Stock footage in episode "Not a Drop to Drink"

Anthony J. Bertorelli

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Aug 9, 2004, 11:29:19 PM8/9/04

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While watching the episode "Not a Drop to Drink," I noticed something
very odd. I could not quite put my finger on it until much later when
I saw the first Superman (Christopher Reeve) movie. In the Superman
movie, a dam broke. The result was large amounts of water raging
toward a small township. Superman was able to stop the water by
making a make-shift dam. He throws several large bolders from the
above mountains. These bolders break apart as they roll downhill.
This makes a fairly decent dam.

Now, there is a similar situation in the mentioned episode of Knight
Rider. For those of you who have watched Superman, answer me this.
Am I crazy? Or is the footage of the bolders falling down is
identical to that of the Superman movie?

KITT

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Aug 10, 2004, 12:17:30 AM8/10/04

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Well, they have been known to use footage from other movies (i.e.
KITTvsKARR).. So its possible.. I would have to bust open my old eps and
rent Superman again.

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Sébastien

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Aug 10, 2004, 4:29:23 AM8/10/04

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Hi,

I can confirm they used the same footage from Superman :-)

Anthony J. Bertorelli a écrit:

Stéphane Dumas

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Aug 10, 2004, 4:10:25 PM8/10/04

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> Now, there is a similar situation in the mentioned episode of Knight
> Rider. For those of you who have watched Superman, answer me this.
> Am I crazy? Or is the footage of the bolders falling down is
> identical to that of the Superman movie?

you didn't dreamed, I saw the bolders as well as a flooded bridge from the
Superman movie as well. Strange than Universal used stock footage from
Superman who was from Warner bros studios.

Other stock footage than I noticed is from the episode from season 1 when
KITT goes thru a prison door, it was used later for 2 season 4 episodes when
Michael free Bonnie from jail and rescue a girl and the second time during a
mission in Central America when KITT and RC3 arrive to stop the dictators.

But that don't beat the live-action Hulk for use of lots of stock footage
;-) with the footage of Hulk (Lou Ferrigno) running the same alley who was
in various towns or one used for the episode "Never Give a trucker an even
break", stock footage from the movie "Duel" (and the Dukes boys by jumping
the same creek over and over)

Stéphane Dumas

Anthony J. Bertorelli

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Aug 11, 2004, 5:13:09 PM8/11/04

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"Stéphane Dumas" <steph...@NOSPAMvideotron.ca> wrote in message:

> Other stock footage than I noticed is from the episode from season 1 when
> KITT goes thru a prison door, it was used later for 2 season 4 episodes
when
> Michael free Bonnie from jail and rescue a girl and the second time during
a
> mission in Central America when KITT and RC3 arrive to stop the dictators.

In the episode "A Quiet Indecent Little Town," KITT has to bust Michael out
of jail again. This is the same footage shown in the pilot. In face, for a
microsecond, I caught a glipse of Charles Napier, who played one of the
COMTRON guys in the pilot.

Jaster1927

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Aug 25, 2004, 7:45:16 PM8/25/04

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You are not crazy I also noticed that years ago whrn the series was on tv
thought nmy dad thought I was crazy at the time untill we cought the eposide in
reruns and played the superman movie.

aaron pynn

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Sep 30, 2004, 3:08:08 AM9/30/04

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Yep it is the superman footage and if you look close you can see just how
elonagated it is since the movie was filmed in 2:3:5 ratio.

kemper...@gmail.com

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Jul 30, 2020, 12:45:54 AM7/30/20

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you hit it right on the head