The Best Episodes of Knight Rider Season 1

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.

Director: Daniel Haller

Writer: Glen A. Larson

Michael stops to offer a stranded Army Lieutenant a lift, only to learn when they arrive at her base that her father has died under mysterious circumstances. With the events surrounding the death highly suspicious, Michael decides to investigate.

Director: Paul Stanley

Writer: William Schmidt, Bob Shayne

Michael and K.I.T.T. head to the quiet backwater town of White Rock for Michael to take a well deserved vacation and do a little rock climbing, but the trip isn't quite the quiet break expected, when they find that the town is being terrorised by a rowdy motorcycle gang preparing to do battle with a rival club of bikers...

Director: Daniel Haller

Writer: Deborah Dean Davis

Michael joins an auto-daredevil show whose owners unwittingly took out a second mortgage from a crook who arranges "accidents" so he can take over the business.

Director: Bruce Bilson

Writer: E. Paul Edwards, John Alan Schwartz

Michael becomes the bodyguard for a crusading state senator who has stepped on one too many toes.

Director: Sidney Hayers

Writer: N/A

Devon sends Michael to stop a range war over water rights.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel

Writer: Hannah Louise Shearer

Devon lands in a small-town lockup on a misdemeanor, but his predicament becomes deadly after a fellow prisoner is killed by the cops. Devon's the only one who knew the man was in jail. Town name is Lindhurst Flats.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: Judy Burns

Michael is assigned to stop KARR, an evil prototype of KITT programmed to survive at all costs--and now on the loose.

Director: Paul Stanley

Writer: Steven E. de Souza

Michael takes on the guise of an infamous criminal to infiltrate a highly organized crime ring headed by a retired Colonel, who is planning a major heist...

Director: Peter Crane

Writer: Steven E. de Souza

Memorial to: R.A. Cinader--He was the original. A meek accountant can clear a friend of murder if Michael can find him before he's arrested for "creative" bookkeeping.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: N/A

Michael becomes a student in a driving school for chauffeur-bodyguards to expose an assassin whose targets are a trio of visiting Third World leaders.

Director: Sidney Hayers

Writer: Gregory S. Dinallo

Michael's only hope of preventing the assassination of a Latin American president is a girl who knows the plan, but has amnesia.

Director: Gil Bettman

Writer: Richard Christian Matheson, Tom Szollosi, Karen Harris

Michael infiltrates a ring of gunrunners selling advanced-design rifles in Central America, "Corazon de Piedras".

Director: Jeffrey Hayden

Writer: Robert Foster

Someone is sabotaging the cars in an alternative-fuel race, so Michael joins the pack to flush out the saboteur.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: David Braff

The murder of a men's magazine publisher leads Michael to Las Vegas and an expose the magazine was about to print.

Director: Alan Myerson

Writer: Stephen Katz

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.

Director: Gil Bettman

Writer: Frank Telford

Michael investigates the mysterious deaths of members of an exclusive club for geniuses, involved in an archaeological dig.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: William Schmidt

Michael tries to prevent a lawyer's assistant from being framed for conspiracy, but there's a complication; she was Michael's fiancee before his identity change.

Director: Winrich Kolbe

Writer: Virginia Aldridge

Michael tries to catch hijackers who are knocking off shipments carried by independent truckers.

Director: Christian I. Nyby II

Writer: William Schmidt

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

Director: Harvey S. Laidman

Writer: David Braff

After Michael unintentionally kills a cycle-gang member, the only witness insists that he recover her kidnapped child before she will help him.

Director: Robert Foster

Writer: Robert Foster