KNIGHT RIDER: MERCHANTS OF DEATH

NITPICKS

October 16, 1983
SEASON 2, EPISODE 4
Production #57807
Filmed: June 2-10, September 7, 1983 (3)

Writer: .................... William Schmidt
Director: .................. Alan Myerson

Note: Timecodes are based on DVD releases of the episodes (Region 1, NTSC).

CONTINUITY:

0:07:03
0:35:37

When Michael drives back to Camela's home at 0:35:37, it's recycled footage from earlier in the show (0:07:03).

0:13:53
0:17:14

The posed photo of Amelia flips from right to left between the time Michael shows it to Elmo and Richards. (It's actually the same shot reversed).

0:15:42
0:15:46

The biker crashes over a railing on a bridge. When his buddy does a u-turn to go back for him, there is no bridge or rail in sight.

0:23:01
0:23:02
0:23:48

The photography of the driving scene has been mirrored, resulting in Michael appearing to drive the car from the passenger side. In the shots bookending this sequence, he drives and emerges from the left-hand side.

0:39:04

Yet another example of a shot being 'flipped', or mirrored. Here, as Michael backs K.I.T.T. out of the semi, he appears to be driving from the right-hand side.

0:40:13

For a few seconds the bad guys have an unobscured view of Michael and Camela switching cars, as this point-of-view shot shows.

0:42:55

Michael reaches for the smoke release with his right hand... and pushes it with his left.

David's script is also visible resting on the passenger seat.

0:43:51

Another case of the film being flipped from left to right, and Michael driving from the right side. This shot even made it into the opening titles!

DASH:

0:05:33
0:09:21
0:42:22
0:42:55

The overhead button console is missing from this car.

0:14:51
0:42:09
0:42:10

Stock Trans Am with regular dash and steering wheel.

0:15:06
0:19:22
0:42:26
0:42:55

The left switchpod changes several times through the episode thanks to first season stock footage. 'PAUX' becomes 'X-Ray', 'Ski Mode' becomes 'Tear Gas', 'H6 (green)' becomes 'Micro Jam' and '5F' becomes 'Smoke Release'.

K.I.T.T.:

0:15:18
0:17:40

The back seat is missing.

0:15:25

The Ski Mode car is missing K.I.T.T.'s distinctive PMD seats, curved dash and gullwing steering wheel.

0:40:14

... as is this hardtop used later in the episode.

MINIATURES:

Showcasing the work of Sessums & Slagle.

STOCK FOOTAGE:

0:09:00

Stock footage from NO BIG THING.

0:10:08

Stock footage from JUST MY BILL.

STUNTS & DOUBLES:

0:35:06

Not David Hasselhoff.

0:44:33

Stunt doubles.

0:44:38

David Hasselhoff fights a double for Jack Kragen.

CREW:

0:15:34

The crew are circled at the side of the road.

MISCELLANEOUS:

0:08:47

Not so much a nitpick as a curio: Michael is driving past George Barris' Kustom Car Shop.

0:14:35

K.I.T.T.'s scanners film from magic angles.

0:46:33

Camela is about to leave in a Myerson Taxi, named for Alan Myerson, who directed this episode.