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Let's hear it for the stuntmen !
Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 12:33 pm
by WRANGLER
OK, we all love the cool things KITT can do. But there was a lot more action on screen. The stuntmen and women, worked with cars, trucks, motorcycles, helicopters, horses, fist fights, and a whole lot more! Great work guys.
Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 3:02 pm
by FuzzieDice
KITT's stunt driver, Jack Gill, was simply the best!
Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 8:14 pm
by CB2001
(puts on "The Unknown Stuntman", the theme song from "The Fall Guy", another Glen A. Larson production, by Lee Majors in honor of the stuntmen and women for "Knight Rider").
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 1:12 am
by Lyn
Yeah, especially Jack Gill who kept David Hasselhoff in line during the time when Mr. Gill was the one who "automatically" drove KITT when the car drive "itself", so that's always helpful, huh?
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:35 am
by HondaSiR
Let's not forget the dozens of stuntcars that have sacrificed their lives (read: thrashed by the stuntmen) in order to make the star car KITT shine onscreen.
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:06 pm
by FuzzieDice
HondaSiR wrote:Let's not forget the dozens of stuntcars that have sacrificed their lives (read: thrashed by the stuntmen) in order to make the star car KITT shine onscreen.
Especially those turbo-boosts. In reality the cars were pretty much totalled afterwards, so I hear.
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 1:38 pm
by walter h. anderson
I don't know about anybody else, but the stunt people get a big salute from me. I do hope Jack Gill's health will start to improve after all the turbo-boosts he had KITT do.
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 11:27 pm
by HondaSiR
walter h. anderson wrote:I do hope Jack Gill's health will start to improve after all the turbo-boosts he had KITT do.
Errr what do you mean? Jack Gill performed all those KITT stunts 20 years ago. His body should have healed by now if ever it was injured during all those turbo-boosting scenarios. As far as I know, his doctors installed a titanium support in his spine/back as a result of those injuries. He should have recuperated by now.
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 1:00 pm
by walter h. anderson
Ah, you got me!!!
Yep, that's what I mean.
I agree now, his health must be better after 20-some years.
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 11:59 pm
by FuzzieDice
I've heard that some of those injuries you never fully recover from.
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 2:42 pm
by RobAtPace
you ever wonder what those cars must have looked like when they landed? sometimes they were perpendicular to the ground and would have impaled the nose into the ground...
meanwhile the cut was david bouncing in his seat woooooooooowing kitt. lol.