The WORST episodes of Knight Rider

Every episode of Knight Rider ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Knight Rider!

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: Michael Knight. Michael is then given a special computerized and indestructible car called the Knight Industries Two Thousand (K.I.T.T.) and a mission: apprehend criminals who are beyond the reach of the law. The series depicts Michael's exploits as he and K.I.T.T. battle the forces of evil on behalf of the Foundation for Law and Government.

Last Updated: 3/12/2024Network: NBCStatus: Ended
Share:
Let It Be Me
star
4.50
62 votes

#1 - Let It Be Me

Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/13/1984

Posing as a singer in a rock band, Michael looks for the connection between the former lead singer's "accidental" death and an encoded videotape found in his personal effects.

Directors: Bernard McEveety
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Knight in Retreat
star
5.05
91 votes

#2 - Knight in Retreat

Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/29/1985

Michael poses as a space-weapon scientist to gain access to a club operated by a woman dealing in blackmail and top-secret weapon systems.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Knight Sting
star
5.21
152 votes

#3 - Knight Sting

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/1985

Bonnie poses as a jetsetter to gain access to a foreign embassy planning to ship a canister of deadly bacteria out of the country.

Directors: Sidney Hayers
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Killer K.I.T.T.
star
5.67
94 votes

#4 - Killer K.I.T.T.

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/10/1986

An embittered electronics genius gains control of KITT's programming and turns the car on Michael.

Directors: Charles Bail
Writer: Si Rose
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Out of the Woods
star
5.75
85 votes

#5 - Out of the Woods

Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/17/1986

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.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Deadly Knightshade
star
5.80
87 votes

#6 - Deadly Knightshade

Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/24/1986

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...

Directors: Sidney Hayers
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Mouth of the Snake [a.k.a. All That Glitters] (2)
star
6.00
2 votes

#7 - Mouth of the Snake [a.k.a. All That Glitters] (2)

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/8/1984

Directors: Winrich Kolbe
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Knightlines
star
6.27
98 votes

#8 - Knightlines

Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/3/1985

An international criminal (Frank Annese) rigs the Government's space weapons headquarters to blow up after construction is completed.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
A Nice, Indecent Little Town
star
6.30
243 votes

#9 - A Nice, Indecent Little Town

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/18/1983

The trail of a counterfeiter leads to a sleepy little village that not only appears to be harboring the criminal he's after but is also under the eye of the CIA.

Directors: Gil Bettman
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Nobody Does It Better
star
6.44
188 votes

#10 - Nobody Does It Better

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/29/1983

Michael contends with interference from an overzealous private eye while he tries to discover who's stealing computer-software secrets.

Writer: David Braff
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
The Ice Bandits
star
6.50
131 votes

#11 - The Ice Bandits

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/1984

Michael trails diamond thieves to the wine country of Northern California where the crooks are using a monastery as a front.

Directors: Georg Fenady
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Knight of the Juggernaut (2)
star
6.52
95 votes

#12 - Knight of the Juggernaut (2)

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1985

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...

Directors: Georg Fenady
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
KITTnap
star
6.59
138 votes

#13 - KITTnap

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1985

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. ...

Directors: Bernard McEveety
Writer: Skip Webster
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Knight of the Juggernaut (1)
star
6.70
121 votes

#14 - Knight of the Juggernaut (1)

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1985

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...

Directors: Georg Fenady
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Fright Knight
star
6.72
119 votes

#15 - Fright Knight

Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/7/1986

Inexplicable accidents on a movie set are blamed on a legendary phantom haunting the studio.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
The Wrong Crowd
star
6.73
126 votes

#16 - The Wrong Crowd

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1985

When a biker gang hi-jack and steal the FLAG truck, hospitalising RC3 in the process, they expect it to be full of liquor - so are amazed to find it full of computer equipment. The son of two computer experts, himself a computer genius, is persuaded into helping the gang to use the truck's advanced technology to aid them on a crime spree. Michael and K.I.T.T. must stop the gang before they use the computers to disrupt the test-run of a new computerised vehicle that is armed with a warhead...

Directors: Charles Bail
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Redemption of a Champion
star
6.75
85 votes

#17 - Redemption of a Champion

Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/31/1986

When a sports promoter who claims to have some incriminating information about a legendary boxing match is murdered, Michael investigates an upcoming fight involving a villainous promoter and a former boxing champ who is determined to step back into the ring even if it kills him...

Directors: Charles Bail
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Buy Out
star
6.80
98 votes

#18 - Buy Out

Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/10/1985

To catch a saboteur, Michael volunteers to drive an armor- plated limousine during a company's missile-defense demonstration.

Directors: Jeffrey Hayden
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Ring of Fire
star
6.80
139 votes

#19 - Ring of Fire

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/1983

Michael battles to protect Cajun woman from her vengeful husband in a Louisiana bayou.

Directors: Winrich Kolbe
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Silent Knight
star
6.81
137 votes

#20 - Silent Knight

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/18/1983

Michael is preparing to attend the Christmas banquet when he encounters a gypsy boy who has witnessed a bank robbery and is sought by the robbers from whom he stole a gold watch.

Directors: Bruce Kessler
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Custom Made Killer
star
6.85
102 votes

#21 - Custom Made Killer

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/6/1985

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.

Writer: Burton Armus
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
White-Line Warriors
star
6.86
139 votes

#22 - White-Line Warriors

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/29/1984

Car club members are being blamed for a string of burglaries that coincide with their weekend visits to a coastal community. Subplot--Manny tries to sell a car security system to Michael.

Directors: Bob Bralver
Watch Now:Apple TV
Knight of the Chameleon
star
6.99
74 votes

#23 - Knight of the Chameleon

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/30/1984

Michael poses as a mercenary to flush out the Chameleon (Dick Gautier), a master of disguise who stole a prototype jet pack from the Government to sell on the black market.

Directors: Winrich Kolbe
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Mouth of the Snake [a.k.a. All That Glitters] (1)
star
6.99
97 votes

#24 - Mouth of the Snake [a.k.a. All That Glitters] (1)

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/8/1984

A Government agent, a murdered lawyer's widow and Michael seek connections between an international criminal, a stolen rocket launcher and the code, "Boca Culebra".

Directors: Winrich Kolbe
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
The Rotten Apples
star
7.01
79 votes

#25 - The Rotten Apples

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1984

A psychologist who bought a ranch to use as a home for troubled city kids needs Michael's help to stop rustlers and keep angry townsfolk from taking her land.

Directors: Bob Bralver
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV