The Worst Episodes of Knight Rider
Every episode of Knight Rider ranked from worst to best. Explore 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--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.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Knight Rider" is "Voo Doo Knight", rated 6.4/10 from 233 user votes. It was directed by Georg Fenady and written by Tim Kring, Deborah Dean Davis. "Voo Doo Knight" aired on 4/4/1986 and is rated 0.1 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "No Big Thing".
6.4/10 233 votes#1 - 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
6.5/10 422 votes#2 - No Big Thing
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/1982
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
6.5/10 340 votes#3 - Give Me Liberty... or Give Me Death
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/21/1983
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
6.5/10 274 votes#4 - Knightmares
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/11/1983
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
Writer: Janis Hendler, Tom Greene
6.6/10 343 votes#5 - Hearts of Stone
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/14/1983
Michael infiltrates a ring of gunrunners selling advanced-design rifles in Central America, "Corazon de Piedras".
Director: Jeffrey Hayden
Writer: Robert Foster
6.6/10 294 votes#6 - Blind Spot
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/1983
Michael investigates a businessman who's exploiting illegal aliens. A blind woman is the only witness.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer: Jackson Gillis
6.6/10 283 votes#7 - A Knight in Shining Armor
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/8/1984
A killer with a treasure map must find his victim's estranged daughter, who holds the key to the treasure.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: Janis Hendler, Tom Greene
6.6/10 286 votes#8 - Diamonds Aren't a Girl's Best Friend
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/15/1984
Michael heads for Mexico to trap a talent agent who's using beautiful models to smuggle diamonds into the U.S.
Director: Jeffrey Hayden
Writer: Robert Foster, Rob Gilmer
6.6/10 226 votes#9 - 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
6.6/10 226 votes#10 - 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
6.6/10 230 votes#11 - 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
6.6/10 230 votes#12 - 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
6.7/10 527 votes#13 - Good Day at White Rock
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1982
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
6.7/10 364 votes#14 - A Plush Ride
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/10/1982
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
6.7/10 325 votes#15 - Nobody Does It Better
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 4/29/1983
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
6.7/10 325 votes#16 - Short Notice
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/6/1983
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
6.7/10 318 votes#17 - Merchants of Death
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1983
There's thunder out of the blue when Michael and KITT square off against a futuristic attack helicopter in the hands of mercenaries.
Director: Alan Myerson
Writer: William Schmidt
6.7/10 298 votes#18 - K.I.T.T. the Cat
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/1983
Michael tries to catch a Robin Hood-style cat burglar before an obsessed cop does.
Director: Jeffrey Hayden
Writer: Janis Hendler
6.7/10 277 votes#19 - White-Line Warriors
Season 2 Episode 14 - 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.
Director: Bob Bralver
Writer: Richard C. Okie
6.7/10 261 votes#20 - Goliath Returns
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/19/1984
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
Writer: Robert Foster, Rob Gilmer, Janis Hendler, Tom Greene
6.7/10 303 votes#21 - Big Iron
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/27/1984
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
6.7/10 236 votes#22 - Junk Yard Dog
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 2/3/1985
Michael vows to nail the owner of a toxic-waste dump when KITT is nearly destroyed in an acid pit.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: Calvin Clements Jr.
6.7/10 222 votes#23 - 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
6.7/10 220 votes#24 - 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
6.8/10 426 votes#25 - Not a Drop to Drink
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/1982
Devon sends Michael to stop a range war over water rights.
Director: Virgil W. Vogel
Writer: Hannah Louise Shearer