10 MORE Things You Probably Didn't Know About Knight Rider! Was KITT's Dash Really Just STICKERS?

[@RionDeno]

thanks for the info I loved it, and we were poor back then had to watch KITT on a black and white TV, so the sticker thing was very much unnoticeable and besides I was just 7yrs old I only loved the car chases and KITTS unbelievable feats

[@JJSoCrazy]

I own the leather jacket from auction. Great to own a peace of Knight Rider history!

[@popretro1]

Great score! Congrats!

[@Survivor-ng4te]

Does it smell like the Hoff himself?

[@houseofno]

The idea that forty one years after this series aired and we still don't a car even resembling KITT in appearance or functionality is borderline inexcusable. Thank you for the video!

[@jonathanfactor6688]

I lorned something today

[@charliepotatoes001]

We do have smart watches though...

[@Samuel-gc6js]

The 1982 Trans-Am was kinda close in terms of looks... 😂😂😂

[@alfredodistefanolaulhe2212]

We went to the moon in 1969 and not anymore.

[@crazeedriver2005]

Well we have Teslas which are pretty close. Heck lots of the features in cars nowadays like touchscreens would have been futuristic in the 80s

[@GinaLynnGuesby]

I truly enjoyed listening to this. My husband is a big 80s tv fan and as he was watching this, I was listening to you and how you speak. You corrected yourself often in the video, catching your words, and I loved it. In this era of A.I. and artificial voices, YOURS is true and real. You're a real person talking about something Chuck and I love. You have real emotion and I just was so relieved to hear it! Keep the imperfections!

[@kevin-l7r7p]

Back in the day at computing class in school we were learning how to directly address memory (or a serial port connected to LEDs in this case), we were then tasked with making our LEDs do some sort of pattern....you can guess what mine was...the teacher immediately recognised it...had a big smile on his face and got the rest of the class round my pc to see it. Jeez would be around 1997/8! Still love KITT and the your content!

[@rdfox76]

Ah, but did you rig it to play a synchronized audio clip of the "whoosh-whoosh" sound effect? :D

[@jjdigitalvideosolutionsllc5343]

Dukes of Hazzard used a lot of rear-projection process for in-car shots, rather than green screen, which would have been more time consuming. Even if they did chroma-keying, it would more likely have been blue screen in the 80s. Green screen didn't become more dominant until profession digital cameras were in use. The sensors on digital cameras are more sensitive to and capture more detail in green, so it provides cleaner digital keying than blue.

[@danfors1333]

Yes croma-keying would have been very obvious because of the sharp black siluetts. Very difficult to minimize that back then, even in high production movies and in TV-shows it would have looked even worse. Only time chroma-keying looked good back then was when done against black backgrounds in space, like Star Wars.

[@GarretGrayCamera]

They changed to green in the 80s/90s because blue created too many wardrobe conflicts. Not many wear that shade of green so that’s how they came to change it up.

[@jjdigitalvideosolutionsllc5343]

@@GarretGrayCamera They changed to green because the new digital camera capture greater detail in the green spectrum, so it makes for cleaner chroma-keying.

[@GarretGrayCamera]

@@jjdigitalvideosolutionsllc5343 It may be better for digital, but they’ve been using green since the 60s mainly for different shots that require blue for blue clothing or the color was physically in the scene or to provide more contrast depending on what’s in the foreground. It’s the standard today, but not necessarily ideal for all situations, like if you have plants or foliage in the shot, then we will use blue.

[@jjdigitalvideosolutionsllc5343]

@@GarretGrayCamera Blue was initially used for best results with skin tones. Any colour background "could" be used for different situations and needs. Luma keying and other methods are used too. You can also change the foreground object colours to work better with a specific background. Firefox (1982) required some innovation to shoot shiny black miniature models. They used UV paint and reverse blue-screen techniques. You may need do multiple passes with different techniques then composite the layers for the final.

[@edwardaustin740]

After owning 12+ Trans/Am growing up from watching the show. There were a few things I didn't know. Thanks Joe. You never cease the amazement.

[@ClarkeMarek]

I'm always pleased when the channel uploads a video. This is one of two channels i follow almost religiously.

[@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial]

Thank you!

[@ClarkeMarek]

@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial yw. :)

[@kermankwok8750]

Love these videos - thanks for all the hard work you put into them! Re: the jackets, don't forget that Michael wore a light green/white jacket in the Season 3 Opening Episode (Knight of the Drones) in San Francisco. Can't wait for your next video!

[@therealmcoy]

I was a big fan of dukes of hazzard when it was airing for the first time in the early 80’s. Now that I’m middle age, I find so many things wrong it’s hard to watch it without constantly pointing out mistakes. It seems I see less when watching Knight Rider.😂

[@digitalmagicAR]

Dukes of Hazzard and Fall Guy didn't use green screen ( or blue screen which is normally used for film). They used rear projection which was far cheaper for all those awful driving shots. Thankfully Hardcastle & McCormick and Knight Rider almost always used mounted cameras on moving cars. DOH did at first but then moved towards almost always using rear projection.

[@donfoley6946]

How about doing an episode showing everytime Michael pushed a button on a big red panel, like "Laser", or whatever. I always think it's funny that no matter how many buttons were already in the car, somehow, they had to add a button that wasn't actually there, but just in closeups! Or, where was the Super Persuit Mode switch cluster located? Things like that. Thanks

[@alexpowers5117]

Some of it was done on a sound stage

[@rukaz2437]

Hold up man lol, you saying Catherine Hickland divorced David hasselhoff and married Michael E. Knight. ...that's hilarious. I don't mean no disrespect I just think it's funny she married a guy with the same name as Michael. That is crazy, very informative video. I enjoyed it

[@briank.8925]

I know my mom told me that one. Catherine Hickland and Michael E Knight were soap opera stars!

[@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial]

It's too crazy to be made up!!

[@williammitchell4417]

Michael E. Was on All My Children for years!!!

[@philsmith6768]

Knew a lot of those but mind blown Pamela Bach was in an episode. Knew the character but never realised it was her in 30 odd years!!! Awesome video.

[@BrianKitching-wv5nh]

I think he met Pamela while still married to Catherine

[@shoestringscifi]

I'm pretty sure that DUKES and most other TV shows and films of the time accomplished driver-in-car shots using rear projection.

[@williammitchell4417]

Including the 4000, and yes AJ owns him as well.

[@MikeLutton]

i learned so much stuff from watching these top 10 facts and stuff thanks

[@albert_vds]

I didn't know that Ski mode was named after the actual stunt. I always thought it was a name made up for the series.

[@williammitchell4417]

Buzz Bundy!!! Woohoo!!!

[@johnathin0061892]

Funny enough, Slammin' Sammy explained what skiing was in the second episode.

[@dodgeramsport01]

​@@johnathin0061892yeah

[@swxftsss]

how

[@MyGuyJustinH]

Interesting thing, years ago I saw a Guinness World Record for most cars skiing at 1 time.

[@heartwolfdog8579]

I grew up with the series (and still love it to that day!) but I have to admit that all these facts had been new to me. Keep up the great work and greetings from Austria.

[@gusttavocardoso108]

This is a really cool video! Thank you! I used to wait for the days of the week that TV would show KITT!

[@FranzSausage]

Very interesting that Michael wearing the leather jacket in every episode (except one). Love facts like this.

[@mrjsv4935]

Knew most of these, but that's because I've been fully watching every video you guys have released :) Didn't know there was three leather jackets for Michael Knight, and the three versions of KITT's scanner electronics. Talking about KITT's scanner light, I remember my mom thought at the time it's probably made by some mechanical way, some arm would move the red light bulb back and forth, but I didn't believe it, because of the trailing effect, and all-on effect at start :D I was sure even back then it's made by electronics.

[@Juggernaut30]

The Cylons eye was mechanical. Maybe your Mom thought KITT`s "eye" was also mechanical.🙃

[@mrjsv4935]

@@Juggernaut30 That's interesting, didn't know this before, I was thinking the Cylon eye was also electronic. Thanks :) I remember watching at least some episodes of Battlestar Galactica before Knight Rider began.

[@rljensen3]

I knew most of the facts mostly from your previous discussion videos. Here's something funny though when the show originally aired I was 9 and for the longest time whenever they showed a close up of Kitt's voice modulator I thought it was located in the center of the dash. (kinda how nav screens in modern cars are now) I had to watch KR an embarrassing amount of times in rerun before I figured it out.😜

[@esmphotographics]

Sounds familiar. I always thought that the voicebox was located on another place, untill I saw photos of the dash itself. My first thought: oh, it’s above the stering…

[@crushingvanessa3277]

17:31 gives great details of the early General, wrecker plate and the early paint scheme on the trailer. Look at what looks like a huge burn on the seat at 17:27.

[@jamesb6153]

Never knew there was a two-tone semi, black bottom and gold top. Thanks for your details.

[@garyschlagheck603]

Ok, i bought a bluray set of the show. And i love catching all the gaffs that show up. You guys rock 😊

[@LongIslandMopars]

I still cant fathom watching those jump scenes how the stunt car shop could strengthen a F-body enough to not have it be a complete pile of scrap after a jump.

[@andrehofmann1206]

Very interesting like everytime,best wishes from André in Germany,a huge Knight Rider an Knight Rider Historians Fan👍👍👍

[@Grazysworld]

To be honest never got my eye, this was all new to me. I know that it wasn't all real but he that's why I love to see these shows and truly being amazed !!! Thanks !!!

[@landrysworkshop]

As much as I’ve studied the show since I was a kid…. I always learn something new from this channel.

[@BanditBeauDarville]

LOL, The picture with the old man with Michael and the Comtron box looks like elderly Jack Black went back in time, to revive his career!

[@crgray1979]

I like how David dad thought the actor who played Garthe was a better actor than Michael

[@ArabianShark]

As a fan of Knight Rider, I pride myself of knowing quite a trivia about the show, but I'm all too glad to admit I didn't know any of the things retold in this video. I had noticed that Michael's leather jacket changed throughout the series, being a bit of a leather jacket enthusiast myself (probably due, at least in part, to having grown up with Michael's leather jacketed figure), and always just assumed Michael owned several different black leather jackets, but I had never noticed the episodes where he doesn't wear one at all. Great video!

[@Afdhelknight]

wow as a hardcore fan I really enjoyed this video, thanks!

[@Quacks0]

20:29 I love how you include the "drawn-out fade-to-silence while partway through the theme song" music-clip here --- it reminds me of a scene towards the end of one of the K.R. episodes where David had preliminarily foiled the bad guys and saved/protected their would-be victims from immediate distress, and so it then plays this "initial triumph over evil" music-sequence, and shows a wide-angle night scene of the city where the action has been taking place, to indicate that "all is well for now, and the good guys enjoy a peaceful night", before David and K.I.T.T. perform further heroics in the morning to really "settle things" and actually bring the mercenaries to justice. :D

[@sethpanfil2604]

I lived in Saugus cal... when a lot of the late 70's kid 80's television series were filmed... it was awesome my friends and I would hang out near all the actors cars and said hi when they came back from filming.

[@vijayantgovender2045]

Thank you I always learn so much from you watching from South Africa

[@guitarcheology]

Did they build one of the Stunt KITT’s with a modified rear end for the ski stunts? They had to for the General Lee’s. The rear ends wanted to shift the weight towards the ground and the tires would rub the wheel wells, limiting how far they could travel.

[@billbaker2725]

Learn something new on every one of your videos Keep em coming

[@marktaylor9975]

Yep knew most but it’s good reinforcement in the know. Ski mode was better detailed. As the wedding details. Cool! Yes part 3 please.

[@Ecosse57]

this is all pretty fascinating stuff! i am curious about how the sound for the 'turbine' propulsion and turbo boost effects were made.

[@popretro1]

Others can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think those sounds were taken from (Universal's) stock sound library, and they are sounds taken from actual jet aircraft. I'll occasionally watch an old movie from the 70s & recognize one of those sounds from growing up on Knight Rider. 😂

[@knightridersofgreece]

I am pretty sure....some kitts were equipped with a diffuser lense scanner and some with a plane clear red .also in kitt vs karr episode you can notice that on karr's scanner scene transitions.

[@notrespassing6486]

great work, i dont know that details before.

[@jackiemcgrath7883]

I like this series. There were some things i didn’t know!

[@gfhoff1]

I knew the most. But the details about the scanner was new for me. Thx for that. Also when you see the insideshot at 17:25 you can see, that the whole switchpod unit between dash an gullwing, is missing - probably because of Hasselhoffs long legs to enter/exit easier.

[@jonathanbowles2577]

Thank you very much for your 10 Facts about KITT and Knight Rider. I really did not know, this Incredible insider Information. I am just a Life time Fan of Knight rider. This was my Friday night treat i used to watch with my Mum and Dad. Some very Happy memories you have brought back for me my Friend. Knight Rider and KITT still live on today on the Television. Thank you very much for sharing. Jonathan. ☺☺☺☺💯💯💯👍👍👍👍

[@alexmain]

While I did know everything on the list, I still enjoyed the video!!! Thanks guys!!!!

[@stevenduering7155]

Buzz is mainly known for skiing the General Lee.

[@andrewdrabble8939]

Another very informative video. I will have seen most of these items but it never really registered especially the sticker dash. You can clearly see that the driver isn't David when you see K.I.T.T 'skiing' in the pilot episode

[@TheTimeProphet]

One thing you didn't mention was that the lights used to change in different shots too. Obvioiusly when he changed cars. Some shots had slats on the lights, and other shots didn't. I love Knightrider. I also spotted the bar at the front too.

[@LordEha]

Those were the years.. Growing up in the 80s Airwolf A-Team Knight Rider Macgyver youth is missing out with 20 second tiktok vids

[@iVTECInside]

Knew all of these from watching other videos here. I was also able to identify a specific episode from a single frame a buddy posted a week ago so I may have a problem :P

[@Ha55an]

Have you also noticed the shadows of camera equipment on the car at some times?

[@DanielS2001]

I have a quick question, not related to this video, but in relation to the FLAG trailer. Was there any other productions outside of Universal Studio productions that the trailer was featured in? I ask because I began to watch some of the episodes of The Fall Guy, and during the opening credits of the show, there is a clip that shows a stunt where it's the inside of a trailer and a car comes rolling up into it in it's montage. Now I know the show proper production used some of the Trans-Ams from the train wreck, but the opening credits of The Fall Guy used stunt clips from various movies (such as the high fall from The Poseidon Adventure) and the one showing the car driving up into a trailer looks to have come from another movie. So, does anyone know if the trailer used for the FLAG semi had any appearances film appearances not related to MCA/Universal TV shows? Or was the clip used in The Fall Guy opening credits was just another trailer that just so happen to have the same kind of drive-up ramp?

[@sethminskey]

Absolutely loved the video keep up the hard work, spread the knowledge. God bless thank you

[@joaoluistavares6046]

Thank you for doing this. There's always something we may have just missed.

[@StormsparkPegasus]

Ah...I was hoping the Catherine Hickland/Michael Knight connection would be talked about here. That was just too crazy to be made up.

[@geobrad2645]

Of course growing up in the 80s I loved Knight Rider. It was bitter sweet one day my grandpa and I were visiting a park we went to a lot I think it was Los Felis or something. It had a huge fountain. Anyway they had a bunch of kitt cars in a parking lot cause they were always filming near by so I guess it was storage. I went to look inside one of them and the whole dash was covered in lines for the show. I lost my innocence that day but yet I continued watching the show lol.

[@mx472000]

Love these kind of videos! Please do more when possible.

[@jonathonchaffey5101]

Hi I knew about some of the things u talked about in this vidieo. Speacialy about Kitt . Plus I like watching your blogs as it’s great to still find out more info on knightrider as I’m still a big fan of the show

[@toddkelley6809]

I knew most of these things. Some from watching the show and some from the KRH channel

[@1HotLegendLS]

The on;y one i didn't know was Stevie actually being David's wife. Also I knew that girl looked a lot like David, didn't know she was his sister

[@davudandrews2665]

Okay that was a awesome video and please do more. I did not know about who David Hasselhoff had married to that was a cool fact .I had heard that he did marry Catherine Hickland and Pamela Bach just did not know the exact time that he had married them .

[@daveb9575]

I absolutely love the outro music theme. I like the intro one with K.I.T.T. backing out of FLAG trailer. Great video Sir, keep em coming.

[@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial]

Thanks, will do!

[@knight2000-NC]

knew most of these...we are waiting for, I think, EP4 of filming locations!

[@iralosttwo5569]

Off the subject, I would like to see Joe complete in the off road games in Utah. Matt from Matt’s off road recovery is a Knight Rider fan and even put a scanner light on one of his recovery rigs. Reach out to them if you are interested.

[@danlah1303]

Learned a lot!

[@TheRealMrCods]

I love these videos, Always something to learn. 👍

[@briscoelcamino7850]

I was lucky enough to see the Chitwood stunt team show. They did a lot of ski stunts. It was amazing!

[@jonmyers8046]

I enjoyed that Joe. Some stuff I knew from watching previous videos, but some stuff was new to me. Maybe a top 10 video focused on the semi would be a neat topic. Thanks again 👍

[@Quacks0]

6:11 Yes, for sure --- I am always amazed to learn that after divorcing David Hasselhoff, Catherine Hickland married another Hollywood actor named Michael Knight, which of course was the name of The Hoff's famous character in Knight Rider ---- how's THAT for an amazing coincidence??

[@robillingworth8503]

Really enjoy this showing all the tape & extra bolts holding KITT together. I also have the series on DVD, and in the episode where Michael loses his memory KITT once dud a Turbo-Boost but landed with a (slightly) dented lower body & hood. Like you said, 'not-so-indestructible'. I'm curious about the first photo showing Don Johnson & a black 1983 DATSUN280ZX(btw, you can still see the "280ZX" badge). There was no explanation or comment re. these things; what gives? It was great seeing your video re. K.I.T.T. vs K.A.R.R. Part of that one with John Stanton dropping off his girlfriend was Main St. in Seal Beach, CA, my home town (a sheet of script also had SEAL BEACH typed on it). Thanks again for this.

[@papabear2a172]

😂 That last "sticker" dash looks like it was straight up done with cut strips of automotive vinyl stripping tape.

[@johnmogavero8156]

I really want a full size fully operational third season dash with scanner in my room

[@dukenukem8381]

I always put playback x2 on your vids. But your videos are always well done with tons of interesting information.

[@stevetrousers6811]

You can see why they opted for the limited scanner on the intro because there is white light bleed on the right when on full mode where it's broken or something and you can see the bulb light

[@jff141]

I didn’t know that it’s really informative thank you everything you do let’s keep Kitt alive 👍👍👍

[@johnbigboote8900]

First of all I really enjoy these videos (behind the scenes minutiae). Second, Almost all of it was new to me, except about the tow bar, in general, which I only know about from your previous videos. Third, and final, I feel that I must speak in defense of wire-wrap fabrication; you implied, indirectly, that it led to failures of the scanner bar. In actuality the Apollo Guidance Computer was assembled using wire-wrap. So, if done correctly, it can work quite well.

[@jehb8945]

Hey the sticker dash makes me feel a lot better about my Knight Rider power cycle that I had when I was a kid because the dash on that big wheels was just a big sticker

[@GérannGerberChannel]

Great video Joe & AJ!!

[@kevinhabets1979]

Great video. I knew a lot of things from the commentary episodes. 🙂

[@BrianKitching-wv5nh]

Thanks forvthis Joe,i being Knight Rider crazy,know all of these facts but its still nice to hear how everthing was done back then.

[@markraimo1283]

Love these videos. I actually knew most of these but there were some I learned for the first time.

[@justincooper5189]

Pamela Bach? Related to Catherine? Duke boys meeting Kitt? That could be fun. It may also be funny.

[@DominikSanchez]

Thanks for the awesome videos. I really enjoyed them. I still have one more question though: I recently started viewing the show from the beginning sequentially, since my TV provider has included Knight Rider in the bouquet. I noticed that in the first few episodes, Michael did not wear his watch, but suddenly it appeared on a later episode in Season 1. Is there a story to this? Did I miss something in the plot?

[@richardshepard380]

I would love to see them remake Knight rider, and make more than one season because it’s a good show and I love to watch shows like that and I wish it made a lot of shows like that night. Writer show but for some odd reason they’re not making anymore which I don’t get that part, but I’ll keep on waiting for them to make more of night writer show I doubt they ever do though

[@bjacob5451]

Awesome, enlightening and a well done and researched video ❤

[@gn0st1c]

we need 100 more :)

[@MrReese]

I always get quite sad when I hear about people on a show getting actually married and then divorced again because a person met someone else on that same show :X.

[@MegasXLR]

Katherine Hickland is born on the same day and month as me just 41 years earlier :)

[@BadTV1993]

got to see KITT clone car recently in Florida..& got to see one of the actual show cars as a kid in California..long live K.I.T.T. ...and K.A.R.R. too! lol

[@stolmich]

Thank you for your insight videos, merry christmas from Austria.

[@Scorp308]

I didn't know about these! My childhood is ruined! 😩 I do remember as a kid being told by a so called friend that KITT was a Volkswagen beetle with the roof trimmed down when it came to stunt scenes.

[@davidchahal7682]

Thank you for sharing !!

[@redmn2572]

15 years ago i accidently went "skiing" in my 02 chevy cavalier. It was winter and i came over a small hill to find a stop sign on this road that crosses a 4 lane highway. When i attempted to brake on the road that was glazed over with packed snow and ice i quickly relized i wouldnt be able to stop and decided to aim for the snow bank just before the stop sign and intersection. Instead of stopping the sliding my right wheels road up onto the top of the snow bank and straightened my car forward again. At at least a 45 degree or more angle i entered the intersection on 2 wheels before setting it down and quickly getting over to the side. Luckily any traffic was back further as the traffic light had just turned green moments before. It was definitely a holy shit i lived moment.

[@ThePipotazo]

Amazing !! Thank you so much, be safe, god bless

[@Benutzername1]

Great Work. Just watched all 2 Videos. Please keep ruining my childhood 😁. More Things please. And/or maybe a "best behind the scenes?"

[@michealsousa559california5]

I love these videos! Thank you!

[@FirstDan2000]

I always enjoy a list. I didn't know the extent of the sticker dash use. That trailer-convertible sticker dash looks really bad. Like some fan got it wrong. But did I see a line-lock indicator lamp on it?

[@mjnajr]

Glad I found this channel. Growing up Knighter rider was my favorite show. As I got older I bought the DVD set and almost got a trans am as a project car lol. There was alot I didn't know and I appreciate the content. Thanks and God bless

[@gregwoody75]

Knew most of it but didn't know Mulhare actually give Hickland away in the real wedding and didn't know about David's sister being in the show.