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WAS KITT FINISHED IN TIME FOR PILOT?
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:45 am
by Keon2005
Hey, I noticed a few details about Kitts dashboard for the first season. It appears that the voice modulator was not completed, it was a white shield with "KNIGHT 2000" printed on it, also the Knight Industries logo did not appear on the steering wheel. Maybe a rush job of sorts by Universal's prop department.
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 6:22 pm
by JJSoCrazy
You may be right, the other thing is that his front nose looked really ugly until they fixed it later on, anyone know why?
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 7:16 pm
by KNIGHTBOY
I believe the ugly nose came from the 30 minute pilot or "presentation" that was made to NBC. Instead of refilming all the old stuff, they just edited it together with the new footage (and the new car).
Thank god they changed that nose though. I don't think any of us would still be talking about Knight Rider or fantasizing about owning that car if it kept that flat ugly ass nose.
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 7:30 pm
by MIKEMAC
KNIGHTBOY wrote:I believe the ugly nose came from the 30 minute pilot or "presentation" that was made to NBC. Instead of refilming all the old stuff, they just edited it together with the new footage (and the new car).
Thank god they changed that nose though. I don't think any of us would still be talking about Knight Rider or fantasizing about owning that car if it kept that flat ugly ass nose.
LOL!!
That was funny. I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed that and your right, Kitt looked like his nose was crushed against something. And it's funny when Michael gets shot in the right arm, it switches to his left, I love it how David in the commentary points that out cause it always cracks him up. The reason for the mess up is because that part was shot for selling the showm then when it was sold, they never fixed it. Like Kitt's nose.
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 8:42 pm
by Lyn
The commentary was really goofy, but somehow informative, even if D. Hasselhoff got it wrong on being 28 when he first did "Knight Rider"; I think he was 29 going on 30 at the time, and was 33 when the show got cancelled.
Maybe he was 28 when he first auditioned for his character instead, before he left "Young and Restless...... Just my opinion.
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 2:39 pm
by RobAtPace
hey folks... screen captures of this by chance?
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 3:52 am
by aussieknight
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 5:13 am
by kywolverine708
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 9:47 am
by Keon2005
Yeah I Can't See them either. I am not sure how to post pictures, so if anyone could do it again just in case some people didnt understand what I was talking about.
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 3:32 pm
by Hunter
i can see them fine
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 4:08 pm
by Dave Knight
try right clicking each red x select properties and copy and paste the URL for it into the address bar hit enter
then hit the back button it should appear in the thread repeate for all 3 pics
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 5:46 pm
by Izsendorph
Wasn't that nose for the pilot just a stock Trans-am nose.
I thought they used that nose because they didn't have time to finish Kitt's nose. Not quite sure if i'm correct about that though. That just what I think I read on the internet somewhere.
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 9:22 pm
by Paul
Also, spot the deliberate mistake. I know they did this one a lot, but I like noticing it: In the second of these pics (the side on view of the Trans Am, you can see the curved top of a standard steering wheel through the windshield.
And KITT's usual nosecone was DEFINITELY an improvement over the original "presentation" version.
