The Best Episodes of Knight Rider Season 4

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.5/10(331 votes)

   #1 - Knight of the Juggernaut

   S4:E19/20/1985

   KITT undergoes an amazing transformation after nearly being destroyed by the Juggernaut, a similarly powerful vehicle with a deadly battering ram.

   Director:Georg Fenady

   Writers:Burton Armus, Robert Foster

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   Director:Georg Fenady

   Writers:Burton Armus, Robert Foster
2. 

   8.0/10(60 votes)

   #2 - KITTnap

   S4:E29/27/1985

   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. ...

   Director:Bernard McEveety

   Writer:Skip Webster

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   Director:Bernard McEveety

   Writer:Skip Webster
3. 

   6.9/10(273 votes)

   #3 - Sky Knight

   S4:E310/18/1985

   Bonnie's plane is hijacked and the passengers are held hostage by an ex-intelligence agent who wants money and ""political"" prisoners set free.

   Director:Jeffrey Hayden

   Writers:Dennis Rodriguez, Carlton Hollander

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   Director:Jeffrey Hayden

   Writers:Dennis Rodriguez, Carlton Hollander
4. 

   6.9/10(287 votes)

   #4 - Burial Ground

   S4:E410/25/1985

   An archaeologist excavating an ancient burial ground is kidnapped by a man who gets the oil-rich Indian land if no artifacts are found.

   Director:Charles Bail

   Writer:Michael Eric Stein

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   Director:Charles Bail

   Writer:Michael Eric Stein
5. 

   6.6/10(249 votes)

   #5 - The Wrong Crowd

   S4:E511/1/1985

   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...

   Director:Charles Bail

   Writer:Gregory S. Dinallo

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   Director:Charles Bail

   Writer:Gregory S. Dinallo
6. 

   6.8/10(265 votes)

   #6 - Knight Sting

   S4:E611/8/1985

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

   Director:Sidney Hayers

   Writer:Herman Miller

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   Director:Sidney Hayers

   Writer:Herman Miller
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7. 

   6.9/10(252 votes)

   #7 - Many Happy Returns

   S4:E711/15/1985

   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...

   Director:Georg Fenady

   Writer:Michael Halperin

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   Director:Georg Fenady

   Writer:Michael Halperin
8. 

   6.7/10(243 votes)

   #8 - Knight Racer

   S4:E811/29/1985

   Someone tries to kill Michael after he qualifies to drive for an independent racing team plagued by a series of ""accidents"".

   Director:Charles Watson Sanford

   Writer:Paul Diamond

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   Director:Charles Watson Sanford

   Writer:Paul Diamond
9. 

   6.9/10(263 votes)

   #9 - Knight Behind Bars

   S4:E912/6/1985

   Michael discovers that prison inmates were used to steal security plans for a hotel that is hosting a defense conference.

   Director:Bernard McEveety

   Writer:Richard C. Okie

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   Director:Bernard McEveety

   Writer:Richard C. Okie
10. 

    6.8/10(249 votes)

    #10 - Knight Song

    S4:E1012/13/1985

    A childhood friend of RC3's is involved with a blockbusting real-estate developer, who's trying to prevent the opening of a nightclub that could revitalize RC3's old neighborhood.

    Director:Georg Fenady

    Writer:Burton Armus

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    Director:Georg Fenady

    Writer:Burton Armus
11. 

    6.7/10(250 votes)

    #11 - The Scent of Roses

    S4:E111/3/1986

    After a near-fatal encounter with a criminal mastermind, Michael falls into a deep depression and wants to quit the Foundation. He and Stevie are married.

    Director:Sidney Hayers

    Writer:E. Nick Alexander

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    Director:Sidney Hayers

    Writer:E. Nick Alexander
12. 

    7.6/10(334 votes)

    #12 - Killer K.I.T.T.

    S4:E121/10/1986

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

    Director:Charles Bail

    Writer:Si Rose

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    Director:Charles Bail

    Writer:Si Rose
13. 

    7.2/10(266 votes)

    #13 - Out of the Woods

    S4:E131/17/1986

    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.

    Director:Harvey S. Laidman

    Writer:Gregory S. Dinallo

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    Director:Harvey S. Laidman

    Writer:Gregory S. Dinallo
14. 

    6.8/10(241 votes)

    #14 - Deadly Knightshade

    S4:E141/24/1986

    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...

    Director:Sidney Hayers

    Writer:Philip John Taylor

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    Director:Sidney Hayers

    Writer:Philip John Taylor
15. 

    7.2/10(255 votes)

    #15 - Redemption of a Champion

    S4:E151/31/1986

    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...

    Director:Charles Bail

    Writer:E. Nick Alexander

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    Director:Charles Bail

    Writer:E. Nick Alexander
16. 

    6.6/10(251 votes)

    #16 - Knight of a Thousand Devils

    S4:E162/7/1986

    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...

    Director:Gino Grimaldi

    Writer:Peter Allan Fields

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    Director:Gino Grimaldi

    Writer:Peter Allan Fields
17. 

    6.7/10(244 votes)

    #17 - Hills of Fire

    S4:E172/14/1986

    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...

    Director:Bob Bralver

    Writer:Jackson Gillis

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    Director:Bob Bralver

    Writer:Jackson Gillis
18. 

    6.6/10(255 votes)

    #18 - Knight Flight to Freedom

    S4:E182/21/1986

    Michael is captured while trying to rescue an American political prisoner held in a country in the throes of a coup d'etat.

    Director:Winrich Kolbe

    Writer:Gregory S. Dinallo

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    Director:Winrich Kolbe

    Writer:Gregory S. Dinallo
19. 

    6.7/10(243 votes)

    #19 - Fright Knight

    S4:E193/7/1986

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

    Director:Gilbert M. Shilton

    Writers:Leonard B. Kaufman, Jim Byrnes

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    Director:Gilbert M. Shilton

    Writers:Leonard B. Kaufman, Jim Byrnes
20. 

    7.1/10(273 votes)

    #20 - Knight of the Rising Sun

    S4:E203/14/1986

    A powerful Japanese businessman attempts to abduct the adopted son of Devon's friend because the boy is a direct descendent of the founder of an ancient terrorist cult.

    Director:Winrich Kolbe

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Winrich Kolbe

    Writer:Unknown
21. 

    6.4/10(253 votes)

    #21 - Voo Doo Knight

    S4:E214/4/1986

    Intercepting a robbery, Michael is shocked when one of the thieves commits apparent suicide, jumping out of a high-rise window. Investigating, it emerges that a con woman posing as a voodoo princess is using special earclips that submit the wearers to become zombified slaves to her commands. The woman plans to use her tranced henchmen to steal her some priceless archaeological finds, but in trying to stop the plot, Michael himself falls under the spell of one of the earclips...

    Director:Georg Fenady

    Writers:Deborah Dean Davis, Tim Kring

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    Director:Georg Fenady

    Writers:Deborah Dean Davis, Tim Kring