Knight Rider [Pilot; a.k.a. Knight of the Phoenix] (2) - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: The crooks steal KITT. When KITT announces himself, the crooks slam on the brakes. When the car comes to a halt, the back seat cushion is thrown forward. When the crooks take off, the back seat looks as if it hasn't ever moved forward.
Knight Rider [Pilot; a.k.a. Knight of the Phoenix] (1) - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: When Michael's bandages are being taken off, his nose and mouth are clear, but after Devon shows up they're covered and are being removed again.
Knight Rider [Pilot; a.k.a. Knight of the Phoenix] (1) - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: When the police helicopter sees dead Michael by the car, he turns 180ยบ around between shots.
Continuity mistake: When KITT drives off the edge of the cliff, the car changes from a pontiac to another standard car a number of times. When KITT lands, his flight trajectory was from approximately 10 feet, not 100 feet. He should have landed like a belly flop onto the sand, not a shallow dive.
Continuity mistake: When KITT jumps into the empty factory to save Michael the ramp is set a foot higher than the floor, yet when they drive out the same hole, the ramp is level with the floor so it can be driven down.
Continuity mistake: When KITT is pushed over the mountain by the earthmover, you can see the front bumper is actually a stock Trans-Am bumper instead of KITT's normal one.
Continuity mistake: When Michael starts to scrape the blue paint off the shell, he scratches across the blue band and you see a few scrape marks where the paint is gone and it's white, like the shell, underneath. In the close up, it's slowly scraping such a small potion of the paint off and you see it's yellow underneath now.
Continuity mistake: When Michael notices the accident report folder, the folder is touching the red candy basket. When goes to steal it by putting it under the basket, the folder is now further away.
Nobody Does It Better - S1-E21
Continuity mistake: After KITT turns around to pursue Armand, the sensor goes from the usual side to side motion to a different pattern and back within a few seconds.
Just My Bill - S1-E6
Continuity mistake: The blue car is chasing KITT out onto a public road with striping. In one shot from the blue car, they're on the private road, then suddenly back on the public road.
Continuity mistake: To elude KITT, KARR ejected Tony to eliminate weight. A moment later, KARR is sitting still, and Tony is in the passenger seat.
No Big Thing - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: When Michael and KITT stop at the gas station, the driver's front tire goes from normal to slack and back again.
Nobody Does It Better - S1-E21
Continuity mistake: When Michael gets hit on the head in the private investigator's home, he falls in the chair and faces left. Next shot of him he is facing right. (00:17:45)
Nobody Does It Better - S1-E21
Continuity mistake: When Julian leaves the building during the party, you can see this isn't the actor playing the role of Julian but someone else. (00:23:10)
Nobody Does It Better - S1-E21
Continuity mistake: When KITT forces the 4x4 off the road, you can see both people inside when it crashes wearing their safety harness. In the scene before when you see inside none of them are wearing any kind of belt. (00:37:40 - 00:38:15)
White Bird - S1-E19
Continuity mistake: When Michael and Stevie are in the car and it jumps through the panel on the trailer, when the car lands and it cuts back to Michael there is no trailer in the background. (00:17:05)
White Bird - S1-E19
Continuity mistake: When Michael is racing to the airfield to stop the bad guys, when you see inside the car it is clear and sunny outside. Next shot of outside with the car skidding the driver is wearing a different costume, possibly taken from another episode. Then the outside is foggy, back to clear, then foggy as he approaches the jump. (00:39:15)
Continuity mistake: When Michael is in K.I.T.T and he is taking the professor's blood pressure, the boot is open. When it goes to an outside shot of K.I.T.T driving away it is closed. (00:03:50)
Continuity mistake: When Michael rescues Bonnie and asks K.I.T.T to meet him, one minute it is night time, next scene bright daylight. If it was morning it wouldn't be that bright. This is where they have possibly used footage from a previous episode. (00:26:20)
Continuity mistake: When they arrive at the museum and start to unload K.I.T.T it is raining fairly hard. When it cuts to Bonnie and the Professor and the woman it isn't raining. This keeps happening throughout the scene. (00:38:15)
Chosen answer: Before "product placement" became common, name-brand products were rarely, if ever seen in TV shows, mostly due to avoid advertising conflicts with program sponsors. The Pepsi logo may have been taped out to prevent any commercial infringements.
raywest ★
Are you kidding? Product placement was so rampant in the 50s that sometimes you'd wonder if you were watching a TV show or a paid ad.
Brian Katcher
Knight Rider wasn't produced in the 1950s. TV shows of that era had advertising more similar to the old radio shows from the 30s and 40s. The early 50s series often had a sole sponsor, so their product (and related items) was likely seen in a program. An announcer also informed the audience at the beginning that, "This program is brought to you by (insert brand name). " From the 60s on, brand-name products weren't generally seen in TV programs. Networks sold air time to multiple advertisers, and their ads were shown during the long commercial breaks. So no, I'm not kidding.
raywest ★