KITT Hacks a Toy Car | Knight Rider

[@sohchx]

Being an avid and long time vintage RC collector I noticed something. At 6:42 Michael asks KITT for a visual of this year's toy cars which would make the current year 1985 in the episode, but all of the Tamiya RC vehicles that were shown were released between 1979 and 1984. Then, when Michael says "back up one" it shows a car that wasn't even in the lineup to begin with Lol. When the kid taps out five guards using the radio control I realized that isn't even a car radio at all, it's for airplanes!! As a kid I obviously never noticed any of this. God, I miss the 80's!!!!

[@Garfie489]

so as someone that does a lot of RC myself, the radio situation could simply be a preference thing. I personally use airplane Txs for tank steer style RC for example - some people might just naturally prefer the way a stick feels. You are probably right, its just i feel if they had got an RC car - why would they get a different Tx to go with it? Why not just buy 2 RC cars and have the actor hold one Tx, and the stunt co ordinator (or whoever deals with KITT driving the car) hold the actual Tx off screen. These kind of shows usually buy 2 of everything anyway incase one breaks.

[@sandwichman100]

wheel radios were not common in the late 70's early 80's i have the tamiya audi quartro of the same vintage as the opel ascona featured in this episode and used a stick radio (i still have it but restored now with a wheel radio)

[@pjmalone-k2k]

Nerd

[@sandeep_ero369]

Knight rider kitt is a legend.

[@thedude8046]

Hell yeah!!

[@stevend8325]

Amen

[@stanleybochenek1862]

hell yes

[@selcuktopuz605]

t urkce

[@NareshMaharaj-r3c]

32iu​@@thedude8046

[@NehaMishra-le5fe]

What a awesome show, how beautifully Michael escapes from missiles and rescues evryone... The last stunt was awesome "Parachute Ride" ... it was a lovely joy remembering it and recalling it from 80s. Thanks for sharing these memories as short videos!!!!

[@wawoodsman7170]

Tires screeching on a dirt road tells you it was the 80s.😂

[@chompchompnomnom4256]

Also a car with super grip and acceleration still screeches a lot

[@Rache28]

😂😂 Yeah! I remember watching this as a little kid. At 46 years old, I still love it! 🥰

[@DashzRight]

when does that happen? There was an actual road in the field

[@robertbroadhurst9701]

The Dukes of Hazzard trick too.

[@RoodeMenon]

I recognize the background props in that set and they were re-used in Star Trek The Next Generation season one along with Patricia McPherson.

[@CerveloR5]

At 0:46 the theater in the background was used in the movie Gremlins.

[@UzumakiSenku82]

@@CerveloR5 And Back To The Future too

[@marshallpires4906]

The minute I saw that I honestly thought of Star Trek.

[@justexisting8457]

My 80's fanatic liked those toy cars, Lancias and Audio Sport Quattro's! Long live group B

[@peterchon1179]

lol, i had no idea Tamiya cars were in knight rider. They literally took pictures right out of the catalog

[@twistedaxles9126]

0:42 If you know your movies properly, you can see thats the same street and cinema Marty crashes into in Back to The Future.

[@Theover4000]

I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed!

[@leongmingmeng]

Kitt and Michael so cool I love it

[@viqarkagzi3922]

This set is from back to the future

[@hueymontgomery9508]

Oh yes I see that!

[@hulksmash8159]

Gremlins.

[@waleedhassan798]

Excellent episode , great acting from Charles Zurich !!!!!

[@sandwichman100]

i guess tamiya sponsered this episode all those sweet 80's rc cars

[@lordwinton]

Kitt: I'm not sure I can do it. Michael: its Bonnie kitt. Kitt: Hold my motor oil.. Lmao

[@kellyweingart3692]

lol

[@Zahara_Knight]

XD

[@Zahara_Knight]

Perfect scenario between the two!

[@theyorkshirescubadiver2261]

😂😂😂

[@hellobye168]

American ambassder hostage in peshawar pakistan

[@brettbaratheon9776]

Oh my gosh, I remember this episode from being a kid!!

[@nielbeggs2760]

My favorite TV show all in 2021 🇬🇩

[@kuzkokuzco1889]

I have one at home in Warsaw. Electronic R / C toy car in a 1:10 scale buggy styled on those from the 80s, the company that made it was DF models

[@davejones4093]

It’s a Tamiya :)

[@deltauljCustoms]

A little product placement by Tamiya

[@moparmagnum928]

I was thinking the same thing

[@RoodeMenon]

TAMIYA ftw. I had the Thunder Dragon in 1989, It was an all terrain beast for the time.

[@marioiacolucci]

@@RoodeMenon cool and are still around today

[@skylined5534]

RC Opel Ascona B rally car! How cool?!

[@metropod]

1:16 You can see the light gantries above the building facades. I could automatically tell this was Hill Valley Courthouse Square on the Universal backlot.

[@carcrazylondon309]

Yes as soon as I saw the movie theater I knew it was hill valley! I was wondering if I was the only one

[@Wildbluemist-]

Knight rider is back and faster!

[@reinzandstra2007]

at 0:45 the cinema in the background is the cinema of back to the future

[@ivandolunay]

6:49 first idea of search engine originally was from KITT 😁😂

[@kellyweingart3692]

😂😂😂😂

[@andrei1971]

I wish they would make modern day Knight Rider but better than the one they did in 2008. I always felt that a Ford Mustang was a bad choice for an uodated KITT because it was too bulky looking and had no mystique to it like the sleek black 3rd Gen Trans Am with had. They need to do KITT as a more sleek car like the Trans Am was. Something like a Corvette or an NSX could hit the right vibe. Something black with those mysterious subtle red lights that cruises in kow light as the sun goes down beyond the horizon... when day becomes night. Some kind of car that has either flip up headlights, or very very very thin LED DRL headlights and is very sporty or exotic looking. That would make for a great modern KITT. Even better if they could get David Hasselhoff to participate as Michael Knight in some way..possibly in a mentor role to the younger Knight Rider. I love Knight Rider and I'd hate for it to become just a distant memory from our childhood that we see on KZbin.

[@alecpowers8591]

Also new kitt dash was boring and bring back the mbs and that truck

[@Whocares158]

I wouldn't mind a new young male protagonist to takeover Michael Knight's wheel since David Hasselhoff isn't as young as he used to be anymore. I wouldn't mind a new Knight Rider. I agree, Older Michael Knight should be like some kind of mentor to teach his superior skills onto the Young Knight Rider. 2008 verison doesn't count too much CGI and shitty writing.

[@milomiley1552]

@@Whocares158 literally so much cgi !

[@knightfoxgaming4121]

So... hear me out. I know it's an unpopular opinion, but... A Tesla Model 3 or Y as the next KiTT. This is based on the simple fact that KiTT was supposed to represent the then, current vision of future automotive technology. Back then it was about hydrogen fuel/fuel cells and micro-sized turbine engines all controlled by the ever evolving microprocessor technology. Auto manufacturers were still clinging to the wedge styling using pop-up headlights to maintain the sleek design. But now the world has changed and as such, so has the view on the future of automotive tech. Today, the future is electric cars and there is no limit to how far you can push the imagination on this. If KiTT back then was supposed to be representation of fuel efficiency, getting dozens of miles out of a sip of fuel, the same can be applied to an electric car. Just say that the Knight Foundation had inadvertently created a battery tech that can give KiTT a range of over 1K on a charge on top of a new, more enhanced MBS skin that's impregnated with nanites that not only allows KiTT to repair minor damage to himself, but absorbs sunlight to help extend his range to near infinite when the sun is out. Like I said, KiTT back then was supposed to be a representation of what automotive manufacturers envisioned to be the future of car technology, and if there is a new Knight Rider, that concept should not change. He should -still- represent what represent what we NOW envision as the future of automotive tech.

[@andrei1971]

@@knightfoxgaming4121 I understand your line of thinking and I agree about the futuristic/advanced tech aspect of that logic, but I think that KITT would have to be more sporty and mysterious than those sedans. I think the headlights need to be hidden or at least very close to hidden (thin narrow LEDs perhaps), and it needs a spoiler and a removable top like a moon roof or T-tops etc. Perhaps they can create a new KITT entirely from imagination? Make it from scratch so that it resembles the sleek sporty look of the original, but has the more modern/futuristic tech of the next generation of cars? I could imagine a nice blend in such a design of all the important features.

[@Daniel-os9tb]

A Willy’s jeep that has no computers or abs. And kitt hacked it and locked the brakes out. Magic.

[@skylined5534]

Anyone would think that everything that happens on this show isn't real...

[@BJETNT]

Yeah right!!! He does that on lots of vehicles that also lack the hardware to do that!!!

[@x-crisis]

The theater had those popular 80s movies "Fetch" and "Ester's Millions" (I assume they dropped some letters from Fletch and Brewster's Millions).

[@ddrusa]

Great Scott

[@riaanpotgieter475]

I had the "hots" 🔥 for Bonnie ♥️🌹😍, and when she disappeared from the show it was never the same. I still watched the show, but missed Bonnie terribly.

[@redfive2008]

She came back late in season 3 and remained for the rest of the series run. As I recall, she moved out of the background more when she came back.

[@jamescity1160]

Michael and KITT are my heroes ❤️

[@BrianKitching-wv5nh]

Michael and KITT are my heroes too.I have been and continue to be a huge Knight Rider fan. So far I have been a fan for 42 years and drove a KITT replica twice in 2018.If your interested in anything Knight Rider related check out the Knight Rider Historians, they have the original Flag semi

[@jamescity1160]

@@BrianKitching-wv5nh Yes, I love KR Historians. Happy Easter.

[@BrianKitching-wv5nh]

@jamescity1160 happy easter to you too

[@gymguy25]

0:43-that background is in Back to the Future isn't it?

[@kellyweingart3692]

yes

[@kellyweingart3692]

“Michael!....you have to come with me” “Where?” “Back to the Future”

[@kellyweingart3692]

“Once this baby hits Super Pursuit Mode...you’re gonna see some serious...” “This is a kid’s show”

[@morganrussman]

Yeah, in fact, I think that the area there that they filmed that on is or used to be owned by universal. In fact, a lot of the locations that you see in the show, especially in the earlier episodes (ie: a good day at white rock) were filmed there.

[@hueymontgomery9508]

Man is some kind of Back to the future reference?

[@khxml]

The old ladys response at 5:20 😆

[@kevinallen2395]

Here it comes Knight Rider

[@ilgwent8061]

Lancia 037 B Group at 6:58🙏

[@Legitcar117]

A ww2 German tank in knight rider? Lol

[@kyle8952]

All that elaborate gibberish technobabble about ignition coils and they could've just had mike say "kitt, look up the radio frequency for RC cars and send a signal to spin up the motor" and it would've just been correct.

[@DEC19775]

Love that old lady she’s brilliant

[@michaelmarburger1003]

This was when “Knight Rider” got the “Cousin Oliver” treatment with the actual Cousin Oliver. 😂😂😂

[@dennispond4822]

The same movie theater from Back to the Future.

[@hulksmash8159]

Gremlins.

[@SA-zoom1]

Bonnies new boyfriend 😂

[@daniellatimer1876]

That's the Back To The Future set. I recognized the word TOWN from the movie.

[@isaacsrandomvideos667]

Isn’t this the episode with the Cadillac and the monster truck? 0:45 bttf! 7:02 my dad has one of those!!! 2 in fact.

[@sunder66]

So nobody is going to ask why a secret military base in the usa uses a king tiger tank??

[@amstrad79b]

Is this a crossover with Back to the Future and Gremlins? It's in the same village.

[@marky456x]

The Universal backlot.

[@amstrad79b]

@@marky456x Exactly! 😋

[@morganrussman]

Like Markey mentions, that is (at least I think it still is) one of universal's lots. Quite a few of the early episodes of the show such as good day at white rock were filmed there.

[@MrRicksta76]

apparently, tyres can screech on dirt?

[@syntaxusdogmata3333]

Noticed the same thing! 😆

[@thedude8046]

They had special traction

[@garryiglesias4074]

It's a decoy for opponents... Kitt was way ahead of its time..

[@foxcatdemon318]

Ya they can actually

[@x-crisis]

In the 80s they could, all the shows at the time demonstrated this feature.

[@sp4604]

Bonnie was so Foxy!!

[@hulksmash8159]

You should see her old centerfold spreads. Hubba hubba.

[@CerveloR5]

I bet no one knew that the movie theater in the background at 0:46 was actually in a part of the movie Gremlins when they blew up the theater.

[@hulksmash8159]

Back to the Future.

[@rosemarygaunt3547]

Keep on fighting Micheal and these people now rose

[@stephenfarthing3819]

King Tiger 2 - hmm! Jury rigged for remote operation.

[@jessihawkins9116]

patricia mcpherson looks so good in this episode. i saw the then and now video of the cast and i can’t believe how badly she has aged.

[@BrianKitching-wv5nh]

Yes she has aged pretty badly,she is in her late 60's now.

[@therealrockstargamer]

Hacking was a thing back then you could get away with a lot more

[@fabsouza11]

When Michael Knight came at Hill Valley....

[@eswnl1]

Hill Valley seems deserted. What happened?

[@langijoseph5403]

Woa. Those guys. Are. Serious

[@ilgwent8061]

K.I.T.T hacks an R/C car wich is a GM car just like her ('82 Opel Ascona 400 B Group). Obviously IMHO and with all due respect 👌

[@mianahmad5918]

@Wolf Edmunds is this kind of analog hacking possible?

[@DiosanXaquerry]

did you just misgender KITT ? lol

[@stanleybochenek1862]

@@DiosanXaquerry i think so lol

[@the_kombinator]

Nice, group B rally car toys.

[@JamieBui-m8z]

Nice!😁

[@AntiSerpent]

I like the morse codes. I always have a thing for them.

[@audiogus2651]

7:03 Tamiya Grasshopper! My first R/C!

[@julenreus5777]

What happened to Kitts voice on this episode ?😅

[@garryiglesias4074]

He caught cold.

[@kellyweingart3692]

lol

[@julenreus5777]

@@garryiglesias4074 😂

[@redfive2008]

Computer virus.

[@golfy808]

Is that the script in Michael's back pocket?

[@kellyweingart3692]

lol

[@barnabus1976]

Probably...

[@BJETNT]

I am sitting here working on one of my RC cars as I'm watching this. He'd have to be more than an eagle scout to be able to pick up on Morse code that fast!!! Not to mention he'd have to know where Bonnie and the boy was to drive it over in front of them which he did not!!

[@HighlanderNorth1]

📡 yWell, since most Knight Rider episodes are based on true stories, then obviously KITT must've been aware of the locations of every hostage in that room! It's my theory that there were secret satellite-guided spy cameras built into the RC rally car's headlights. Kitt simply utilized that technology to determine the precise location of the hostages. These facts are very easy to grasp, once you come to grips with the obvious reality that the early 80s was THE most technologically advanced era in human history, with computer technology that dwarfs that which is available in 2023! Did you see those green lights on Kitt's gas pedal? That technology couldn't be duplicated today! 😕

[@redfive2008]

My question is, why didn't the kid tap out "5" instead of "five"?

[@danielturner721]

7:14 Doesn't that make your eyes see it moving in another direction?

[@tails359]

7:40 you can see the wire they pull the toy car over with.

[@monkeypolice3048]

My phone is a million times more powerful than kitt, but kitt was able to do more than my phone.

[@pdennis93]

Back to the future theatre at :45

[@hulksmash8159]

Gremlins.

[@pdennis93]

@@hulksmash8159 it's both. It's definitely the theatre Marty crashes into when he returns to 1985. The clock tower can be seen on a few knight rider episodes as well.

[@joop7381ep]

KITT IS ZO GOOD

[@BrianKitching-wv5nh]

Who is playing Nick in this episode?

[@enochduran3279]

Knight confuse the enemy with the five star binder.

[@Samuel-gc6js]

1:18 serious lack of Turbo Boost's in season 4 :(

[@BrianKitching-wv5nh]

Yes because they were running out of money to pay Jack Gill and all the other stuntmen who worked on the show.

[@gibran5740]

Amo 3ssa serie.

[@jean-lucpicard5510]

Well modelled king Tiger 2.

[@VatsGEN]

Tamiya ❤

[@bas6628]

Lucky that some one knows Morse code

[@RoodeMenon]

That's a big deal. It must be an important subject for school education. It can save lives.

[@garryiglesias4074]

@@RoodeMenon Now if someone received your "... --- ..." they will just think it's good music and would twerk on it... Unless ABBA arrives and save the world...

[@norsazalinaina8878]

Best

[@ramwalker8620]

is the remote control car a opel manta or fake because i saw a lancia 037 on kitts screen

[@boerharms2209]

Opel Ascona 400, 1/10 RC car by Tamiya

[@AlexsTheCat]

Wait isnt this place for movie BTTF ?

[@AndrewChapman]

That poor town. First it has a car crash into a manure truck way back in 1955 after they tried chasing some teenage kid from the future and now an armed jeep lol

[@Alexandermatth3w]

At exactly 0:46 you see that they are in hill valley from back to the future

[@stolmich]

Why didn't KITT close the windows, when they encountered "more hardware"?

[@robsnook4512]

They were in one shot, open in another lol

[@mohdjohari1943]

Kitt de bass hit muvi tv soh malaysia 1982 🔥 hot muvi de bss muvi

[@graymanmedia]

Michael Knight vs SuperFly

[@mattayres371]

What season is this? 🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@kellyweingart3692]

Season Four

[@mattayres371]

@@kellyweingart3692 thanks kelly! 😉👍

[@waleedhassan798]

4

[@oddjob1795]

That’s a king tiger from world war 2.

[@MrJeep75]

Still have a grass hopper

[@waunbudd2665]

Who does that guy think he is?... Ron O'Neal or something?😁

[@kellyweingart3692]

😂😂😂😂

[@afterburner198X]

The blonde kid was in the cartoon kidd video

[@kitsunegiblaze8022]

YES!!! I thought I recognized him!!!

[@clintbrew]

​@@kitsunegiblaze8022if u watched the naruto and the boruto dubs he voices choji and in the naruto video games and he voiced Michelangelo in the 90s live action films and is best known fo cousin oliver in the brady bunch tv show

[@verasantanna9148]

😊😊😂❤❤BOM DIAA,POR FAVOR A FALTAR LEGENDA O VIDEO? ( SOU DEFICIENTE AUDITIVA 🧏‍♀️🇧🇷🇧🇷 ❤) MTO PRAZER SR.DAVID HASSELHOFF.

[@ronniecarter9688]

……. & why did Bonnie feel the need to get close to make that statement??

[@wardogies]

Michael knight is in hill valley

[@mattayres371]

Don't remember this one....🤔

[@srabonsameevlogs6514]

Exclent

[@liamclarke5761]

0:42 back to the future set

[@hulksmash8159]

Gremlins.

[@robertspencer703]

The government official was chrissy's boss on 3s Company

[@sylviecabezas6623]

cela est dommage que cette série tv est pas Français si quelqu'un ces comment on peut avoir en français dite le moi

[@RohayaIbrahim-bj9sn]

wow how the pontiac trans am 1982 get a system robot computer so he can hacks the toy

[@bukhoringuruan9318]

Yes,,they go,to machael,,

[@GladiatorGladiator2023]

0:46

[@pdennis93]

Who was driving those tanks?

[@hulksmash8159]

Gremlins.

[@kpmayadunna695]

When come from Knight Rider New Film" ?

[@NostalgiaRC1]

Same set used for back to the future

[@stopmotionking49]

Biden would love that bad guy

[@amymartin4435]

DO GOLIATH RETURNS!!!!!!