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#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: Deborah Dean Davis, Tim Kring
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#2 - 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
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#3 - 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
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#4 - 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
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#5 - 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
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#6 - 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
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#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
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#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
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#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
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#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
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#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
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#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
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#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
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#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
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#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
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#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
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#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
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#18 - 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
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#19 - 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
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#20 - 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
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#21 - Knight in Disgrace
Season 3 Episode 7
Aired 11/18/1984
Word gets out when Michael is fired for drug possession, and a crime boss recruits him to steal a one-of-a-kind electronic key from Devon.
Director: Harvey S. Laidman
Writer: Simon Muntner
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#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.
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#23 - Ten Wheel Trouble
Season 3 Episode 18
Aired 3/24/1985
Michael takes the wheel of a big rig to help independent truckers fight a takeover by a ruthless corporation.
Director: Bob Bralver
Writer: Burton Armus
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#24 - 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
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#25 - 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
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,...
Genres:Action & AdventureDramaSci-Fi & FantasyCrime
Network:NBC
Episodes
84
Avg. Rating
7.0
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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 234 votes. Directed by Georg Fenady and written by Deborah Dean Davis, Tim Kring, it aired on 4/4/1986. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Give Me Liberty... or Give Me Death".