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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

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, "No Big Thing".

  • Voo Doo Knight
    6.4/10234 votes
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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

  • No Big Thing
    6.5/10428 votes
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    #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

  • Hearts of Stone
    6.5/10348 votes
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    #3 - 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

  • Give Me Liberty... or Give Me Death
    6.5/10345 votes
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    #4 - 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

  • Knightmares
    6.5/10280 votes
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    #5 - 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

  • Short Notice
    6.6/10330 votes
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    #6 - 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

  • Blind Spot
    6.6/10296 votes
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    #7 - 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

  • A Knight in Shining Armor
    6.6/10289 votes
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    #8 - 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

  • Diamonds Aren't a Girl's Best Friend
    6.6/10290 votes
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    #9 - 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

  • The Wrong Crowd
    6.6/10227 votes
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    #10 - 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

  • The Scent of Roses
    6.6/10227 votes
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    #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

  • Knight of a Thousand Devils
    6.6/10231 votes
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    #12 - 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

  • Knight Flight to Freedom
    6.6/10231 votes
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    #13 - 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

  • Good Day at White Rock
    6.7/10534 votes
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    #14 - 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

  • A Plush Ride
    6.7/10368 votes
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    #15 - 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

  • Nobody Does It Better
    6.7/10329 votes
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    #16 - 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

  • Merchants of Death
    6.7/10323 votes
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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

  • White-Line Warriors
    6.7/10280 votes
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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

  • Goliath Returns
    6.7/10266 votes
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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

  • Big Iron
    6.7/10307 votes
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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

  • Knight in Disgrace
    6.7/10258 votes
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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

  • Junk Yard Dog
    6.7/10239 votes
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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.

  • Knight Racer
    6.7/10222 votes
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    #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

  • Hills of Fire
    6.7/10223 votes
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    #24 - 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

  • Fright Knight
    6.7/10221 votes
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    #25 - 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