9.0/102 votes#1 - 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: Rob Gilmer
8.7/103 votes#2 - Goliath
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/1983
Michael and KITT battle a KITT-like truck built by Wilton Knight's ex-wife and son.
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Writer: Rob Gilmer
8.0/102 votes#3 - 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: Rob Gilmer
8.0/102 votes#4 - Mouth of the Snake
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/8/1984
A Government agent, a murdered lawyer's widow and Michael seek connections between an international criminal, a stolen rocket launcher and the code, ""Boca Culebra"".
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Writer: Rob Gilmer
7.0/102 votes#5 - Soul Survivor
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/27/1983
A computer whiz cracks KITT's programming and erases the memory, forcing Michael to battle his own car. KITT is 'boxed' for portability in another car.
Director: Harvey S. Laidman
Writer: Rob Gilmer
6.0/101 votes#6 - Forty Years From Sand Island
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/24/1983
As part of the research for an upcoming Robin Masters novel, Higgins contacts a witness in the 1942 murder of a prison camp inmate by a civilian guard, and soon after is badly injured in an accident when the Ferrari's brakes fail. When the mechanic confirms that someone has tampered with the car, Thomas sets out to find who wants to stop Higgins's research, and uncovers blackmail and shady politics at the center of the case.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: Rob Gilmer
5.0/101 votes#7 - The Headless Nun
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/1999
Event: NOVA SCOTIA 1600'S Sydney crash lands at a convent in Nova Scotia, while returning from an expedition. The Sisters of Mercy ask for help in finding the remains of Sister Evangeline, whose body has been missing for over 400 years. Enlisting Nigel's help, Sydney finds there is more than a person seeking the body of the murdered nun and discovers that the Sisters are guarding lost jewels and pirate treasure.
Director: Ken Girotti
Writer: Rob Gilmer
5.0/101 votes#8 - Diamond in the Rough
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/1999
Event: FENWAY PARK, BOSTON 1946 Arrogant baseball star Frank Newhouse hires Sydney to find the magical glove of former baseball great Jimmy Jonesboro, stolen more than 50 years ago. Sydney and Nigel track the glove to the sewers of pre-Revolutionary war Boston, while unwittingly being tailed by Sydney's former rival, Kurt Reiner.
Director: Don McCutcheon
Writer: Rob Gilmer
5.0/101 votes#9 - Afterlife and Death
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/19/2000
Event: EGYPT 1425 B.C. Sydney and Nigel go to Cairo to chase down the real tomb raider, when Sydney's old friend Bruce Farrow is framed for plundering the tomb of Thutmose III and pocketing the Pharaoh's diamond. The theft of the gem, believed to have fallen from the sky inside a meteor, lures mercenary Avery Ko, a rival Relic Hunter, from the shadows. The trail leads to Amsterdam, where the stone is to be cut and sold. Sydney, Nigel and Bruce discover that the rock is not a diamond, and if cut by laser, will unleash a force that could cause major destruction like the tomb's hieroglyphs described.
Director: Don McCutcheon
Writer: Rob Gilmer
5.0/101 votes#10 - Affaire de Coeur
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 3/4/2000
Event: SCOTLAND 1430 Sydney and Nigel head to the Scottish Highlands searching the missing half of the twine-ing rings that belonged to lovers from the 15th century. In legend whoever wears the rings will find everlasting love together, and their employer, who's got one of the two, is anxious to test the myth. Sydney faces more than a decaying castle and secret passageways, when she discovers that her own lost love, rival Relic Hunter Francois du Marier, is also in pursuit of the ring for far less romantic reasons.
Director: Steve DiMarco
Writer: Rob Gilmer
5.0/101 votes#11 - Possessed
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/13/2000
Event: LIBYA 1300'S Sydney and Nigel rush off to Brussels to search for Zeus' sacred sundial, at the request of Sydney's old friend, author Eric Dalt. Eric is convinced that his girlfriend is a vampire descended from Zeus' lover Lamia, a lamae. In Greek mythology, Hera turned Lamia into a serpent to keep her away from Zeus. Since, her descendants have mesmerized their men. The spell can only be broken by the great god's sundial. In Brussels, Sydney and Nigel discover lamae, one of whom has set her sights on Nigel. Sydney must take on the female coven - alone.
Director: Jean-Pierre Prévost
Writer: Rob Gilmer
5.0/101 votes#12 - Memories of Montmartre
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/27/2000
Sydney's grandmother Isabelle's trunk of things sparks a trip into the past for Sydney, who's been fascinated with Isabelle who once sang at Paris' Moulin Rouge. Falsely accused of stealing a locket actually given to her by her lover, Isabelle lost everything. Her paramour, Philip Ashcroft, believed to be an English secret agent, smuggled a tiara, the Heart of Europe, out of Russia, but was murdered in Paris before it could be delivered. It was never recovered. Setting out to find the locket and clear Isabelle's name, mission uncovers clues to an international intrigue, turning into a dangerous hunt for a relic.
Director: Paolo Barzman
Writer: Rob Gilmer
5.0/101 votes#13 - M.I.A.
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/20/2001
Event: ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA 1886 Sydney knows she's putting her life on the line, when she agrees to a sting operation orchestrated by Interpol agent Cate Hemphill. But before the sting begins, she's snatched by an unseen assailant, and it's up to Cate, Nigel and Claudia to pinpoint a suspect. Between rival Relic Hunters and enemies made on Sydney's adventures, the three have to rescue her before it's too late.
Director: Julian Grant
Writer: Rob Gilmer
3.0/102 votes#14 - The Myth of the Maze
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/27/1999
Event: ATHENS, GREECE 3000 B.C. Stavros dangles an ancient trinket in front of both Claudia and Sydney in Athens. Stavros claims that the marble charm is the key to the fabled Minotaur's Maze. Sydney, Nigel and Claudia land in the middle of a family feud between Stavros and his crime boss father, both wanting to find the Maze and its mythical ball of golden twine. With 2000-year-old blueprints, the hunt is on to unearth important archeological find and to make it through the legendary labyrinth alive.
Director: Graeme Lynch
Writer: Rob Gilmer
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"Diamonds Aren't a Girl's Best Friend" is the best rated episode written by Rob Gilmer. It scored 9/10 based on 2 votes. It was directed by Jeffrey Hayden. It aired on 1/15/1984 and is rated 0.3 points higher than their second-best episode, "Goliath".