Knight Rider: Season 1 SNAFUs
Moderators: neps, Matthew, Michael Pajaro
-
- Operative
- Posts: 209
- Joined: Mon Apr 07, 2003 10:37 am
- What year did the original Knight Rider start: 0
- Location: Falmouth, Kentucky
Knight Rider: Season 1 SNAFUs
I know this may have been covered already, but with the DVD's out of Season 1 I can start seeing more things messed up on the show because of the clarity that the DVD video can provide.
Yes I know that the show is awesome and the mess ups on Season 1 adds to it's overall character, but I have been making a game of trying to go back and watch the first season again and finding things to put on here that fall under SNAFUs. Now that I learned my DVD software will capture frames of the DVD I can post pictures of what I am talking about.
I was hoping maybe the KRO community will post anything on here that they have noticed fouled up since acquiring the DVDs.
The only thing that comes to mind at the moment is that I have noticed that KITT's lower dash shorts out or blinks during the theme, it drives me nuts too. I didn't notice this until I got the DVD's.
Another thing I found, I don't know what it is, is from a Fade out at the very end of Hearts of Stone. I think the camera picked up some of the behind the camera stuff, like an ambulence and a police car, with a police man in the road blocking traffic during the filming of the race. You can also see a car stopped on the other side of the road if you go a few frames farther. It caught my attention and I had to go back and get a still of it.
What do you all think it is? Any one else got anything they noticed?
-Steve
Yes I know that the show is awesome and the mess ups on Season 1 adds to it's overall character, but I have been making a game of trying to go back and watch the first season again and finding things to put on here that fall under SNAFUs. Now that I learned my DVD software will capture frames of the DVD I can post pictures of what I am talking about.
I was hoping maybe the KRO community will post anything on here that they have noticed fouled up since acquiring the DVDs.
The only thing that comes to mind at the moment is that I have noticed that KITT's lower dash shorts out or blinks during the theme, it drives me nuts too. I didn't notice this until I got the DVD's.
Another thing I found, I don't know what it is, is from a Fade out at the very end of Hearts of Stone. I think the camera picked up some of the behind the camera stuff, like an ambulence and a police car, with a police man in the road blocking traffic during the filming of the race. You can also see a car stopped on the other side of the road if you go a few frames farther. It caught my attention and I had to go back and get a still of it.
What do you all think it is? Any one else got anything they noticed?
-Steve
- HondaSiR
- FLAG Assistant
- Posts: 809
- Joined: Tue Mar 02, 2004 11:58 pm
- What year did the original Knight Rider start: 0
- Location: Asia Pacific
That's a nice pic that you captured there KnightCrusader99. I'm sure the ambulance and the police car image is not a part of the show.
I also noticed KITT's front bumper, it sort of looks different. It's not the extended custom nose that we are all accustomed to seeing. Looks like a stock front bumper to me.
I also noticed KITT's front bumper, it sort of looks different. It's not the extended custom nose that we are all accustomed to seeing. Looks like a stock front bumper to me.
- Handzus' Stupid Fro
- Operative
- Posts: 114
- Joined: Wed Sep 01, 2004 5:43 pm
- What year did the original Knight Rider start: 0
- Contact:
- hot_knight
- Rookie
- Posts: 77
- Joined: Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:08 pm
- What year did the original Knight Rider start: 0
- Location: Chicago,IL
- Contact:
- Knight Rider Archive
- FLAG Assistant
- Posts: 517
- Joined: Mon Apr 01, 2002 1:01 am
- What year did the original Knight Rider start: 0
- Location: London, England
- Contact:
That's the car with the protective rubber skin. It was a normal (K.I.T.T.) Trans Am with another, rubber Trans Am body fitted around it to protect the car underneath. They'd normally use it in any scene that required a bullet to spark off the body, or another car to bump into K.I.T.T. Because of the rubber shell, the bodywork underneath would remain pristine.
- Paul
- Knight Rider Archive
- http://members.fortunecity.com/knightriders/
- Paul
- Knight Rider Archive
- http://members.fortunecity.com/knightriders/
- Handzus' Stupid Fro
- Operative
- Posts: 114
- Joined: Wed Sep 01, 2004 5:43 pm
- What year did the original Knight Rider start: 0
- Contact:
-
- KRO Podcaster (retired)
- Posts: 3333
- Joined: Tue Jun 01, 2004 5:55 pm
I've noticed that too in a few of the scenes in several of the episodes. That is a stock bumper for the '82 T/As. I think they like had only one hero car which had the custom nose and then the other cars were like stunt cars or something, dunno...HondaSiR wrote: I also noticed KITT's front bumper, it sort of looks different. It's not the extended custom nose that we are all accustomed to seeing. Looks like a stock front bumper to me.
- TurbomanKnight
- FLAG Operative
- Posts: 1297
- Joined: Fri Oct 17, 2003 11:09 pm
- What year did the original Knight Rider start: 0
- Location: Brooklyn, NY 11208
- Contact:
FuzzieDice wrote:I've noticed that too in a few of the scenes in several of the episodes. That is a stock bumper for the '82 T/As. I think they like had only one hero car which had the custom nose and then the other cars were like stunt cars or something, dunno...HondaSiR wrote: I also noticed KITT's front bumper, it sort of looks different. It's not the extended custom nose that we are all accustomed to seeing. Looks like a stock front bumper to me.
It was a modified stock Trans AM nose. Yeah they had different cars such as the computer car the stunt car and cars of all sorts. Tika, did you watch the special features on the dvd?
Anti-Ford. 'Nuff Said.
1988 Camaro IROC-Z28
5.7 Tuned Port Injection .040 over
700R4
2.77 posi
3" Exhaust with Headers
1988 Camaro IROC-Z28
5.7 Tuned Port Injection .040 over
700R4
2.77 posi
3" Exhaust with Headers
- Lost Knight
- FLAG Special Ops
- Posts: 2719
- Joined: Fri Aug 20, 2004 7:45 pm
- What year did the original Knight Rider start: 0
- Location: Long Island, NY
That nose you guys are talking about is from the first shot scenes of the pilot, "Knight Of the Phoenix." The makers of the car were under deadline to get it completed, and that nose was the first model they made. After the show was officially bought by NBC, they had a chance to remake the nose to the traditional one, but they were not able to go back and refilm those scenes with the prototype nose. When you see that nose in other episodes, like at the desert road scene, it is reused footage.
As for the hood popping up, I've noticed that too in a lot of episodes. Very annoying to see! K.I.T.T. looks so much crappier when his hood pops up. My friend Paul used to have a 1989 Trans Am and had a similar problem with the hood, so he had those plastic wires connected to the hood to hold it down (don't know what they're called). I'm sure it's also a combination of how they man-handled the stunt cars with the sharp turns and the remote controlled detonated sparks on the stunt cars to simulate bullets bouncing off.
As for the hood popping up, I've noticed that too in a lot of episodes. Very annoying to see! K.I.T.T. looks so much crappier when his hood pops up. My friend Paul used to have a 1989 Trans Am and had a similar problem with the hood, so he had those plastic wires connected to the hood to hold it down (don't know what they're called). I'm sure it's also a combination of how they man-handled the stunt cars with the sharp turns and the remote controlled detonated sparks on the stunt cars to simulate bullets bouncing off.
“Gimme maximum turbo thrust and blast me outta here, will ya!?”
- Lost Knight
- FLAG Special Ops
- Posts: 2719
- Joined: Fri Aug 20, 2004 7:45 pm
- What year did the original Knight Rider start: 0
- Location: Long Island, NY
[quote]"The only thing that comes to mind at the moment is that I have noticed that KITT's lower dash shorts out or blinks during the theme, it drives me nuts too. I didn't notice this until I got the DVD's."
I always took the flashing as a gimmick to make the car look more high-tech for the opening credit sequence, as in showing off various functions simultaneously. That technique is used in the beginning of some episodes, where there are shots of individual parts of K.I.T.T.'s dash functioning and blinking. In the opening sequence for seasons one & two, you can pause the wide angle shot of K.I.T.T.'s dash and see that his voice modulator is whitish-purple and says "Knight 2000" as well as no Knight's head logo on the steering wheel. Evidently that was an early version of the dashboard, like there was an early version of the front nose.
I always took the flashing as a gimmick to make the car look more high-tech for the opening credit sequence, as in showing off various functions simultaneously. That technique is used in the beginning of some episodes, where there are shots of individual parts of K.I.T.T.'s dash functioning and blinking. In the opening sequence for seasons one & two, you can pause the wide angle shot of K.I.T.T.'s dash and see that his voice modulator is whitish-purple and says "Knight 2000" as well as no Knight's head logo on the steering wheel. Evidently that was an early version of the dashboard, like there was an early version of the front nose.
“Gimme maximum turbo thrust and blast me outta here, will ya!?”
- Handzus' Stupid Fro
- Operative
- Posts: 114
- Joined: Wed Sep 01, 2004 5:43 pm
- What year did the original Knight Rider start: 0
- Contact:
- cloudkitt
- FLAG Operative
- Posts: 1125
- Joined: Sun May 18, 2003 11:34 pm
- What year did the original Knight Rider start: 0
- Location: Philadelphia, PA
Sorry to be off-topic, but who's Tika?TurbomanKnight wrote:It was a modified stock Trans AM nose. Yeah they had different cars such as the computer car the stunt car and cars of all sorts. Tika, did you watch the special features on the dvd?
Michael: "KITT! Where are ya?!"
K.I.T.T.: "I'm in your parking space, Michael, where else would I be?"
K.I.T.T.: "I'm in your parking space, Michael, where else would I be?"
- HondaSiR
- FLAG Assistant
- Posts: 809
- Joined: Tue Mar 02, 2004 11:58 pm
- What year did the original Knight Rider start: 0
- Location: Asia Pacific
I just noticed something else on the picture. Besides having the stock nose, the car doesn't even have the red scanner! And the dashboard isn't even the customized one, its the stock Trans Am version. No doubt about it folks, it's a plain vanilla Firebird up there in that pic. Not that I mind that much.
Oh, and Tika? That's probably FuzzyDice. Tika's not a part of the series, she's not that old, I think.
Oh, and Tika? That's probably FuzzyDice. Tika's not a part of the series, she's not that old, I think.
Last edited by HondaSiR on Thu Sep 09, 2004 4:48 am, edited 1 time in total.
-
- KRO Podcaster (retired)
- Posts: 3333
- Joined: Tue Jun 01, 2004 5:55 pm
ROTFLMAO! Thank you! I'm old enough to have been a kid when the pilot came out though. But yeah, it's me. My real name is mentioned on my web site Knight Dreams (click the web icon below my post).HondaSiR wrote:Oh, and Tika? That's probably FuzzyDice. Tika's not a part of the series, she's not that old, I think.
Yup. I saw all of the DVDs in the set already. Fascinating stuff. Probably I'll have to rewatch stuff a few times before I can remember specific details. I know I thoroughly enjoyed the episodes though.TurbomanKnight wrote: Tika, did you watch the special features on the dvd?
-
- Operative
- Posts: 209
- Joined: Mon Apr 07, 2003 10:37 am
- What year did the original Knight Rider start: 0
- Location: Falmouth, Kentucky
Here is another thing I found when I was watching The Final Verdict. The Camera was too far over and you could see part of the set on the right.
The white object is a script or something, because when you watch the video it moves like someone is holding on to it.
Finding thiese mess ups are starting to be a fun pastime for me. LOL
-Steve
The white object is a script or something, because when you watch the video it moves like someone is holding on to it.
Finding thiese mess ups are starting to be a fun pastime for me. LOL
-Steve
- hot_knight
- Rookie
- Posts: 77
- Joined: Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:08 pm
- What year did the original Knight Rider start: 0
- Location: Chicago,IL
- Contact:
Steve let's keep that between you and me. Whatever you do DONT tell teh board ops because it would crush them emotionally. The very thought of a fan wanting to list nitpicks and mistakes in an organized manner makes them cringe.KnightCrusader99 wrote:
The white object is a script or something, because when you watch the video it moves like someone is holding on to it.
Finding thiese mess ups are starting to be a fun pastime for me. LOL
-Steve
(rolls Eyes AGAIN)
- Handzus' Stupid Fro
- Operative
- Posts: 114
- Joined: Wed Sep 01, 2004 5:43 pm
- What year did the original Knight Rider start: 0
- Contact:
- Lost Knight
- FLAG Special Ops
- Posts: 2719
- Joined: Fri Aug 20, 2004 7:45 pm
- What year did the original Knight Rider start: 0
- Location: Long Island, NY
Like I've said before, Knight Rider has some of the worst editing of all time, yet I still love it. As a kid I would never notice these things in a million years, but now that we're all older, it's more fun to find this stuff. I thought a lot of shots were cropped on the DVD set to remove things such as microphones, etc.? Looks like they missed a few things. Great find!
“Gimme maximum turbo thrust and blast me outta here, will ya!?”
- hot_knight
- Rookie
- Posts: 77
- Joined: Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:08 pm
- What year did the original Knight Rider start: 0
- Location: Chicago,IL
- Contact:
- Lost Knight
- FLAG Special Ops
- Posts: 2719
- Joined: Fri Aug 20, 2004 7:45 pm
- What year did the original Knight Rider start: 0
- Location: Long Island, NY
- Handzus' Stupid Fro
- Operative
- Posts: 114
- Joined: Wed Sep 01, 2004 5:43 pm
- What year did the original Knight Rider start: 0
- Contact: