Knight Rider: A Series Guide
Explore the high-octane world of Michael Knight and K.I.T.T. in this guide to the classic 1982 action-crime series, including episode highlights and...
TV series
Michael Long is an undercover cop who is seriously wounded during his assignment. Nursed back to health by a mysterious benefactor (chairman and CEO of Knight Industries), he regains consciousness as a new man with a new face and a new name: Michael Knight. His mysterious benefactor (through the guise of associate Devon Miles) provides Michael with equipment and support so that he can continue his crime fighting against those who operate above the law. The most notable piece of equipment supplied, is "KITT", an indestructible, high-performance car fitted with artificial intelligence.
Cast
David Hasselhoff, Edward Mulhare, Richard Basehart
Recognition
Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. 5 wins & 8 nominations total
Guides
Explore the high-octane world of Michael Knight and K.I.T.T. in this guide to the classic 1982 action-crime series, including episode highlights and...
Variations
Shrink-wrapped
Turbo Boost, K.I.T.T.!Ride shotgun with mysterious crime fighter Michael Knight (David Ha...
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Behind-the-Scenes Interviews; Commentary with David Hasselhoff; Knight Rider 2000 TV Movie
Episode guide
A detective, believed to have been killed, is given a new face and identity and is armed with an artificially intelligent super car.
Michael Knight seeks justice and revenge as he goes after the clever industrial saboteurs who murdered his partner.
After giving a lift to a woman to an army base, Michael investigates her father's death and discovers a plot to sell nuclear weapons.
While Michael Knight is on vacation, a biker gang threatens to destroy a town.
Michael and K.I.T.T. join a stunt show which a wealthy banker is trying to force out of business. It doesn't take long for them to become the main attraction, even if K.I.T.T. has to face the undignified distinction of being decor...
Devon assigns Michael to protect his friend Senator Maggie Flynn after several attempts are made on her life.
Michael and K.I.T.T. are sent to protect a group of ranchers whose water supply is being cut off by a wealthy landowner. Michael meets his match in a hotheaded young widow who leads the fight for their rights and is instructed to ...
Devon Miles is arrested on a traffic violation in Lyndhurst Flats and ends up sharing a jail with Frank Reston, the very journalist he was planning to meet. When Reston is killed by the corrupt police officers because he had too m...
Two small time crooks steal and activate KITT's sociopathic predecessor, KARR, and it goes on the rampage.
Michael captures a criminal named Dugan and takes his place as Colonel Kincaid's new driver. His goal is to find out for what purpose Kincaid is building his own private task team and catch him red-handed.
Cheryl Burns, an old friend of Michaels, has been accused of murder. Michael asks for some time off to search out the only man who can clear Cheryl: accountant Marty King, a 'Woody Allen' type.
Devon Miles has organized an anti-terrorism treaty between three rather unstable third world nations. Michael is assigned to find a plant (and possible hit-man) amongst the security team. He joins them during their special trainin...
Michael Knight is staying at a beach house with the daughter of newly elected president of the South American country of San Marada. His assignment is to protect both her and her father. A young woman named Micki overhears the con...
Michael infiltrates the 'Corazónes de Piedras' who are dealing in the Nun X-19, a powerful new automatic assault weapon. Unfortunately he 'misplaces' the money he is to use to obtain the X-19.
Michael and Kitt enter the Alternative 2000, a cross country race for cars that run on alternative fuel. They are there to find a saboteur, not to win, but find themselves having to rescue nosy reporter Liberty Cox in each lap.
Michael is investigating the death of glamor magazine "Escape" publisher Phillip Royce who had contacted the Foundation to expose a story he referred to only under the codename 'Topaz'.
Michael travels to Alpine Crest posing as a skip-tracer in pursuit of a counterfeiter. There he and Kitt find out CIA is keeping an eye on a much bigger operation.
Bonnie is given the honor of joining the Helios society, whose members all have genius level I.Q.'s. This to Devon's chagrin, who was expecting a nomination himself, but has to be content with honorary membership. However, it soon...
When Stephanie Mason, the woman Michael Knight was going to marry when he was still Michael Long is accused of conspiracy, Michael decides to come to her aid without revealing his new identity.
A shipment of highly sensitive Micro-Tech electronic components is stolen near Albuquerque, New Mexico. When Michael goes to investigate, he finds himself attracted to the cause of the Alliance of Indipendent Truckers, who have lo...
When computer software is being stolen from Deltron Micronics, Michael is convinced it's an inside job. He and Kitt starts tailing the main suspect, Julian Groves, who is also being followed by female detective Flannery Roe on acc...
Michael picks up a hitchhiker who's looking for her daughter. When he defends her from a couple of bikers from the Satan's Stompers motorcycle club, he ends up charged with second degree murder himself.
Wilton Knight's estranged son Garthe has returned from Africa where he had been sentenced to three lifetime imprisonments. Together with his mother Elizabeth (Wilton's fourth wife) he manages to steal the formula to Kitt's Molecul...
When his car is badly damaged in a collision with Goliath, Michael must repair it before being overcome by the heat of the desert.
Michael Knight helps to break a criminal out of jail against his wishes in order to halt the detonation of a Minotaur bomb. When the escapee refuses to cooperate, Knight and Kitt become fugitives of the law themselves.
Amelia Clermont, a former lover of Devon Miles, stumbles upon some stolen Sledgehammer missile that can only be fired from the SX4-11 helicopter and promptly disappears. Her daughter Camela turns the Foundation and Devon, who puts...
The Foundation is tipped to investigate the exploitation of illegal aliens at a scrapyard. When a man suspected to be the informant gets shot, the only witness turns out to be a blind woman called Julie Robinson.
About to embark on a test to see if Kitt can float on water, Michael finds Bobby Shell, a diver, unconscious on the beach grasping a coin of Aztec gold. He and Bobby's sister Jennifer soon embark on quest to find the rest of the g...
An infamous cat burglar has begun robbing jewelry again. The problem is that the man who was always the main suspect has recently passed on. Consequently, suspicion soon falls on his daughter, Grace Fallon.
Devon loses Colonel Smythe's Pennington Ascot Regency to highway thieves. Michael's investigation leads him to a custom car show that is in the vicinity whenever there is a custom car theft.
Randy, a self-taught teenage computer whiz kid, succeeds in hacking into K.I.T.T. and stealing it for his older lover Adrianne. Michael must regain the car with the help of K.I.T.T.'s CPU humiliatingly boxed in a portable TV set.
When a convicted murderer escapes from prison, his young wife sends a distress call to the Foundation. Michael and Kitt head to the Louisiana bayou where the murderer is being protected by his father, the judge.
Michael & Kitt are looking for a stolen substance called Alidium. After tracking a suspect to the Bedford dam, Michael is caught in an explosion and loses part of his memory. He wakes up thinking he's still police officer Michael ...
On their way to pick up a tux for the annual Foundation Christmas banquet, Michael and Kitt run into a gypsy kid named Tino who has just stolen a gold watch from a trio of bank robbers. Michael promises Tino's sister Marta to brin...
Renowned adventurer Charlie Granger is murdered within the compounds of the Foundation. Michael and Kitt are send to protect Granger's estranged daughter Katherine who's locket hold the key to finding his hidden treasure.
A model named Rachel is killed. Michael is send to investigate and pretends to be her friend Lauren's boyfriend. He soon uncovers a diamond smuggling ring headed by the model's agent, Bernie Mitchell.
Michael investigates a series of robberies in the small town of Vista Beach where an old acquaintance of Devon's runs an Art & Framing shop. The main suspects are a gang of drag racers because the thefts always happen during their...
April's adopted niece Becky needs a bone marrow transplant within 72 hours to stay alive. Michael tracks down the only available donor, Julio Rodriguez, a gang-member who is wanted for the murder of a gang leader.
Michael is sent to investigate the death of a motorcycle racer in last year's Oakside charity race, which happens to be sponsored by the Foundation.
Adrienne St. Clair has rebuilt Goliath and springs Garthe Knight out of prison. Next they kidnap Devon and April from Foundation HQ in order to lure Michael and Kitt into a trap. Adrienne wants to install Kitt's CPU into Goliath, ...
Cameron Zachary, the man who ordered the death of Michael Long three years earlier, finds out Long is now going by the name of Michael Knight and sets out to destroy him once and for all, as well as get his hands on the Knight Ind...
Michael and Kitt join forces with an agile freelance agent called David Dalton to investigate the death of a government agent near the Mexican border. Dalton leads the investigation and stays close to Joanna St. John in order to p...
The team links the lawyer's murder to a gangster smuggling gold to finance an attack.
Michael investigates the death of Greg Noble, lead singer of the rock and roll band 'Class Action' only to discover the lead singer is his lost love Stevie March. He takes Noble's place in the band to protect Stevie and find the m...
Michael and Kitt investigate the theft of tractors and similar 'big iron' construction equipment.
C.J. Jackson, the man who murdered Michael's predecessor at the Foundation, Ken Franklin breaks out of jail with help from a Self destruct robot disguised as a radio and a drone car. The masterminds behind his escape, David Halsto...
Devon and Michael realize Halston is trying to recover a satellite he invented.
A collection of diamonds is stolen from a Foundation sponsored charity auction. Michael and Kitt follow one of the thieves to the Monestary of the Grape in Napa. Here a plastic surgeon is providing criminals with new faces for a p...
A cheerleader named Stacy Courtney gets severely injured during an illegal drag race called Banzai-running. As she happens to be the daughter of Michael former partner on the L.A. police force, he decides to investigate. It soon l...
Bonnie has just moved into a new apartment. Next door a rowdy party is going on two days before Halloween. She appears to witness a woman being strangled by someone wearing a gorilla costume but passes out. When Bonnie calls in he...
K.I.T.T.'s bad tempered prototype K.A.R.R. is found buried in the sand by mechanic John Stanton and his girlfriend Mandy. K.A.R.R. convinces Stanton to replace his damaged parts and give him a new look. Then he sets out to take hi...
Michael and K.I.T.T. help defend a psychologist who is housing a bunch of unruly New York kids on her ranch from local cattle thieves.
Michael is suspended from FLAG after a bag of heroin is found in his pocket. He contacts the main suspect he was after, LaSalle, in an attempt to clear his name. However, LaSalle orders Knight to steal K.I.T.T. from the Foundation...
While Michael Knight and K.I.T.T. are on a case to stop the sale of deadly chemicals, a young dancer is inadvertently killed by toxic gas. Michael becomes determined to capture the criminals behind this new poison, but they are eq...
K.I.T.T. gets electrocuted during a chase and loses his memory. After he and Michael get separated, K.I.T.T. befriends a young boy named Doug Wainwright. Unfortunately, the two crooks Michael and K.I.T.T. were chasing think Doug c...
A criminal known as 'The Chameleon' uses his gift as a master of disguise to escape on the way to a court hearing. He contacts Armand Pressler for one last job and plans to take his revenge on the man who put him in jail two years...
Michael Knight and K.I.T.T. come to the aid of some fashion designers after two of their ilk are murdered by a custom car. When Knight gets hurt by the car in question, he starts to take the case personal.
An acquaintance from a previous case, Maxine Flemming, loses her race horse King Jack after an accident. However, Michael soon surmises that the horse hasn't been shot as Maxine was led to believe, but being put is up for sale by ...
While on the trail of toxic polluter "Acid" John Birock, K.I.T.T. ends up in a pit filled with acid and is all but destroyed. The car has to be rebuilt from scratch by the original design team consisting of Dr. Von Voorman, Dr Bre...
Michael investigates the death of a driver who was testing a new armored limousine and together with K.I.T.T. takes the man's place on the testing ground.
Michael investigates the death of a construction worker, only to discover the construction site is filled with experimental new explosives developed by an internationally wanted crook.
Michael and K.I.T.T. come to the aid of the granddaughter of a friend of Devon's, Jamie Downs, who is organizing a charity race in the small town of Marberry.
While investigating the theft of a black crystal that can be harnessed to power a super laser, Michael is teamed up with a new addition to the Foundation, Elliott Sykes.
Michael joins a small trucking company family business after 15 year old computer whiz Sally Flynn breaks into the FLAG computer to ask for help.
Bonnie asks Michael to look into the apparent suicide of her idol, Harley Freeman. Michael disguises himself as computer scientist Dr. Knightwood and parachutes into 'the Retreat', a private rest and relaxation compound filled wit...
A truckload of confiscated weapons including 2 laser rifles are stolen from a police warehouse. Michael finds a female hitchhiker selling part of the shipment at a Survivalist convention held at a hotel.
Michael joins Circus Major as Turbo Man after one of its stars meets with foul play on the trapeze. K.I.T.T. helps him perform death defying stunts as Turbo Man's 'talking flying carpet'.
The Foundation has accidentally developed a powerful new isotope, Cernium 116. Jennifer Knight, Wilton's daughter takes this opportunity to cut down on FLAG expenses. Rebuild terrorist Phillip Nordstrom kidnaps Devon and replaces ...
Michael and a rebuilt KITT rush to stop Nordstrom before he can hand over the new isotope.
Jeff Cavanaugh, another crook arrested by Michael in a previous but unseen adventure, escapes from jail with help Julian Martin. Fearing FLAG is on his tail, Julian decides to kidnap Mike's latest flame Karen and also gets his han...
On her way to her sister's wedding in Boston, Bonnie's plane is highjacked by the New Dawn Movement. Its leader, Charles Zurich, plans to trade his hostages for 197 prison inmates and forces the plane to land at a military base ho...
An archaeologist being sponsored by FLAG is kidnapped after finding proof positive that a piece of land belongs to a tribe of Indians. Not surprisingly, a business man who wants to drill oil in the same area is the culprit.
A gang of bikers with a knack for hijacking semis gets hold of the FLAG mobile headquarters by accident. With the help of a young computer whiz, they use the Foundation equipment to rob a bank, then set their sights on an experime...
The entire roster of FLAG personnel goes undercover to stop an American diplomat from selling a biological weapon to the "Hammer-of-the-Desert." KITT is disguised as a '55 Lynx Imperial racing car they plan to offer for sale. RC3 ...
Michael is celebrating his fourth 'birthday' as a new man when Devon recruits him for a mission to find a stolen experimental hovercraft with great destructive power.
Although Devon would rather have Michael on a Rembrandt forgery case in Cincinnati, he allows him to help a mechanic friend of Bonnie's, Elena Thomas, who's facing sabotage on the racetrack. Since Elena's top driver has been kille...
FLAG architect Matt Erickson is the victim of a pickpocket at his own party that Bonnie & Michael are attending. The thieves turn out to be two female prisoners let out by their scheming warden to test their abilities for a big he...
Michael, RC and even Bonnie use K.I.T.T. as an alibi to visit Chicago instead of doing a mission in Detroit. RC wants to catch blind singer Charley Connor's performance at his old friend Josh Bevin's bar. But Bevin is on the recei...
Michael resigns from the foundation after a near death experience in order to settle down with his long time love Stevie.
Marco Berio, a former employee of F.L.A.G, uses his knowledge of K.I.T.T. to override the Trans Am's CPU and turn him against his owner, Michael Knight.
A small time owner of a lumber company takes on a big rival named Dutton, who happens to be a sponsor of the Foundation. As Michael and K.I.T.T. investigate the case, they realize Dutton is practically forcing the little guys out ...
The four members of the Curtis trustees are being murdered one at a time. Now only Devon Miles and Dr. Ian Browning are left. Michael suspects that magician Austin Templeton could be the assassin, using his magic act as an alibi i...
Michael investigates the murder of a deaf sportswriter who wanted to stop an ex boxing champ from coming out of retirement.
Michael's CIA pal Lew Jonas gets killed during a raid on crime boss Ronald Becker. Becker plans to get out of the country using the illegal Baja race to Mexico as a cover. Michael vows to catch Becker if it's the last thing he does.
While on ranger duty, Michael and K.I.T.T. rescue a young kid named Darryl from a forest fire. When Darryl subsequently gets framed for arson, Michael sets out to prove the boy's innocence.
Michael and RC arrive in San Duarte just in time to see Mount Duarte erupt for the first time since 1874. With the lava flow blocking the way in and out of the country, Colonel Perata stages a coup and holds American advisor Harri...
The 'Phantom of Stage 28' appears to be haunting the set of modern day Western 'Raging Sky', so Michael takes on the part of a stunt double while doing some investigating.
Michael and RC are meeting with Nick O'Brien, an old friend of Devon, with whom he served in Korea. They end up protecting Nick's adopted son Coy from Ninja leader Taneka, who is convinced the boy is the rightful heir to his clan.
Michael walks in on a robbery at Towers Gemstones Inc to find three men seemingly under the influence of a voodoo princess. While investigating incidents involving wealthy art collectors, Michael meets Elizabeth Wesley who explain...