List of Knight Rider (1982 TV series) episodes
Knight Rider, an American television series, originally aired from 1982 to 1986, spanning four seasons and 90 episodes. The series was broadcast on NBC and starred David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight, a high-tech modern-day knight fighting crime with the help of KITT, an advanced, artificially intelligent and nearly-indestructible car.
The plot follows Michael Knight and KITT as they are sent on missions by the privately held "Foundation for Law and Government" (FLAG) in situations where "direct action might provide the only feasible solution".
Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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| First aired | Last aired | |||
| 1 | 22 | September 26, 1982 | May 6, 1983 | |
| 2 | 24 | October 2, 1983 | May 27, 1984 | |
| 3 | 22 | September 30, 1984 | May 5, 1985 | |
| 4 | 22 | September 20, 1985 | April 4, 1986 | |
Episodes
Season 1 (1982–1983)
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| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Production code |
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"Knight of the Phoenix" | Daniel Haller | Glen A. Larson | September 26, 1982[1] | 57375/6 |
| 3 | 3 | "Deadly Maneuvers" | Paul Stanley | William Schmidt & Bob Shayne | October 1, 1982[1] | 57305 |
| 4 | 4 | "Good Day at White Rock" | Daniel Haller | Deborah Davis | October 8, 1982[1] | 57303 |
| 5 | 5 | "Slammin' Sammy's Stunt Show Spectacular" | Bruce Bilson | E. Paul Edwards & John Alan Schwartz |
October 22, 1982[1] | 57315 |
| 6 | 6 | "Just My Bill" | Sidney Hayers | David Braff | October 29, 1982[1] | 57311 |
| 7 | 7 | "Not a Drop to Drink" | Virgil Vogel | Hannah Louise Shearer | November 5, 1982[1] | 57304 |
| 8 | 8 | "No Big Thing" | Bernard L. Kowalski | Judy Burns | November 12, 1982[1] | 57313 |
| 9 | 9 | "Trust Doesn't Rust" | Paul Stanley | Steven E. De Souza | November 19, 1982[1] | 57307 |
| 10 | 10 | "Inside Out" | Peter Crane | Steven E. De Souza | November 26, 1982[1] | 57302 |
| 11 | 11 | "The Final Verdict" | Bernard L. Kowalski | Story by: Tom Greene Teleplay by: E. Paul Edwards & John Alan Schwartz |
December 3, 1982[1] | 57316 |
| 12 | 12 | "A Plush Ride" | Sidney Hayers | Gregory S. Dinallo | December 10, 1982[1] | 57306 |
| 13 | 13 | "Forget Me Not" | Gil Bettman | Richard Christian Matheson & Thomas Szollosi |
December 17, 1982[1] | 57312 |
| 14 | 14 | "Hearts of Stone" | Jeffrey Hayden | Robert Foster | January 14, 1983[1] | 57322 |
| 15 | 15 | "Give Me Liberty… or Give Me Death" | Bernard L. Kowalski | David Braff | January 21, 1983[1] | 57323 |
| 16 | 16 | "The Topaz Connection" | Alan Myerson | Stephen Katz | January 28, 1983[1] | 57321 |
| 17 | 17 | "A Nice, Indecent Little Town" | Gil Betteman | Frank Telford | February 18, 1983[1] | 57317 |
| 18 | 18 | "Chariot of Gold" | Bernard L. Kowalski | William Schmidt | February 25, 1983[1] | 57326 |
| 19 | 19 | "White Bird" | Winrich Kolbe | Virginia Aldridge | March 4, 1983[1] | 57330 |
| 20 | 20 | "Knight Moves" | Christian I. Nyby II | William Schmidt | March 11, 1983[1] | 57332 |
| 21 | 21 | "Nobody Does it Better" | Harvey Laidman | David Braff | April 29, 1983[1] | 57331 |
| 22 | 22 | "Short Notice" | Robert Foster | Robert Foster | May 6, 1983[1] | 57336 |
Season 2 (1983–1984)
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| No. in series |
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Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Production code |
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| 23 | 1 | "Goliath (Part 1)" | Winrich Kolbe | Robert Foster & Robert Gilmer | October 2, 1983 | 57875 |
| 24 | 2 | "Goliath (Part 2)" | Winrich Kolbe | Robert Foster & Robert Gilmer | October 2, 1983 | 57876 |
| 25 | 3 | "Brother's Keeper" | Sidney Hayers | E.F. Wallengren | October 9, 1983 | 57805 |
| 26 | 4 | "Merchants of Death" | Alan Myerson | William Schmidt | October 16, 1983 | 57807 |
| 27 | 5 | "Blind Spot" | Bernard L. Kowalski | Jackson Gillis | October 23, 1983 | 57809 |
| 28 | 6 | "Return to Cadiz" | Alan Myerson | Larry Forrester | October 30, 1983 | 57801 |
| 29 | 7 | "K.I.T.T. the Cat" | Jeffrey Hayden | Janis Hendler | November 6, 1983 | 57824 |
| 30 | 8 | "Custom K.I.T.T." | Georg Fenady | William Schmidt & Robert Specht | November 13, 1983 | 57821 |
| 31 | 9 | "Soul Survivor" | Harvey Laidman | Robert Foster & Robert Gilmer | November 27, 1983 | 57829 |
| 32 | 10 | "Ring of Fire" | Winrich Kolbe | Janis Hendler | December 4, 1983 | 57810 |
| 33 | 11 | "Knightmares" | Sidney Hayers | Tom Greene & Janis Hendler | December 11, 1983 | 57830 |
| 34 | 12 | "Silent Knight" | Bruce Kessler | Robert Gilmer & Janis Hendler | December 18, 1983 | 57817 |
| 35 | 13 | "A Knight in Shining Armor" | Bernard McEveety | Tom Greene & Janis Hendler | January 8, 1984 | 57832 |
| 36 | 14 | "Diamonds Aren't a Girl's Best Friend" | Jeffrey Hayden | Robert Foster & Robert Gilmer | January 15, 1984 | 57833 |
| 37 | 15 | "White-Line Warriors" | Bob Bralver | Richard C. Okie | January 29, 1984 | 57828 |
| 38 | 16 | "Race for Life" | Georg Fenady | Bruce Belland & Roy M. Rogosin | February 5, 1984 | 57826 |
| 39 | 17 | "Speed Demons" | Bruce Seth Green | Tom Greene & Janis Hendler | February 12, 1984 | 57837 |
| 40 | 18 | "Goliath Returns (Part 1)" | Winrich Kolbe | Robert Foster, Robert Gilmer, Tom Greene & Janis Hendler |
February 19, 1984 | 57879 |
| 41 | 19 | "Goliath Returns (Part 2)" | Winrich Kolbe | Robert Foster, Robert Gilmer, Tom Greene & Janis Hendler |
February 19, 1984 | 57880 |
| 42 | 20 | "A Good Knight's Work" | Sidney Hayers | Richard C. Okie | March 4, 1984 | 57840 |
| 43 | 21 | "Mouth of the Snake (Part 1)" "All That Glitters (Part 1)" |
Winrich Kolbe | Robert Foster & Robert Gilmer | April 8, 1984 | 57877 |
| 44 | 22 | "Mouth of the Snake (Part 2)" "All That Glitters (Part 2)" |
Winrich Kolbe | Robert Foster & Robert Gilmer | April 8, 1984 | 57878 |
| 45 | 23 | "Let it Be Me" | Bernard McEveety | Robert Foster & Robert Gilmer | May 13, 1984 | 57834 |
| 46 | 24 | "Big Iron" | Bernard L. Kowalski | Julie Friedgen | May 27, 1984 | 57804 |
Season 3 (1984–1985)
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Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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| "Knight of the Drones" | Sidney Hayers | Robert Foster & Gerald Sanford | September 30, 1984 | |||
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Michael meets up with Bonnie at a university research center in San Francisco to convince her to return to the Foundation. Elsewhere, a criminal mastermind named Margo Sheridan rounds up high-tech criminals: a criminal from prison (whose escape they have arranged by the use of a remote control drone car), an electrician on probation with alarm system expertise, and Bonnie's college advisor, David Halston (Jared Martin), to commit a robbery at the Federal Reserve Bank. As soon as Bonnie starts inspecting a chip removed from one of Halston's drone cars, she confirms he is involved, & Halston kidnaps her. After Michael uses KITT to electrocute two muscle-bound henchmen, Clifton and Turk, they reveal where Halston is hiding Bonnie. When they go to that location with the police, they find that building has been emptied, and neither Bonnie nor Halston were there. Michael then uses reverse psychology to get Clifton and Turk to believe that the squirt gun he has is a pain inducer, and they reveal that Halston wanted maps of Chinese tunnels that once were in the area. Later, the escaped convict and electrician realize the direction Halston has them digging in is not towards the bank, but towards the vault of a weapons company. It is revealed that Halston designed a weapon for that company, but wasn't fully credited for the achievement and decides to sell it to the highest bidder.
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| 49 | 3 | "The Ice Bandits" | Georg Fenady | Gerald Sanford | October 7, 1984 | 58603 |
| Michael infiltrates a monastery/winery to locate a diamond thief. The winery is actually a front for a clinic that specializes in plastic surgery for criminals wanting their appearance changed. Michael and KITT also (briefly) encounter a donkey named Kit, much to KITT's displeasure. | ||||||
| 50 | 4 | "Knights of the Fast Lane" | Winrich Kolbe | Richard Okie | October 14, 1984 | 58601 |
| When Michael's friend's daughter goes into a coma, Michael investigates the crime. Later, Michael finds out she was involved with a Bonzai race. When Michael accepts a Bonsai Racing challenge against a murderous sports car driver/football team owner, he bets KITT as the prize. | ||||||
| 51 | 5 | "Halloween Knight" | Winrich Kolbe | Bill Nuss | October 28, 1984 | 58624 |
| While recovering from being sick, Bonnie witnesses a gorilla murdering a female neighbor. After witnessing the crime she is haunted by strange happenings staged to run her out of her apartment, like seeing the victim's body in her bathtub and a floating demon head talking backwards in her apartment's bathroom mirror. Who would want to scare Bonnie, why was the woman killed for and what is the murderer's reason? Only Michael and KITT can piece the clues together and save Bonnie from suffering the same fate as her neighbor. | ||||||
| 52 | 6 | "K.I.T.T. vs. K.A.R.R." | Winrich Kolbe | Richard C. Okie | November 4, 1984 | 58617 |
| A young beachcombing couple, John Stanton (a marine mechanic) and his girlfriend Mandy, discover KARR (who supposedly blew up before the end of "Trust Doesn't Rust") buried in the sand. John fetches his truck and pulls KARR out, who then activates on his own. Before taking the car for a spin, John promises Mandy he'll take it to the police, but KARR (now voiced by Paul Frees) reveals himself and convinces John to hide him. Elsewhere, KITT and Michael pick up a strange signal identical to one used by KITT. They track the source and find KARR alive and well. The duo give chase, but KARR gets away. Later, John hides KARR at the marina while Michael does legwork around town to find him. John's boss Eddie scolds him for leaving a marina truck by the beach. He tells John he would take $5,000 down for his business. Later, Michael gets suspicious when he meets Mandy and senses she may be lying about her boyfriend, who slips out the back when he arrives. Meanwhile, KARR tampers with Eddie's pacemaker. KARR decides to get some parts from the Knight Mobile Unit. KARR and John turbo boost into the trailer and find Bonnie and Devon working on the laser used to stop him during their first encounter, and John takes it. After John modifies KARR's appearance with a black and silver paintwork to differ from KITT, KARR tampers with an ATM and gives John the money. Later, Eddie recovers, and John gives him the money for his business, and Eddie demands to know where and how John got the money. John shows him KARR, and when KARR talks, Eddie is amazed, and tells John they could use KARR to get rich by knocking off "bigger targets" like an armored truck full of gold. Eddie explains to KARR that gold equals money, which means parts and a mechanic to keep KARR running. KARR concedes, but John wants no part of it and walks away. KARR tells Eddie to let him go. | ||||||
| 53 | 7 | "The Rotten Apples" | Robert E.L. Bralver | Story by: Peter L. Dixon Teleplay by: Gerald Sanford |
November 11, 1984 | 58611 |
| Michael helps a psychologist, who operates a ranch for troubled kids, and is being run out by angry townsfolk and corrupt sheriffs. As Michael investigates further, he learns that the ranch sits above a deposit of minerals worth millions. | ||||||
| 54 | 8 | "Knight in Disgrace" | Harvey Laidman | Simon Muntner | November 18, 1984 | 58622 |
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Michael is suspended for his behavior, and FLAG searches for a replacement for him. Michael gains a crime lord's trust by pretending to be a drug dealer, but the boss (John Considine) sends him to steal an electronic key from Devon. KITT, who is made unaware of Michael's scheme, refuses to help, believing Michael has really turned into a criminal. Michael ends up shooting Devon to get the key and manually driving KITT to get to the "vault" containing a biological weapon. While in the vault, it is revealed that Michael and Devon (who was not killed by the shot) planned the whole thing, and Michael stops the crime lord from selling it. He also saves a woman and reunites her with her daughter, who was held captive by the crime lord in order to keep her with him. Guest stars: Ken Foree (Dawn of the Dead) |
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| 55 | 9 | "Dead of Knight" | Bernard L. Kowalski | Story by: Janis Hendler & Tom Greene Teleplay by: Peter Baloff & David W. Wollert |
December 2, 1984 | 58607 |
| Someone is trying to kill Michael, but who? After the first attempt on his life fails, the assassin tries again with poison, but his dancer friend Sydney ingests the poison in a glass of orange juice meant for Michael. He races to save her life by finding the assassin in Mexico and recovering an antidote after being injected with the poison as well. KITT uses a new comedy sub-routine to keep Michael alive when pursuing the antidote. In the end, Michael gets the antidote in time to save both his and Sydney's life. | ||||||
| 56 | 10 | "Lost Knight" | Sidney Hayers | Robert Foster & James M. Miller | December 9, 1984 | 58619 |
| While in pursuit of thieves who stole explosives the Foundation designed, Michael and KITT become separated after a high power line damages KITT's memory. KITT wanders around aimlessly until a young boy (played by a young Jason Bateman) finds and befriends him. The boy, however, witnesses the thieves plan to use the explosive and the gang gives pursuit, and KITT tries to protect him. Michael must restore KITT's memory in time to save the boy and thwart the gang's plan. | ||||||
| 57 | 11 | "Knight of the Chameleon" | Winrich Kolbe | Robert Sherman | December 16, 1984 | 58631 |
| Michael pursues a master of disguise thief known as the "Chameleon" (Dick Gautier), who has stolen a secret jet pack from the military. Can Michael stop the thief before he strikes again? | ||||||
| 58 | 12 | "Custom Made Killer" | Harvey Laidman | Burton Armus | January 6, 1985 | 58640 |
| Michael hunts down a customized car and its killer driver who have been hired by an extortionist wanting to bring down a garment trading business and eliminate his competition. | ||||||
| 59 | 13 | "Knight by a Nose" | Bernard McEveety | William Elliott | January 13, 1985 | 58604 |
| Michael investigates the death of a prize race horse which he suspects is a cover up by the owner in order to get out of an enormous gambling debt. | ||||||
| 60 | 14 | "Junk Yard Dog" | Georg Fenady | Calvin Clements Jr. | February 3, 1985 | 58641 |
| Michael tries to expose the illegal activities of an owner (Ramon Bieri) of a toxic waste dump. KITT is dumped into and destroyed in an acid pit and rebuilt, but he has trouble facing his fears. With Michael's help, he regains his spirit and goes for the final showdown against the waste dump owner, who is trying to burn the dump to the ground to remove the evidence. | ||||||
| 61 | 15 | "Buy Out" | Jeffrey Hayden | George S. Dinallo | February 10, 1985 | 58643 |
| Hoping to expose a saboteur, Michael volunteers to drive a high-tech armored limo while the developers test it against a missile strike. | ||||||
| 62 | 16 | "Knightlines" | Charles Watson Sanford | Richard Okie | March 3, 1985 | 58644 |
| Michael investigates the death of a construction worker on the site of a future government hi-tech company. Michael suspects a cover up between the site foreman and supervisor, and evidence that someone wants the dead worker appear to have gone rogue. The mastermind of everything going on is an elusive international criminal who planted listening/explosive devices to acquire the company's secret and destroy any evidence of his involvement. | ||||||
| 63 | 17 | "The Nineteenth Hole" | Georg Fenady | Gerald Sanford & Robert Foster | March 10, 1985 | 58627 |
| Michael infiltrates a rally race to investigate death threats made against the race sponsor. The culprit is a group of mobsters who use the town's local hotel as an annual meeting place, while also concealing a dark secret within the town by the mobsters. | ||||||
| 64 | 18 | "Knight & Knerd" | Georg Fenady | Larry Mollin | March 17, 1985 | 58630 |
| A nerdy Foundation employee (Arye Gross) helps Michael rescue a scientist's daughter from criminals who also steal the scientist's advanced laser weapon to rob a jewel depository. | ||||||
| 65 | 19 | "Ten Wheel Trouble" | Robert Bralver | Burton Armus | March 24, 1985 | 58645 |
| Michael helps a convoy of truckers fight a ruthless competition by a rival corporation when a trucker is killed and another is framed for the crime. | ||||||
| 66 | 20 | "Knight in Retreat" | Roy Campanella Jr. | Gerald Sanford | March 29, 1985 | 58642 |
| Michael poses as a scientist to infiltrate a resort operated by a woman (Ann Turkel) who deals in blackmail and stolen advance weapon technology after a friend of Bonnie's, also a guest of the resort, was killed. | ||||||
| 67 | 21 | "Knight Strike" | Georg Fenady | George S. Dinallo | April 5, 1985 | 58647 |
| Michael infiltrates a survivalist convention where stolen laser weapons are being sold. Judy Landers makes her second Knight Rider appearance. | ||||||
| 68 | 22 | "Circus Knights" | Harvey Laidman | David R. Toddman | May 5, 1985 | 58633 |
| Michael and KITT join a circus as a daredevil act in order to discover who is forcing them into bankruptcy. | ||||||
Season 4 (1985–1986)
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Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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| "Knight of the Juggernaut" | Georg Fenady | Robert Foster & Burton Armus | September 20, 1985 | |||
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Michael goes to Chicago on an assignment to guard a valuable isotope. Elsewhere, Wilton Knight's daughter unexpectedly suspends FLAG's operations and Michael and KITT find themselves out of a job. Meanwhile, an international terrorist kidnaps Devon Miles and replaces him with a surgically altered impostor as a plot to get his hands on the isotope. Devon's changed behavior alerts Michael's suspicions and he disobeys orders to "take a vacation" until he finds out what is going on. Clues lead to a warehouse, where KITT's molecular bonded armor is unknowingly neutralized by a chemical sprayer on a nearby street, and he and Michael are attacked by an armored vehicle KITT cannot defend against. Devon strangely writes-off KITT as a total loss, and when he answers a question Michael asks about Moby Dick wrong, Michael is even more doubtful that it is truly Devon. Seeing as KITT was nearly destroyed in the armored car attack, Bonnie cannot repair him without Devon Miles' assistance or FLAG's facilities. She and Michael enlist the help of "The Street Avenger" a friendly street vigilante named Reginald Cornelius the 3rd, or RC3, whose gang of friends take KITT to their garage to rebuild him. KITT is reborn with some new gadgets, including a rocket-fast "super pursuit" mode. Michael must now race to save the real Devon and prevent the theft of the isotope.
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| 71 | 3 | "K.I.T.T. Nap" | Bernard McEveety | Skip Webster | September 27, 1985 | 60216 |
| Michael hunts down a criminal who has escaped capture for years, but the criminal decides to take out Michael once and for all. He first kidnaps an innocent college student that is interviewing Michael, then traps and steals KITT, supposedly with Michael in it. Fortunately Michael and KITT separate beforehand so only KITT was stolen. Michael manages to find and free KITT. In the end, they stop the criminals, and once again save the day. | ||||||
| 72 | 4 | "Sky Knight" | Jeffrey Hayden | Carlton Hollander & Dennis Rodriguez | October 18, 1985 | 60219 |
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A plane that Bonnie is traveling on is hijacked by a group of men led by an ex-intelligence agent (Ron O'Neal) who demands money and the release of "political" prisoners. Michael and KITT manage to track them to a military bunker that was designed to keep high-ranking officials safe in the event of terror attacks, and is surrounded by mines and other automated security systems and assumed to be impossible to break into. The hijackers also activate a "doomsday device" time bomb within the bunker. KITT gets Michael past the site's defenses, and Michael gets the key to stop the bomb, with just seconds to spare. Guest stars: Brian Thompson (Night Slasher in Cobra) as Kurt |
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| 73 | 5 | "Burial Ground" | Chuck Bail | Michael Eric Stein | October 25, 1985 | 60204 |
| Michael must locate a missing archeologist and his assistant, who has been kidnapped by an oil baron (Robert Pine), who is set to gain possession of Indian land if no artifacts are found. He finds and rescues them both, just in time to save the Indian burial grounds. | ||||||
| 74 | 6 | "The Wrong Crowd" | Chuck Bail | George S. Dinallo | November 1, 1985 | 60221 |
| Michael must stop a gang of thieves, who hijack FLAG's mobile base truck, thinking it to be hauling liquor. When they discover all the high-tech computer gear inside, one of the gang turns out to be a wiz with computers. He leads them to use the equipment for a crime spree, including the hacking of a robotic military vehicle armed with a missile that his parents built. When the young man unknowingly misdirects the vehicle to destroy the base truck by mistake, the thieves decide to leave, leaving the people trapped inside. Seeing them as not his true friends, he stays behind to help Michael get the vehicle to chase him and KITT instead; they manage to destroy the vehicle by making it hit a vacant shack. | ||||||
| 75 | 7 | "Knight Sting" | Sidney Hayers | Herman Miller | November 8, 1985 | 60224 |
| Bonnie poses as jetsetter, Devon as a newscaster, and Michael as a hitman in order to infiltrate a foreign embassy where an official plans to smuggle a canister of deadly bacteria out of the country. RC3 poses as a butler as well. KITT even goes undercover as a rare foreign car. Michael manages to switch the canister just before their cover is blown. Michael tricks the enemy into thinking that he would shoot the canister unless he lets go of Bonnie and another hostage, which he does, not knowing that he has a fake canister. | ||||||
| 76 | 8 | "Many Happy Returns" | Georg Fenady | Michael Halperin | November 15, 1985 | 60203 |
| Michael investigates the theft of a high-tech hovercraft and tries to intercept it, before a black market arms dealer can smuggle it out of the country. Michael finds out that it was aided by a mole, a disgruntled employee, within the company. He felt that if he wasn't going to get the recognition he deserved from the company, then he would get it from someone else. In the end, Michael manages to stop them and save the company. | ||||||
| 77 | 9 | "Knight Racer" | Charles Watson Sanford | Paul Diamond | November 22, 1985 | 60222 |
| Michael investigates an open wheel race team plagued by mysterious accidents. Michael also takes the team's opening as a substitute race car driver at Riverside and finds out that the owner of another racing team is the biological father of the woman on the team he is trying to help; the father claims that he wanted to keep the other team from taking his entire life away, including his daughter, if they win the race. In the end, they win the race thanks to Michael. | ||||||
| 78 | 10 | "Knight Behind Bars" | Bernard McEveety | Richard Okie | December 6, 1985 | 60202 |
| Michael investigates a women's prison where inmates are stealing the plans of a hotel being used as a meeting place for a defense conference. Bonnie goes undercover as an inmate. The masterminds, the ruthless warden and the prison fitness instructor, were after a pure crystal, that could be used to power a powerful laser. At the last minute, an inmate in the scheme changes sides and helps them capture the rest of the group. | ||||||
| 79 | 11 | "Knight Song" | Georg Fenady | Burton Armus | December 13, 1985 | 60230 |
| RC3 helps a friend, who is involved in a real-estate plan that could help revitalize RC3's old neighborhood. A rival developer, also a past friend of RC3, however, has other plans to keep the area a drug-infested slum. With help from the neighborhood, Michael and RC3 are able to stop the destruction of their neighborhood. | ||||||
| 80 | 12 | "The Scent of Roses" | Sidney Hayers | E. Nick Alexander | January 3, 1986 | 60212 |
| A near-fatal encounter with a criminal mastermind has Michael thinking about early retirement and he considers quitting the Foundation. Devon reunites Michael with Stephanie "Stevie" Mason, and Michael quits the Foundation. After Michael and Stevie are married, the mastermind returns and Stevie takes a bullet for Michael, which kills her. Michael seeks vengeance against the mastermind. Once he captures the man responsible, he decides to head home with KITT to friends and family. (Originally intended as the show's final episode.) | ||||||
| 81 | 13 | "Killer K.I.T.T." | Chuck Bail | Simon Rose | January 10, 1986 | 60226 |
| A vengeful computer expert who helped design KITT's software reprograms KITT to turn against Michael and subsequently ruin FLAG's reputation by having KITT kill everyone at the FLAG's national convention. Michael thinks they may have to destroy KITT to stop him, but Michael is able to replace the tampered circuit on him before he hurts anyone. Afterward, Bonnie and the foundation technicians decide to develop safe-guards, so KITT will never be hacked ever again. | ||||||
| 82 | 14 | "Out of the Woods" | Harvey Laidman | Gregory S. Dinallo | January 17, 1986 | 60211 |
| Michael works to expose a sawmill operation that has been cutting timber from a protected national forest. Michael first believes that founder of the sawmill is in kahutz with woodcutters, but he soon finds out that his daughter is the one at fault | ||||||
| 83 | 15 | "Deadly Knightshade" | Sidney Hayers | Philip John Taylor | January 24, 1986 | 60229 |
| Michael tries to prove a master magician has committed a murder, and used his stage illusions to appear to be on stage during the crime as the perfect alibi. It is soon realized that the murder and the attempted murder on Devon was an effort by one chairman of the board to get full control of FLAG's distribution of money to its many resources. Michael is able to catch the magician and save Devon. | ||||||
| 84 | 16 | "Redemption of a Champion" | Chuck Bail | E. Nick Alexander | January 31, 1986 | 60227 |
| Michael investigates an upcoming rematch between two boxers. After the murder of a sports reporter, who may have had incriminating evidence about the legendary fighting match. Michael races against the clock to save one of the fighters who may die if he fights in the ring again. Special appearances by Don King, Ken Foree, and Carlos Palomino. | ||||||
| 85 | 17 | "Knight of a Thousand Devils" | Gino Grimaldi | Peter Allan Fields | February 7, 1986 | 60228 |
| An FBI agent and close friend to Michael, is killed by a mobster who escapes during a botched raid. Michael and RC3 trail him to a dune buggy race, where the criminal is posing as a driver and planning an escape across the Mexican border. With the help of another undercover agent, Michael is able to catch the mobster. | ||||||
| 86 | 18 | "Hills of Fire" | Robert Bralver | Jackson Gillis | February 14, 1986 | 60220 |
| Michael and KITT investigate a string of arson fires in a national park, but the arsonist evades capture with an off-road vehicle to flee over terrain KITT cannot drive over. Bonnie also creates a special Satellite Infiltration Drone, also known as SID, that can become any object when spying on the enemy. The fires are a cover for a big drug smuggling operation and most of the townspeople are involved, a crooked police chief included. Special appearance by Vernon Wells. | ||||||
| 87 | 19 | "Knight Flight to Freedom" | Winrich Kolbe | George S. Dinallo | February 21, 1986 | 60232 |
| Michael goes to South America and tries to help an American political figure escape a country in the middle of a coup d'état. Michael gets caught and is to be executed by a firing squad. With the help of RC3, he is able to fake his death and rescue the other prisoners. With help from the country's resistance movement, they are able to defeat the military and win back their freedom in the country. | ||||||
| 88 | 20 | "Fright Knight" | Gilbert Shilton | Story by: James Byrnes & Samm Smith Teleplay by: James Byrnes & Samm Smith & Leonard Kaufman |
March 7, 1986 | 60223 |
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Michael and KITT investigate the grounds of a movie studio where unexplained accidents on the sets are thought to be the work of a legendary stage phantom. The special effects person is fired after a special effect puts an actor in the hospital. When he is investigated by Michael, he finds evidence that someone is sabotaging the stunts for the movie. After another accident nearly costs an actor's life, Michael tells everyone that he will check everything before any scene is done. He talks to the director and volunteers to be a stunt double in hopes to catch the legendary stage phantom. He also calls in RC3 to help him out; Michael also finds out that a man named Galvin gains more money if the picture is not finished; because he borrows money from unfriendly men, he is now in serious debt to them. The saboteur kills Galvin because Michael is getting too close. The saboteur turns out to be the director's assistant. Guest stars: Robert Englund as Edward Kent |
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| 89 | 21 | "Knight of the Rising Sun" | Winrich Kolbe | Story by: Burton Armus & Bruce Lansbury Teleplay by: E. Nick Alexander |
March 14, 1986 | 60233 |
| Michael must protect the son of Devon's friend from a Japanese businessman who is determined to kidnap him, believing he is the descendant of the founder of a terrorist cult. | ||||||
| 90 | 22 | "Voo Doo Knight" | Georg Fenady | Story by: R. Timothy Kring Teleplay by: R. Timothy Kring & Deborah Dean Davis |
April 4, 1986 | 60225 |
| Michael tries to stop a voodoo woman, who is using mind control on innocent people and forcing them to commit crimes for her. | ||||||
References
External links
- Knight Rider at IMDb
- List of Knight Rider episodes at TV.com
- Knight Rider at epguides.com
