KNIGHT RIDER | SPEED DEMONS Episode Commentary (EP37) David Hasselhoff LYDIA CORNELL

[@waleedhassan798]

Devon bit in the chopper was one of the best and funniest bits of speed demons

[@karr203]

This is why the second season is the best and I have to say the best turbo boost reaction is Michael and April falling back in the seat and the smile on April's face. You can tell they had so much fun doing that show. Also one of the funniest endings of the series

[@yipas]

The car in the "Chariot of Gold" was a U.S. spec french made Renault Fuego. The car you are mentioning at 14:01' is an 82', or an 83' Toyota Celica Supra.

[@houseofno]

I'm shocked they botched that one. The Toyota Celica Supra and the Fuego Turbo are NOTHING alike, especially since the Fuego Turbo has exposed, fixed rectangular headlamps and the Celica/Supra's are either exposed and laid back (early Celica), completely hidden (Toyota Supra), or covered by a black plastic cover (late Celica).

[@enriquegilmour]

I spotted that right away. First I saw the Supra and then I went back and double checked and I was correct. Good eyes you two.

[@KariM-pm9jm]

The comment about Charlenes red car at 14:00 is unfortunately off: Those are two different models, Toyota Celica Supra vs. Renault Fuego. Both cool early eighties coupes, still.

[@pdennis93]

Yup. Definitely a supra at 14:03

[@Littlewing1977]

@@pdennis93 "IS THAT A SUPRA!"

[@pdennis93]

@@Littlewing1977 yes Celica Supra. It's a 1983 or 1984 model.

[@FirstDan2000]

Ah, I initially thought it was a Toyota Supra, but I was easily swayed with the pic of the Renault. I should have followed it through.

[@johnrossewing3982]

Yep. Supra v. Fuego. 2 different cars.

[@FirstDan2000]

These episode commentaries get better and better. I love all of the nuggets and show notes, and behind the scenes photos and Google Street view images and details of the cars and people. (Did I miss anything there?) Thank you. Please keep doing this.

[@thinkingdevil]

I agree wholeheartedly! And at the rate these commentaries get better (and they were already quite good and very informative right from the start), they probably have to remake/enhance/extend the first ones when they are finally done with all four seasons. :-)

[@FirstDan2000]

@@thinkingdevil By then these guys will probably be creating their own Knight Rider episodes, with the screen used Kitt, and screen used Semi. And their own screen used Hasselhoff - coming up in a future video.

[@RiderRated18]

I’ll never get tired of listening to all of these fascinating facts about the screen used KITT’s Joe 👌 Great work as always dude 🙂

[@elisatornow8733]

I'm glad you guys have the nose from the manual KITT. That car went through a lot, and deserves to have part of it preserved.

[@petermclachlan-wortley3339]

Another great commentary on another brilliant episode,Joe...firstly R.I.P. Micheal Champion...so many great scenes in this one...for me..my favourite Ski-mode..also the first time i noticed the buttons had stickers on them..note someone had tried to put the label on then remove it and try again..you can see the fingerprint smudge..my second favourite jump too..also i love how David gives a quick smile to the camera crew when the H.T.D.D.s are activated...all in all a great episode...so looking forward to the next one..it's going to be a goodie...

[@danmurphy9173]

I always thought he nearly rolled the car on that ski launch! What a save!

[@crgray1979]

The funniest scene in the series is at the end is when Devon is riding a motorcycle and Michael and April are in kittnap and Michael turbo boost over devon

[@donovaneddiealanhodges1499]

Hey! I recognize that font when it says "ice cream". (7:43) That's the same font for the 2021 007 movie title No Time To Die! I think that is Beyer's ice cream from, I guess, early 1984.

[@CR7659]

breyers?

[@Patrick94GSR]

Oh wow, those images at the end I recognize as ViewMaster slides! I had that exact disc from this episode and very clearly recall every single one of those still photos. Brings back such memories from when I was growing up!

[@joshshepherd6548]

Love all the pictures at the end such a great channel!!

[@pdennis93]

Another favorite goof of mine is in the season 3 ep Knight in Retreat with Ann Turkle. Near the end, Michel gets out of KITT to climb onto a box truck and sends KITT after Ann's character who is driving a red 4x4 that shoots "tufflex" bullets out of the spare tire. As KITT prepares to turbo boost over the 4x4, you see his "finger" press the turbo boost button 🤣🤣🤣

[@houseofno]

The episode you speak of is a third season episode called "Knight In Retreat."

[@RollerCoasterLineProductions]

This is one of my favorite episodes, because of the motorcycles, obviously

[@kimberlywalters7592]

Love the behind the scenes pics! ❤

[@kamranetemad4968]

Love these weekly narrated knigh rider episoides.it like 80 s all over again waiting for next episoid to come on air each week.thank you for this.dreyers ice cream in the caption? I am guessing.

[@kareemrichards8635]

Cool stuff always enjoy watching. Thanks for sharing.

[@joaoluistavares6046]

Our neighbor Camaro always likes to pay a visit. So here we see that manual car. This one did a lot. Here, then K.A.R.R., then it went to the acid, then it became the transforming SPM. It's clearly the same van. No doubt about it. Another well-made scene with that Turbo Boost. You said that on that episode. This was the first body. Then they made another one much better. These things are just blowing my mind. First, the nose of the manual car is on the insert car. Then the insert car also has the other high traction drop-down system. The fog lights need to be mentioned. I say it again, probably the coolest ones in this entire world. I think this is the very single episode where KITT makes a different tone when Michael presses the Turbo Boost button. This tone is also played when Michael activated the H.T.D.D. function. Maybe they didn't like it, so they never played this tone again. Said to know Edward Mulhare didn't want to do that scene in the end. It was really cool and funny. I think we liked to see Devon, for one single time, not being Devon.

[@GérannGerberChannel]

Great episode Joe & AJ!! I'm looking forward to 'Goliath Returns'.

[@bikingD]

This episode was used in the 3 view master Knight Rider wheels I had as a kid.

[@waleedhassan798]

Definitely one of my favourites from S2

[@True_Knight]

This episode started filming on my birthday! It holds a special place in my heart 😆

[@bobbova8708]

Thanks for this gem! The info on the different kitt's that were used is always intetesting to hear. Nice to know that the nose from the manual kitt is still around and on one of your cars.The htdd was a neat idea and nicely executed. As always I am looking forward to your next video!!😃😀👍👍

[@phoenixblack1220]

Great stuff as always, Joe! Thank you for doing these. So looking forward to Goliath Returns!

[@jegoy68]

Great work as always Joe and KRH!!! Enjoyed immensely! Sure am excited for your take on Goliath Returns!!!…I hope it’s also a two-hour special!! Lol! :-)

[@chosenman08]

Thank you again for your amazing research.

[@kimberlywalters7592]

Lydia Cornell starred in Too Close for Comfort and also guest starred on Hunter as A hit woman.

[@The07gt]

Another great interesting video!👍 Joe, would it be possible to do a video on the inset car that you guys own? I would really enjoy the up close story of that particular car. Thank you for all these great videos!

[@filipohman7277]

Hi Joe and Nice Work Buddy 👍😀 Greetings from Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮🇺🇸

[@michaelknight2721]

Thanks for yet another great episode commentary Joe.I thought I recognised that van from Soul Survivor.

[@ShayLocomotivePro93184]

The Ice Cream I believe is Meadow Gold ice cream.

[@jediknightjairinaiki560]

Yep. The shape of the logo is a dead give away.

[@kimberlywalters7592]

Great Commentary! ❤

[@jinp9130]

Great job once again, one off my favourite episodes 🙂

[@jetknight7562]

I remember as kid in the early 80s me and my two brothers went to visit our father in Azusa ca, we were riding our bikes and happened to see BIGFOOT the truck on a trailer at a gas station. we were excited to see this huge truck in person it had those famous white rims on it and we asked the truck driver where is BIGFOOT going he told us it's going to Valencia near magic mountain.. at that time it was going to the filming of knight rider which we didn't know until years later I figured it out when i saw BIGFOOT on knight rider and remembered what the truck driver had mentioned... he gave us a small poster of BIGFOOT but unfortunately I don't have that anymore that was a long time ago...

[@vijayantgovender2045]

Thank you joe always enjoy watching your wonderful videos I am from South Africa

[@haylsgo]

Always loved that episode, the ending always made me laugh with the turbo boost over Devon.

[@davidandrews5215]

Looks like Hagan Dass ice cream and cool on the van as well , Yes cool

[@bjarkeistruppedersen8213]

Take a shot every time Joe says high traction dropdown 🍻🤣

[@Thomas-ss5jz]

I loved this episode..A lot of buttons where used and even a new function for KITT the HTDD…

[@James-seafan]

excellent video

[@CycolacFan]

You’d think KITT would have spotted they were returning to the same locations…

[@mrjsv4935]

Nice episode :) Others have already commented about Charlene's Fuego. Renault Fuego (and another Renault at the time, the Renault 11) has similar wrap-around rear window as GM 3rd gen F-bodies (Camaro & Firebird), but Toyota Supra doesn't have it ;)

[@quietizkept]

That’s exactly how hydraulics on low riders work. Watching KARR coming out on the sand, I immediately knew (on a recent watch) that car had hydraulics because of the jounce, as I’m told it’s called from my west coast friend. It comes from those rock-hard hydraulic cylinders pushing on the springs. Watch low rider vids and you’ll see the same effect.

[@karr203]

HTDD one of the best gadgets that should have been used more. Strange a lot of April's gadgets where only used once and then substituted in later seasons like htdd in the baha race in 4th season to get through the dirt they just said Bonnie beefed up Kitt's suspension system. Then in Sky Knight when Kitt drops from the plane Michael puts a parachute on Kitt but didn't April already install one.

[@codylee5727]

We are watching knight of the drones and I noticed in one scene kitts rear suspension is jacked up any info?

[@karr203]

Was that where Kitt drives to the mound of dirt after the drone crashes into it

[@knight2000-NC]

even as i kid i knew the scanner looked funny in some of these shots but had no idea at the time they were miniatures, though.

[@Northbaylandscaping]

17:10 Dam an off the shelf 1/24 scale model of Kitt would have done a better job here

[@kavinskysmith4094]

26:34 I wonder how much money they could have saved on paint if they just had ceramic coating back then, also with the high traction drop downs wouldnt that have folded in the body every time they hit a jump, as it seems like you'd really need like a beafed up ladder chassis car for that to work properly, either that or it would have required quite abit of reinforcement for it to work right.

[@CR7659]

Sounds like they adapted convertible top parts to make the car rise up. Would have to see the pump and so forth, or how it mounted. Surprised they re-used that jump scene, the location is pretty recognizable, a Dukes jump there, it was in a CHiPs episode, maybe the A-Team too.

[@michaelupton3107]

The rear tires on the high traction drop down kitt car look almost like pickup truck tires, I never knew that car was a stick shift trans-am it's amazing how I find out more interesting things about a television show now that I'm older, actually both of the GMC vans from the episode "race for life" are in the scene when the miniature scale model knight rider car turbo boosts over the miniature scale model kenworth k100 semi truck, the green van with the white and black stripes and as kitt lands the cream colored GMC van is seen, the front view of it😊❤👍

[@gem.dionisio]

I plan to modify one of my Aoshima Season 1 model kitts with the htdd feature. Any photos on how they mounted the rams?

[@Theratron]

Knight of the Drones…. I always wondered why the car used for the chase sequence had a stock Trans Am front with the factory grills taken out. And that was the insert car? I always figured it was a throwaway stuntcar that they didn’t bother to convert :P I can see why they would want to use the higher traction function driving over all those bumps in San Francisco though :)

[@brandonlink6568]

The UPC for that product is no longer in use but the prefix 70399 belongs to Dean Foods. They sell diary under many different names but in Southern California they go by either Dean's or Alta Dena. I couldn't find any pictures of their old ice cream cartons to confirm though, guess no one hung on to them. Maybe someone has a copy of an old commercial from California.

[@80s90sGuy]

Was the Camera man guy in Ghostbusters?

[@pdennis93]

Kurt Fuller was in Ghostbusters II according to IMDB.

[@williammitchell4417]

I'm wondering if the better model making happened after the the MPC model was released. I used to own several of those models

[@pt008]

Since it's only one set of wheels/tires, aren't the high tractions actually "push ups" instead of "drop downs" ?

[@houseofno]

That red and black car in the background at 14:02 is NOT a Fuego Turbo. It's a either a second gen Toyota Celica or Supra (I could have told you which had the left side of the frame hadn't obscured the front bumper on the car). These two vehicles are almost NOTHING alike. The Renault Fuego Turbo has a much more rounded side window, while the rear quarter windows on this generation Celica/Supra are much more triangular. From Goliath Part 2 (paraphrased): KITT: "But Michael, the odds of KRH being able to tell a Renault Fuego Turbo from an early 80s Toyota Supra are *odds calculator self destructs*... my odds calculator just malfunctioned!"

[@dahan419]

That label looks extremely familiar. Looks like an Alta Dena tub of ice cream.

[@troykelso]

Motocrosser #25 (Jack Gill) keeps switching back and forth between a Honda two-stroke CR (no headlight, expansion chamber), and a Honda XR four-stroke (headlight, tail light, 24:17). The XR being pushed at 14:14 is much smaller than an XR500; it's probably an XR100. An XR500 would be much too tall and heavy for a female to push around easily.

[@michealoceallaigh4716]

I am henceforth referring to the manual transmission KITT car as "Manny" plus, does the shot with Manny and D. Hasselhoff with the large pond in the background seem foreshadowing to anyone?

[@josecarloslucasmateos407]

Excuse me but the red car in the background of one of the scenes is definitely NOT a Renault Fuego, that car is much more boxy-styled than Charlene's Fuego. Regards from southern Spain!!

[@commontater652]

Edy's ice cream.

[@danmurphy9173]

Seriously, even with the different perspective the front and rear wheels do NOT appear to be the same size. Is it possible that the fronts were 16’s? I mean really, I always noticed how weird they looked!

[@christina812bugs]

I just saw the hand and arm in real time hahahaha that was creepy!

[@MichaJagiencarz]

What about white Beetle in the garage? 😉

[@born_again_torinos]

No, that red car is not charlines Fuego, it is a toyota supra.

[@jamiewalters5480]

The red car in background wasn't the Renault its a Toyota

[@danielstorm281]

Would you ever restore functionality to your H.T.D.D.s? Is it against what you want the Insert Car to be presented as?

[@christiankobler8816]

joe sorry but you´re wrong its a toyota celica supra in the backround of the hotel .. not from chariot of gold :)

[@tompinkerton8099]

I am extremely shocked and saddened that at 17:12 when you begin discussing the manual transmission car, you failed to mention that it has fog light grills. I demand a refund.

[@kobrakai007]

we don't talk about about the fog light grills no more

[@4spd440]

That car parked was a Toyota Supra.

[@pdennis93]

I'm gonna guess haagan-dazs for the ice cream.

[@jerichompm]

Hagan Daz - + Thank you Joe

[@otherunicorn]

Box van also had the same license plate in both shots. probably its real one?

[@crgray1979]

I just watched goliath return last night

[@pauldevine2932]

Anyone remember the green kit car think in one episode

[@pdennis93]

The only time I remember seeing KITT in a different color was when he was in primer in Junkyard Dog.

[@jwfloating-world]

Speed demons would have made a great TV show especially with KITTs A.I. in a motor bike. Also some great camera work during the race with camera mounted on the car roof for some shots.

[@Thermool]

Bruce Seth Green is Seth Green’s father. I knew there was something about his name. Not really

[@bobbymatthews5586]

A & W Root beer

[@aLoneCrusader]

Perhaps a real H.T.D.D. could be done by using a Citroën's hydropneumatic suspension parts. At least the ride on the normal level would be a lot smoother...

[@CycolacFan]

I wonder if they used any Citroen parts considering that the rear end rises before the front does.

[@waleedhassan798]

Meet the 8th wonder of the world !!!!!

[@jimadams7780]

How. They make spikes. Come. Out. The. Wheels

[@pdennis93]

The spikes were in a different episide iirc. I think the shot of the crew cab pickup truck rolling over is from that episode. I always wondered why KITT didn't use the high traction drop downs in that scene to prevent him from rolling.

[@karr203]

@@pdennis93 yes another episode like the baha race where they could have used htdd

[@johnmartel6192]

👍

[@stuartclark3779]

I always notice when KITT rolls up at the start of a scene there is still visible condensation from the exhaust. He would have been up to temperature by then, but in reality just driven off a truck close by😎

[@damianjackson9751]

It will still condensate if the outside air temp is cool regardless if engine is warm . And If not the temp it would be piston rings

[@DS-fo4ed]

100% supra