KITT to the Rescue: Michael's Daring Escape from Comtron | Knight Rider

[@chrismouchteros7289]

Knight Rider was filmed, released and viewed during golden, amazing and unforgettable 80' s decade in all!...

[@cubeyuk]

Is your spacebar broken?

[@kevinkaatz883]

Although in my teens, I miss the 80s'

[@chrismouchteros7289]

@@cubeyuk No, at all...

[@chrismouchteros7289]

@@kevinkaatz883 Me, too...

[@krzysztofukasiewicz2426]

Krzysztof Łukaszewicz

[@actioncom2748]

"Have you been drinking?" "Not yet, but I plan on it." GOOD ANSWER!!!!!!

[@isaacsrandomvideos667]

ActionCom WHEEEYYYY

[@bangash8963]

Michael life shoot

[@ivanuzanov6406]

No matter how monotone, no matter how quiet, kitt will always show the most emotion

[@kleetus92]

I think he's part Vulcan

[@kellyweingart3692]

KITT: “Fascinating”

[@Mak.kay.la10]

Yes, agreed

[@edgarbeat275]

I love the WHERE WOULD I GO!

[@rjaxxxas]

I love the quality of the audio of K.I.T.T's voice.

[@connormit2007]

Michael: Alright, don't look behind you KITT: **Scanner sound**

[@supulwimalaratne1997]

This was the very best of Knight Rider. This is what made me fall in love with this show when I was just 7 years old. Here I am, 22 and still madly in love with this❤

[@kyrauniversal]

Yeah! I even am writing a fan film script on it. Basically just a slight comedy short film of how civilians would be like, finding these crimes and scenarios, or like short little exchanges. "Who just talked back to that guy?" "No one was in there." "Well I don't care if it's a guy, or the car, still sounds Hot." "...bro, you have a problem."

[@kimberlywalters7592]

Loved how Kitt protected Micheal from these ruthless Criminals!!

[@levoniaaadams4640]

You said it!

[@BrianKitching-wv5nh]

I agree.That was KITT doing his job,he was programed to protect Michael at all costs and not to take another human life.Awesome show

[@houseofno]

Guard wearing sunglasses shooting at KITT when it's dark night time. Priceless.

[@joshnickerson83]

The guard is a die-hard Corey Hart fan, he can't help it!

[@marctronixx]

Thats Southern cali baby.. :)

[@rickallman1318]

Guard was a speedhead?

[@SandsOfArrakis]

@@joshnickerson83 "I wear my sunglasses at night" 😎

[@israeliqueen153]

@@SandsOfArrakis I've done this for years before it was the thing to do. People even insist that I can't see but I can.

[@andiholman2543]

This is literally THE best to ever be caught on celluloid. The Comtron crash scene!

[@BrianKitching-wv5nh]

I agree.

[@huepix]

Love how the gunshot injury swaps shoulders.

[@Ace-xe2uo]

LOL I noticed that too.

[@JasonWalkerJamaica]

Shhhhhhh

[@Foundyoumylove]

Haha, I like it tho, it’s a type of charm to me

[@XB10001]

And KITT's front fender changed at 7:00

[@kennethoats2322]

Continuity was never KR's strong point

[@davidriley9194]

4:11 “No don’t kill me! Don’t kill me I got a dog at home, I got a sick mother!”😂😂😂😂😂

[@jonnyp]

this should be called "KITT's first Turbo Boost"

[@setusername8275]

Why? It wasn't his first Turbo Boost. We saw him doing that before during the demolition derby.

[@Brianfightingmad]

His ass end hit the back of the semi.

[@TheKnightsShield]

@@setusername8275 And before that when those 2 guys stole KITT while Michael was on the phone to Devon.

[@AndrewChapman]

@@setusername8275 Yeah, bit of a continuity error. As you say, we first see KITT use Turbo Boost during the demolition derby earlier on. And as TheKnightsShield pointed out, the scene with the 2 car thieves too. Yet they act like this is the first time Michael discovers KITT's Turbo Boost function. Most likely cuz this scene along with a few other scenes in the pilot were filmed as part of the NBC presentation before filming the rest of the pilot.

[@The2Coolest2]

@@setusername8275 That wasn't a Turbo Boost. The announcer clearly says "A bump in the road let the Trans Am go airborn".

[@DaveMcFly]

Devon: "KITT can he make it?" KITT: "You want the truth, in front of him?" That always got me loved KITT's snark in the pilot lol

[@dcdrew3]

This scene really established just how strong/tough KITT's molecular bonded shell really is.

[@Longlostpuss]

Right at the end of this episode Devon said that Michael had dented him. I always wondered at what point of the episode that apparently would have happened, because K.I.T.T. hardly impacted anything throughout it. It could well have been that truck scene, but I'm guessing it's a bit earlier when he went through the Police car, as that would not have been a clean impact at all, the truck looked like a hot knife through butter.

[@dcdrew3]

@@Longlostpuss I used to wonder about that too. I'm sure that going through a semi-trailer was the start of it,...there might've been a weak spot on the frame of the Knight-2000 cause of the rush of getting it finished before giving it to Michael. But who knows? I mean 6 months before they had activated KARR, & they should've pretty much had been experts at making another super car.

[@bohoward6991]

@@dcdrew3 well KARR had been deactivated so at the same time they probly didnt get a full test with KARR. As wilton stated it got tooken away from him because they wantes to use him as an assault vehicle so wilton put him.in storage and then sarted with KITT

[@dboymax1]

@@Longlostpuss How about when the bad guys were using drills in trying to break into KITT. I mean a diamond drill is no joke...

[@Longlostpuss]

@@dboymax1 I seriously doubt that, the diamond bits of the drill actually got bent out of shape if you recall the scene, they did nothing to K.I.T.T. That also wouldn't have been Michael Knight's fault. I reckon it was the bit when they went through the Police car and made it explode, that was pretty reckless.

[@Ulgos]

i have to say this,i love those 80s office designs

[@richardurbans5816]

I do too.

[@danielvirag3826]

4:54 - when I was a child I couldn't belive this scene.. so awesome!

[@Chemdawg2009]

Man! I was 12 years old when I first saw this pilot episode and it never gets old!

[@kleetus92]

5:06 I like how Michael forgot he was shot on the left side... guess his vital signs really were good!

[@rollerbladinggeek5507]

Why do u think they chose him for the job of Michael Knight instead of yourself?

[@kleetus92]

@@rollerbladinggeek5507 because I was 8 at the time?

[@rollerbladinggeek5507]

kleetus92 Guess again.

[@kennethoats2322]

Continuity was never a strong point

[@PhayzinOut]

KITT did confirmed his vitals signs were good 😂

[@andrewps84]

One of the scenes that made me fall in love with this show. I don’t even think I was 2 years old when this aired.

[@drriver8]

Funniest line: "Well, that wasn't Baker." @ 3:08

[@richi_luna53]

Yes

[@AbsoluteAbsurd]

Yea xD

[@kellyweingart3692]

😂

[@kellyweingart3692]

“What about the car?”

[@davidriley9194]

Knight: Ohh! DON’T SHOOT DON’T SHOOT!!! It’s Baker!! Wilson: What’s going on?!

[@edwardsuharyanto]

I love how the security said "please dont kill me i got a dog at home and a sick mother"

[@colaseuguens5070]

Anmweyyy anmweyyy 😂😅🤣🤣

[@TheMJKnight]

Easily one of the best scenes

[@shanenway3684]

I love the 1Ft floppy disk without a sleeve 😂

[@colormedubious4747]

Gotta love those late 70s/early 80s Silicon Valley start-ups with their fleets of 18-wheelers and private armies.

[@richardurbans5816]

That scanner sound is the coolest, love it.

[@Voorhees-Jason]

Funny how that computer turned on with static like it was a tv hahaha

KITT: We all due respect, you are possibly considering... Oh, my word! You are!

[@truepakistanitv5779]

Golden memories of childhood

[@kenitacharles4477]

0cien11

[@redcr33perproductions]

rashid ali lucky you

[@anthonytyler7671]

First time watching the show,since 2004,9 years old

[@drewski1535]

Really makes you miss other 80s type suspenseful shows especially with the rooms used to look like

[@OscarRacso]

Nice , very nice. Also funny how Michaels injury shifts from right to left and back ;)

[@pennygadget7328]

Oscar - that's because Michael was originally shot in the right shoulder during the jail break, but they added extra scenes to expand the episode and accidentally flipped the sides... the poor editor probably didn't realize the footage he was handed was from two different versions of the same scene!

[@OscarRacso]

Penny Gadget it doesnt show that Michael is shot during the jailbreak, so they altered that or something?

[@pennygadget7328]

Oscar - they cut around it a bit and tried to distract with the "bullets are bouncing right off the windshield!" line they dubbed in, but when he climbs into KITT as he's being shot at in the jail, you can see him throw himself back into the seat and grab his shoulder as he's hit. Watch it in slow-mo, and you'll never be able to unsee it! Kinda like the prototype KITT nose when he faces the truck at the end :)

[@OscarRacso]

Penny Gadget just watched and yup.. i saw it, now going to look at the proto nose ;)

[@Whocares158]

There's a lot of mistakes and errors you can easily find in these older shows. 😆

[@Pau_Pau9]

5:03 Michael: "KITT, KITT, Are you there?" KITT: "Where would I go?" Much sarcasm

[@brycewarner2459]

IKR? 😆 Knight Industries 2000 (Attitude included)

[@eswnl1]

stuck under this hood.

[@TF2Scout..]

The good comedy

[@pl5624]

Great background music in the pilot.

[@Longlostpuss]

At 4:31, if you listen carefully you can hear the roar of the actual Trans Am v8 engine under K.I.T.T.'s futuristic whirring sound.

[@DarklyDepressed]

I'm sure I've read somewhere that they actually took the Pontiac engine out of the car and replaced it with the smaller but equally powerful mustang engine to make room for the extra electronics. Of course, that may just be the hero car used for close ups. I imagine it would be too expensive to do that for all of the extra cars, so I imagine the stunt vehicles kept the original Trans-am engine.

[@aligamerable]

That "futuristic" sound is the sound of KITT's turbines.

[@richi_luna53]

3:51 epic moment!

[@kimberlywalters7592]

Knight of the Phoenix!! Love the introduction to Knight Rider!!❤❤❤ The 70s and 80s had the best television pilots!!❤❤❤❤

[@BrianKitching-wv5nh]

Too true

[@Brianfightingmad]

September of 1982 I was 6 years old. 😔 now I'm old and gray.

[@georgeisaak5321]

K.I.T.T was awesome !!!!

[@MyLifeInBinary]

Everyone is mentioning A-Team, Airwolf, and Knight Rider, but if you were a thinker, you were also watching MacGyver.

[@jlc6423]

Even hunter on Saturday nights was good

[@tthomaselli2]

I was born in 1989 & first saw this episode when I was 6.; I've been a fan of 'Knight Rider', ever since. I thought this show had just come out & was sad to read that this show debuted in 1982, instead...

[@andrewps84]

Yup same here. I never knew it was from the early 80s…seemed more modern than that.

[@ryiin]

Bloody loved this. I wore my tape of this out on my mums beetamax.

[@christopheral4602]

the turbine sounds were just cool

[@levoniaaadams4640]

Love everything about Night Rider and Michael 2022

[@thedarkknightman6150]

what i love about this is they made a toy out of this scene and i use to own it. you can actually make kitt crash through the truck and over the top too. great toy set and love knight rider

[@neovoltron25]

I grew up watching reruns when it was syndicated. I can't believe it's been 40 years.

[@jodyreeder4820]

Slick moves, wasn't thinking KITT would move.

[@winlin5374]

0:55 I miss you , 8" floppy disk.

[@atranfanatic]

5 1/4 actually,. l know I still have my original Commodore 64 computer from when I was a kid in the 80's.

[@jnnx]

atranfanatic the original ones were 8”.

[@atranfanatic]

@@jnnx Reallly? Hmmm...interesting.

[@Chevroletcelebrity]

@@jnnxno they weren’t 🙄

[@alski200]

Does anybody ever wish now looking back if they would've have kept Wilton Knight alive through the pilot and then die at the end knowing the people that tried to topple his company were taken down. Then after that Michael decides to carry out Wilton dream that one man can make a difference.

[@tthomaselli2]

8:17.; Leave it to K.I.T.T. to keep secrets...

[@marctronixx]

@7:05 , the Actors grisly laugh! :) HE played as "Augie" on an episode of Dukes. he is a good villain. :)

[@jonmcalexander6475]

He played the black widows leader on ever witch way but loose with Clint Eastwood

[@tahmidchowdhury711]

Good job kitt and Michael knight

[@jorasaveminiaturas]

5:25 Michael is holding his right shoulder hurt and then 5:38 the left one ??? noticed anyone?

[@ShipSpottingNederland]

Horrible edit... :)

[@chaff5]

I didn't till now. What's also funny is they even took the effort to bloody his hand.

[@alski200]

@@ShipSpottingNederland It wasn't an edit. One the behind the scene David address this and he did say that he forgot which shoulder he was suppose to hold when he was shot

[@K3vyB]

@@alski200 Should have shot him for real then, wouldn't forget that way.

[@alski200]

@@K3vyB I just spit out my drink in laughter

[@JayneTenn]

2:10 not again! LoL

[@kellyweingart3692]

lol

[@Scott_Burton]

0:20 oh how cutting edge the idea was, and yet how SO archaic the computers were by today’s standards.

[@paulwhite6745]

Today's computers are basically the same technology as their eighties ancestors, just more refined, but fundamentally the same.The basic principles of the electronic digital computer haven't changed since the fifties.The biggest advancements have been in miniaturisation - so that it's possible to pack more and more computing power into a smaller and smaller physical space - that's why we now have cheap wristwatch sized computers with many thousands of times more computing power than the fastest most expensive supercomputers of forty years ago - but they still work on essentially the exact same principles. And despite all the advancements in AI, nobody has created anything close to KITT in real life yet.

[@svorkoetter]

4:38 Look at all the skidmarks from previous takes. :-)

[@connectorxp]

Many episodes have them, and the series have some editing and continuity mistakes.

[@KnightCK]

Very nice

[@Longlostpuss]

7:28 - That moment when you bug your mum to go on the ride she tells you you're not ready for yet and it starts that long ascent up the incline.

[@kellyweingart3692]

“The what?” “Nevermind...allow me to demonstrate”

[@kellyweingart3692]

*crashes through semi*

[@damonevans1042]

I. Like. Knight. Rider. Kitt. Was. A. Cool. Car.

[@GhostbustersReturns]

The Pilot Was Awesome

[@GhostbustersReturns]

I was almost 3 when Knightrider Premiered in 1982 and My Sister was just a baby.

[@sean-xm9661]

LOVED KITTS engine turbine sounds from the 1st two episodes and the pilot. They should have re used the sounds for KARR.

[@salvatorebalacco]

TURBO BOOST!!

[@damienroussey]

Merci beaucoup

[@damien5138]

I bet the truck driver wishes he was back with the Black Widows

[@СергейКурмыза-ы2я]

1:38 Michael Long is dead, sweetheart! Meet the ghost of the past!

[@KaristaSwiss]

I want to see the rest of this movie :-)

[@stratfordbaby]

This definitely does look like the Premiere episode. Turbo Boost needed work.

[@agenda224danger9]

Sci fi private eye or private investigator there are no shows like this anymore

[@SamStuart07]

Computers were so sophisticated back then.

[@AldenRDavis]

7:40 - “K.I.T.T.’s first Turbo Boost.”

[@KmT81]

Happy 70th David Michael Mitch Hasselhoff

[@anthonytyler7671]

2:10 Micheal had a clear shot at the 🐖

[@susannewurth9638]

ICH LIEBE DIE SERIEN VOM KITT MICHAEL SO EN SUPER SCHAUSPIELER. DAVID ICH MACHE JETZT HOSEN MIT DEM KITT. UND DAVID. HASSELHOFF.

[@Mr_brut3]

My mistake I thought it said KITT helps Michael escape Compton 🤣

[@kellyweingart3692]

“Tonight on Knight Rider:KITT and Michael go to Compton”

[@makaylaware2746]

this comment made me WHEEZE

[@marctronixx]

LOL me too for a hot second... :)

[@kellyweingart3692]

Michael : “KITT, let’s get out of here”

[@michaeldry7967]

That’s too unrealistic. They wouldn’t have made it out

[@jestergreekgamer1275]

Don't kill me, I ve got a dog at home!!! Ha ha ha 🤣🙂 priceless!

[@garyrule231]

After this episode he never fired a gun since

[@MrShadowknight2000]

He did fire a gun 2 other times

[@MrShadowknight2000]

Once in plush ride and another when he pretend to shot Devin miles

[@mikeduggan6988]

And in short notice he killed a biker by gunshot

[@FormulaPunRacer]

And in 2nd season episode Knightmares

[@sean-xm9661]

WRONG...IN 1 EPISODE, HE SHOT DEVON MILES

[@ryanramkissoon1630]

2023 still watching❤

[@Sbrodj31]

They should have named him Michael TALL... because LONG IS...aeumh...

[@aqn01]

07:39 U CANT GET ME KRABS ! NOT IF I SHIFT INTO MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE!

[@gtnkeeth1418]

this scene shoulda been dubbed, "Into The Night"

[@MotorScotti]

Into the Knight

[@sanchoodell6789]

What was fascinating about this show (and in fact any 1980s TV show) is that I don't recall any character ever needing to or going to the toilet (bathroom) in any episode or scene. Not one mention or scene of someone using a toilet or farting giving the illusion that they were super human!

[@yosefmacgruber1920]

Not super-human. Simply can't fit everything into a mere 50-minute episode. If it was some boring 5-hour movie, then maybe you might have a scene like that. Most video games that I have played had no restrooms. Good thing that I am super-human. Oh wait, forget that.

[@aaronhunte8768]

Still can draw a crowd, even though from the 80s, people still had their natural hair.

[@jimi4985]

7:02 Is it just me or does the Firebird here have a different shaped bumper extension from what they usually used? Might be a weird camera angle too.

[@Omega_X_Factor]

Nope, it wasn’t just you.

[@carlstahlkopf2502]

That's the "John Ward" front nose, which was basically just the factory front bumper modified with an opening for the scanner, as well as the grill inserts closed flush. This nose is seen in several of the pilot shots, as well as when they filmed the front wheel while driving. Footage which would be partially reused in a number of episodes throughout the series. With this modified front bumper, KITT still had the front deflectors, but not as soon they changed it to the proper KITT nose.

[@Schultzy1992]

it just a 1982 Pontiac Trans Am not Firebird. There no Firebird decals on the hood.

[@galvanizedcorpse]

0:39 look those things bouncing

[@andrewwblanchard6037]

because they were real

[@galvanizedcorpse]

yeah... I LOVE the way they fucking bounce my god

[@nigelmathewsnrm]

Yeah, but who didn't want to pull that top down? 😕 😉

[@ShipSpottingNederland]

Bouncing?

[@nattymo7835]

Phyllis Davis, if you're inclined to do further research. 😉

[@TheSackese]

4:07 You can clearly see the driver's seat is someone dressed to look like a seat :D

[@andrismajors8171]

The driver is real. In all episodes you can see in backside of seat.KARR in KITT vs KARR was driven like KITT to. One of episodes was clearly seen a driver with glasses.

[@Mr_Snowclouds]

He's gonna call on the mobile microwave line is that what cell phones were called back then.

[@tyriedle2658]

I remember kitt in the 1980s I watched it every week kitt rocks. Wonder if knight riders on Netflix's guys. So I can watch at home.

[@sampsonharris8565]

Just download the NBC app.....all the old episodes are on there

[@kellyweingart3692]

except Dead of Knight from season three

[@nattymo7835]

The actor who portrayed Tanya... her name is Phyllis Davis. Hubba hubba.

[@Angyali]

She had icecold look.

[@TheAngelOfDeath01]

Sunglasses? In the middle of the night while firing at a moving, talking car? Ha! Genius!

[@Schultzy1992]

or it could be his glasses

[@kimberlywalters7592]

Hot!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@andrewwblanchard6037]

KNIGHT RIDER 1st episode KNIGHT OF THE PHOENIX is the 1st NBC show that the NETWORK executives asked to be made longer on DVD It's almost 20 minutes longer

[@DjMakinetor]

7:23 ha ha ha :D !!!

[@sailorx72]

I watched this episode recently on Netflix and I noticed that this scene was edited. The part where KITT is shot and and him colliding with an empty security car was removed. Why?

[@jamesmark7381]

The Love between Kit and Michael I do Care about but don't tell anyone😇👍

[@sweiland75]

I had forgotten how KITT had the personality of a wife.

[@MrShadowknight2000]

I say more of a brother

[@laczikzoltan7793]

In the final of the scene is it a same actor, who played the role of Rooster in season 3

[@jammer96]

This was probably the darkest episode of the series. After awhile of the show being on tv toys and video games started being made and the show was lightened up a little bit for the kiddos. Always loved this show for the car, even though it was crappy in real life.

[@jdmlegent]

You mean crappy? The Trans Am ? Can you share some information?

[@andrismajors8171]

The Scent of Roses are darker. This was original ending episode. Not VooDoo.

[@kellyweingart3692]

Dead of Knight

[@Jbaxter85]

1:34 - Tanya look like she seen a ghost when she realize it's Michael Long, she's going to wish she did.

[@сергейКурмыза-щ4й]

Well, that's because Michael IS a ghost of his former self.

[@PhayzinOut]

This is also only one of two scenes in all four seasons where Knight uses a gun

[@evilwarcow]

Do you have the one where K.I.T.T. Busts Michael out of Jail in this episode?

[@606danco]

evilwarcow iTS on KZbin typ in knight rider knight of the Phoenix kitt bust micheal out of prision i watch that clip all the time

[@lasnamelasname]

Knight rider 2 +

[@nhlakaniphoshangase2222]

Lol please dnt kill me I got a dog at home🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@danielabackstrom]

I got a sick mother 😩😂

[@raymondhaley8156]

Just like Smokey and the bandit, my favorite character on the show was kitt, the trans am