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The Worst Episodes of Knight Rider

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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,

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Knight Rider Season 4 Episode 21 - Voo Doo Knight
    6.4/10(253 votes)

    #1 - Voo Doo Knight

    S4:E21

    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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  2. Knight Rider Season 1 Episode 7 - No Big Thing
    6.6/10(476 votes)

    #2 - No Big Thing

    S1:E7

    Devon lands in a small-town lockup on a misdemeanor, but his predicament becomes deadly after a fellow prisoner is killed by the cops.

    Director:Bernard L. Kowalski
    Writer:Judy Burns

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  3. Knight Rider Season 1 Episode 13 - Hearts of Stone
    6.6/10(390 votes)

    #3 - Hearts of Stone

    S1:E13

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

    Director:Jeffrey Hayden
    Writer:Robert Foster

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  4. Knight Rider Season 1 Episode 14 - Give Me Liberty... or Give Me Death
    6.6/10(387 votes)

    #4 - Give Me Liberty... or Give Me Death

    S1:E14

    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

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  5. Knight Rider Season 2 Episode 10 - Knightmares
    6.6/10(309 votes)

    #5 - Knightmares

    S2:E10

    Michael suffers amnesia from a head injury sustained while investigating at a dam and reverts to his former identity as policeman Michael Long.

    Director:Sidney Hayers
    Writers:Tom Greene, Janis Hendler

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  6. Knight Rider Season 2 Episode 13 - Diamonds Aren't a Girl's Best Friend
    6.6/10(318 votes)

    #6 - Diamonds Aren't a Girl's Best Friend

    S2:E13

    Michael heads for Mexico to trap a talent agent who's using beautiful models to smuggle diamonds into the U.S.

    Director:Jeffrey Hayden
    Writers:Robert Foster, Rob Gilmer

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  7. Knight Rider Season 4 Episode 5 - The Wrong Crowd
    6.6/10(249 votes)

    #7 - The Wrong Crowd

    S4:E5

    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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  8. Knight Rider Season 4 Episode 16 - Knight of a Thousand Devils
    6.6/10(251 votes)

    #8 - Knight of a Thousand Devils

    S4:E16

    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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  9. Knight Rider Season 4 Episode 18 - Knight Flight to Freedom
    6.6/10(255 votes)

    #9 - Knight Flight to Freedom

    S4:E18

    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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  10. Knight Rider Season 1 Episode 11 - A Plush Ride
    6.7/10(413 votes)

    #10 - A Plush Ride

    S1:E11

    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

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  11. Knight Rider Season 1 Episode 20 - Nobody Does It Better
    6.7/10(366 votes)

    #11 - Nobody Does It Better

    S1:E20

    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

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  12. Knight Rider Season 1 Episode 21 - Short Notice
    6.7/10(369 votes)

    #12 - Short Notice

    S1:E21

    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

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  13. Knight Rider Season 2 Episode 4 - Blind Spot
    6.7/10(327 votes)

    #13 - Blind Spot

    S2:E4

    Michael investigates a businessman who's exploiting illegal aliens. A blind woman is the only witness.

    Director:Bernard L. Kowalski
    Writer:Jackson Gillis

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  14. Knight Rider Season 2 Episode 12 - A Knight in Shining Armor
    6.7/10(314 votes)

    #14 - A Knight in Shining Armor

    S2:E12

    A killer with a treasure map must find his victim's estranged daughter, who holds the key to the treasure.

    Director:Bernard McEveety
    Writers:Tom Greene, Janis Hendler

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  15. Knight Rider Season 2 Episode 14 - White-Line Warriors
    6.7/10(305 votes)

    #15 - White-Line Warriors

    S2:E14

    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.

    Director:Bob Bralver
    Writer:Richard C. Okie

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  16. Knight Rider Season 2 Episode 17 - Goliath Returns
    6.7/10(293 votes)

    #16 - Goliath Returns

    S2:E17

    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.

    Director:Winrich Kolbe
    Writers:Robert Foster, Rob Gilmer, Tom Greene, Janis Hendler

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  17. Knight Rider Season 2 Episode 21 - Big Iron
    6.7/10(338 votes)

    #17 - Big Iron

    S2:E21

    While investigating the theft of heavy-duty construction equipment. Michael and KITT are pushed into a quarry and buried with tons of gravel.

    Director:Bernard L. Kowalski
    Writer:Julie Friedgen

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  18. Knight Rider Season 4 Episode 8 - Knight Racer
    6.7/10(243 votes)

    #18 - Knight Racer

    S4:E8

    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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  19. Knight Rider Season 4 Episode 11 - The Scent of Roses
    6.7/10(250 votes)

    #19 - The Scent of Roses

    S4:E11

    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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  20. Knight Rider Season 4 Episode 17 - Hills of Fire
    6.7/10(244 votes)

    #20 - Hills of Fire

    S4:E17

    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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  21. Knight Rider Season 4 Episode 19 - Fright Knight
    6.7/10(243 votes)

    #21 - Fright Knight

    S4:E19

    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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  22. Knight Rider Season 1 Episode 3 - Good Day at White Rock
    6.8/10(588 votes)

    #22 - Good Day at White Rock

    S1:E3

    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

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  23. Knight Rider Season 1 Episode 12 - Forget Me Not
    6.8/10(403 votes)

    #23 - Forget Me Not

    S1:E12

    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
    Writers:Tom Szollosi, Richard Christian Matheson, Karen Harris

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  24. Knight Rider Season 1 Episode 16 - A Nice, Indecent Little Town
    6.8/10(383 votes)

    #24 - A Nice, Indecent Little Town

    S1:E16

    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

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  25. Knight Rider Season 1 Episode 17 - Chariot of Gold
    6.8/10(376 votes)

    #25 - Chariot of Gold

    S1:E17

    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

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Voo Doo Knight" is the worst rated episode of "Knight Rider". It scored 6.4/10 based on 253 votes. Directed by Georg Fenady and written by Deborah Dean Davis, Tim Kring, it aired on 4/4/1986. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "No Big Thing".