw, you can still see the "280ZX" badge). There was no explanation or comment re. these things; what gives?
It was great seeing your video re. K.I.T.T. vs K.A.R.R. Part of that one with John Stanton dropping off his girlfriend was Main St. in Seal Beach, CA, my home town (a sheet of script also had SEAL BEACH typed on it).
Thanks again for this.
Great video. I knew a lot of things from the commentary episodes. 🙂
Have you ever considered turning your mustang into the KITT from the reboot? or try finding one of the mustangs from the Reboot. If they still exist?
One thing you didn't mention was that the lights used to change in different shots too. Obvioiusly when he changed cars. Some shots had slats on the lights, and other shots didn't. I love Knightrider. I also spotted the bar at the front too.
Thank you very much for your 10 Facts about KITT and Knight Rider. I really did not know, this Incredible insider Information. I am just a Life time Fan of Knight rider. This was my Friday night treat i used to watch with my Mum and Dad. Some very Happy memories you have brought back for me my Friend. Knight Rider and KITT still live on today on the Television. Thank you very much for sharing. Jonathan. ☺☺☺☺💯💯💯👍👍👍👍
Michael Knight is in GTA Vice City, there's an NPC that's dressed in the red turtle neck and black jacket
I always hated Hasselhoff's hair... I dunno why, but it makes me angry
6:11 Yes, for sure --- I am always amazed to learn that after divorcing David Hasselhoff, Catherine Hickland married another Hollywood actor named Michael Knight, which of course was the name of The Hoff's famous character in Knight Rider ---- how's THAT for an amazing coincidence??
Look up the 1984 Dodge Daytona commecial...the guy in it is a total rip-off. I call him Michael Night...the Night Driver! LOL
Since you interviewed Catherine Hickland, did she confirm these Bach accusations?
I was wondering because during the Bach/Hasselhoff divorce, Pamela said in a Daily Mail interview that during the filming of Knight Racer, David sent a pa to tell her to go to his trailer, which she declined. Saying she "knew what that meant", and declined the hookup offer because he was married.
I faintly remember the tabloids referring to DH's roving eye and wandering eye back then, but being too young to understand what that meant.
Pamela Bach? Related to Catherine? Duke boys meeting Kitt? That could be fun. It may also be funny.
Those cars, especially the stuntones were very crudely patched up. But what surprises me is how GM/Pontiac engineers designed hubcaps that fall off instead of using a solution used by EVERYONE else that prevented it; ports for wheelscrews catching just the very tip of the screws so no torque is applied to the plastic while tightening the screws but the hubcap can't fall off unless you take the wheel off. I admire engineer's skill in maths and physics, but sometimes they have really stupid ideas for no reason.