The Best Episodes of Knight Rider Season 4
Every episode of Knight Rider Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Knight Rider Season 4!
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.
Season 4 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Knight Rider" season 4 is "Knight of the Juggernaut", rated 7.5/10 from 300 user votes. It was directed by Georg Fenady and written by Burton Armus, Robert Foster. "Knight of the Juggernaut" aired on 9/20/1985 and is rated 0.9 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "KITTnap".
7.5/10 300 votes#1 - Knight of the Juggernaut
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1985
KITT undergoes an amazing transformation after nearly being destroyed by the Juggernaut, a similarly powerful vehicle with a deadly battering ram.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: Burton Armus, Robert Foster
8.4/10 21 votes#2 - KITTnap
Season 4 Episode 2 - 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. ...
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: Skip Webster
6.9/10 249 votes#3 - Sky Knight
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/1985
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
Writer: Carlton Hollander, Dennis Rodriguez
6.9/10 257 votes#4 - Burial Ground
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/1985
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
6.6/10 226 votes#5 - The Wrong Crowd
Season 4 Episode 5 - 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...
Director: Charles Bail
Writer: Gregory S. Dinallo
6.8/10 240 votes#6 - Knight Sting
Season 4 Episode 6 - 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.
Director: Sidney Hayers
Writer: Herman Miller
6.9/10 230 votes#7 - Many Happy Returns
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/1985
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
6.7/10 222 votes#8 - Knight Racer
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/29/1985
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
6.8/10 237 votes#9 - Knight Behind Bars
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 12/6/1985
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
6.8/10 223 votes#10 - Knight Song
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/13/1985
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
6.6/10 226 votes#11 - The Scent of Roses
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 1/3/1986
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
7.6/10 302 votes#12 - Killer K.I.T.T.
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/10/1986
An embittered electronics genius gains control of KITT's programming and turns the car on Michael.
Director: Charles Bail
Writer: Si Rose
7.2/10 241 votes#13 - Out of the Woods
Season 4 Episode 13 - 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.
Director: Harvey S. Laidman
Writer: Gregory S. Dinallo
6.8/10 220 votes#14 - Deadly Knightshade
Season 4 Episode 14 - 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...
Director: Sidney Hayers
Writer: Philip John Taylor
7.1/10 231 votes#15 - Redemption of a Champion
Season 4 Episode 15 - 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...
Director: Charles Bail
Writer: E. Nick Alexander
6.6/10 230 votes#16 - Knight of a Thousand Devils
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 2/7/1986
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
6.8/10 222 votes#17 - Hills of Fire
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 2/14/1986
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
6.6/10 230 votes#18 - Knight Flight to Freedom
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 2/21/1986
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
6.7/10 220 votes#19 - Fright Knight
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 3/7/1986
Inexplicable accidents on a movie set are blamed on a legendary phantom haunting the studio.
Director: Gilbert M. Shilton
Writer: Leonard B. Kaufman, Jim Byrnes
7.1/10 248 votes#20 - Knight of the Rising Sun
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 3/14/1986
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: N/A
6.4/10 233 votes#21 - Voo Doo Knight
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 4/4/1986
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
Writer: Tim Kring, Deborah Dean Davis