The Best Episodes of Knight Rider
Last Updated: Jan 23, 2019
Michael Long, an undercover police officer, is shot while investigating a case and left for dead by his assailants. He is rescued by Wilton Knight, a wealthy, dying millionaire and inventor who arranges life-saving surgery, including a new face and a new identity--that of Michael Knight. Michael is then given a special computerized and indestructible car called the Knight Industries Two Thousand (nicknamed KITT), and a mission: apprehend criminals who are beyond the reach of the law. The series depicts Michael's exploits as he and KITT battle the forces of evil on behalf of the Foundation for Law and Government.
#1 - Knight Flight to Freedom
Season 4 - Episode 19
Michael is captured while trying to rescue an American political prisoner held in a country in the throes of a coup d'etat.
8.06
#2 - K.I.T.T. vs. K.A.R.R.
Season 3 - Episode 6
KITT's evil prototype Karr returns, seeking to destroy Michael and KITT with a new laser stolen from the Foundation
8.04
#3 - Knight in Disgrace
Season 3 - Episode 8
Word gets out when Michael is fired for drug possession, and a crime boss (John Considine) recruits him to steal a one-of-a-kind electronic key from Devon.
8.02
#4 - Sky Knight
Season 4 - Episode 4
Bonnie's plane is hijacked and the passengers are held hostage by an ex-intelligence agent who wants money and "political" prisoners set free.
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#5 - Hills of Fire
Season 4 - Episode 18
Michael and K.I.T.T. have the seemingly easy, relaxing job of patrolling a national park for a couple of days, when they find themselves up against an arsonist driving an All-Terrain Vehicle, who escapes over rough terrain that K.I.T.T. can't cover. As they investigate to find just who is behind the spate of arson attacks, Michael must prove the innocence of a teenage boy, a reformed vandal, who is being framed for starting the fires...
7.97
#6 - Knight of the Phoenix (1)
Season 1 - Episode 1
Pilot feature length episode. When a young detective is ambushed in a failed police stakeout, he is believed to have been killed. In reality, he survives and learns that his face has been altered and his identity has been changed to Michael Knight. The man responsible for this is Wilton Knight, a dying billionaire who, convinced that one man can make a difference, has selected Michael for the role as a crime-fighter.
7.95
#7 - Knight of the Drones (2)
Season 3 - Episode 2
A scientist (Jared Martin) plans to use robots and drone cars to round up criminals to rob a Federal Reserve Bank.
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#8 - Knight of the Juggernaut (2)
Season 4 - Episode 2
With K.I.T.T. completely wrecked by Nordstrom's "Juggernaut" battering ram, Michael and Bonnie, unable to turn to the strangely behaving Devon, enlist a street gang headed by a vigilante known as "The Street Avenger" to rebuild K.I.T.T. in a back-street garage, adding some key new features in the process; but it's a race against the clock to rebuild K.I.T.T. in time to prevent Nordstrom stealing the isotope...
7.90
#9 - Fright Knight
Season 4 - Episode 20
Inexplicable accidents on a movie set are blamed on a legendary phantom haunting the studio.
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#10 - Killer K.I.T.T.
Season 4 - Episode 13
An embittered electronics genius gains control of KITT's programming and turns the car on Michael.
7.85
#11 - Trust Doesn't Rust
Season 1 - Episode 9
Michael is assigned to stop KARR, an evil prototype of KITT programmed to survive at all costs--and now on the loose.
7.83
#12 - Deadly Knightshade
Season 4 - Episode 15
When a Foundation trustee is murdered, Michael's prime suspects master magician Austin Templeton — but the man was seemingly on stage performing at the time of the murder. Michael is determined to prove that Templeton used his "magical" trickery to fool the audience and give him the perfect alibi. The fact that Bonnie, an old flame of Templeton's, was in the audience and is insistent of his innocence, does not make the case any easier...
7.82
#13 - Goliath (2)
Season 2 - Episode 2
Michael and KITT battle a KITT-like truck built by Wilton Knight's ex-wife and son.
7.79
#14 - Knight of a Thousand Devils
Season 4 - Episode 17
After a wanted mobster escapes an F.B.I. raid, murdering an Agent friend of Michael's in the process, Michael and K.I.T.T., backed up by RC3, follow a secret dune-buggy race in which the mobster is racing to make his escape across the border into Mexico, where a new identity awaits him...
7.79
#15 - Burial Ground
Season 4 - Episode 5
An archaeologist excavating an ancient burial ground is kidnapped by a man who gets the oil-rich Indian land if no artifacts are found.
7.78
#16 - Knight of the Juggernaut (1)
Season 4 - Episode 1
Michael and K.I.T.T.'s latest assignment, to guard a volatile new isotope in Chicago, looks as if it could be their last, when the late Wilton Knight's daughter Jennifer plans to shut down their division of FLAG, and suspends Michael. But meanwhile, international terrorist Phillip Nordstrom kidnaps Devon, and uses hi-tech laser surgery on a criminal to create an impostor, as part of Nordstrom's plot to get his hands on the valuable isotope. Even though suspended, Michael becomes suspicious of (the impostor) Devon's behaviour and investigates — but Nordstrom plans to get rid of their interference, coating K.I.T.T. in a chemical to break down his molecular amour coating, before turning loose "The Juggernaut" — a deadly mobile battering ram...
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#17 - Goliath Returns (2)
Season 2 - Episode 19
Seeking revenge against Michael, old nemesis Garthe Knight kidnaps Devon, April and a scientist to force a showdown between KITT and his new and improved GOLIATH.
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#18 - Knight of the Phoenix (2)
Season 1 - Episode 2
Pilot feature length episode. When a young detective is ambushed in a failed police stakeout, he is believed to have been killed. In reality, he survives and learns that his face has been altered and his identity has been changed to Michael Knight. The man responsible for this is Wilton Knight, a dying billionaire who, convinced that one man can make a difference, has selected Michael for the role as a crime-fighter.
7.77
#19 - Circus Knights
Season 3 - Episode 22
Michael and KITT join a circus as a daredevil act to find out who's trying to force it into bankruptcy.
7.75
#20 - KITTnap
Season 4 - Episode 3
With Michael closing in on a master criminal who has escaped capture for years, the man and his henchmen plot to slow Michael up by trapping K.I.T.T. ...
7.74
#21 - Custom Made Killer
Season 3 - Episode 12
An extortionist (James Luisi) out to sew up the garment industry hires a hit man with a killer car to cut his competition. For laughs: Photog and model use KITT as a model stand.
7.73
#22 - Many Happy Returns
Season 4 - Episode 8
Michael's well-deserved break for his birthday is interrupted when Devon assigns him to find a stolen hi-tech hovercraft prototype before a black market arms dealer can ship it out of the country...
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#23 - Knight Behind Bars
Season 4 - Episode 10
Michael discovers that prison inmates were used to steal security plans for a hotel that is hosting a defense conference.
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#24 - Junk Yard Dog
Season 3 - Episode 14
Michael vows to nail the owner (Ramon Bieri) of a toxic-waste dump when KITT is nearly destroyed in an acid pit.
7.71
#25 - Out of the Woods
Season 4 - Episode 14
A family logging outfit is unable to sell its timber because the local sawmill is buying pirated timber that was out on national park land.
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